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No worries, and I am glad to have done so :D The feelings were wholesome, nostalgic and good, with a spoonful of existential contemplation about the nature of humanity 😅😂

I feel like I can really relate to that sort of thing from my own youth as well. For me, it was being born and raised in a very homogenous part of the Southern US with parents who had migrated here in their teens from two separate parts of Latin America.  

For the majority of my upbringing, the place I lived had very few people who looked like me, particularly other kids.  Even my name was plainly foreign and made all introductions obvious of my being out of the norm. My parents, who both were near fluent with English as a second language, out of concern for skewing my English with a Latin accent, decided not to teach me Spanish in hopes of minimizing future discrimination/bias/bullying (intentional or not). This worked out and my accent is indeed quite American, for what ever that is worth because, paradoxically, this had the knock on effect of alienating me from my own extended family (most of whom lived far away) and ultimately their culture/heritage 😵.  Also, not having an accent, didn't spare me the low-hanging fruit that my name and looks still presented, lol. So I still dealt with my fair share of bullying, teasing, and near daily inappropriate/uninvited humor/insults regarding my ethnic background. 

Fortunately for me, I was fortunate to have a good support network of close friends and immediate family too.  My parents taught me the profoundly useful soft skills of patience, charisma and empathy. I quickly learned early on to understand the majority of it was from lack of understanding, parroting and people projecting their own fears/pain.  Growing up, I managed to do quite well socially despite my defacto outsider status in that place. Regardless of that, underneath it all, I think I carried a similar feeling to: "but as a kid it was sometimes hard to know which country I'm really part of." , For me, it was a kind of liminal feeling, like being on the outside looking in, it's hard to put to words. 

The reality is people have literally told me that I (and people like me) are not welcome/wanted here to my face, and with certain cruel ideas about my inherited cultural identity common in the pop culture (to this day), the journey to feeling like I am part of the country I was born in has been a weird one.

I won't get in the weeds about the state of things where I live now, but as it stands there has been a fair bit going on to stir up that feeling from my youth again, lol.

"A story about differences. Physical and cultural differences. A story about open-mindedness and acceptance of others."  is the sort of story that this world can not get enough of, I really do believe in the idea of art and software development that can really help create meaningful growth in people. As a kid, a boon available to my latch key upbringing were cartoons and sometimes games with these sorts of themes/lessons. This sort of art can help people build bridges across certain gaps and is an awesome route to pursue.  The story your game tells is one well worth repeating!

Thank you for sharing your story too and for being so awesome as to take your experiences with adversity and create something good for the world 🙏

T

Thank you for sharing this short, truly relatable light story.
As someone who grew up as an outsider in a pretty homogeneous place, this really invoked some feels, plus it is nice when a game has a good lesson.

 But, apparently, speaking up for good working conditions justifies their genocide and subsequent besmirching. But, apparently, speaking up for good working conditions justifies their genocide and subsequent besmirching.

This is like some seriously delusional levels of jumping to conclusions.

I think you  should be weary of this level of paranoia, but I am staying clear of you and this conversation if this is the unnecessary and toxic direction you are going to take it in.

i took the time to write a well thought out and well communicated reply to the main thread, and did the same point by point for your reply. 
All you have done is spew emotional rhetoric back in return  ,intentionally or not, ignoring the actual text of my post.

You are projecting your negative interpretations of my text onto what my actual unstated thoughts and assumptions are.
You are assuming your made up assumptions about what I meant are some sort of reality and making a fuss about it without engaging or responding to anything I am  actually saying or answering any my questions.

Taking my post and reply away from this sort of energy because I came here to have discussions, not have my reply hijacked to create an imaginary platform  for you to martyr yourself on.

Frankly your xenophobic remarks about China elsewhere in this thread, merit no further interest from me in engaging with you any further.
Plenty of other economies out there exporting in masse products that choose quantity over quality to maximize cost, it just one segment of their economy like it is and has been for many other countries. Why are you using the Chinese as a "bogeyman"/"punching bag" in once place and then accusing other of using  Luddites as a scapegoat's/bogeymen, when the Luddites in the context of the text were in clear reference (for most readers) to a specific bygone 19th century English  workers movement, and not Neo Luddite( whom were never mentioned)?
Please don't bother answering Mid, this is a rhetorical question.

Any explanation after the fact,  is just an attempt to make yourself not look like a bigot, and I have heard enough to reach my own conclusion that you are the type who prolly values some people labors over others because of who they are or where they are from.

From my POV you seem like the most selfish one in the room, attempting to morally gatekeep what's good labor and automation, with no any actual explanation as to why it is good.

There is so many layers of automation between your post/content and anyone ever seeing it, from the back end of the internet to your actual hardware, there is a huge range of labor/automation involved that is very nuanced, and at first glance should stand in stark contrast to to any shallow argument you haven't even bothered to make.

It looks like you are only siding with what benefits you and your hobbies, with out explaining how this "ism" you are clinging too actually should apply to the nuances of the subject at hand.

When the nuances are brought up, you ignore it entirely. 

Honestly, "A luddite walks into an online indie game forum" sounds the setup to a very lame and obvious joke because its so full of inherent contradictions.

And despite whatever opinions you have about dictionaries, maybe you should become more familiar with them.

For example, where I am from "mid" is a reference to someone or something that is of profound mediocrity, and regardless of what you want to feel about, you don't control what others think. Here is a modern dictionary that echoes that common understanding of the word.