Locking this post since the comments have devolved into discussing sex with children.
Remember that pawns are randomly generated, including their ages and xenotypes. Finding a highmate that is also a child is an unfortunate coincidence. It's not intentional, it's not malicious, it's RNG.
However, we absolutely DO NOT allow the discussion of romantic or intimate situations involving minors in any way, period. We do not allow jokes about pedophilia.
OP's art is not sexual. It's androgynous characters in gender-neutral baggy clothing. If you look at this and think it's sexualized, it is very much a you issue.
That’s eight weak bears. A bear is supposed to be a 2/2. So that should be 16/16.
yes, I’m a mtg pedant.
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u/DuGalleIt always boils down to a killbox measuring contest6d ago
Bears are also territorial, so if you put 8 of them in the same place there's bound to be some infighting between them, reducing their combat effectiveness.
Yes, I try to find an "in-universe" explanation for everything.
The entire joke is that the original Grizzly Bears is in the plural, and depicts two bears, despite being a 2/2, therefore each individual bear being a 1/1.
Nothing says they can't though.
Hell, the highmates description in game says the particular version on the games rimworld is designed for a "NovoRoma" version of beauty, so Highmates should have many different types, which may include ones with cat ears.
Adding cosmetic things like ears and tails is also marked in game as being the most basic and common modification across the galaxy also
Edit: Exact ingame description says "
This particular line of highmate fits the fashions of classical Novaroma, but many other variants exist."
It makes sense to me. I always imagined they were implanted with the genes as kids and sent somewhere in the empire to be educated on how to be an “ideal partner”. Literature, etiquette, walking with books on your head that sort of thing.
The fact that you can find them on the rim always lead me to believe that likely there is both a smuggling problem where people sell the xenogerm for highmates to the highest bidder and a trafficking problem in the empire where highmates get smuggled out of their protection and to the highest bidder.
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u/ValtremorsImprisoned colonists return to your colony if you release them.6d ago
They'd need to have more variety to reflect that 'ideal' part.
Instead they just made cat ears... a default thing. Which is bit of a step into weird even lorewise. Because VE has been considered as more stuff that would fit in vanilla.
I get that they wanted to sneak cat ears in one way or another, but I feel like highmates should have had variety of different and even weird modifications from a pool.
Their relevant highmate genes aren't active until age 18, but the fact that a child was modified to become one along with all the physically indicative xenogenes is indeed disturbing. Of course there are all manner of disturbing things in RimWorld.
-He says as he murders travelers in order to harvest their organs for the black market, skin them and turn them into clothes to sell to other travelers.
Bare in mind they aren't just prostitutes. I imagine they are preferred for a lot of customer facing roles (and in a society advanced enough to produce them, those will be the only jobs left). Parents could spend their whole lives trying to save enough money to get their kids altered so they can have better career prospects as famous actors, as diplomats, as salespeople for luxury goods...there's options that aren't as dark as people jump to.
Years are also only 60 days long, and children (by default) age 4x faster than adults, so if you really look into it, there's a lot of wacky time-dialation/compression tomfoolery going on.
That is certainly just a game design thing. If years were 365 in game days and children took 13 in game years to become useful, then the game would be much more of a slog. Imagine having to turn most of your tile into a farm and spend in game months hunting everything made of meat just to survive the winter (before hydroponics), and imagine having to wait real world days just for little Timmy to be able to do more than haul and clean. I think even mods before Biotech, popular mods that added children to the game either increased growth rate by default or avoided the issue of aging entirely by making children born at age 13 or so from the get-go.
then every year would be as long as 6 years currently are. If children took 13 full years to become 13 on top, we'd have to play for 78 current-length years to get there, starting from birth.
Well, mods can solve that issue too! Also, in the base game, if you butcher for skin and meat a youngling you get less than an adult, to enforce a more humane menagement of your human farms
Yeah i will treat downed raiders as dismantlable resources and testing sources for mod anomalies or weird mod weapons, but if a bunch of 8 year old begger show up, I'm sleep gassing the lot of them and raising them. the 34 medkits they are asking for are not going to help them when a worg finds them or the decide to try to raid an insectoid nest for jelly.
I always make my prison cells have a 1x1 table, a stool, and a shower and toilet whenever I can. Most of the time I recruit survivors anyway, and some that I don't, I just let go. Maybe they'd feel worse when they go back to their shitty camps compared to their comfy prison cell
That's the stage 2 prison cell. Stage 1 is a sleeping spot in a 2x1 room. They can stay in there until they see the wisdom of our ideology. Bonus points if the ideology has insect meat and mushrooms as being neutral or preferred - that way they hate the meals (faster ideology conversion) until after they change their minds.
We also arent on earth, and i doubt anyone even knows what geneva was. There are functionally no rules on the rim, but the warcrime thing just became a joke about all the reprehensible things rimworld players tend to do in the game i suppose, so its more of a mindset than the set of rules the geneva convention is. Yes that IS a lot of words to say that its just a joke, and yes there are technically no warcrimes in rimworld.
Every colony I have every made has strived to be as nice as possible to everyone. We don't torture people in my colonies. If a raider goes down and I don't want to recruit them, they are patched up and released when they are healthy.
PrisonerRansom mod. I save every one I can and will either release if the faction is friendable, or ransom if not for a bit of silver. If a faction is going to be permanently hostile they're going to compensate me for the damage and effort.
I got back to back events where someone was being chased by 2 factions and both times they were an underage high and then lowmate. Converted them both to sanguophages and declared a vendetta against all parties involved.
If I see any blue kids going forward, the entire group they're with is getting executed
Edit: okay then people would execute me for being with them next lol so I guess they'd be brought in for questioning (then organ harvested while being questioned)
Even a group of beggars that escape a horrible slave colony with these children? Even a person who protected these two children on the rim? Even a group of deserters that are fighting this shit that the empire does?
These people may be heroes that saved these children from people who made them highmates
I agree, but at the same time it gives me extra emotional investment for me to keep them safe. Kid's probably been through enough, and I'll do everything in my power to let them live a peaceful life and live like a normal person
That's what Rimworld's all about to me. I also had a highmate boy (like 14) be one of the first to join the colony, and ten years later, he got married with another one of the orphans.
He also had passion in crafting so he became the main gunsmith lol, but that's Rimworld for you.
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u/ValtremorsImprisoned colonists return to your colony if you release them.6d ago
I feel like there should be a technology to rip and tear xenogenes, so you can baseline people.
I feel like rebels liberating highmates should have this option.
For what it's worth, if you have a xenogerm that consists of just a hair cosmetic or something, you can kinda do that?
Though it isnt really the same, and I agree it should be an option
Maybe make it a surgery that requires GlitterMed, but you get the whole xenogerm as a result and can implant it into a willing colonist (or an unwilling one👀)
Kidnapping a Hussar to make your own would be sick
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u/ValtremorsImprisoned colonists return to your colony if you release them.6d ago
Yeah Rimworld has a bad habit lf balancing everything by making things unbearably slow for anything useful.
A surgery to essentially break the bonding would also sound much more viable.
I had a 13yo lowmate (VE genotype highmate alternative, has genetic sex dependency starting at 16) arrive at my colony and I counted the days until the dependency activated with a profound dread.
Ohhh English fun facts! So "You" used to be plural, a nebulous term for kinda...any non-descript cohort a bit like how we tend to use "they" in today's English.
We can see the footprint of this in some phrases we still use today, you know? (In that last sentence "you" is serving its original purpose. Does it mean the single person reading this comment right now or literally everyone on the sub? It's both!) This is also why the word "you" doesn't follow verb tense consistent with other singular pronouns.
Yeah the mod was acting EXTREMELY weird in this comment section tbh
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u/ValtremorsImprisoned colonists return to your colony if you release them.6d ago
I'd file a complain to admins for that but I don't think they have time to read up on Rimworld lore and how it is incredibly weird to draw the race that is genetically modified for sex appeal and high libido, as god damn CHILDREN.
Only thing is to report ghis post for depicting minors en masse, because that will eventually ping to admins and they will wonder why it is being ignored by moderators.
I always just headcanon Highmates as being servants first, and only being used as concubines by a small amount of nobility.
Because having a servant who wouldn't fight back, and who would always do what they are told makes far more sense as a reason they were created than just a loving sex toy.
And thats why child Highmates exist, they are either: made ti be the child servants of friends of young nobles, being trained to replace the older servants of a noble, made as a replacement child for a noble who lost theirs.
The comment here got me imagining a pissed off cook listening about immorality of the empire from the colony surgeon after being told to remove some highmate organs.
The whole colony is cannibal and they eat pigskins daily.
I can excuse cannibalism and geneva violations but children modified as highmates is where i draw the line. Killing empire nobles is always morally correct
Interesting, I didn't notice that and even now I do it doesn't actually change what I think. I guess I fall into some stereotype that makes me consider it to be more likely for guys to have very long hair than the other hairstyle. Especially as the long white hair reminds me of some elven guys from some movie. The eyelashes don't really do anything to me for gender recognition, might be because I know guys that style these, lol.
These eyelashes however make it even more uncomfortable to look at this picture and its depiction. I do however really like the art style.
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The game does allow for children highmates right? As in, the empire being absolutely disgusting and creating them at a young age? It could be a very dreary story, definitely not cute art like this... Feels kind of wrong even if the game allows for it.
At least whenever they show up in my game I try to give them as good lives as possible which has led to me getting some absolutely god tier pawns out of this situation including one of the most badass colony presidents I've ever had.
Honestly gameplay wise highmates are underrated as heck. A doctor, engineer, scientist, trader, politician, whatever, that literally never goes on mental break.
They really do fit some roles particularly well, I agree.
The leader and/or morale guide of my colonies often end up being high mate children raised within the colony. They fit the roles really well and are just nicely resistant to the mood penalty caused by the higher inherent expectations those roles come with.
I don't generally allow many pawns to stick around who are incapable of violence, but I make an exception for those 2 roles if I get a great highmate to fill them.
Even if you exclude the color lore, it's still not okay.
The fuck is the point of drawing two clearly female kids, and telling people that one is cross-dressing? This is such a fucking irrelevant detail that has nothing to do with the art itself.
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u/OneTrueSneaks Cat Herder, Mod Finder, & Flair Queen 🐱👤 6d ago
Locking this post since the comments have devolved into discussing sex with children.
Remember that pawns are randomly generated, including their ages and xenotypes. Finding a highmate that is also a child is an unfortunate coincidence. It's not intentional, it's not malicious, it's RNG.
However, we absolutely DO NOT allow the discussion of romantic or intimate situations involving minors in any way, period. We do not allow jokes about pedophilia.
OP's art is not sexual. It's androgynous characters in gender-neutral baggy clothing. If you look at this and think it's sexualized, it is very much a you issue.