Oof, just found out that he doesn't think statutory rape should be illegal. I still like the game, but that's pretty disappointing.

Cancel culture was obviously going to go further if he didn't basicaly go''screw this I'm out'' as I have watched this happen time and time again these sicko's seem to have formed in fandoms where they could get away with driving other people in a fandom to off themselves from harassments for the slightest BS reason and then it moved onto smal time gave devs when they wasn't stopped where there was a game dev drove to offing oneself.. They are still After Two celebratory Actors even Vic Mignogna and Johnny Depp.. Both who had the so called ''evidence'' as a whole debunked and given this game dev while has loads of money has if I am thinking right has a wife with a kid on the way I don't blame him going ''screw this I'm out'' to prevent any major trouble before it starts .. because these Cancel Culture fools keep getting more nuts as time goes on and they get away with so much crud

Don't buy it just for that. Regardless of what you think about it's creator, Factorio stands on it's own as a good game. So good in fact, that I had to delete it from the hard drive because I lost the track of time while playing it.

I think you're confusing two different things here. It sounds like he was a victim of harassment, which is a completely different thing from "being cancelled".
If Scott Cawthorn was finding his games were being removed from Steam or that he suddenly wasn't getting hired for something then that would be an example of being cancelled. There's nothing to suggest that was happening or going to happen, so this has nothing to do with being cancelled.
That is not to say I support him being harassed, I just think people shouldn't throw around buzzwords because they will lose all meaning.

You show those fools!

Seriously, buy the game because it's a good game but don't buy it for ideological reasons because he's not someone you want to align yourself with.

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Harrassment and cancel Culture goes hand in hand to the degree they have become blurred together as heres the thing in a case like this game creator cancel culture digs up things thats been known about or not cared about till recentally and go on a warpath to iether end the persons future prospects from places not wanting to deal with the hate they might get from people..Aswell as hide a persons involvement or even sneakly edit a person out of stuff... to make them off themselves or get everything they can pulled of the person .. Being cancelled isn't so cut and dry as your pose I first replied to and this one makes me think you might see it as

Though I agree Buzzwords thrown around is a problem but in this case I wasn't confusing it as he was getting the now well known Cancel culture tactics started used against him which was puuling up stuff thats been known for years about him an stuff he donated to and doing targeted harassment's campaigns that no doubt would have evolved into something much worse as all the signs was there for anyone to see that this was the start of cancel culture forces in action starting up rather then harassments as it seemed all timed like most cases of cancel culture for it all happened nearly at once rather then built up

That's actually incorrect. I saw his post in a screenshot.....in it he asked if that term was some new PC term, and that's about it.

No, I admire when people push back against cancel culture nonsense. As for your seeming attempt at gaslighting, I give it a 3/10.

Question: do you honestly think I give much of a toss what others think of whom I "align" with?

That said: the dude stood up against online bullying, which imho is a good thing....so for that, and because the game seems to be good, I am thinking of kicking a few bucks their way.

His pregnant wife receiving death threats might have something to do with it. Among other things.

Easy on the accusations there. That is because the term "statutory rape" is not a uniform thing in legal systems all over the world. Especially in Europe, many countries just have rape and nothing else. Automatically assuming that something that is true in the US is true in the entire world is simply wrong. And as the dev is from one of those countries, he just had no idea that was a thing so wrongly assumed it was a newly coined term. Being unaware of a legal term in a "distant" country is one thing, but immediately jumping to the conclusion that he is pro-rape and starting a witch-hunt over it is exactly the kind of thing that is wrong with today's internet society.

I have little doubt as to the game's quality.....if I do buy it, it'd be because of that as well as the recent words/actions of the dev.

Sidenote: usually i'm not into the genre Factorio is in as much as others, and usually don't spend so much on a single game, but I am thinking of doing so in this case.

Same here. Will wait for a bit to make sure they truly stand their ground and then will probably get it, along with the soundtrack, here on GOG.

Ummm, no. He's not a native English speaker and in the Czech Republic statutory rape is called sex with minors essentially.

What he though was statutory rape was an adult teacher seducing an adult student. The advantage in power the teacher has makes it pretty bad but probably not rape. In any case that's not what statutory rape is and he clears up that he is wholly against sex with minors later on when he understands the term. Of course places like resetEra conviently leave that part of the conversation out.

Sounds like a plan

(btw, sending ya a PM with some more stuff in a bit)

He is an adult with access to google. The concept of age of consent is by no means limited to the US.
See above. He could have informed himself pretty easily instead of suggesting that people against statutory rape are SJWs.

Problably is terms in one country would mewan something else in another culture for example .'' Spazztic '' and spazzing out '' in the US is basically meaning someone acting wierd or nutty.. where as in the U.K both has became a derogatory term or how ''Fag'' is a derogatory term in afew places been so for ages yet in I believe its Iraland it still means smokes .. Among varoes other terms

Then lets add the fact age of consent is different in varies countries hell the US. even has it where some states can let kids legally marry adults do to varies factors of how laws are written .. but because very few if any has abused these laws to at all become a big enough trouble in those in powers eyes several of them to thus not see a reason for those laws yet to get adjusted .. So your logic is kinda flawed in thinking someone could easily sift through such matters

Granted we might aswell add how afew years back the so called ''SJW's'' had decided if someone willing agreed to have sex but then later on decided they regret it or some other crude no logical thinking human would think of being actual rape (when talking both being full blown adults that are sober and all that) is some form of Rape I can see other country people confused and unsure of specific terms and such and getting conflicting info

There's not a lot to sift through to simply inform yourself of what the term means. He is the one that brought it up after all.
I read his actual words before I posted.