SHINAN'S PROFILE

I have Adventure Game Studio.

author=bulmabriefs144
On the other hand, saying that private companies have the right to censor opinions purely on account of being political means they in effect transcend the laws of the countries they are a part of. That's right, you're saying Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and even little old Rpgmaker.net are politically more powerful with regard to legal rights than an entire country. And not just one country, but every country able to draft such freedoms gets ignored because iTunes claims it has the right to circumvent written laws. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Do private companies have to obey copyright laws? Do they have to obey international laws like, say laws against theft, terrorism, or fraud? If Rpgmaker.net started doing sketchy things would it be reasonable to assume the FBI, Interpol, or whoever is local to them would start grabbing the admins? If you answered no to all of these pretty sure you're wrong there, buddy. Okay, maybe free speech censorship isn't part of international law. But if the company is operating within jurisdiction of the US, and if said company suppresses free speech for reasons other than poor conduct, I think the US government should have something to say.

Actually private companies do follow different laws than government. Now I don't know law and I have barely read laws but I know that there are lists and lists of what private companies can and cannot do. And those lists are different than those of what the government can and cannot do. It varies from country to country of course. But for example private companies can deny service based on certain things that government cannot. (and government can, for example declare war and invade another country but private companies cannot. Not yet anyway :D)

Is this how it should be? You clearly think not. And it's true, I also think that stricter regulations on corporations would probably be a good thing. But that's just not how it is right now.

Btw, InfoWars just got attacked on their own website (as in temporary down). Even assuming private companies do have rights over and above public government, last I checked this news site probably has the right to not get hit by hacking. If you think not, then by the same reasoning, someone could knock down a Jehovah's Witnesses website because it offends Jews or Muslims or Hindus. Censorship is censorship. You don't get an auto-pass because of pathetic private bylaws.

Well you know, RMN has also been attacked a couple of times (and gone temporarily down). Some botnet somewhere DDOSing a site is not a legal thing to do. And yeah RMN has a right not to be attacked. But occasionally some script kiddie will do it anyway.

author=Roden
It's weird, nobody's been told to leave the chat or shut up forever due to their political views.

This place must operate on different rules than the RMN discord/

I assume it has to do with the fact that it's contained in a topic easily avoided and not shoved in uninterested people's faces all over #general.

Though I guess that's what this topic is sort of about :). The right for people to shove their opinions in the faces of people who don't care to listen to them at the moment versus the right of people to not have opinions shoved into their face at the moment.

I think most RMs work on recent systems since Degica(?) has officially released them in English and probably patched them up to work on modern systems.

Other than that I don't have too many suggestions of things. I will always put in a good word for AGS (which is still being updated and most recently when I made a terrible game in it I sort of had to relearn everything... Again :D).

I guess it all depends on how much and what you want to put effort into. And then see what programs best support things you want to do. Gamemaker, various interactive fiction makers and visual novel makers all cater to different needs. (while I guess always also being able to make stuff they weren't meant to)

author=kory_toombs
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