"Rape" and Game Culture - Page 22

On August 14 2010 06:49 Zealotdriver wrote:
If gamers stopped flippantly using the words rape, own, fag, gay, the world would be a better place. But too many gamers feel selfishly entitled to use offensive speech regardless of how it affects others. They don't realize that using abusive language can only harm your reputation with others and has no positive benefits.

On August 14 2010 06:49 Zealotdriver wrote:
If gamers stopped flippantly using the words rape, own, fag, gay, the world would be a better place. But too many gamers feel selfishly entitled to use offensive speech regardless of how it affects others. They don't realize that using abusive language can only harm your reputation with others and has no positive benefits.

On August 14 2010 06:14 hp.Shell wrote:
I agree entirely with the OP. "Rape" can be an offensive word to /people/people who know people/people who think about people/ who have been raped or severely traumatized, including torture victims, domestic violence victims, et al.

Now, though, I'd like to share an equally important word(s) that should be thrown out of the vocabulary when speaking in most contexts. Please note I do not intend to offend anyone, nor am I implying that taking the word "rape" out of the language of gamer culture isn't important.

The word is "god." I am a spiritual person, and I believe in a One Supreme Being I'll call the Creator. However, if you're talking about "god," you should not use that word. You should use something like "creator" instead. The reason for this is that the word "god" implies a certain kind of ownership by a human or otherwise lesser being than the creator. If you think about your idea of "god," that is showing disrespect to the creator. You should instead think about THE creator, and not "your god." When you talk about pagan gods or the Christian god or the Muslim god, etc, the word "god" is used as a word that means "THEIR version of THE creator."

This implication of "ownership" of the creator, while convenient to use in vernacular, might be alarming to some of you non-atheists when you first recognize this possibility. I am currently trying to take the word "god" out of my vocabulary and replace it with "creator" or "the one eternal source" or something similar.

This is also the reason why I'm shaky on the whole "gay marriage" debate. Now, I support gay marriage in the legal sense, because I believe the more equal we are written into our laws the better, but you have to look at the very definition of "marriage" to understand that "gay marriage" is a paradox. The word "marriage" is a biblical term, and we all know what orthodox conservatives think about gay marriage. It's like saying "same-sex heterosexual spiritual union." The very word "marriage," due to it originating from the bible which is allegedly against gay marriage, discriminates against gays.

There are other words that have more meaning than you may like to give them, including "enormous," which, in addition to "very big," also means "wicked" or "evil." So if you see a holy angel one day and it is very big, do not call it "enormous," for you would be attributing more to it than you actually mean.

Sorry to ramble, but if you're spiritual/religious you may find that your life improves when you stop implying ownership of the very being that created you, the universe, and everything. Once, again, I'm not trying to offend people or spark debate. My major point is that there are words like this everywhere that have lost their full meaning because they are thrown around so carelessly in modern times.

On August 14 2010 05:59 larjarse wrote:
Open your brain folks. I'm sure this has already been said a thousand times, but reapers are baller at sniping buildings mid-late game. In and out expo rape.

On August 14 2010 06:50 Iggyhopper wrote:
This.

If the enemy is out of position, reapers RAAAAAAAPE.

On August 14 2010 06:56 love1another wrote:
So true. It's like the world is falling apart and we, the people who use these hurtful words, are the cause of that decadence!

On August 14 2010 07:07 Ploppytheman wrote:
Games are about war. War has rape in it. And by rape I mean like "The Rape of Nanking" or however you spell it. Rape doesn't mean a penetration by sexual means, it can mean by combat. If you don't understand that there are mutliple meanigns for words, or that if you get offended by anything and everything I feel bad for you. I will continue to say rape in games, as I have never meant it in "I penetrated you sexually" because thats just homosexual, why would I want to rape some nerd? I mean it in I dominated you because of my skills and strategy way. I hate this politically correct idiocy where everyone is offended by everything. Its nearly impossible to be PC b/c of the new terms that keep chaning. Like retarded < special < mentally challenged and instead of disabled we have "differently abled". Its so stupid I refuse to perpetuate the name game cycle.

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