Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:56 pm
Do we really need a language censor here?
Okay, who here really thinks we need a chat censor for the forums? (This may sound sarcastic and angry, but I'm not trying to be that way in this post.)
I can't be verbally offended anymore, I'm sure most kids/children hear worse language in school, (my science teacher says hell and damn) and I hope most people can't be offended. Now, most of us here at TLR have known each other for a while, and we have respect for one another. I've been here almost two years, even though with the occasional fanfic here and there, I've moved past Freelancer. But it's the community that keeps me comming back, and now I really don't care what people say. (Except for Jack Tompson, he thinks me playing Doom will make me go out and kill people.) Yes, I do respect most people's opinions, but Jack Thompson is a complete idiot and therefor I do not respect his opinion. All of the crap he does just makes him money, and that's why he does it.
Anyway, back to what I was saying.....
Now, as far as I know the censor we have here only blocks out the F word, the S word, co** (you can figure that one out), and the B word. Now, I say words like that all the time at school, and I haven't gotten in trouble once and the closest I've ever come to offending someone is my preacher (who got offended when I said crap and made me leave the church for three weeks).
Now, as many of you know, I'm writing another fanfic, entitled The Holocaust. The main character is Frank Johnson who (as you may have guessed from the teaser) is a real smart-ass. He was born and raised on Houston, so you could consider him kind of a country boy/cowboy, and he has some real language problems. Now, with the direction I'm taking The Holocaust in, it will show the worst in people. You know how people get when they're scared, angry, and then they let their anger control them. I've done it a few times. Now, I feel it would take away from the fanfic if I couldn't put what's on people's minds into dialogue. I mean, it would get cheesy the fifteenth time I have someone shot or knocked out right before he was about to say the F, S or the B word.
Now, I wasn't planning on using all that much swearing in this story, but when their's nothing but dispare, you begin to see the worst in people. Violance, theft, questioning of faith, etc.
The B word is blocked on TLR, but in Freelancer when you rescue Jacobi doesn't she say "Burn in hell you son of a b**ch!" after she shoots a Nomad? Besides, almost everyone here loves GTA, and in Grand Theft Auto there is racial discrimination, a huge overuse of the F word and GD, and reciently, brief nudity/full-blown sex scene, whichever you want to call it but we know it's the second one.
Now, I personally don't see the need for a censor here. We all have enough respect for one another that we won't purposely offend someone. Besides, anyone who has ever read a Stephen King book has already read worse words.
Now, I'm to the point in my life where I can't be verbally offended by anything, and I'm sure some of you are at that point or just can't be offended anyway.
Now, I'm asking you. We all have respect for one another, would never purposly offend someone here (and besides, that's what we have MODs for) and most of us aren't easily offended.
Besides, do you know what SOB stands for? That's right, son of a bi**h. Do you know what WTF stands for? Yup, what the f**k. And do you know what STFU means? Uh-huh, shut the f**k up. We're allowed to say all of those, and they're just acronyms for blocked words.
Now, do we really need a censor here?
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Okay, since someone who will remain nameless was offended by my last sentence, I've changed it.
For those of you who just can't wait, I've finally started a new fanfic, The Holocaust!
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4 8 15 16 23 42
Twenty bucks to whoever can tell me what the deal is with those numbers. I'll give you a hint: They have somthing to do with a guy named Hurley.
(Congrats to Taw, he was the first to get it right.)
I can't be verbally offended anymore, I'm sure most kids/children hear worse language in school, (my science teacher says hell and damn) and I hope most people can't be offended. Now, most of us here at TLR have known each other for a while, and we have respect for one another. I've been here almost two years, even though with the occasional fanfic here and there, I've moved past Freelancer. But it's the community that keeps me comming back, and now I really don't care what people say. (Except for Jack Tompson, he thinks me playing Doom will make me go out and kill people.) Yes, I do respect most people's opinions, but Jack Thompson is a complete idiot and therefor I do not respect his opinion. All of the crap he does just makes him money, and that's why he does it.
Anyway, back to what I was saying.....
Now, as far as I know the censor we have here only blocks out the F word, the S word, co** (you can figure that one out), and the B word. Now, I say words like that all the time at school, and I haven't gotten in trouble once and the closest I've ever come to offending someone is my preacher (who got offended when I said crap and made me leave the church for three weeks).
Now, as many of you know, I'm writing another fanfic, entitled The Holocaust. The main character is Frank Johnson who (as you may have guessed from the teaser) is a real smart-ass. He was born and raised on Houston, so you could consider him kind of a country boy/cowboy, and he has some real language problems. Now, with the direction I'm taking The Holocaust in, it will show the worst in people. You know how people get when they're scared, angry, and then they let their anger control them. I've done it a few times. Now, I feel it would take away from the fanfic if I couldn't put what's on people's minds into dialogue. I mean, it would get cheesy the fifteenth time I have someone shot or knocked out right before he was about to say the F, S or the B word.
Now, I wasn't planning on using all that much swearing in this story, but when their's nothing but dispare, you begin to see the worst in people. Violance, theft, questioning of faith, etc.
The B word is blocked on TLR, but in Freelancer when you rescue Jacobi doesn't she say "Burn in hell you son of a b**ch!" after she shoots a Nomad? Besides, almost everyone here loves GTA, and in Grand Theft Auto there is racial discrimination, a huge overuse of the F word and GD, and reciently, brief nudity/full-blown sex scene, whichever you want to call it but we know it's the second one.
Now, I personally don't see the need for a censor here. We all have enough respect for one another that we won't purposely offend someone. Besides, anyone who has ever read a Stephen King book has already read worse words.
Now, I'm to the point in my life where I can't be verbally offended by anything, and I'm sure some of you are at that point or just can't be offended anyway.
Now, I'm asking you. We all have respect for one another, would never purposly offend someone here (and besides, that's what we have MODs for) and most of us aren't easily offended.
Besides, do you know what SOB stands for? That's right, son of a bi**h. Do you know what WTF stands for? Yup, what the f**k. And do you know what STFU means? Uh-huh, shut the f**k up. We're allowed to say all of those, and they're just acronyms for blocked words.
Now, do we really need a censor here?
__________________________
Okay, since someone who will remain nameless was offended by my last sentence, I've changed it.
For those of you who just can't wait, I've finally started a new fanfic, The Holocaust!
__________________________
4 8 15 16 23 42
Twenty bucks to whoever can tell me what the deal is with those numbers. I'll give you a hint: They have somthing to do with a guy named Hurley.
(Congrats to Taw, he was the first to get it right.)
