Cerrydd wrote...
Briallen wrote...
Cerrydd wrote...
Briallen wrote...
I, for one, fully support all talk of turian genitalia. I guess I just don't see the point in being so incredibly uptight about stuff. *shrug*
I do too. But this is a general Garrus support thread - I can imagine people don't want to talk or read about turian genitalia. Not everyone is into this, and we have underaged people posting here. So we can at least tone down the intimate talk here 
Yeah, about that. I, for one, utterly reject the idea that I should have to censor myself and tiptoe around on eggshells because some minors who a) are technically not even old enough to play the game, and
are breaking site rules might happen to stumble upon my posts and be scarred for life. (homg, penises exist! The horror! The trauma!) Sorry, but I'm not here to be anyone's babysitter. If some pure and innocent fifteen-year-old lies their way past the age question, sees a post about turian genitalia and gets squicked, they have no one to blame but themselves and/or their parents.
Sorry for the pissiness, but the "zomg think of teh children!" attitude on a messageboard for an M-rated game kinda irritates me. A little.
True, and I totally agree with you on that. There are worse things to find on teh internetz. However, it's not just about kids, but apparently there are also adults who feel uncomfortable when we talk about these things. I don't think we want to 'scare off' (potential) Garrus supporters who want to come here to talk about the awesomeness that is Garrus.
I knew people would have a fit over what I said.
I already said it: I'm an adult, and a female, and I don't like that the discussion returns 3/4 of the time about Garrus's penis. Yes, it makes me uncomfortable. There are other places besides public forums where you can go and talk about Garrus's junk and no one will mind. Here, there are both men and women who are fans of Garrus who really don't want to see it--and in all honesty? Even if it were a perfectly scientific discussion (which it never is), I'm not sure this is an appropriate place to go into in-depth discussions about turian reproduction.
Yes, I do think it's wrong that people discuss this and link to downloadable porn when you know there's at least one fifteen-year-old around. Maybe he didn't flout the rules. He might be from a country where the game is rated 15+ (I think I heard it is rated that way somewhere). Yeah, I know that it's the Internet, and that fifteen-year-olds pretty much know all about this kind of thing by now unless they were raised under a rock. However, as adults, it seems kind of skeevy to be talking about/linking to explicit things with kids around. Maybe you don't feel the same way, but it makes me really uncomfortable. Would you talk about this kind of thing in front of your friend or coworker's fifteen-year-old kid? Maybe you would; I wouldn't.
Again, if it weren't for the skeeviness factor of talking about explicit stuff while having kids on the board, I'd either deal with it or go make a less X-rated thread. However, mature game or not, it's not an adult-only board. Or have you not considered that there are parts of this forum which are visible to everyone, including guests who haven't registered? I do believe that this board, too, is visible to everyone--they just can't post unless they own the game. So maybe it's not just that fifteen-year-old who posts and is registered. Maybe it's some 13-year-old (or younger) who got on Mom or Dad's computer and ended up here somehow.
I'm not trying to be a killjoy here. It's just that I frankly consider this turian penis stuff to be very immature--and the reaction of some people to my previously polite request that it be toned down/omitted to be even less mature. Yes, I'm sure I seem like a prude. No, I don't care.