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Online gaming is the bathroom wall of the internet.

:pees on:

Bren wrote:

You just gave me a great idea:

There should be an online community that is literally a virtual public restroom. People could write on the wall, pee in a urinal, drill glory holes, wash their hands, whatever. Don't nobody try to steal my idea!

Damn.  Why no :pees on: max? 

jkahless wrote:

Why no :pees on: max? 

Because Max would never do such a thing!

this thread is gay

Bren wrote:

jkahless wrote:

Why no :pees on: max? 

Because Max would never do such a thing!

You obviously forget how much spunk max had in the heydays of MacAddict.

The PlayStaion Networks Profile doesn't allow you to come out ether so it's not just Microsoft. I don't own a XBOX 360 so I'm not sure if you can do what the community does for the PS3 or not but we just put it in the info section as G@Y and it shows up as that.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Didn't I read somewhere that Microsoft banned a lesbian because her presence "offended" the little psychos?

I'd be filing a lawsuit if'n I were her.

If you read the article, you'll that, to their credit, the people responsible for Xbox Live (or whatever it's called when you're online with you Xbox) are far more concerned with preventing the little monsters from using "gay" as a pejorative term than they are with not offending the little monsters. In fact, to hear them tell it, it is that very concern which has up to this point caused them to put "gay" in the list of forbidden words.

So they're trying their best to serve a very diverse community and keep everybody civil.

Bren wrote:

If you read the article, you'll that, to their credit, the people responsible for Xbox Live (or whatever it's called when you're online with you Xbox) are far more concerned with preventing the little monsters from using "gay" as a pejorative term than they are with not offending the little monsters. In fact, to hear them tell it, it is that very concern which has up to this point caused them to put "gay" in the list of forbidden words.

So they're trying their best to serve a very diverse community and keep everybody civil.

That isn't what I'm getting out of it.  First off, they are actively BANNING gay and lesbian members who decided to come out on their profile.  Thankfully, they are trying to address it, but there is still this issue of banning people.  I paid for my XBox live time too and if I want to identify myself, why can't I subtly like that instead of announcing it to the entire voice chat (hey, THERE'S a spot for harassment, huh?)? 

It sounds more like the XBox community is trying to sweep gay as a pejorative under the rug, so to speak.  From a Warcraft perspective (I know it's a hair off topic, but bear with me), I see the word "gay" used as a pejorative more than any other racial/ethnic slur (and I promptly report it, but I digress again).  So either those two experiences (XBox and Warcraft) are 100% different, or this is just never reported (which I feel is what is really going on).

Bren wrote:

I'm not sure I fully get that last part of what you're saying

I'm saying that "gay" as a pejorative doesn't get reported 99.998% of the time while people identifying themselves as being GLBT are BANNED 100% of the time.

I do agree with you about the change happening, but I found the other part extremely disturbing.

Not the biggest fan of this topic, but fact is, there is an item that might be worth a few responses. A little surprised no one posted this earlier.

The next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is entitled "The Ballad of Gay Tony"- not a full game, but a new 'episode' of the current release.

Age gate

One wonders how/how comfortable the game's demographic to this point will be playing as the titular character, how good sales will be... I wonder if some Sims-like play might make up a substantial fraction of it (a sizeable number of Sims players seem to derive pleasure from torturing their virtual creations). I can imagine a fair number of homophobes/haters playing primarily to torture Tony in diverse ways.

Anyhoo... coupla trailers, some art etc. available. More coming as the 10/29 release date approaches. More info at various other sites.

I've always said that their needs to be an over 18 XBL and a children area. I mean, can you imagine just wandering down the street and randomly speaking to whatever kid you walk by? You would probably get arrested by the fifth kid.

Kids and adults, other than your own, shouldn't mix in the type of America that we have become- which is ironic because after all, it takes a village to raise a bra. . . i mean, child.