I'm not a big EQ fan, only played for a few months back in the day. My thing's always been pen-and-paper RPGs. Having said that...
I've had a lot of male Pen and Paper players play female characters. In my mind, it is a stretch of one's personality to be able to play a wizard; is it not just as much a stretch to play a female wizard?
Have to say, maybe TSR/WOTC is on a roll with the video game thing. After NWN and Heroes, maybe they've started to get smart and go with some decent programmers who really love the game.
The legislature and governor in Washington State can kiss my hairy yellow ass.
Once again the self-righteous hypocritical followers of Tipper Gore are at it. These friggin liberals talk all day long about freedom of speech when a consumer refuses to buy the Dixie Chicks' latest album (although, last time I checked, nowhere in the first amendment does it say that a consumer should be compelled to financially support those with whom he disagrees.) But they are more than willing to regulate the video game habits of their citizens. Take a guess at which of the two major parties sponsored this bill. I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the Republicans.
Twenty years ago, it was Tipper vs. Ozzy. Now its the Washington Democratic party vs. Grand Theft Auto and the Matrix.
Even more important, does anyone here really think that the supposed bastion of individual liberties, the ACLU, will take up the case against this law? Not a chance in hell.
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I'm not a big EQ fan, only played for a few months back in the day. My thing's always been pen-and-paper RPGs. Having said that... I've had a lot of male Pen and Paper players play female characters. In my mind, it is a stretch of one's personality to be able to play a wizard; is it not just as much a stretch to play a female wizard?
Have to say, maybe TSR/WOTC is on a roll with the video game thing. After NWN and Heroes, maybe they've started to get smart and go with some decent programmers who really love the game.
The legislature and governor in Washington State can kiss my hairy yellow ass.
Once again the self-righteous hypocritical followers of Tipper Gore are at it. These friggin liberals talk all day long about freedom of speech when a consumer refuses to buy the Dixie Chicks' latest album (although, last time I checked, nowhere in the first amendment does it say that a consumer should be compelled to financially support those with whom he disagrees.) But they are more than willing to regulate the video game habits of their citizens. Take a guess at which of the two major parties sponsored this bill. I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the Republicans.
Twenty years ago, it was Tipper vs. Ozzy. Now its the Washington Democratic party vs. Grand Theft Auto and the Matrix.
Even more important, does anyone here really think that the supposed bastion of individual liberties, the ACLU, will take up the case against this law? Not a chance in hell.