RP nitpick of the day

[frozen]

When an LPI, KSP, BPA, or RFP stops you, it is (normally) extremely OORP to call them a lazy rent-a-cop to their face, and tell them to go munch on a donut. Congratulations, you just got your head bashed in with a nightstick and five-to-ten in prison. Yes things in space are a bit different than here in the real world, but here on earth you wouldn't think of insulting a police officer to his face. Or flashing your headlights and flooring it.

I dunno, it's just something that bothers me.

Cops aren't incompetent fools (most of the time). They belong to a highly-organized police force that has the man-power to respond to most pirate threats with overwhelming force. So, might wanna show a modicum of respect. I dunno. Always blows me away how the pirates call us 'pathetic' and whatnot.

Its hard to shake off a stereotype once its been taken from real life and embedded into a game. had the LPI when it first began not taken the route of being a stereotypical non-competent donut munching fat bastard of a police officer in the first place, I do like to think certain problems that are being faced now would never had arisen.

I'm not saying act like the military or anything, and I KNOW that the LPI have overhauled from last time when they took on the stereotypical role, since I was in the LPI for a very very short amount of time, but as I've already pointed out, real life stereotypes can be bitchen hard to shake off once applied to a game.

not everyone would insult a cop on earth, but there ARE those who would, and there ARE those who do it on a pretty regular basis. most of the time they face consequences, but for the rest of the time, there are none. it depends from place to place. take monk's post. in his locale, you insult a cop, expect you have your balls on a chopping board with a meat cleaver threatening them. in Quebec, you could piss on a cop's shoe and flick him the finger and have no action taken against you (according to one of the replies i read earlier).

Yeah, insult the LPI, you get your taillight smashed in, and from my character, tazed.

this proves my point pretty well.

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