I've never encountered anything in a 'game' that I couldn't handle...
Maybe 'cause I primarily game with friends, as opposed to random gamers.

I really won't tolerate people who want to go into detail about rape, murder, torture, etc. at or away from the gaming table.  For instance, I love Zombie movies, but don't revel in death. (they're actually more about life, but that's another discussion...)

Frankly, I'll be happy when this is all replaced with Internet Gaming Forum Thing-to-Talk-About #1137523.  (or are we up to #1137524?  I can't remember.)

A game should have rules for what's in it.

Any Akira game should have at least some stuff covering amphetamine use, vehicular homicide, etc.

Specific in-game rewards for doing nasty shit is superfluous, though. Violence is often the easiest answer, if only in the short term, and impulsiveness is its own reward for those that pick it up.

I think "The Hot Spot" (rape scene), "the Cube" (graphic violence), and "Spanking the Monkey" (taboo sex topics) are bad movies. You might argue that some of those (okay, one, if that) might challenge us and raise important issues. But I do not find viewing the things that these movies bring up are productive or entertaining mediums to vet the issues or gain insight into them. One might discover on first viewing that they are revulsed by such acts, but I am comfortable in that knowledge about such acts without viewing them.

Likewise, that's not why I game. I have debates about important issue. I don't want to see graphic human victimization and I certainly don't want to act it out. I derive no enjoyment from it. Indeed, such situations would make me distinctly uncomfortable. Like the above movies, I would class such games that dwell to much on such graphic portrayals as a bad game, as I would not enjoy them.

Congratulations, Tony. Your Poll questions are utterly biased in order for you to later be able to claim "see? Most roleplayers think its perfectly ok to explicitly detail their characters raping the throat of a decapitated boy!".

Pathetic.

RPGPundit

PS: and even then, the "who voted" list for the "dude its fiction" entry reads like a Who's Who of the Storygamer-swine crowd. Hilarious.

Exactly, Pundit. I couldn't possibly answer that poll in any way except to validate such a thing, therefore I chose to not answer it.

-clash

So, just in the interest of fairness, I've added a new option to the list.

RPGPundit

OK, now I can vote.

-clash

Me neither. I don't take Tony seriously.

EDIT: This is in response to #50 by clash.

Quote from: Caesar SlaadI think "The Hot Spot" (rape scene), "the Cube" (graphic violence), and "Spanking the Monkey" (taboo sex topics) are bad movies. You might argue that some of those (okay, one, if that) might challenge us and raise important issues. But I do not find viewing the things that these movies bring up are productive or entertaining mediums to vet the issues or gain insight into them. One might discover on first viewing that they are revulsed by such acts, but I am comfortable in that knowledge about such acts without viewing them.

Likewise, that's not why I game. I have debates about important issue. I don't want to see graphic human victimization and I certainly don't want to act it out. I derive no enjoyment from it. Indeed, such situations would make me distinctly uncomfortable. Like the above movies, I would class such games that dwell to much on such graphic portrayals as a bad game, as I would not enjoy them.

While we're talking about specific tastes, I see a difference between graphic violence and victimization. Fight scenes are a staple of lots and lots of stuff. Torture? Not so much.

So I'd be okay with graphic violence but not sadism and shit.
I'd also be cool with drug use in a game, but I'm a bit of a prude as to explicitly described sexual things. I might play in a game with a bit of it, but wouldn't be able to run one with a straight face.

Whoah, you just went in and added an option to an existing poll?  Can anybody do that?  If you wanted to create another poll, that would have been fine. But going in and changing the title and the poll of the OP seems to be playing awfully fast and loose with the mod rules.

Well now that it's, the poll, changed do we get to change our votes? Seems like this is a right big mess.

Quote from: ghost ratOr maybe people are annoyed with the "Dance for me, monkeys!" routine.

Indeed, there's this thing called context, where we look at a person's actions and writings and connect them to other actions and writings they have made, and use our little grey cells to draw connections and conclusions.  

So if someone's past actions center primarily around being a slimy PR worm, then it follows that more recent actions are more likely to be viewed in a similar light.

Quote from: walkerpWhoah, you just went in and added an option to an existing poll?  Can anybody do that?  If you wanted to create another poll, that would have been fine. But going in and changing the title and the poll of the OP seems to be playing awfully fast and loose with the mod rules.

Maybe so, though in fairness, I did not feel able to vote until the new option was added.

Quote from: walkerpWhoah, you just went in and added an option to an existing poll?  Can anybody do that?  If you wanted to create another poll, that would have been fine. But going in and changing the title and the poll of the OP seems to be playing awfully fast and loose with the mod rules.

Ah, but since he was nice enough not to make it some kind of secret and openly admitted the edits in thread and title we are free to cast our aspersions or agreements on this act as we see fit.

In short, I too now feel capable of voting.

I think it's a good option, and the fact that so many people want it helps to inform me on precisely the questions that I wanted to understand better.  So, cool!  Cooperation at its finest.