I am an Atheist, yet in ED I don't dabble in slaves, trade drugs or murder other CMDRs.
What is your point ? His nephew is surrounded by all of this in his world and ED, yet he doesn't have to participate ?
I am an Atheist, yet in ED I don't dabble in slaves, trade drugs or murder other CMDRs.
What is your point ? His nephew is surrounded by all of this in his world and ED, yet he doesn't have to participate ?
FWIW I got an infraction for doing exactly that. "Masked swearing."
And that cartoon is in a videogame newsletter.
I agree with this. It's not about cotton wool protecting children from ever hearing swearing or concern their innocence is forever corrupted as result etc. But simply the importance of consistency and appropriate decency in such matters.
Hello! I drew that. Sorry about any backlash it caused. I was completely unaware that it was in the newsletter until one of my friends sent it to me. Tickled pink that it showed up, though, even if a bunch of people thought it wasn't funny.
Proof: here's the original reddit post, right next to my login (http://i.imgur.com/qJVvUui.png). Posted it on reddit a week or so ago here (https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...d_also_plays_elite_dangerous_and_he_did_this/) Warning, foul language in comments (do I need to do that here? I'm not really sure).
Fun fact: This actually did happen. My dad texted me, said he needed me right away, and I figured he was in trouble, so I drove like a maniac to his house. Then it turned out that he was late on a couple missions and needed me to do them so he could go off to a party. I was incredibly confused, annoyed, and amused. Did the missions anyway.
Fire away if you have anything to say to me. Already read the thread, though, so I'm aware that I'm an unfunny talentless hack and that this shouldn't have been in the newsletter.Glad that people who did like it... well, liked it! And I'm tickled pink that the devs thought it was funny enough to include... even if it was a mistake in the draft version, lol.
In spite of my earlier comments, I personally am not upset with your comic. I actually did find it funny, I just didn't find it appropriate for the newsletter.
So... I'd assume is ok to post it here? (taken directly form the newsletter link. Apparently it's still not fixed?)
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Thanks Ed. Apology fully and unreservedly accepted!..... but phew you should be glad you didn't have to deal with my sister-in-law who's lad I so vilely exposed to the offending word. I will explain further for my fellow commanders who can't understand my posting on such a trivial matter....the family are an very orthodox religious family and only just tolerate the Elite "TRADING" game I've been promoting to their offspring...... so I'm afraid that there is one nephew who is now banned from my corrupting ways....no more ED for him then.....in fact no more Uncle "Hems" either!
Wow, that's dreadful if this is how they react over something so trivial, and that they hold you responsible is a very odd mind-set. However one can but suppose that something is always going to trigger such types, so I wish you well on any bridge building needed and your future ventures into what is obviously a minefield.
Even so, this is a complete storm in a teacup, and as for vile and corrupting... gawd help them when he gets hold of an unsupervised internet connection!
I very nearly reported that as a breach of Rule 9 of the Forum Rules just to see what happened.
Oh, nah, I'm with you. Like I said, I had absolutely no idea this had been used in the newsletter. I posted it on reddit and forgot about it until a friend showed me it. Really wish Frontier had notified me or something.
Is it a corruptive influence on the young, and a god-abandoned atrocity on this earth? No. Does it technically break the rules of this forum? Yeah. Honestly, if they'd asked, I would have provided a clean version. Not like the punchline relies on cursing. Only reason it's there is because the whole purpose of invective is to add emphasis-- and I was feeling plenty emphatic, believe me.
Glad you liked it, my man!
As a non native speaker, it's always interesting to see the outcry whenever the f-word is used publicly.
From my (or people like me) point of view, it seems to be the most used word in English, be it in movies, literature or on the internet. People love to use this word, except when they don't.
From my (or people like me) point of view, it seems to be the most used word in English, be it in movies, literature or on the internet. People love to use this word, except when they don't.
Dad jokes are just getting as old as mom jokes.
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Interesting. Never thought I'd see a thread on such policy.
In some cases, such use of language, I think, is population based. I grew up in central New York State in the US in the 70s, a city of 50k. While it is absolutely not accurate to say that I never heard "that word" as a kid, it is accurate to say that its use was rare.
When I went to college, most of my friends ended up being from Long Island. One boy in particular used "that word" liberally. It was something I had to get used to, but being in college, I did.
When I graduated, my first job took me back to the central part of central NY to a 2-year agricultural college. I noticed the word usage went down.
Now, 30 years later, I'm in Boston. Now I hear "that word" daily, most interestingly coming from the mouths of young mothers chatting on their phones to their friends while their toddlers are in baby carriages in front of them. That's what I've found most interesting.
For good or for bad, I think the internet has brought this culture now, everywhere. There is no getting around it and living a modern life. In my estimation, you either keep kids off the internet completely - possible, certainly, but, I think that has its own problems developmentally and socially in the modern world - or you accept that kids are going to see swearing and on a daily basis.
And then you use it as a teachable moment. You talk about it. You talk about how you feel about it, and why its right or wrong. I think, done right, such moments can do far more to instill your values in your children than trying to keep things away from them.
OK, who put the soapbox here?
Interesting. Never thought I'd see a thread on such policy.
In some cases, such use of language, I think, is population based. I grew up in central New York State in the US in the 70s, a city of 50k. While it is absolutely not accurate to say that I never heard "that word" as a kid, it is accurate to say that its use was rare.
When I went to college, most of my friends ended up being from Long Island. One boy in particular used "that word" liberally. It was something I had to get used to, but being in college, I did.
When I graduated, my first job took me back to the central part of central NY to a 2-year agricultural college. I noticed the word usage went down.
Now, 30 years later, I'm in Boston. Now I hear "that word" daily, most interestingly coming from the mouths of young mothers chatting on their phones to their friends while their toddlers are in baby carriages in front of them. That's what I've found most interesting.
For good or for bad, I think the internet has brought this culture now, everywhere. There is no getting around it and living a modern life. In my estimation, you either keep kids off the internet completely - possible, certainly, but, I think that has its own problems developmentally and socially in the modern world - or you accept that kids are going to see swearing and on a daily basis.
And then you use it as a teachable moment. You talk about it. You talk about how you feel about it, and why its right or wrong. I think, done right, such moments can do far more to instill your values in your children than trying to keep things away from them.
OK, who put the soapbox here?
This forum is an endless source of amusement. Not least of all because of the attitudes at Frontier who dropped an f bomb. [haha] Someone give Jenner an infraction and a week ban. 'linking content with obscene language' is against the forum rules.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall as Ed realized his mistake..
I can understand not wanting to teach kids swear words but they are going to be exposed to this at some stage anyway regardless of what parents do. Might be better to realise that rather than getting hysterical.
'linking content with obscene language' is against the forum rules.I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall as Ed realized his mistake..
I can understand not wanting to teach kids swear words but they are going to be exposed to this at some stage anyway regardless of what parents do. Might be better to realise that rather than getting hysterical.
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Welcome to "Elite: Dangerous" 2017. Last year, the NPCs got nerfed. This year, it's the newsletter's turn. Besides F-bombs are my only effective remedies when I'm randomly hyperdicted by the "Unknown Adjudication Server (UAs)."
1. afaik it was something that had happened to him and he just made a short comic explaining it because it is a bit funny that a father delegates his grind to his son because they both play the same game. And he talks like people do. Like me and I'm not even english. But his parents would hate me anyways :3
or arent they the kind of people who think I should just burn in hell or stop poisoning people and destroying society and marriage by existing on my own and having equal rights?^^
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sorry for that rule but this is just effed up..
its so cultish, just isolating your children from the world..because they will someday be confrontated with them and ten lack the necessary skilsl and knowledge to possibly not get hurt.
But hey, the "if we ignore it, bad stuff doesn't exist and none will be interested in things other people do if we just pretend they are universally bad and ugly and forbid every contact..."
I've seen some teens get massively hurt by that stuff.. well and they learned to lie exquisitely..
So its hard for me to not get angry at such a way of life.. like if people wanna segregate themselves mentally they should do it, but forcing kids into it can be so harmful.
but well at least as long as hes small it wont matter as much.
or arent they the kind of people who think I should just burn in hell or stop poisoning people and destroying society and marriage by existing on my own and having equal rights?^^
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sorry for that rule but this is just effed up..
its so cultish, just isolating your children from the world..because they will someday be confrontated with them and ten lack the necessary skilsl and knowledge to possibly not get hurt.
But hey, the "if we ignore it, bad stuff doesn't exist and none will be interested in things other people do if we just pretend they are universally bad and ugly and forbid every contact..."
I've seen some teens get massively hurt by that stuff.. well and they learned to lie exquisitely..
So its hard for me to not get angry at such a way of life.. like if people wanna segregate themselves mentally they should do it, but forcing kids into it can be so harmful.
but well at least as long as hes small it wont matter as much.
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