Planeshift, Roleplaying and More.

[Zan]

Somewhere in the world people are killing eachother right now ... hey I know, lets teach kids at kindergarten how to shoot a gun. Prepare them for what might happen.

Excellent mentality there

[bilbous]

Actually, I don't have any kids I know about and I wasn't particularly speaking about violence in general. I was thinking more about sexually explicit role-play.  I would not be particularly happy to walk around a corner and come across an enkidukai orgy, although from the racial description that would appear to be something fairly commonplace for them. Of course being a sexless kran I might misunderstand what was happening and wade in with my iron axe and "save" whoever was at the bottom. 

[lordraleigh]

Actually, I don't have any kids I know about and I wasn't particularly speaking about violence in general. I was thinking more about sexually explicit role-play.  I would not be particularly happy to walk around a corner and come across an enkidukai orgy, although from the racial description that would appear to be something fairly commonplace for them. Of course being a sexless kran I might misunderstand what was happening and wade in with my iron axe and "save" whoever was at the bottom. 

Where do you get such ideas from? Are you aware that what you just said may "inspire" some people for hardcore stuff in the game?

[Idoru]

Somewhere in the world people are killing eachother right now ... hey I know, lets teach kids at kindergarten how to shoot a gun. Prepare them for what might happen.

Excellent mentality there

I think you must be misunderstanding the difference between knowing what is happening and being taught how to do something about it.

Actually, I don't have any kids I know about and I wasn't particularly speaking about violence in general. I was thinking more about sexually explicit role-play.  I would not be particularly happy to walk around a corner and come across an enkidukai orgy, although from the racial description that would appear to be something fairly commonplace for them. Of course being a sexless kran I might misunderstand what was happening and wade in with my iron axe and "save" whoever was at the bottom. 

Dammit, another reason to curse being a Kran. I laughed alot at that last line

[bilbous]

"The Enkidukai race maintains its wild nature. They live in packs controlled by the male who is strongest..." would suggest that their sexual mores would be uncontained. I am not sure but I seem to recall that there was some suggestive descriptions that have since been removed from the enkdukai race page. Perhaps it was all in my head.

[zanzibar]

"The Enkidukai race maintains its wild nature. They live in packs controlled by the male who is strongest..." would suggest that their sexual mores would be uncontained. I am not sure but I seem to recall that there was some suggestive descriptions that have since been removed from the enkdukai race page. Perhaps it was all in my head.

P1:  The Enkidukai race maintains its wild nature.
P2:  If a race retains their wild nature, their sexual mores are more uncontained.
C:  The Enkidukai race's sexual mores are more uncontained.


I don't think the second postulate is viable.  There are many civilized societies which are very sexually free.  The Greeks and the modern Western world are examples.  There are also many primitive societies which are not sexually free. And there are civilized societies which aren't at all sexually free (the Islamic world) and there are many primitive societies which are very sexually free.

So I don't think you can make a generalization or rule here.

[emeraldfool]

I don't think the second postulate is viable.  There are many civilized societies which are very sexually free.  The Greeks and the modern Western world are examples.  There are also many primitive societies which are not sexually free. And there are civilized societies which aren't at all sexually free (the Islamic world) and there are many primitive societies which are very sexually free.

So I don't think you can make a generalization or rule here.

I'm trying not to bring Freud or psychology into this, but humans in general are sexual beings. No set of social rules or laws can rein in the raw sexuality humans possess - everything, body and mind, is designed around the sexual act. I could go through all aspects of humanity and find a link to sex in every one (from music to facial structure), but I fear I may be constrained by the 20,000 character limit

The point is, omitting sex from Yliakum is totally unnatural. I'm not talking about orgies here, but pretending sex is a foreign concept, or is something uncommon, would make me - and anyone else who cares about realism - cry   Sure, you might say Yliakum's inhabitants think differently to humans, but that means the Settings Devs would have to invent a totally new mental structure (something no one could possibly do) and it would then be OOC to think like a human. And it's not possible for us, as humans, not to think like that....

[zanzibar]

Invoking Freud tends to hurt an argument rather than help it.  His work and influence is important to understand because of the influence it had on Western intellectual thought, but his theories are largely bunk.

There can be sex in Yliakum without anything explicit.

[lordraleigh]

Are all beings cloned?

Of course there is sex! Just one thing.

Due to an OOC thing called ESRB sex will be OOCly dropped from RPing(although cutting away phrases like "I had love with *name*" would be too much as kids wouldn't get it anyway), but that doesn't mean that we should presume a stork brings the babies

[Volund]

I must have dazed out from the part from roleplaying into sex. I know people do the cyber sex in planeshift, its roleplay, in fact some Rp could made for wenches etc. but its a sensitive topic as explained by a Gm to me. We dont roleplay the modern technologies and styles in planeshift, its the medieval area, no ipods, laptops, but there was racism, wenches, friars, assasins, mercenaries, armies, wars.
If Ps were made of mature enough people to handle these things then there wouldnt be much of a problem doing RP.

[btw, I have some idea for Rp, involves romance, war [no racism], blackmail and framing, not written out!!! let me know if you want in, just need some big Rp in ps.]

[zanzibar]

I must have dazed out from the part from roleplaying into sex. I know people do the cyber sex in planeshift, its roleplay, in fact some Rp could made for wenches etc. but its a sensitive topic as explained by a Gm to me. We dont roleplay the modern technologies and styles in planeshift, its the medieval area, no ipods, laptops, but there was racism, wenches, friars, assasins, mercenaries, armies, wars.
If Ps were made of mature enough people to handle these things then there wouldnt be much of a problem doing RP.

[btw, I have some idea for Rp, involves romance, war [no racism], blackmail and framing, not written out!!! let me know if you want in, just need some big Rp in ps.]

Racism in PS is against the rules.

[Volund]

I must have dazed out from the part from roleplaying into sex. I know people do the cyber sex in planeshift, its roleplay, in fact some Rp could made for wenches etc. but its a sensitive topic as explained by a Gm to me. We dont roleplay the modern technologies and styles in planeshift, its the medieval area, no ipods, laptops, but there was racism, wenches, friars, assasins, mercenaries, armies, wars.
If Ps were made of mature enough people to handle these things then there wouldnt be much of a problem doing RP.

[btw, I have some idea for Rp, involves romance, war [no racism], blackmail and framing, not written out!!! let me know if you want in, just need some big Rp in ps.]

Racism in PS is against the rules.

bit of a lapse in rules lately...like for 4 years hahaha.

[Karyuu]

Want to expand on that?

[zhai]

Racism in PS is against the rules.

You are talking about OOC racism, I suppose. Or do you mean RPing racism too?

[zanzibar]

Racism in PS is against the rules.

You are talking about OOC racism, I suppose. Or do you mean RPing racism too?

I was refering to RPing racism, actually, but neither are allowed.