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Northern Ireland27066 Posts
On August 16 2012 02:53 mxh wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2012 02:45 Dosey wrote:
GRRM can write an explicit rape scene in a book - It's a best seller and no one complains. Someone mentions the word rape on a forum - The entire community is instantly labeled as cancerous and insensitive, preventing the scene from growing Makes sense. GRRM is a professional who has spent decades mastering his craft. You (and whoever posted 'rape') are some dickhead on the internet. There is also a difference between using 'rape' to refer to a 'rape' (as GRRM does & describes) and using 'rape' to refer to a computer game. Yes, there's a difference. I can't remember who, but sometime after the tosh.0 rape controversy recently, one comedian stated that you can make rape jokes - it just takes a level of tact, humor, intelligence and mastery that nearly all comedians (I'm talking professionals) don't have. The touchier the subject, the harder it is to handle. This applies here. If the poster or caster or whoever mentioned it managed to do so in a top-notch manner, we wouldn't be having this discussion. More likely it was an offhand remark, and can't reasonably be compared with a scene in a book series that someone has literally spent thousands of hours on.
Believe this is the article you're referring to if other people wish to read it.
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Will you stop the rape discussion? Jesus christ...
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holy shit it's jared from pure pwnage!
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Oh man that group is brutal  Poor PiG
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mvp and nestea same group
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
GL pig, feast and kas that's all I can say
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United Kingdom12042 Posts
Oh god MVP and Nestea in your group XD
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Russian Federation501 Posts
Oh that horrible horrible jetlag flying all the way from France to Germany...poor ForGG
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
hahahaha oh thats gonna be tricky. Imagine if he drew that group 7 months ago!
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On August 16 2012 02:56 Holgerius wrote:
Will you stop the rape discussion? Jesus christ...
It's actually getting a little worrying now.
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HAHAHAH PiG and day9's reactions
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Lol MVP and nestea in the same group 
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"Here are the other 2 in your group... MVP and Nestea. Fo Reals"
I cannot stop laughing. That's awful for him. Day9 is awesome.
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United States15275 Posts
On August 16 2012 02:55 pmp10 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2012 02:52 bo1b wrote:On August 16 2012 02:48 pmp10 wrote:On August 16 2012 02:47 bo1b wrote:On August 16 2012 02:46 Jacobs Ladder wrote:On August 16 2012 02:40 bo1b wrote:On August 16 2012 02:38 Jacobs Ladder wrote:On August 16 2012 02:36 Shiori wrote:On August 16 2012 02:34 Chessz wrote:On August 16 2012 02:27 Shiori wrote:
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I'm pretty sure when I use the word "rape" to describe utterly dominating and crushing someone in the context of competition, I'm not referring to them actually having held down the opposing player and fucked them. Yea i'm sure that's the connotation you're applying to the word, but you actually undermine your own argument because in usage/linguistics debates, an appeal to context goes both ways (ie. sensitive to both sender and receiver of a message). So there isn't any reason to not avoid potential harm on behalf of the receivers of your message. It's not the horrible terrible faux pas some make it out to be, but you can't argue for your own use by asserting only your denotation applies. Cause it will always go both ways. It just boils down to lazy/juvenile diction if anything. Well aware of that. I understand why people might be offended by the use of a touchy word. I think that's their error, though. See, this is what I don't get. Why should you use a touchy word which you could easily avoid? Its so much easier to avoid those words and not harm someone. Even if you feel its somewhat irrational of them, why not just make a minimum effort to be kind to your fellow man? Do you feel it's societies fault that a band aid solution to a problem is better then actually fixing it? Is wishing that people didn't mention rape better then providing support and therapy to people who were raped? Why not both? Why not avoid triggering people as well as providing them help. There's a difference between not flagrantly using the word rape and not addressing rape. Again, my whole philosophy on this issue is just try to be kind to your fellow man. Because avoiding a word isn't being kind - it's avoiding a word. Conversely censoring people from using a word because it has a completely different meaning to something horrible is not being kind at all. This isn't about avoiding a word. It's about watering-down it's meaning. It's not about watering down it's meaning at all, it's about using a word with different meanings. The word has only one meaning. The fact that it's accepted in gaming sub-culture as synonym for decisive winning doesn't make that use valid in general English language.
Are we going to bring up the stupid prescriptivist/descriptivist war again? Because no matter what position you take, you are wrong.
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holy shit...MVP AND Nestea in the same group
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and sucks for pig too xD
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LOL 'your group has MVP and Nestea' hahaha
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On August 16 2012 02:56 Holgerius wrote:
Will you stop the rape discussion? Jesus christ...
Stop offending Christians.
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Should someone just make a poll about if the word "rape" is OK to use or not and be done with this discussion?
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I hope both Mvp and Nestea can make it out. Ahhh LG-IM Fighting!~
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On August 16 2012 02:57 Shiori wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2012 02:56 Holgerius wrote:
Will you stop the rape discussion? Jesus christ... Stop offending Christians.
Rofl! XD Good one.
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