Just A Few Words

Liofin · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 26

Yeah, I agree with Mag. My father hurt me too. But it got so bad that I hate him now. I'm sorry about what happened to you Mag Sad

addman · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:55 am Post subject:

Excuse me Mrs. Ward, I seem to have been picked out in your little hate campaign here. For swearing?

I'll have you know that, although some of my humour is suggestive, that is as far as it goes. The nearest I go to swear words are things like Damn, and Hell, Arse, and the like, which where I come from are not even swear words at all. I know some people still class these words as swear words, but so far, I've observed many others using the same sort of language and have had no complaints to tone it down.

Therefore, I challenge you Mrs. Ward to provide us with an example from the Blackstar forums to back up your case.

The attack on my character doesn't go unnoticed either. Yes, Addman is an evil meta demon, but there is a sense of irony to Addman. The fact that one of the most evil demons known in the depths of hell managed to unluckily manifest itself into the puppet of the Cookiemonster, a children's entertainer, was done with purpose, and as such, Addman has become a joke character more than a bloodthirsty killer. Most of my posts are humour related and I only partake in the occasional serious RP around here.

Mr. Paige, I am shocked to see you go to such lengths to discipline your child. Whatever happened to going to bed without supper? I understand that you feel the need to teach your boy right from wrong, but this is too extreme for my tastes. Also, if you publish that book, I reckon it'll just be evidence to your horrible parental skills, and will probably result in a jail sentence for you!

Liofin · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 26

Agreed, Addman. Mr Paiges book would get him sent to *prison* I had to fix that. Jail --> Court --> Prison Smile

Lol anyways.

As long as I've been here I haven't seen Addman swear, or anyone else for that matter. And once again, I agree with addman, find some proof somewhere on this forum that shows that he has.

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I sincerely doubt that, for the parish which I attend are all eager to listen to my parenting tips, and we share the techniques we like best. My friend Clive, who attends our church, makes his sons and daughters balance on chairs on one leg if they misbehave, something I probably would have done if our chairs were not simply too short for it to be a daunting prospect.

The Naughty Door is soon to become a great parental aid when raising youngsters, and I am very close to finishing my book. I aim to have it sent to my publishers by next week.

As for the proposals we've made so far, I have yet to see any of them come into effect. This saddens me deeply. I suggest you hurry and come to an agreement with us, time is running out.

Danikat · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

Liofin · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 26

Yeah... What do you mean by time is running out? Yeah, your friend Clive's punishment = NOT ABUSE! You idiot. >.<

Panther385 · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject:

Hahahahah, this thread makes me laugh.

Leporidae, you have a great point. You should be the one writing a book, not these idiots. There is some great information that has been posted by our members here. And I also add, Mr. Paige, what do you think will happen when our 'time runs out'?

Swix · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

I've just taken the liberty of reading this entire thread, and am now sorely disappointed I did not come here at the start.

Mr Paige, you sir, are a religious zealot. You should not try and limit your childrens beliefs into what you believe in. Instead, try to keep an open mind and encourage them to find their own paths. Also, please do not accuse us of being satanists or satanistic, I assure you that kind of behavious would most definitely not be tolerated here, since it would probably offend a lot of people as the word mentioned before.

Only a few times on this site have I seen anything particularly grotesque, although the knife through the piano thing was probably the highest. I happen to be taking part in that particular thread, and that is the only incident, apart from the bank robbery by the RPer named Will Barron, that anything too violent has happened there. If you truly have read all of it, you'll find most of it is banter and the occasional odd thing happening. That is all.

As for graphic violence I happen to know another PG-13 roleplaying site that has far more graphic violence than this one, yet no-ones parents there have yet come on to complain as you have.

I respect your religious beliefs, I too used to be a Christian. However I have changed and moved on because I do not blindly believe what I am told, and try to keep an open mind. Do you do the same?

Also, I agree with an aforementioned comment on here, that if your child did imitate something someone posted on here they were probably that way inclined in the first place. As such, they would be just as likely to be set off by a flim, book or tv show. I happen to know a psychologist in training and he agrees with me. Have you ever heard of the Doom incident, pray tell? Two boys went into a school and massacred the pupils inside, then shot themselves. They left a tape saying they were imitating their favourite game. Now, I'm pretty sure such behaviour could have easily been triggered by a violent movie. As is my psychologist friend, since in order to do things like that you must be that way inclined before you come across the trigger.

Roleplay is not real, it is a means of escape from real life, and I personally like to think here you can also bring out and exercise parts of yourself you would not in real life. This may be the reason why I have so many characters now. I am not a schizophrenic, nor would I think of acting out any of the things certain of my characters would. Roleplay is also a very good place to let off a little steam, and works especially well for me when I am angry.

See, I was never taught how to deal with my anger properly. I was bullied in school, and always bottled it up. I bottled it up for years until I reached 11 years old, when I finally snapped.

I cannot tell you what exactly happened, since I do not remember. My mind blocks the memory because of something called 'red mist', which I believe is a phenomenon that occurs when you bottle rage up for so long then let it out in one go. It is not a pleasant experience.

Roleplay helps me get rid of my anger and stress levels, and also helps me with some of my creative writing. I play mostly what you would call 'evil' characters, and a few 'good'. Like me, even the good ones have their dark sides. But I do know the difference between me and them.

Please do not try to ban this site, find yourself and your child some help, block him from this site. Block yourself from it too, lest your anger reach the level that mine did.

As a suggestion, perhaps warnings in the titles of threads to show what kind of game is going on would be appropriate? Much like films do.

I am also curious as to what exactly you think is going to happen when 'time runs out'. This is TheSensei's site, and it is up to him whether it stays or goes. I have yet to see any truly valid arguments for taking it down. Arguments for ratings or warnings in threads yes, but not for outright banning RP

LeeJenson476 · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 7

Well it's been quite some time since I posted this and it seems we've gone a bit off the topic. So let me just emphasize on a few things. I am a parent concerned about the material on this site and how much of an impression it can leave upon children, having seen its effects on my own son. Unlike Mr Paige, I am not particularly outspoken in regards to my religion, and I'd personally like to keep religion out of the issue (as many of you seem to have varying ideas on the matter that don't really relate to why I'm here).

Swix · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:16 am Post subject:

LeeJenson476 wrote:

LeeJenson476 · White Belt Old Friend Posts: 7

Ah, it seems that you have misunderstood me 'Swix'. I was not referring to your post specifically (otherwise I would have mentioned your name), but the various suggestions that the piano incident was some kind of freak occurance. Whether or not it's the only instance in it's thread doesn't really matter (the fact that there's another incident in the same thread is hardly a comforting thought though), as one is too many in my opinion.

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Somefreakoverthere · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:51 am Post subject:

3kul · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:48 am Post subject:

Well, now it's come to what I was afraid of. Seems that as a result of being the only person to concede a single inch of ground to these people I've been singled out and jammed between a rock and a hard place. It's fairly obvious that by offering to try and solve the problem I made myself the weakest link in the higher-ups, though it's kind of hard to blame it on anyone else (as much as I'd like to), as it was my own suggestion to begin with.

And now I'm presented with a fairly difficult choice. On the one hand I can give up, scrap the Archives and (hopefully) prevent Blackstar from being swarmed by angry parents. On the other hand, I could ignore this offer and hope that Mr Paige is bluffing, though given the similar threats in his and Jenson's posts I'm fairly sure that they're not, in which case I'd risk being somewhat responsible for Blackstar being run into the ground by these invasive parent types.

Neither option really appeals to me that much, as either way my reputation amongst everyone here would be dashed to pieces... I'll need some time to think about this and talk things over with a few people, but I'll be posting my decision before the deadline.

((For what it's worth (which doesn't seem to be much, given the ultimatum you've given us here), I did intend to put warnings on the threads, I just haven't had the time to read them all and do that this week.))