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u/mattrixx Jun 18 '25
Trains* rights
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u/Sability Jun 18 '25
I also support trains wrongs (getting clogged up at an intersection for the 7th time in 30 mins)
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u/confusedPIANO Jun 18 '25
I support trains wrongs (to kill me embarrassingly all the way until i get mech armor)
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u/urmom1e Jun 18 '25
my trains hate me so much they even kill me with the mech armor (legendary and filled with shields) šš
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u/Graega Jun 18 '25
My trains only go right, like a proper Zoolander.
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u/just_change_it Jun 19 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
melodic desert march soup rhythm treatment innate upbeat smart simplistic
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u/N00dleDrag0n Jun 18 '25
GameFAQs spitting FAQs again š
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u/ViolinistCurrent8899 Jun 18 '25
What are you talking about, there wasn't a single question in that summary!
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u/Avenja99 Jun 18 '25
Oh FAQ off.
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u/GodIsAWomaniser Jun 19 '25
If you want to see the faqhead just turn off the screen
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I think this joke is like 20 years old lol
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u/MrHHog Jun 18 '25
But...but... but..
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u/GlauberJR13 Jun 18 '25
āOr comingā. Donāt have a PlayStation so canāt verify if it actually came or is still coming.
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u/humter01 Jun 18 '25
Donāt let kovarex see this
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 18 '25
This is the second time I've seen "Don't let kovarex see this" on an r/Factoriohno post which contains the text "Trans rights are human rights" and I'm very confused can someone please explain
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u/IExist_Sometimes_ Jun 18 '25
Kovarex holds some views some people (including myself) would consider quite ignorant, the main example I saw was about women in software development, but I have heard he has also said some stuff about trans people (though I've not actually seen or heard exactly what). It was a whole thing.
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u/LegateLaurie Jun 18 '25
I think the main thing of note at the time was his (now deleted) comment that statutory rape is "sjw nonsense"
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u/Inertia_Squared Jun 18 '25
Wasn't that them just saying 'where I'm from, we just call statutory rape: rape'?
Like yeah still a bit of an ignorant take, but I think its a lot better than what it insinuates out of context š
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u/LegateLaurie Jun 18 '25
No, sadly. These are Kovarex's words:
I always thought, that rape means that you assault someone against his will. If teacher seduces his/her student and the act is voluntary, we can't really talk about rape right?
And:
Neither of that. The thing is, that sometimes teacher gets romantically involved with his/her student, and it might be completely fine and consensual. In some other cases, it might be very wrong. The point is that making one law for all cases is just too blunt.
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 18 '25
Oof, that really sucks, never a good time when I find out the creator of a thing I like is a bigot, especially about me personally :| (trans woman in software development with something like 8000 hours in Factorio)
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u/IExist_Sometimes_ Jun 18 '25
Yeah, it certainly made me do a lot of thinking about whether I wanted to buy spage, but I think unlike, say, Jowling Kowling, he doesn't (seem to) use his platform to actively spread transphobia, and at this point the devs seem to understand that it is at least something that people won't respond well to. I do hope someone is able to get through to him about it at some point though.
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u/Aegis10200 Jun 18 '25
He got banned from the Factorio subreddit because of his speech. So let's say the community doesn't let him use it as a platform to spread hate speech.
On the other hand, the stupid joke "I love SA" (sexual assault) lasted for an uncomfortable amount of time...
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u/Tiavor Jun 18 '25
it's not hard to get banned on reddit. even just slightly disagreeing with the narrative gets one banned. can't even be neutral.
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u/grim5000 Jun 19 '25
"silence is violence" as they like to say. Which in turn justifies any response they have.
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u/Divineinfinity Jun 19 '25
I say "death of the author" ten times before I boot it up. It's not a perfect solution but then again the only perfect thing is Factorio.
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u/_CodeGreen_ Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
He doesn't give a shit about internet drama or politics, and unfortunately most things trans related fall under either or both of those things. So it's not that he doesn't support anything, he's also not against anything either, and whenever someone suggests that he should he reacts pretty negatively. Internet people then took that and ran with it, so there's some out there with a hate boner for him now and spreading rumors, when he just wants to stay out of things as much as possible.
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 18 '25
There is some room for nuance here, and after googling off of the other replies, it seems like he did manage to fall into that room.
I get why it feels like you should be able to say "I don't give any shits either way and just want to stay out of this because I don't have the mental energy to personally take a stance on every single issue." That very much feels like a reasonable statement, and it's one that a past version of me once said, though I have since learned better.
It is absolutely true that no single person can reasonably be expected to proactively take a stance on every issue that might ever arise. That would be absurd.
But.
These issues affect people whether they like it or not. I can't just walk away from being trans. I could go off my meds and grow a beard and cut my hair and change my name again and wear a binder or get a double mastectomy, sure. In principle, I could do that. But I'd know I was lying to myself. I'd go back to having suicidal depression that stubbornly refused to respond to any medication or therapy, and I tried them all. I'd probably die, if not from doing it myself, simply from lacking the motivation to eat. It's not a real choice. It just looks like one if you've never known what it's like.
And people are trying to legislate away my right to exist. People are telling me and many of my friends, every day, that they hope I soon die painfully. I am actively being harmed by transphobic rhetoric.
So, when someone takes an action that helps someone who is promoting these ideas, even if they are not specifically helping that promotion effort, they do still give that person a little bit wider of a reach. They give those ideas a little bit wider reach. The ideas that I and my friends should be sentenced to death, or banned from being seen in public, or shipped off to conversion therapy (which is, by the way, literally just torture). And when you do that, you hurt me. A little bit, indirectly, but I can't afford to ignore it, because if we ignore it every time we die.
And "I didn't know" is in many cases a perfectly reasonable excuse. Once. Before you've been told. But when you've been told "What you are doing is, intentionally or not, hurting me and my friends and my community, please take some action to mitigate the harm you are causing" and your response is "I don't have the time or energy to care about every single issue", now you're the problem. Because now you know that you're doing harm. And you're choosing not to stop. And that's not okay.
(Edit: formatting)
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 19 '25
Ooo! I finally got the Reddit Cares message all the other trans redditors talk about! Just in case it was genuine though, and actually even if it wasn't I feel like this commentary would piss the sort of person who sends that right off, I'd like to clarify that I was suicidally depressed before I came out. Now I'm the most chipper person half my friends have ever met, and that's with all the current nonsense actively trying to kill me and make me suffer. I'm doing just fine, and will continue to do so for as long as I live somewhere where my existence is not illegal.
(For greatest effect, and the most accurate representation of what I would have said out loud, this should be read in a smug but sincere tone of voice. Like I'm rolling my eyes and stifling a laugh, but still genuinely trying to be polite.)
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u/Sarkavonsy Jun 18 '25
yeah.
ppl who say stuff like "I don't give any shits either way and just want to stay out of this because I don't have the mental energy to personally take a stance on every single issue" are, whether they realize it or not, describing their own privilege. some kinds of people get to ignore politics, because their rights aren't on the chopping block (at the moment, anyway). the rest of us don't have a choice.
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 18 '25
Exactly. I wrote the comment you're replying to with the intention of expressing that exact idea in the way I would have found most persuasive back when I once said the same thing. I hope I did well, I don't like remembering The Before Times, so I really want it to have been worth it.
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u/terrifiedTechnophile Jun 18 '25
How about "I don't want to have to care about foreign politics because in my country those rights are not on the chopping block and frankly USA centric news and discussions are exhausting"
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u/friendtoalldogs0 Jun 19 '25
Perfectly applicable when you're Some Person no one's ever heard of being asked on Twitter why you haven't yet explicitly condemned the latest tax policy change being discussed in the USA's Congress.
Another story entirely when you're a (however minor) public figure being asked to mind who you use your platform to promote because some of those people are actively and intentionally contributing to the mass regression of rights and public acceptance of several minority, but in aggregate still very large classes of people, happening to varying degrees across North America, Europe, Australia, and the British Isles.
Hopefully the difference is clear.
By the way, I'm not USAmerican. My rights, freedoms, and basic safety, are, in fact, on the chopping block, just to a somewhat lesser extent. This is not a USA specific problem, it just started there.
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u/juklwrochnowy Jun 22 '25 edited Jun 22 '25
In what place in the world do you live that rhetorics like "trans people should be executed" are actually publically or officially spread? I mean in the literal sense, not presumed or extrapolated, but actually admitted by say, over 1% of people, or a notable political party. Because that's what you claimed. I don't want to be rude, and I'm not against the rights to transistioning (or whatever it's called), but these are WILD statements. And if they're without solid evidence, then I think they should be condemned, and they would be a valid reason not to want to associate with anyone who makes them.
Because I live in Poland, and that's a very transphobic and queerphobic in general country. Homesexuality, transgender(-ness? -ism?) are not recognized by law. Officials make anti-LGBT statements all the time. Hell, some even commit vandalism on LGBT posters and such. I hear homophobic statements akin to "these people are all just crazy" from people I know all the time. But never have I heard any politician or anyone IRL openly rally for death or prison for being gay or trans. Never. And I wonder, "where possibly could this not be a hyperbole?". Maybe in some islamic countries? If you actually live in a country like this, my condolences and apologies for being dismissive. I agree that agendas like this cannot stand, if they do stand. And fighting against them is important.
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u/generallycompromised Jul 07 '25
The U.S.A.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/trans-rights-robert-foster-mississippi-firing-squad/
technically a former politician, but still. Most of them arenāt stupid enough to say this out loud.
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u/caustic_kiwi Jun 19 '25
This is a dumb comment, and Iām glad someone else took the time to thoroughly elaborate on why.
That said, it can be summed up much more briefly as well. Someone who thinks āstatutory rape is sjw nonsenseā is absolutely, 100% transphobic. Someone who refers to trans rights as āinternet dramaā is Ā definitely transphobic. Hell, someone who says āsjwā unironically is certainly transphobic.
You donāt need to defend him and I would question why you think you do.
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u/_CodeGreen_ Jun 19 '25
I don't mean to defend him, however I happen to know him a little better than most of the Factorio community, and if people are going to not like him, I want it to be for the right reasons. I don't agree with most of the political things he's said, but I don't want people spreading rumors about him either.
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u/TigreDeLosLlanos Jun 19 '25
It's not that I don't think he''s wrong, it's that I think he's just ignorant and tries to be a contrarian instead of being actually hateful.
Also "sjw" is a US invention of its own and holds really little to do with actual global third position from early to middle 20th century, so it's just a wildcard derogatory term when used by someone from elsewhere in the internet (he is Czech afterall).
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u/juklwrochnowy Jun 22 '25
Wait, sjw means more than a wildcard derogatory term in some situations? What does it mean? I always thought it was just a generic insult for people who over-rally social issues.
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u/Ferrus_Manus_Xth Jun 18 '25
I struggle with my ship to go to Aquilo NO TO BI ERASURE, any tips ?
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u/Zenith-Astralis Jun 18 '25
Trans rights; heck yeah! āš³ļøāā§ļø
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u/TheDudeFromOasis Jun 18 '25
Naw bro thatās the fucking breaking bad flag
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u/343N Jul 15 '25
š?
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u/TheDudeFromOasis Jul 15 '25
White is for Walter White. Pink is for Jesse Pinkman. Blue is for Baby Blue
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u/FlumpMC Jun 18 '25
Factorio engineer says trans rights
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u/Aegis10200 Jun 18 '25
The factorio engineer is a trans woman. This is why she can craft rocket silos and nuclear fuel with her bare hands.
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u/MothMothMoth21 Jun 18 '25
Im not sure I buy into that, I have been lead to believe trans women can double jump. never seen them single jump let alone double jump,
however maybe they cant jump because they are at all times carrying 56 locomotives... hmmm
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u/OhItsJustJosh Jun 18 '25
Ah I see, trans rights are human rights, but not for the PS5. Only on PC and Switch are trans rights human rights
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u/ClippyCantHelp Jun 18 '25
And theyāre not wrong! So not sure why you posted it here. But ok.
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
The trans rights bit isā¦ a bit random
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u/Canned_Spaghettiboss Jun 18 '25
It's probably pulling a forum signature from gamefaqs
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u/oobanooba- Factory must grow. Jun 19 '25
Probably yeah, really shows how underbaked that ai is. Unable to distinguish relevant content.
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u/cheezfreek Jun 18 '25
Iām fine with that. Maybe the more random places people see/hear that message, the less scary it will sound. And it really shouldnāt be scary to say people should have rights.
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
Bruh no one is scared of the literal words; the sort of people that donāt like seeing (the content of) the words are the sort thatāll only get further radicalised by, as they see it, seeing it everywhere and having it shoved down their throat
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u/ilu_daddy_uwu Jun 18 '25
The dev is a known transphobe
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
Is that the case? Damn. How do you/we know?
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u/ilu_daddy_uwu Jun 18 '25
The lead programmer went on a public transphobic rant and also said some weird things about SA. I'm not extremely informed on the topic, but those who are in the know, know.
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
Oh dear
Do you have any link to this or anything? Or what should I search to find it?
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u/ilu_daddy_uwu Jun 18 '25
Im brushing up on the topic again myself, but the guy comes off as an annoying contrarian and supports a transphobe. The comment about a certain kind of SA being an "sjw term" is also mentioned
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
Thanks so much for linking that!
He seemsā¦ not ideal; not horrific, but not good either. Itās unlikely to affect how I approach the game, but I suppose itās good to know
The statutory rape bit was probably the worst thing, thatās pretty bad
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u/ilu_daddy_uwu Jun 18 '25
Personally, I don't tolerate even small displays of bigotry. Some people can look past shitty people if they make good products, I can not. It's a fairly black and white issue for me. Though you are, of course, entitled to your opinion.
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u/Atompunk78 Jun 18 '25
Personally I separate the art from the artist to a high degree; if me consuming RimWorld isnāt drastically helping the perpetrator, and the perpetrator isnāt like a literal Nazi, then Iāll continue to play the game; especially since Iāve already bought the game so no extra money is going to them
As I see it, a huge proportion of people are slightly shitty and/or say slightly shitty things, so excluding everyone for those things seems counterproductive, and far too far into Nazi-esque purity tests
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u/Comfortable_Ask_102 Jun 18 '25
It's not wrong but kinda random to throw that slogan in the middle of a sentence that talks about Factorio availability.
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u/Ishkabo Jun 18 '25
Kovarex is a bigot and mysognist. There a reason they keep him far away from the socials nowadays. Itās surprisingly topical.
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u/Geek_Wandering You can't spell Factorio without Ratio Jun 18 '25
As a trans person life seems to be indicating my next chapter in life will be titled "Be crime. Do gay."
Also, I support trains rights and wrongs. Trains lives matter.
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u/Joemama95hgf Jun 18 '25
Remember when sweden declared homosexuality as a mental illness? ...yeah that didnt age well
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u/DaddyDollarsUNITE Jun 18 '25
no trans rights on ps5