The politics of games.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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How do people feel about a light compromise? Keep the games threads targeted more towards games, and keep the bulk of the DRM and similar discussion in a separate topic in the same forum?

No. It's little different from splitting the forum. The games exist with everything related to them. We can't and should not separate issues like DRM, system incompatibilities, breaking bugs etc. from the in-game stuff. It was the whole point of my post. (That aside, self censorship is hardly the right way to go. )
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[Kekvit Irae]

We could always implement a word filter system. Simply filter every third word in the Arena to 'StarDock'. Everyone loves StarDock, so using this method everyone in the Arena would be happy.

Let's take (with apologies) Mouza's post above as an example:

It's little StarDock from splitting StarDock forum. The StarDock exist with StarDock related to StarDock. We can't StarDock should not StarDock issues like StarDock, system incompatibilities, StarDock bugs etc. StarDock the in-game StarDock. It was StarDock whole point StarDock my post. (StarDock aside, self StarDock is hardly StarDock right way to StarDock.

[Mouzafphaerre]

We could always implement a word filter system. Simply filter every third word in the Arena to 'StarDock'. Everyone loves StarDock, so using this method everyone in the Arena would be happy.

Let's take (with apologies) Mouza's post above as an example:

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Apologies?! You've just made me laugh out my guts!
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[Husar]

I take offense by the statement that everybody loves StarDock as I do not have a single game of theirs.
I demand an apology, a foot massage and the replacement of seven "StarDock"s by "Valve" in the offending piece of quote...

On the actual issue, I think mentioning the bad copy protection used in the game in a thread about the game is pretty fine but when the whole thread fills up with "I won't StarDock it because of the Valve used!!!1111 " and then a lengthy repost of the same old "The StarDocks will Valve it anyway because this Valve never works, give them 3 StarDocks and it's Valve by the StarDocks and this is screwing with their StarDock Valve anyway and I'm so angry etc. blaValve" then you end up with the same posts in every second thread which makes me think that one topic to cover all sorts of copy protection makes more sense while the game threads can mention it once or twice for those who may not know the game is protected by copy protection x or y and do not want to read the endless ramblings in the copy protection thread. That way everybody gets the vital info and them freedom-loving capitalists can get their thread to be annoyed about copy protections.

[pevergreen]

freedom-loving capitalists.

I love those guys!

Also, possibly the best "post" ever by Kek.