Well, there is a fine line between sensible politeness and insane political correctness. To reject that extreme, one does not have to embrace the extreme on the other end of the scale. But I'll still choose the coarse atmosphere here over the insane political correctness of other sites any time. The lesser of two evils and so on.

You are probably right.

Maybe I am a bit taken aback by the harsh welcome, but not "triggered", I am certainly not playing a martyr card and I am not saying that I am being silenced and oppressed as you wrongly cited. Let's put it this way: I did expect a more polite atmosphere and I certainly did not expect my normally worded comment to be met with outright accusations of being some phantom troll and threats of deletion straight away. That is what made me think of CoG. My bad for assuming to find a more civilized atmosphere here.

"Or stay here, doesn't matter to me." - At least something that we can agree on.

Meister Reineke = Master Reynard in German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynard

Satisfied? That "coins" guy must be pretty dedicated if you still suspect me of being him.

I actually bothered to dig through Briar Rose's old threads to excavate my old account to verify my story that I posted a few comments above:

http://chooseyourstory.com/Member/?Username=Sertor

I have no idea who coins is, but if it pleases you, then feel free to delete both my accounts, rest assured that I won't lose any sleep over it. But who is this "coins" anyway and what has he done that warrants to suspect every newcomer with a dissenting opinion of being him?

(I am getting more and more COG vibes here.)

Well, those too are pretty common motifs. I agree that it sounds a bit suspicious, but not nearly enough to scream "plagiarism" with the certainty that most people here did.

And no, I don't actually have strong feelings about this other game one way or the other, I didn't even know it existed before I saw this thread, I just wanted to present a differing opinion, since this thread had devolved into a witch hunt. I didn't expect to be shouted down so vigorously (not by you, mind you), since I had held this site in much higher regard concerning dissenting opinions, but maybe the gap to COG is smaller than I had thought.

I don't have one and I am not particularly fond of COG with their "I identify as a furless reindeer and am sexually attracted to pink elephants" - demo games.

That is ridiculous. I don't live in Asia, or have ever been to Asia and your incoherent rambling doesn't make a lick of sense to me. You may not agree with what I said, but that is no reason to start spouting nonsense.

No, it is not a coincidence that I joined the site today since I joined in order to comment on this topic. It is a coincidence however that I stumbled across this thread. I am a very infrequent visitor to this site and checked your profile today to see if you have updated "The Price of Freedom", since I enjoyed your expanded version. I distinctly remember that I have pointed out a bug in your announcement thread, but unfortunately I don't remember which name I chose for my account. I only remember that I chose this avatar: https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/dota2_gamepedia/e/e6/Dragon_Blood_icon.png?version=845905cc4cf1407f48e32eee1a660cf5

Coincidences do happen...

Anyway, believe it or not, it doesn't matter to me.

However, what exactly is similar in the scene that you posted here? Other than the motif of prisoners fighting over food and having to decide on keeping, or sharing it. If that is plagiarism, then you have plagiarized the film "The Four Feathers". Maybe the other four scenes are different and do share more similarities - you could post them here, so that we can tell, but speaking of plagiarism in this one scene that you picked is farfetched to say the least.

There are more than two people in the world who have a similar opinion on that matter. Shocking, I know. So, no, I am neither of those two and no, I don't care, if you believe me, or not.