From: | Arcady arcady@***.net |
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Subject: | Getting Nasty to Your Players |
Date: | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:23:45 +700 |
>> crowds who will find these subjects less and less tastefull and the
>> adolescent or depraved ones who find a need to be disturbing or
>> disturbed or who find pleasure in such depravity.
>
> I find this patently untrue and more than mildly insulting.
>There's a reason that movies are rated for age, and that some things are
>"intended for mature audiences." Subject matter that comes up in games
So you would say the 'pornography' industry behaves in a more mature manner
than the rest of the world? The rating system may be what it is. But these subjects
appeal to the juvenille mind.
> Play the game however you want, but pontificating that those whose
>games deal with more graphic, disturbing, or dark subject matter are
>somehow mentally- or emotionally-diseased adolescents smacks of high-horse
>preaching to the unwashed masses. If you don't like the way someone's
>game works, don't play in it. Otherwise, get over it.
Well, I don't play in those games. And I do find those people who enjoy sexual
depravity and sexual violence disturbed and tend to exclude them from my social
life.
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