"Rape" and Game Culture - Page 11

On August 14 2010 05:11 EleanorRIgby wrote:


lol indeed

On August 14 2010 05:12 FireBlast! wrote:


yeah because the 'norms' reduce your degree of articulation into words of complete semantic irrelevance like "snugglepuff"

On August 14 2010 05:06 KwarK wrote:

It's far more selfish for someone to ask me to censor myself so they cannot be offended by their own ignorance than it is for me to speak freely and risk them hurting themselves.
As I said on the first page, I don't use the word, but I will always object whenever anyone demands censorship to avoid their own issues, be it religious, scientific or emotional.

On August 14 2010 05:11 UbOs wrote:
this thread is much to large to read, but i'd like to add (if it hasn't already) when I was in highschool, kids used the phrase "i raped that test" all the time. I thought it was a funny way to put it at the time, but we found out in ap lang that one of the girls in our class was raped. Even if she didn't care at all, i think humans should have enough decency to use a different wording just in case she does care, you never know who has been raped, especially since they rapin errbody out heeyuh.

seriously though, it's SO much easier to not say rape than it is to get over the psychological damage of being raped.

On August 14 2010 05:13 Megalisk wrote:


Best watch out homie or I'll have to snugglepuff u.

On August 14 2010 05:14 FireBlast! wrote:


Be my guest, ill dragonite you to into submission

"Red" is a sensitive word to me , i associate it with bleeding - pls refrain from using that word in the future thx gg no re

On August 14 2010 04:01 KwarK wrote:
He's slaughtering those zealots could be offensive to victims of genocide.

Words have meanings. In gaming to rape does not mean to sexually assault the unit or player in question. If anyone was in any way unclear about that then I can see why they might be shocked until the matter was cleared up. But I cannot understand why a word, which at this point is simply a homonym, should be banned because a tiny minority of people associate it with something other than the intended meaning.

In gaming culture rape is not an offensive word. I don't use it but this is almost as bad as people who claim the word niggardly is racist because it sounds kinda like nigger.

On August 14 2010 04:27 KwarK wrote:
Unfortunately rape does not simply mean rape.
–verb (used with object)
6.
to force to have sexual intercourse.
7.
to plunder (a place); despoil.
8.
to seize, take, or carry off by force.

When you rape someones base then the logical application of the verb would be definition 7, to plunder or despoil. Choosing to misinterpret it with definition 6, despite it being clearly absurd when applied to a collection of buildings, is just bad english.
Words in english have multiple meanings in different contexts.

but I'm sure Zerg will be raped in the ass so badly

It would not, zerg can at least pressure now, and not have to get raped in the ass by reapers and helions and zealots early one

goes hatch first on BS, ZvZ, i'm like ok, free win, great, i brake down the rox, get my exp mass speedlings to rape his noob ass, so he goes

You'll get raped in the ass by templar and reavers

I hope Holland will rape you hard in the ass

On August 14 2010 04:42 KwarK wrote:

Rape of Nanking is probably not a great example of using rape in a non sexual way (unless your history books were printed in Japan).

On August 14 2010 05:15 kainzero wrote:
"rape" is so clearly hyperbole.

i mean if you're watching baseball and someone hits the ball really hard you could say "oh my god, he absolutely murdered that ball." or even worse "he killed it out there." sometimes i even hear "he totally abused him down low" which is clearly talking about basketball and playing in the post.

but that does not diminish the crime of murder, or killing or any kind of abuse.

me personally i use "destroyed." as in "i went over to play SF4 and i just got straight destroyed."

but still, i don't see the problem in using "rape."

i am against the word "gay" though, because you took a term that defines a group of people and are applying it to something negative, making it seem like the original meaning is also negative.

On August 14 2010 05:06 KwarK wrote:

It's far more selfish for someone to ask me to censor myself so they cannot be offended by their own ignorance than it is for me to speak freely and risk them hurting themselves.
As I said on the first page, I don't use the word, but I will always object whenever anyone demands censorship to avoid their own issues, be it religious, scientific or emotional.

On August 14 2010 05:15 Megalisk wrote:


I once owned a dragonite, but hes gone now . Please change your post I find it offensive .

On August 14 2010 05:06 Moop wrote:


They are debatable just because there are no simple answers. That's how our morals have progressed over the last couple of thousand years, through philosophy and debate.

On August 14 2010 05:10 choboPEon wrote:


You don't mean to be homophobic when you say faggot, but the gay dude who got the shit beaten out of him in school and had to go through hell growing up and was constantly called faggot .. well, he needs to realize that words have different meanings? How about, instead, you realize that words don't exist in a vacuum. You don't get to make up what words mean, despite what people in this thread tell you. Rape and faggot have long histories and although words do change over time, these two words have not lost any of their more terrible meanings.