What subjects would you consider 'taboo' on the Escapist forums?

[CarlMin]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

What what what? How? I'm not one to judge anyone on any aspect of their life or interests. I draw the line when it could affect the happiness of others.

Fair enough. I'm not the one to talk. I find myself attracted to a fictional dog from a movie.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Bioware is.

 

[Tanis]

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Atlus is.

Had to fix that for ya.
(Also, another 'taboo' subject has arisen!)

 

[moretimethansense]

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Bioware is.

Ah, a taboo I forgot.

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Atlus is.

Had to fix that for ya.
(Also, another 'taboo' subject has arisen!)

Is it wrong that I agree with that sentiment?

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Bioware is.

Ah, a taboo I forgot.

Any mention, no matter how slight, of the possiblity, no matter how small, that Valve is not god's gift to gaming and flat out the greatest develpoers ever.

That and any dislike, however small, of Half Life, Gordon Freeman or Alyx Vance.

Valve isn't God's gift to gaming... Atlus is.

Had to fix that for ya.
(Also, another 'taboo' subject has arisen!)

Is it wrong that I agree with that sentiment?

Atlus is all well and good, but don't you dare say Demon's Souls was in anyway good!

Also Bioware has never made a game I was dissapointed to play EVER.

 

[Baradiel]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

What what what? How? I'm not one to judge anyone on any aspect of their life or interests. I draw the line when it could affect the happiness of others.

Fair enough. I'm not the one to talk. I find myself attracted to a fictional dog from a movie.

I remember reading your thread when you declared it to the world and I see absolutely no problem with it. He's an incredibly cute character. I dont see anything wrong with loving a fictional character, whether the character is human or not.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Posting a thread about anything remotely similar to anything that has even been mentioned on a previous one even if said thread has been dead and unseen for more than a decade.

That hasn't been a taboo since the majority of Search-Bar advocates left the site or got banned. Heck, we see similar threads every day.

OT: Anything to do with Ad-blocking software and its use. We have a pretty strict rule regarding them. >_>

 

[DownloaderOfTheMonth]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

What what what? How? I'm not one to judge anyone on any aspect of their life or interests. I draw the line when it could affect the happiness of others.

Well, being sexually attracted to children is kinda weird, yes, but if they don't do anything (I don't just mean rape and whatnot, I mean jerking off to pictures and all that unpleasant stuff) it's just a very odd, uncomfertable nature.

Hell, foot fetishes make me uncomfertable and therefore affect my happiness, but they're a-okay

 

[DownloaderOfTheMonth]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

How could it possible be a "perfectly acceptable fetish" in any context??

When it is never, ever acted upon in real life.

 

[Tanis]

Is it wrong that I agree with that sentiment?

Nah, but I think it's kind of taboo on this site because it's very pro-Western here, hence all the Value brown nosing, which is fine given that most people here are Western-European - culture-wise.

Atlus is all well and good, but don't you dare say Demon's Souls was in anyway good!
Also Bioware has never made a game I was dissapointed to play EVER.

I enjoyed DS, but I also enjoy games with high difficulty, even if I suck at it.
Hence my love of games like Contra and R-Type - even if I've almost never beat a game w/o some kind of luck or 'special codes'.

Don't forget Atlus has been around a LOT longer than Bioware, 1986 vs 1995.
Atlus has also published and developed more games than Bioware, by a landslide.

However, Bioware has disappointed me (Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood).

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

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I think what you are trying to say is it is okay to have those urges so long as you do not act on them.
Paedophiles aren't paedophiles for kicks. They can't fucking help it.
It's like being gay, only gross and fucked up.

 

[Baradiel]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

What what what? How? I'm not one to judge anyone on any aspect of their life or interests. I draw the line when it could affect the happiness of others.

Well, being sexually attracted to children is kinda weird, yes, but if they don't do anything (I don't just mean rape and whatnot, I mean jerking off to pictures and all that unpleasant stuff) it's just a very odd, uncomfertable nature.

Hell, foot fetishes make me uncomfertable and therefore affect my happiness, but they're a-okay

I suppose you have a point. As long as they never act upon it, in any way, someone who is attracted to children isn't hurting anyone. Still, I obviously dont condone it at all. Paedophilia is basically the only fetish I have moral problems with. There are some I find weird, but that is up to the person who's fetish it is, and I have no right to judge them because of it. Live and let live, etc etc

 

[DownloaderOfTheMonth]

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I think what you are trying to say is it is okay to have those urges so long as you do not act on them.
Paedophiles aren't paedophiles for kicks. They can't fucking help it.
It's like being gay, only gross and fucked up.

Well, I'd like to think that's what I did say, but at least the message got through to people. Yeah, that's what I was shooting for.

 

[tomtom94]

Piracy and Zynga are the biggest worm-cans.

Polarising sexual fetishes don't get mentioned because there's not a lot of discussion value rather than because there's anything wrong with them...

 

[subfield]

From what I've seen of these forums, I would consider anything taboo that the moderators of this forum consider taboo.

Since I don't know what that is, and don't particularly want to know, I just make it up as I go =]

 

[CarlMin]

Pedophilia, I'm sure. I'd say the taboo stuff is stuff that's "sick," not quite everything "illegal" since I've seen my share of mention of killing people.

Paedophilia is a perfectly acceptable fetish (mind you, ONLY when it's a fetish - if it materialises in any way into real life it's terrible)

What what what? How? I'm not one to judge anyone on any aspect of their life or interests. I draw the line when it could affect the happiness of others.

Well, being sexually attracted to children is kinda weird, yes, but if they don't do anything (I don't just mean rape and whatnot, I mean jerking off to pictures and all that unpleasant stuff) it's just a very odd, uncomfertable nature.

Hell, foot fetishes make me uncomfertable and therefore affect my happiness, but they're a-okay

Well, I guess pedophilia is something you are born with like homosexuality for example. So I dont judge people for what they didn't choose to be. As you said, as long as they chose not to act on it.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Atlus is all well and good, but don't you dare say Demon's Souls was in anyway good!
Also Bioware has never made a game I was dissapointed to play EVER.

I enjoyed DS, but I also enjoy games with high difficulty, even if I suck at it.
Hence my love of games like Contra and R-Type - even if I've almost never beat a game w/o some kind of luck or 'special codes'.

Don't forget Atlus has been around a LOT longer than Bioware, 1986 vs 1995.
Atlus has also published and developed more games than Bioware, by a landslide.

However, Bioware has disappointed me (Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood).

Well I never played Sonic Chronicles so I have no opinion on it, and age and release number has nothing to do with quality, Capcom and Atari have been around a while and most of their IP is shit. And Demon's Souls wasn't terrible because of its difficulty, it was just really boring and I couldn't get into it, Atlus is good at making JPRGs, at least from my experience, they shouldn't try to make a game reminiscent of WRPGs.

And I think that Bioware is the best developer of games with deep believable charecters.

Also fuck Valve, just thought I'd throw it out there.

 

[Mcupobob]

A thread excursively about ways to jerk it. Haven't seen one made yet and doubt there will be one.