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[–] [email protected] 175 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not surprising, it’s another place based in high fantasy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

quality burn

Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

The fandom takes cosplay and immersion very seriously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I would love a peek inside the forbidden archives.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Probably the two IT nerds who manage the Vatican systems.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

2 out of the 764 people who live there. I wanna see an investigation drama where they try to narrow it down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Considering the Catholic Church banned chess and excommunicated several priests who were caught playing it, I'd believe it. But of course, kiddy diddling is just fine.

Rebellious priests invented the folding chess set because of the ban actually.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oops, they only managed to uncover systematic sex abuse. Better luck next time, dang it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

"I tried to find out who was playing Baldur's Gate 3, but all I found was this worthless pile of sexual abuse evidence!" [Throws cardboard box into incinerator]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

or two guys from the swiss guard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Father Robert bring one.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Obviously. You can't really expect the pope to play solo. Now the true question is, who did he romance first? My money is on Karlak.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

Nah, shadowheart. You know the Catholic Church likes converting people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta find the user name "el_papa" or "big Poppa pope", track him down. I wanna play call of duty with him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

×ⵜ×PONTIF×ⵜ×

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

pwease kill immigrants with me? ~the pope

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

This raises a more interesting question. How many copies of DOOM have been sold in the Vatican?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow! That's 4.08 copy/pope/km^2

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But to compare, how many loli porn game ? Someone ask Valve to release the numbers...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Zero. Because they don't need a fake substitute.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'd assume there'd be at least someone there who's job it is to "research" things to see if they're to be banned or not.

Like the person who would've had to read the Harry Potters.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, the Catholic Church is far less into the "Satanic Panic" idea that anything that mentions magic and stuff is evil and should be avoided than most Protestant Christian churches, especially the Evangelicals. Pretty much the only thing they consider sinful outright in the media is porn, otherwise you're just advised to avoid stuff that influences you to commit other sins. This includes things like Baldur's Gate 3. If it's not influencing you to sin, it's not a sin to play. Same with Harry Potter and other stuff like that. It's just some extreme folks in the Church, influenced by the Evangelicals, who push the Satanic Panic farther than the Church officially teaches and give the Church a bad name in that regard. Lots of priests are sci-fi/fantasy/gamer nerds, and Tolkien (author of Lord of the Rings) was a faithful practicing Catholic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Speaking of satanic panic, the biggest irony are those that denounce stuff like the Diablo or Doom series. You know, games were the player's job is to literally destroy the forces of actual hell. Maybe killing demons with swords and shotguns is sinful?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Someone religious once told me that's because the games/media are like "saying that this demons exists" and by doing that give them power or something like that, didn't pay much attention after the first bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just any time there's that much excitement, it must be no good, you know?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

You must gather your congregation before venturing forth!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reference material for when they release a BG3-style RPG starring Luce and friends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm more surprised that it even got offered there. There's some legal hurdles to clear for selling in a new country, and I guess, one of their distribution platforms decided it was worth it.

I guess, the Vatican might not have a ton of laws, though...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Vatican is essentially Italy, except when it goes against their interests

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting. I almost guessed that variant, too, but figured it would be a bit too wild for a country to auto-adopt most laws that another country implements. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Could you please save and quit, your Holiness?
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, dad, I need to kill Raphael!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That song goes hard though. Felt bad ending it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That fight is in my top 10 gaming experiences for sure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if North Korea has some copies 👀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pirated ones, probably, though I doubt anyone other than the dear leader is allowed to play, because "western propaganda". Not like you'd have many people in there with a good PC anyway. Or even electricity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It would probably also have to run on Red Star OS. It runs well enough on Linux with Proton, but would they have Proton?