In-game roleplay regarding gore, sexual themes, other violence and such

[Linkus]

Orrrrrrr give plenty and plenty of warning.

If your 10 year old goes ahead and looks at the story specifically labelled 18+ then it is their fault and yours as the adult. You can't simply say 'It shouldn't be there for them to see!' since they can find it far more easily by typing seemingly normal things into google. If you want to apply the 'It shouldn't be here at all' idea to things then it would be best to just not let them use the internet, watch tv or even talk to their friends.

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[Marburg]

actually, linkus it's silly to think that giving some sort of 'mature warning' will cover the bases.

Add one of those & it's all but a guarantee that kids who would otherwise overlook it will automatically gravitate towards it...so even if a person intends on covering their rump 'legaly' by saying "don't read this" that is EXACTLY what they will go out of their way to do, because kids will always do what they are told not to do...that's the way it's always been, & the way it will always be.

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[Lunaphase]

So then the solution is certainly not to ruin it for the rest of us. Human nature is what it is. Attempting to curtail it is a lost cause, and bound to hilariously backfire.

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[Stefan]

As said, the problem is that IG you can't see who's behind the ship.

It may be a 10 yr boy or just another adult as yourself that will roleplay with no problems.
In the forum just adding a "18+ Rated" will do... but in game we end up having to be 100% polite.

[Coin]

I think the golden rule is:

would i say this to my grandma?

there are ways of saying things, and ways of not saying things. Euphemisms are your friend here. Kids won't generally get what you're hinting at if its suitably obscure.

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[Vergil]

Local chat FTW. It is this how I managed to say I could have sex with 4 women before the LN could catch up to me in NY.

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Xelgion, you have done a marvelous thing. Eppy is begging for mercy, in full caps.

[Silmathien]

My mother tells me, not to play with other peoples feelings.:happy:

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[Marburg]

Also, it's not what you say...but what you don't say.

I remember back in the 90's when here in Texas, a small yet irritatingly vocal group of bible thumpers were railing on Pulp Fiction as exceedingly violent...when, in fact, it's not.

For example, In the movie, they loved to cite the scene where John Revolta accidentally blew the brains out of the guy sitting in the back seat...but in fact, what they saw was NOT the guy getting a bullet in the brain, but a bunch of chunky red thrown on the back windshield.

The violence they were so up in arms about never really happened onscreen, but it was what they didn't see that got their dander up.

What people create in their imagination in the context of a scene is always more intense than what can actually
be presented by the scene creator.

So, in this regard, Sex and violence are the same. Within context of a scene, show a woman having a blast in the thowes of orgasm by only showing her toes as they curl or her hand gripping and pulling at the bedsheet (& absolutely nothing else) people will allow their mind to race & see what is not actually there.

That is why a partially clothed woman is a thousand times sexier than a fully nude woman, & why the sound of a bone breaking is more disturbing than actually seeing it break

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[nassou]

I learned about the bad stuff around 9 years old. We aren't protecting kids by not saying stuff here. They will know eventually. I say keep the gritty stuff in local comms just to be safe though.

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[Turkish]

I think the golden rule is:

would i say this to my grandma?

there are ways of saying things, and ways of not saying things. Euphemisms are your friend here. Kids won't generally get what you're hinting at if its suitably obscure.

While you're right about the use of metaphor and euphemism, your theory falls flat when you come from a distinctly liberal family. Like my own.

There are a lot of things I would say to my grandma that I wouldn't say to you. Censorship in all forms will inevitably fail, and nor should it be enforced on people. Either set a guideline and stand by it, or don't and allow free thought and creativity.

I'm really tired of this wishy-washy attitude. It works right now because most people recognize that there is a variable standard in place. Telling people to exclude things on a standard that isn't even written though?

This is why indecision and mixed stances on the matter pollute and confuse. For the record I'm anti-censorship, I'm just not sure how to tackle the issue. We shouldn't restrain ourselves because a parent chose to give their child the right to explore here.

Nor do I think I should censor myself because someone else decided to explore here. Child or not.

Edit: Based on what Talren has said, people will hate it, but its true. It may be time to accept that our delusions about our children being pure and innocent is not a reality. I knew how to swear in Cantonese when I was eight.

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