Now maybe I am alone in thinking this but...

[whatisthishell]

I now declare this the new headquarters of ISSUP. Next subject shall be about the implications of a Haro x Kira Yamato doujinshi.

[Dex Luther]

Originally Posted by whatisthishell

I now declare this the new headquarters of ISSUP. Next subject shall be about the implications of a Haro x Kira Yamato doujinshi.

Yeah good plan give people even more reason to complain and more reason for Sothis to do something about it.

[marmar040]

I suggest we try to keep ISSUP in the home thread and and all of our sponsored threads. I don't want any spilling over or hijacked threads.

[sothis]

really, i try to be fair and non-dictatorish as much as possible. if you guys shit all over that kindness, i'll just end up locking that thread or doing the very things you don't want me to do.

-irritated sothis

[whatisthishell]

Originally Posted by marmar040

I suggest we try to keep ISSUP in the home thread and and all of our sponsored threads. I don't want any spilling over or hijacked threads.

Hijacked threads? I've never heard of such a thing. I was kidding, thought the whole Haro doujinshi comment made that clear. ~_~

[CMC]

Originally Posted by marmar040

I suggest we try to keep ISSUP in the home thread and and all of our sponsored threads. I don't want any spilling over or hijacked threads.

Agreed.

Though I doubt it will remain. I feel it is only a matter of time for it to be locked. Sooner or later we'll go too far, we probably already have. The pic I posted is pretty ecchi though it's not like it's evil, just some how being perverted in general is considered "bad" here in the US and many other countries. What you or I may consider as harmless fun, someone else may see it as something that isn't so harmless. Yet when it comes to sex and sexuality and all that goes with it, people some how, for the most part, view it as more harmful than violence.

Think about it. Why did GTA:SA get pulled from store shelves and re-rated to AO? Because of a glitch(not just an oops glitch, but one you had to go looking for and do a good bit of work to achieve glitch)in the game's coding that would allow you to play an otherwise removed portion of the game. And what did that portion contain? A sex mini-game. Yet shooting a police officer and stealing his car was still OK for a M rating? Sure, a M rating means 17+, yet we all know everyone that plays or has played GTA:SA isn't 17+. So there's alot of parents buying and have bought their kids M rated games. But slap on an AO rating and there's no way those same parents will buy their kids those same games.

Really, you want to tell me that someone having safe, perverted as it may be, sex is more harmful than someone pointing a gun at someone else and shooting them? Cause you know, it's not like a kid has ever found their parent's gun and accidently shot their friend or sibling.

Really, which would you rather your child to be exposed to directly? Watching one man shoot another man dead or a beautiful woman showing them her breasts?

My point? General society is pretty F'ed up in the head for putting sex above violence in the "not OK for kids department."

Oh and here's one more comparison. It's OK to say bitch on broadcast TV, yet pussy is not. Pussy by itself that is, it will slip by if it's attached to cat or willow. Bitch on the other hand slides right by, it's not used much, but does get used. And they typically aren't using it to refer to a female dog, unless your watching Animal Planet. And really, when you say each word out loud bitch does sound much stronger and vulgar than pussy. Pussy is such a light word, light enough that it's cute, hence pussycat and pussy willow.

[Dex Luther]

Originally Posted by CMC

Agreed.

Though I doubt it will remain. I feel it is only a matter of time for it to be locked. Sooner or later we'll go too far, we probably already have. The pic I posted is pretty ecchi though it's not like it's evil, just some how being perverted in general is considered "bad" here in the US and many other countries. What you or I may consider as harmless fun, someone else may see it as something that isn't so harmless. Yet when it comes to sex and sexuality and all that goes with it, people some how, for the most part, view it as more harmful than violence.

Think about it. Why did GTA:SA get pulled from store shelves and re-rated to AO? Because of a glitch(not just an oops glitch, but one you had to go looking for and do a good bit of work to achieve glitch)in the game's coding that would allow you to play an otherwise removed portion of the game. And what did that portion contain? A sex mini-game. Yet shooting a police officer and stealing his car was still OK for a M rating? Sure, a M rating means 17+, yet we all know everyone that plays or has played GTA:SA isn't 17+. So there's alot of parents buying and have bought their kids M rated games. But slap on an AO rating and there's no way those same parents will buy their kids those same games.

It's not only that. Parents buy their kids that M rated game, and then complain that that game "made their kid violent." That's why people like Jack "Ambulance Chaser" Thompson and Hilarious Clinton are on their banning violent video games crusade.

They don't seem to realize there was violence before video games (the Crusades, WW1, WW2, etc), and that violent crime rates are actually DOWN since the video game industry boomed. Actually, J.T. has been told this little fact many times, but he just denies it and quotes some study he made up.

My point is; What's wrong with the world today? Why can't people take responsibility for their own actions and the actions of those under their guardianship (their kids)?

PS: I know this post is pretty much way off topic, but everyone has said what they wanted to say on that topic. Sothis probably won't give another warning. She's given lots already, but people seem to abuse her niceness. I think the next warning will be replaced by Sothis smackdown.

Besides, I think this topic is better anyways.

[CMC]

Oh god, don't get me started on Mr. Jack "ignorant of the facts" Thompson.

[dgsub]

Originally Posted by CMC

Really, which would you rather your child to be exposed to directly? Watching one man shoot another man dead or a beautiful woman showing them her breasts?

In real life or on TV?
Does it make a difference?
I have a child?!

[chii]

I personally think there is a really REALLY fine line between Sex and violence.