{"id":1572,"date":"2011-12-02T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2011-12-02T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:48:52","slug":"sense-of-humour-offensive-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/12\/02\/sense-of-humour-offensive-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of humour \/ offensive check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;v started doing some of the flavor text for GTB. My plan ( to be explained more in a future video blog) is for it to be a bit &#8216;blackadder goes forth&#8217; in approach. I am assuming you are a british soldier fighting in and endless world war I against the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the &#8216;story&#8217; is a very small part of the game, just a few mission briefings and the manual. You can ignore it happily.<\/p>\n<p>My concern is that I might accidentally be offending some people. So my question to you is this. Do you find Blackadder and Allo Allo and other world war 2 comedy style things offensive?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/flick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1573 aligncenter\" title=\"flick\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/flick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I assume hardly anyone does, but if you are a German strategy gamer who would be put off a game that affectionately mocked the patriotic jingoism of World War I\/II Britain, and referred to the enemy as the Hun, &#8216;Jerry&#8217;, The Bosch, etc&#8230; Is that offensive?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1574\" title=\"allo\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allo.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I assume not, but we live in an age where people take offense at almost anything, so I&#8217;m checking. My stats show 5.7% of GSB buyers are German. I&#8217;d rather they still bought the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;v started doing some of the flavor text for GTB. My plan ( to be explained more in a future video blog) is for it to be a bit &#8216;blackadder goes forth&#8217; in approach. I am assuming you are a british soldier fighting in and endless world war I against the Germans. Note that the<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Sense of humour \/ offensive check<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/12\/02\/sense-of-humour-offensive-check\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-tank-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}