Captain Stiffy, on 09 November 2013 - 06:11 AM, said:
Could you explain why every time there's a thread like this the "concerned parents" ignore everything that people say except where they can be attacked? Try responding to an actual point.
So now I'm a concerned parent? The irony of all this is that I'm a teenager...That was an actual point that was made, by the way. You yourself said
Captain Stiffy, on 09 November 2013 - 05:59 AM, said:
My entire point is that the profanity itself is NOTHING compared to the subject matter being discussed.
I think it's wrong to dumb down the gameplay experience in a game that has a very largely adult audience so that people's children can play it.
Send the seed outside. If they aren't old enough for swearing and sexual discussion they aren't old enough for the internet.
I then countered by saying that I very rarely encounter said sexual discussion along with the fact that you said it would "dumb down the gameplay experience". Maybe you aren't sure of what a language filter is, but, unless PGI goes full-draconian censorship with it, it would be an optional setting. Now your point about it being a murder-simulator is a tad bit over the top, wouldn't you say? First of all, this is warfare, this isn't going around murdering people.
"Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder) " (
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There is a difference. Secondly, there aren't really 'people' as such in the game. Sure, there are some arms you can see, maybe a head, but in essence they're robots. Heck, this game is the tamest MechWarrior game I've played since MechWarrior 2! Even in 3 and 4 there were humans running around. This game is rather inhumane in comparison. Another point would be that some people just don't like to see people spamming the chat with curses, something which happens far more frequently than 'sexual discussion'. You don't have to be a child to be offended.