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Sanitizing Expression In Virtual Worlds
1up has a piece looking back at the GLBT guild mixup that happened earlier this year in World of Warcraft. From the article: "'... last summer a friend introduced me to WOW, and I really liked it, though I didn't care for remarks many of the players made, like the fact that everything is apparently so gay when it's bad. So I decided to create my own guild, which would be GLBT friendly.' Sometimes singing, other times slogging her way through WOW's exacting echelons to a formidable level 60, Andrews had big endgame plans for her developing guild--until January 12, 2006, that is, when a note from publisher Blizzard blinkered everything."
Until January 12, 2006, that is, when a note from publisher Blizzard blinkered everything.
Yea I hate it when things blink . . . I always seem to blink things up . . . Oh yea, well blink you too.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
The issue with MMORPG's is that there is NO END, ever, to the game. You can literally play forever and the more time you put in the harder it is to quit because you have to acknowledge all the time you've wasted playing it. Blizzard has finally found a way to get people to end their addiction; homophobic account and guild deletions. :)
Now the GLBT community will can free of the burden of MMORPG addiction.
So, there are people that play WoW that *aren't* homosexual? I don't believe it.
;)
Sometimes singing? Andrews? Her?
"Stop that! Stop that! You're not going into a song while I'm here. Now listen, lass. In twenty levels, you're getting married to a girl whose Tauren father pwns the biggest tracts of open land in all of Kalimdor!"
Our guild doesn't care if you're gay, straight, black, white, democrat, or republican. It just has no place it the game.
However, all the jews are losing 50 DKP tomorrow for killing our Lord and savior. Sorry, but if you nail the son of God to a 2x4, you're not going to get that epic chest piece.
It's not intrinsically sexual, any more than, say, marriage, which is seen as a perfect topic for family-friendly stuff.
As a married man, I would like to categorically object to the linking of marriage with sex.
Yur nt allowed to roleplay a straight character, either.
Hence the no discussion of sexuality rule.
So, everyone's bi?
Sweet!
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That real chick in the picture (they never really say who she is, but it's implied it's the person who started the guild) is HAWT. Holy crap, my brain hurts. /would hit it //even if her knees were like knives ///what do you mean, "this isn't Fark"?
Why do I M2 everything negatively?