Profanity in mods, [split by Baronius; Domi's request] Options

[Domi]

BG1 is a PG13 game, so the developper to start with did not intend it for children. There are characters in BG1 that say stuff like "Will one of you rugged adventurers give me a good, hard shag?"

The mods/mods components are sometimes rated as well (for example some of BG1NPC Romances are rated R for language or adult situations), while the mod itself is the same as the game, to avoid embaracing the selective players. It will be nice, if people used the rating system more vigorously.

I guess this is why most sci-fi/fantasy tv creates new profanities - frac, frell etc

And that is why the authors who have guts to carter to adult audience and have no pangs of guilt about it, read so real and have their own appreciative following. (Points to Martin).

In other words, do what you feel is right, just warn the consummer about it. I always make a point of explaining that Martin is gritty, uses the obscenities and does not draw curtains when his characters decided to make love, when I recommend his books. Yes, I love what he does. No, I don't expect everyone to agree with me that it is how it should be done.

This post has been edited by Domi: Jan 9 2006, 09:03 PM

[Domi]

Dark fantasy of some persons mind who thinks about rape, murder and beating people but never acts upon those thoughts either out of fear or some other factor.

Then I don't understand how that can be legislated. Don't think bad thoughts? I mean, I had day-dreamed about swiping down like a hurricaine, killing left and right to save characters that I liked since I was like 9 yo if not earlier. Gods be good, my earliest Mary-Sue was about being a head of a bloody 19th century rebellion, while being a lover of one of the males involved. I was in love with Robespierre and Saint-Juste, whom Western society thinks to be butchers and mine own pictured as tragic heroes. Even in Soviet Russia I was not condemned for this kind of dreams, though we were strongly encouraged to do something practically good instead, like gather old newspapers, or help the survivors of the World War. People were prosecuted for thr thoughts of a different kind, and that only if they let those thoughts be known.

This post has been edited by Domi: Jan 13 2006, 07:36 PM