Foul Language / Topics?

I swear all the time on teams, or in tells, with people I know.

I don't swear in broadcast as a general rule, though I HAVE slipped up a couple times and swore in the wrong channel.

Being a Teen rated game, I assume anything more than you would hear in a PG-13 movie would be crossing a line as far as the GMs are concerned. Broadcast F-bombs will get you reprimanded for sure (speaking from experience here)

My mother always said it was the intention of the word, not the word itself. So screaming at my sister, "Shut the freaking door!" was just as punishable as the word it was replacing. It showed a lack of respect.

She also felt that cussing could be appropriate...I never got in trouble for yelling an expletive for stubbing my toe, or accidentally hitting my thumb with a hammer.

She also had an extreme distaste for violence of any kind. She was middle-aged before she began to appreciate action movies.

I understand the "European" perspective, and the American attitude towards language, sexuality, and violence seems a bit strange to me even though I've been here my entire life.

If people wish to swear like a sailor in an online game where plenty of other people can see (including moderators) regardless, I believe the idiom it's your funeral comes to mind. :3

Honestly, I haven't quite figured out why there's a togglable profanity filter if it's against the ToS to cuss in the first place. If it wasn't togglable then I could see it working with the ToS, as then the only way to cuss would be through bypassing it. As it stands though, they give you the option to cuss and see other's cussing, if you'd like to. Now that just doesn't make sense to me at all, if it's supposed to be against the rules to cuss. The fact that they'd allow you to in the first place, rather than keep everything bleeped, seems odd.

Anyway, I say cuss away. Frankly, some emotions simply cannot properly be displayed without the use of cuss words. They're vulgar to some, but they have a bite to them that other words don't. There were some studdies about 2 years ago that even showed it was good for you. Made your tollerance to pain, on average, far greater than people who didn't cuss. Unfortunately, some people are offended by simple words, but that's the world we live in. You have to take that chance everytime you say something. There's always the chance someone's going to take offense and do something, no matter how ridiculous it may be.

I'd say George Carlin had it right. "There's no such thing as bad words, only bad meanings. You shouldn't be worried about the word, you should be worried about ******* that said it. There is nothing wrong with any word in and of itself."

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That was a ******* great mish! - Probably won't be modsmacked.
You sir, are a ******* idiot, and I question your sexual orientation - Petitionable.

Context. Don't swear at people, and if people ask you to stop, respect it. Other than that, be comfortable with whatever impression you make, good or bad.

Whether the filter is there or not, is it that hard to show a little respect amongst people whom you don't know?

A filter is never going to be perfect. I eat crackers as a snack leading to a few "afk grabbing a cracker" and "semi-afk eating cracker" messages in team chat. After 18 months I learnt "cracker" is filtered in game anyone who has the profanity filter on ... well I dread to think what they thought I was doing.

I play with the profanity filter off simply because it can mangle perfectly innocent sentences. Ideally, the profanity filter should be removed; I recall a perfectly civil discussion about gay marriage on another board where "gay" is filtered. The posts looked terrible with all the "***" in there. However, I can understand parents using the filter as a 'first line defence' against the potty mouthed especially in broadcast.

Personally, I loathe the use of a word for a forced sexual assault (filtered by the forum) for getting whopped by a mob. Similarly the use of "gay" for anything substandard makes me think the typist isn't very bright. But would you filter? Unlikely because they aren't traditional swear words. Those two examples require a change in the attitude of the user behind the keyboard and that isn't down to NC. That's down to the individuals. Neither is any filter going to catch unsavoury topics or 'going over the line'.

I've teamed with everyone from very young kids to grandparents in this game, you never know who is behind the other keyboards.

If it's friends who won't be offended that's one thing, the end of a particularly difficult TF I can understand a slightly more forceful response than "stitch that" but there's a difference between an expletive when you stub your toe and one you type; with the latter you have time to edit it and consider if it's appropriate.

Oh and I'm not that prissy, many of my relatives are all truck drivers and I can be quite inventive when I feel like it. However, swearing at the monitor is usually sufficient.

I'd say find out who your team mates are. If it's a static RP group, they may be more amiable than a PuG.

The only people I can think of that use vulgar language in a way that it doesn't seem offensive are Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Eddie Murphy. Everyone else just seems lame because it doesn't enhance a coversation in any way, and makes the person using the foul language look like an idiot because he has to go for "shock" vallue or something to get people's attention.