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Originally Posted by DarkGob
That's some awesome sexist anecdotal "evidence" there. You don't suppose that maybe had more to do with her age than it did her gender, do you?
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Originally Posted by monkeyslap
To those I may have offended I'm sorry. My opinion about women was false, but the news report on the subject was true.
I did this as a test to prove a point: people can be easily offended by words. Whether it is a character name in a MMO, or just you politely expressing your opinion of an observation in life. It sucks that people can be so easily offended and hopefully one day humanity will learn not to be. But until then we have to strive to better ourselves and try to have consideration for others. Sorry for the mild uproar I caused, but hopefully you can see the point.  And yes, my "observation" was not true about women. Men can be just as easily offended.  Edited for typos 'cause I'm a N00B. |
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Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
I've never heard of anyone having a character name genericized for containing the words good, angel or heaven, and I very much doubt I ever will. Using the formal name of a deity can be problematic because of the potential to use it in ways offense to the worshipers of that deity, but for the record I have a friend who does have a character whose name contains the word "God" (Hammer of God or some such, I think) and it has never been genericized in 3 years.
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Originally Posted by MikeRobe
You'll be fine. This is one of the weird double-standards I cannot figure out. Any references to evil, Satan, demons, hell is "ok" but references to good, 'God, angels, heaven is not. I don't want to turn this into a religious discussion or anything of the sort, this is just my observation.
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Originally Posted by MikeRobe
*shrug* I've seen it.
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Originally Posted by Cheetatron
Angel, and Heaven are safe for the most part but references to the judeau christian god, and jesus may be grounds for genericing
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Originally Posted by Cheetatron
How is being ageist any better?
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I know at least one character that has Jesus in his name. There are likely others as well.
Don't forget, Jesus is also a Hispanic name. Jesus Alou was one of the Alou brothers that played professional baseball, Jesus Guevara was a Venezuelan boxer (several boxers from various countries have been named Jesus), Jesus Quintana was a character in the film The Big Lebowski, James Jesus Angleton was the Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence of the CIA (ADDOCI) from 1954 to 1975, and too many more to list. |
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Originally Posted by Cheetatron
How is being ageist any better?
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
re: monkeyslap's hilarious backpedaling: lol
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Originally Posted by monkeyslap
Wha? Here is my response to THAT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGQpjCztgA (Although I've never been to college, but you get the picture) |
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
I once tried to get the name "Hymenoptera" for a character, and found that I couldn't get it. Thought that was odd, considering that it's the order name for a bunch of insects, including wasps. I asked a GM about it, and he said that he couldn't tell, but thought it was because it contained the word "hymen" and it was being filtered.
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Maybe it's not in the filter and Aett tried to make that character on the server where you already had the name. 
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Originally Posted by Cinderhead
Maybe it's not in the filter and Aett tried to make that character on the server where you already had the name.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So you're saying you were backpedaling and you can't spell?
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Nope, checked with support...name wasn't taken. This was like two years ago, though.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Because an older person was raised in a time when cursing was considered a lot more rude than it is today, so they're more likely to find it offensive. It's not ageist unless you suggest that an arbitrary old person who has not expressed their opinion on cursing would be offended, because you're drawing a conclusion based on their age. In this case, we already know that the older woman in the article was offended, so it's not unreasonable to assume that her age is the reason why. And this really only applies to the current generation of old people, it wouldn't be applicable 20, 30, 40 years down the line. So, not ageist. Generationist if anything, but again, not even that in this case since we already know what the woman believes. Nice try though, A for effort.
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) with close captioning on and the language that was allowed on the air that was censored in the close captioning was hilarious (several different B starting words were allowed to be spoken but not spelled out in CC).
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Last night I was watching Rizzoli and Isles (hey I'm a sucker for a couple of pretty dames
) with close captioning on and the language that was allowed on the air that was censored in the close captioning was hilarious (several different B starting words were allowed to be spoken but not spelled out in CC). |
Well, I have a little-played character named "The Thrice-Damned Mother," and she'd never drawn any GM attention. (Concept is she lost three children in a fire, went mad, and now controls three Fire Imps as a Dominator).
So I'm betting it was indeed the "G" word that did you in.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
That's always been the way it worked. Several years ago I had to rename a character because someone was offened by the word Phart. I laughed at it and renamed the character the same name in another language.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Except many people conform to society as the get older and have kids of their own. Then you get the pressure from the grandparents who don't find the 4 year old cussing like a sailor "adorable".
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Originally Posted by Feefa J
Interesting. Maybe Grouchybeast is right and we are more trusted with "naughty" words in Europe. I've never seen closed captioning that censored words that weren't censored when spoken, in fact I have a vague recollection of seeing the opposite at least once.
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The game itself acts like a censor. I wanted to name my three MM thug pets as Tom, Dick and Harry. It would let me name Tom and Harry but not Dick - even though Dick was only a shortened version of Richard, in this instance. (Any Tom, Dick or Harry used to be a favourite expression of my mum's). So I guess Dick is one of the censored words in the game.
I have a toon by the name of HugePackage. Its the largest toon you can possibly make and is a brute. However the name was due to the very large size of the character and nothing else. I have not gotten any complaints about it. So I guess it depends on the person doing the reporting.
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Originally Posted by Warbaby
The game itself acts like a censor. I wanted to name my three MM thug pets as Tom, Dick and Harry. It would let me name Tom and Harry but not Dick - even though Dick was only a shortened version of Richard, in this instance. (Any Tom, Dick or Harry used to be a favourite expression of my mum's). So I guess Dick is one of the censored words in the game.
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