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Title: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Swarx on October 04, 2018, 01:04:34 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/CPDH0Py.png)

hello there i think that "rimworld" should be changed to "jim's world" as there are many people in the world named "jim" and the word "rim" has sexual connotations that thus make this game inappropriate for children. the fact that it is not "jim's world" is very discriminatory towards people that are named jim or james.

thx

Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: vzoxz0 on October 04, 2018, 01:06:01 PM
Is this some half-assed attempt at trolling?
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Swarx on October 04, 2018, 01:10:43 PM
more like a quarter

this is serious
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Ramsis on October 04, 2018, 01:21:32 PM
 Nah.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Swarx on October 04, 2018, 01:35:58 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/jaHWt1t.png)
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lowdegger on October 04, 2018, 04:14:11 PM
My friends who don't play Rimworld call it World of Rimming and assume it's some kind of erotic theme park management game.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: dburgdorf on October 04, 2018, 04:23:54 PM
I played and modded the game for months without even once thinking of the name's possible sexual connotations.  I just immediately accepted that a rimworld was a world on the outer rim of explored space; it made intrinsic sense, and I never worried about it beyond that.  It wasn't until I happened upon a reference to the "RimJobWorld" mod that it dawned on me that there was a possible NSFW connotation to the name. 

Does that make me cluelessly naive? ;)
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: CthulhuTactical on October 04, 2018, 04:36:37 PM
Nah you are just normal and not some sexually deficient incel.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lowdegger on October 04, 2018, 05:05:12 PM
Quote from: CthulhuTactical on October 04, 2018, 04:36:37 PM
Nah you are just normal and not some sexually deficient incel.

I don't think incels are either giving or receiving many rimmings. A priori, they are not.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Shurp on October 04, 2018, 05:49:13 PM
Unless they're *way* too flexible.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: 5thHorseman on October 04, 2018, 07:01:42 PM
I see your point, but "Jim's World" doesn't really give off the vibe I think they're going for.

You're on the edge of known space, so maybe instead how about EDGING?

Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lowdegger on October 04, 2018, 08:16:21 PM
Quote from: 5thHorseman on October 04, 2018, 07:01:42 PM
I see your point, but "Jim's World" doesn't really give off the vibe I think they're going for.

You're on the edge of known space, so maybe instead how about EDGING?

World of Edging?
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: b0rsuk on October 05, 2018, 12:40:40 AM
A honest analogy would be "Edge World", and then making a fuss about it obviously referring to edging.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: vzoxz0 on October 05, 2018, 04:10:00 AM
I say we just call it Star Craft 3 and crowd-fund the money needed for legal fees.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lancar on October 05, 2018, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: b0rsuk on October 05, 2018, 12:40:40 AM
A honest analogy would be "Edge World", and then making a fuss about it obviously referring to edging.
It does have map edges, so I think this description is 100% true.

Edgy World
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Kirby23590 on October 05, 2018, 05:02:14 AM
Jim's World?

Nah too generic. Rim Planet or just Rimworld Sounds better in my ears.

Quote from: lancar on October 05, 2018, 04:14:46 AM
Edgy World
What about Edgeworld or Edge of the Universe? I'm not that good with making up titles :P
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: khun_poo on October 05, 2018, 05:29:57 AM
rimworld is fine  :).

Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Shurp on October 05, 2018, 07:43:07 AM
EdgeLord World
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: vzoxz0 on October 05, 2018, 12:39:30 PM
WorldWorldWorld II: Electric World Subarashii!
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: dburgdorf on October 05, 2018, 12:57:53 PM
"ZimWorld."  With, obviously, GIR, Dib and Gaz as replacement storytellers.

(Is it sad that I really want to reskin the storytellers, now?)
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: erdrik on October 05, 2018, 01:13:58 PM
Quote from: khun_poo on October 05, 2018, 05:29:57 AM
rimworld is fine  :).
^ this.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Razzoriel on October 05, 2018, 03:30:32 PM
A high amount of sexual innuendo correlations in things which have zero sexual innuendos is a signal of anxiety. I'd say this can be safely related to pathological levels.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: 5thHorseman on October 05, 2018, 04:12:11 PM
Quote from: Razzoriel on October 05, 2018, 03:30:32 PM
A high amount of sexual innuendo correlations in things which have zero sexual innuendos is a signal of anxiety. I'd say this can be safely related to pathological levels.

Heh heh. You said "In Your Endo."
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Limdood on October 05, 2018, 08:31:55 PM
Seriously, of all of the MANY reasons this game is "inappropriate for children," the NAME is the one you settle on complaining about?

I'm just sitting here in my human leather clothes, hanging out in my torture/part-harvest prison snorting flake in awe of your decision.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lowdegger on October 06, 2018, 03:18:00 PM
Quote from: Razzoriel on October 05, 2018, 03:30:32 PM
A high amount of sexual innuendo correlations in things which have zero sexual innuendos is a signal of anxiety. I'd say this can be safely related to pathological levels.

Says the person with a confederate flag for an avatar...
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: lowdegger on October 06, 2018, 06:40:37 PM
Quote from: vzoxz0 on October 05, 2018, 04:10:00 AM
I say we just call it Star Craft 3 and crowd-fund the money needed for legal fees.

+1
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Chicken Plucker on October 06, 2018, 06:45:32 PM
But nobody thinks about Tim. What if Tim plays Rimworld, and it's called Jim's world, not Tim's world?

Think about the moral implications before you suggest things
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Swarx on October 06, 2018, 07:07:34 PM
Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 06, 2018, 06:45:32 PM
But nobody thinks about Tim. What if Tim plays Rimworld, and it's called Jim's world, not Tim's world?

Think about the moral implications before you suggest things

tims are not people

jims are the master race
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Nainara on October 06, 2018, 08:59:08 PM
Quote from: Swarx on October 04, 2018, 01:04:34 PM
hello there i think that "rimworld" should be changed to "jim's world" as there are many people in the world named "jim" and the word "rim" has sexual connotations that thus make this game inappropriate for children. the fact that it is not "jim's world" is very discriminatory towards people that are named jim or james.
This is a well reasoned proposal.
Title: Re: please change "rimworld" to "jim's world"
Post by: Shurp on October 08, 2018, 06:34:03 PM
Quote from: Limdood on October 05, 2018, 08:31:55 PM
Seriously, of all of the MANY reasons this game is "inappropriate for children," the NAME is the one you settle on complaining about?

I'm just sitting here in my human leather clothes, hanging out in my torture/part-harvest prison snorting flake in awe of your decision.

Quote from: B@R5uk on October 08, 2018, 03:10:05 AM
I like how game allows me to butcher gays, then turn them into fuel, then into energy. But my colonies never execute prisoners even if some turns out to be gays. I train surgery on prisoners by installing/removing peg legs but only if a man already has a peg leg or got his leg shoot off during fight. If a man got into my cell it's a guaranty to be alive, he'll end up as a colonist or will be sold.

And I thought I was plumbing the depths of depravity by raising dogs on frozen human corpses and then butchering them for meat...