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Blasphemiarch
Join Date: 2004-08-16 Member: 30663Members
Join Date: 2004-08-16 Member: 30663Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Common Thing</div> Once again, moderators won't like what I have to say. Half-Life is a game, Rated "M" for Mature. With me? It is also required to play Natural-Selection, so the fact becomes obvious, that maybe their shouldn't be language restrictions everywhere. Most servers prohibit "cuss" words, with which I fail to understand why. This is a discussion forum, so change the name if you don't want a inquiry of this type. I could understand, that a lot of people are offended by "cuss" words, immature behavior, perversion, and other generally "evil" ideas. Which brings out the fact that most "bible-thumpers" already think games such as Half-Life are the devil. I understand that the Server ops reserve their own rights, for which they host the server, not me. But it doesn't seem logical to play a "M" game and not expect to have mature conversations.
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1. Although the game is rated “M”, the “M” is for blood and violence, the rest comes from people who play it. There are a lot of teenagers and kids under 12 playing the mods. It is disturbing when kids say words that they shouldn’t say at their age, and become disrespectful. One might say, “Well if you don’t want them to say such words, don’t let them play” That means that 90% of kids should live in a jar, I guess. Simply because they are exposed to the same environment almost everywhere. The improvement should start somewhere, and why not from the community, which has become such a big part f daily life, and continues to grow: on-Line game servers and admins.
2. Stereotypical words in addition to foul language tend to fire up players and start fights on servers. Pretty soon everyone on the server is involved, instead of playing.
Its not like I go around swearing.. only when people aren't around <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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**** the ****in aliens are going to ****** **** the ******* hive is NOT mature conversation.
If you allow it, thats what you hear..
The reality is really hard and fast. There is no real rule but the server ops. They don't answer to a higher authority and they and pretty much do as they please. No complaining on the forums will cause the dev team or anyone else to slap them into shape.
Deal with the fact that if you don't like the server you happen to be using(at someone else's expense of both time and money) you can A) go someplace else, or B) build your own server(which is really a variant on option A.)
Perhaps you all overlooked the word discussion <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Incase you didn't notice the grunts from Half-Life commonly say words such as "D---,B------,A--" and a few others (I'm not cracked out on Half-Life so I really don't know them all.) I also understand the racial slurs part.... because they really are stupid and for stupid people. (Eventually those people are going to figure out that N----- means a stupid person, not a black.) But nobody has really discussed it without bias. You all cannot act like you've never cussed before. I don't do it often, infact almost never. So if I didn't ever do so, how could this be concidered a complaint. It isn't! It's a discussion and I don't expect Unknown Worlds to take any action. So guys, please take the discussion forums as what they are.
Also, I own the server because I enjoy playing and scripting for AMX mod. Hearing constant insults and curse words is not the type of environment thats fun to me. Some words are instant bans in our server, and my clan completely agrees. Just because you have the ability to curse, does not make you mature. Any1 can curse, few can use it appropriately.
Yes, I curse every now and then, and I don't mind occasional curses, but there is such things as excess. And being myself, a girl gamer, doesn't help. Before I owned this server, I remember constantly being harrassed by the b and c words. Now, I know I am a b.... but I hate the word c...
What I would suggest, is going to a mall and screaming out these words at people, and see the reaction you get. It won't be purty like me...
Thanks for your time,
~Tyrant~
BTW, before any1 starts saying gaming girls aren't purty, my pic is on the clan site... <a href='http://www.allgonewrong.net/' target='_blank'>All Gone Wrong Site</a>
haa, I like that. A good way to demonstrate similarities between public places, be it on-line or off-life, and that in both places people will have the same reaction to vulgar behavior.