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That was sponsored by R.A.F. on Victory as I recall, although it had wide cross-server coalition support via Pride global. (shameless plug)|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
The new people weren't around for it but a few years ago a friendly group of players sponsored an ingame event and invited everyone to join the party. Much fun was had by all who participated.
About a month later, and this is important, a month after the event was over!!! an article was published that praised the event that was sponsored by Gay players. I forget if they were a single SG or a group of SG's. That's when the forums erupted in a hate fueled flamewar. Blinding stupidity like if the gays can have events why can't heteros have hetero only events, and ingame christian prayer meetings. The event should have been banned because they were recruiting. Thankfully the mods started stepping in and locked/deleted threads. So why is Queer banned? Because if idiots like that. |
I recall that the same haters who flamed the forums also joined and lurked on that channel, waiting to hear goodness knows what: our secret world domination and mass recruitment plans or something. They left when they figured out that Pride mostly hosted the same LFT and job-moaning chatter as any other global, except with slightly more mention of penises.
I also recall that the whole tit-for-tat events war ended about the time a group of Satanists announced an in-game Black Mass under Atlas the same day as the Christian revival event. Too bad, would have been quite a scene.
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I just assumed it was a gay-themed show. I don't watch enough television to actually care.
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Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
I have always wondered what the hell most people though about the title of Queer As Folk when they made the US version. I don't imagine the original saying is very widespread over there.
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can we talk about why the word naked was gened? now you can go into supermarkets and buy naked juice and bear naked granola... who are the devs trying to protect here???
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Themselves.
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Originally Posted by BuckNaked
can we talk about why the word naked was gened? now you can go into supermarkets and buy naked juice and bear naked granola... who are the devs trying to protect here???
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Yeah, the idiom isn't used in the colonies, so, it was almost a gibberish title for us Usians. It might as well been Queer as Neighbors or Queer as Suburbanites.
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Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
I have always wondered what the hell most people though about the title of Queer As Folk when they made the US version. I don't imagine the original saying is very widespread over there.
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I guess either no one could think up an equivalent title, or they wanted to make sure they collected up all the viewers who'd enjoyed the UK version. At least, I assume the UK version was shown over their first, and that's why they bought in the franchise. Otherwise it make even less sense.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Yeah, the idiom isn't used in the colonies, so, it was almost a gibberish title for us Usians. It might as well been Queer as Neighbors or Queer as Suburbanites.
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Originally Posted by seebs
I just assumed it was a gay-themed show.
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Originally Posted by Rainbow Avenger
Themselves.
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Hmm Queer Politic would be an awesome name for a toon.
In a similar but not really vein - Black ...
Plenty of existing comic book characters have the Black prefix. But does anyone use it in-game? And has anyone ever either a) had it mistaken for being racist or b) had someone suddenly start spouting KKK propaganda?
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If only a player could enter words/text into the filter system so it would block a specific word. I disable the filter anyway so this wouldnt affect me unless a word was disallowed completely(which I am generally against). If a player doesn't like a word it would be nice to have the option of entering it into your personal filter. The word itself(Queer) is not offensive so I don't understand why it is in the filtered list. On the flipside I expect many MMO refugees coming in and stirring up the locals. If you've ever played on xbox live you probably know what to expect come Freedom launch.|
Originally Posted by Triomphe
Why is the word Queer filtered on CoH?
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Some of them were very cool - Russian pilots liked the codename for the MiG-29, "Fulcrum", so much they used it themselves, and "Foxbat" has a certain something - but many were just... sad. I mean, "Flounder"? "Flagon"? "Frank"?