Prejudice Server?!?!

I've known about Victory being the unofficial gay server since 2004 when I started. One of the Pride-based SG's helped out a lot with some of the original Hamidon Raids, which brought it to everyone's attention (assuming I'm remembering correctly).

A consequence of this is that I've made a gay friend or two through random teaming and got into the habit of petitioning homophobic language every time I see it in Broadcast. That's right. I'm that guy.

The fact that I know people who are sensitive to language that is pretty ignorant in the first place makes me a bit more sensitive to it than I might otherwise be.

It's hard to say how the situation in the OP actually went down, but I've never had any problems with the GLBT population on Victory. I've got some hilarious stories, but no problems.

It is a game and people need to be mature enough to remember that. Subjects of this nature should not be tolerated, at least, I do not on my teams or teams I am a member of. For starters, if I am the leader I will diplomatically fix the problem or at length go to the extreme and either break up the team, quit, or boot. If I am a member of a team that will not be mature enough to just play the game, I will finish the mission and politely dismiss myself from the group. There is nothing in the game or rules that forces me to accept an untolerable situation or be anything more/less than polite toward people. Do not get the idea I am suggesting Victorian type talk, I am just saying that being rude, talking trashy, being more interested in sex than play and the like are not fun for me and I won't take it long. Besides, my first thought, as a leader of a team is... suppose there is a child on the team! As an adult of 55 years with a grandson, I would like to think there are others out there that think of children first and guard them when observing bad public language. This the probably the biggest reason I got rid of Vent in my SG.

This thread has become much more entertaining since it got derailed.

And the hanky code? Isn't that only about as useful and common as Morse code these days?

Only thing I can think of is that if anyone ever uses bigotry or hate slurs I and others will tell them that no server welcomes hate but Victory as the unoffical gay server will be very less likely to accept language like that. Other than that I dont know

I'm sorry to hear your friend had such an incident happen when he 1st arrived ingame its sad actually.

People sometimes forget that behaving in the same manner in which you despise others for makes you not the same as the people you despise but even worse for they should know better for being on the recieving end.

Anyways ..

Ive met many gay's ingame and out lol. all of us have on many servers and most are usually treated very well ingame if anything we all laugh n joke n more importantly play as team and work well together.. as a game should be played

However.. I do have some advice for your friend, sooner or later he will be in another situation it might be sexual preferance, religion or politics..

It's better most times to not even explain his situation to anyone not justify his beliefs because it is and will be obvious when people are looking for a debate/arguement to force an opinion onto you.. for his own health/peace of mind try and respectfully say "I'm sorry i need to take care of something walk away" lol

It wasnt your agreement or opinion they wanted or in the future others will want it's the fight they really thrive on.. dont give it to them it actually bothers them more if u dont lol.


Anyways tell your friend there are alot of other servers if he doesnt want to hang there. Toss me a pm hes welcome on Freedom in my SG its small just cpl friends but we have everything we need.

That and Pinnacle, the drunk server.