PBW ethics, opinions please.

DavidG · #1 January 17th, 2003, 01:21 AM

Well I love to dish out a good insult in game. But personally I would avoid using profanity against players I do not know. In a recent PBEM game with a friend I used every foul word in the book and then when his character complained I blamed it on his universal translater.

In PBW against players I do not know I would use something more in Sc-Fi character such as "You're sire mates with Denebian Slime Devils"

[ January 17, 2003, 02:41: Message edited by: DavidG ]

Gryphin · #2 January 17th, 2003, 01:24 AM

Rollo, < snip unessasary comment > I have always used vulgarity while gaming. Sometimes tone inflection and body language did not come across. If I have ever wondered where someone was coming from I asked them. Did you mention it to them?
If someone has been offensive to you, bring it up with them. Perhaps it was un intended. Tell us, is it consistent with the balance of their post here to be deliberately obnoxious / instulting?
Edit:
Clearly there are venues where it should not be used. I apologiesto any I have offended in any game I have played. I will change my ways.

[ January 17, 2003, 01:05: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

Puke · #3 January 17th, 2003, 04:03 AM

i definitly side with Rollo, here.

Puke · #4 January 17th, 2003, 04:42 AM

even though im often delibratly obnoxious.

couslee · #5 January 17th, 2003, 05:22 AM

If you were down to 10 mines, you were out of it. The ability to resist is not enough to stay in a game, you must also have the ability to recover from a good wuppin. I would not care if you had a million mines floating around, with no planets, no ships, and no ability to get any planets or ships, you gone. If the game host allowed this, your both ****ters.

If you only told him that to provoke a piss, but then conceeded, that is another story.

Pax · #6 January 17th, 2003, 06:00 AM

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Originally posted by Gozra:
ut if you need to revert to profanity... well I think one should and could do better.

That depends entirely on teh race.

In the Stars! community, there is a race -- (in)famous throughout the community ... known as "Da Furries"; they are among THE singularly most foul-mouthed, non-house-broken, IRRITATING lil' bastards in the known multiverse.

And playing against them is an absolute BLAST, 'cause their owner/player (whose name escapes me ATM) role-plays them TO THE HILT.

My Last game of Stars! included the Furries (much to my dismay and trepidation; their player isn't a "dim bulb" WRT that game ...). The race is played to make you truly ENJOY trying your damnedest to exterminate every Last foul-mouthed, sub-sentient, filth-covered ONE of the runty bastards. Heh!!!

tesco samoa · #7 January 17th, 2003, 06:01 AM

Rollo... One game against a good friend I named all the big ships after his failed relation ships