Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship

• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … How is that the name of an actual game?

  Just in case, no, that was a joke about Voltaire, the philosopher.

  The phrase “Holy Roman Empire” is most commonly used for the German empire that went from Charlemagne to 1800-ish (long after the fall of the “other” Roman Empire). Voltaire criticized the HRE of his time calling it “neither holy, not Roman or an empire”.

  This quote is kind of a meme among Crusader Kings players for example because HRE is kind of a pain in these games.

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the wide world of indies, no name is too weird to use.

    I did think of Voltaire the person, but I wasn't aware of the Crusader Kings connection.

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