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[GunslingerRoland]

Champ,

I appreciate you taking the time to respond. And I thank you for accepting my apology.
I'll take your comments in order:
First, personally I would kinda consider it explicit to say lesbian in a man's body. First you're saying you're a man who likes lesbians and second you're being sexually overt in a place you're saying you are worried about how young players might take such things. I don't care personally but since this big deal is being made about saying BJ, and not even spelling it out, I thought it was neccessary to comment on.

In NY isn't half the community especially when I'm usually on. Younger players, I dont' know about that some of the better pilots are young and definitely don't sit around in NY. I would conclude that newer players to the server would be the ones hanging out there.
Second, If you would have just said, "wow dude that was uncalled for" or "that offends me buddy and is inappropriate for sys chat in NY". I would have come back and said "sry, no offense" and the whole thing coulda ended right there. If you recall someone did indeed say "not in Sys chat" and no one made any further comments, including myself. Looked like the whole thing was taken care of right there. If you however were still offended saying sometihing in Sys chat would be a better way of not only sending a message to me about you thinking it was not appropriate, but also to anyone who was in the system who actually saw the comment. Running off and anonymously reporting me does neither of the two as I dont' know who I offended and the newbies in NY most likely won't read this forum thread to and thus your goal of showing ppl this stuff is inappropriate is wasted. Also, If you recall that was the only comment I made and it didn't carry on any further. If no one says anything however about being offended how can anyone know the offense even exists? That being the offender or anyone else around at the time. If you want to help nip things in the bud before they spiral out of control like you say then I suggest you give others the same respect you are demanding and speak to them about it first. Its better, and more mature, to handle your problems directly with the person you have them with instead of making a rash decision and running off to tattle. If that doesn't succeed or if you receive a negative response, then by all means report it. Would you go to Social Services to report your parents for cussing around you, as you've said they do frequently, and say it was an unfit home for you and your younger sibling? I'd hope you'd say something to them to let them know how you felt. But maybe you'd just log on and play some FL and take your anger out on a complete stranger and someone less deserving, I dunno.

As far as how often do comments about blood etc get made/implied in game; pretty often in my experience. I have had several encounters with pirates where they've made comments about washing their ships with my blood, blasting my carcass into space, etc. It doesn't bother me because guess what?, they're rude pirates, and also its funny. Make no mistake this is a game of ship vs ship combat, and so is violent by the very nature of the game. There's countless in-game implications to drugs, for example, from other players and even in the commodities themselves. If you're old enough to handle Synthetic Marijuana and Cardimine trading I'm sure you could handle a petty acronym like BJ. Like you said we're all old enough to play this game right?

Maturity is good. Being able to handle a very mild comment is mature, and speaking to a person who offends you before tattling is mature. Not everything that happens in game is mature, it is a video game after all so some of that can be expected. As far as being real....This is an RP server so it is here that you are meant to obscure the real with the fictitious. I don't think anyone that plays here however forgot they installed a game or are sitting in front of their computer, I'd agree with you there.

Finally, as I said before I wouldn't have a problem making a comment about a BJ to a stranger in the street and neither would most ppl. If you really think that you haven't been on many streets or visited many places and maybe you need to live some more life before passing eternal judgement on that point. Remember it is on some streets that ppl walk around offering things like that for money. Probably even in your town! Maybe even on an outer rim base where lonely warriors come in from months alone in space, who knows. We can pretend it doesn't exist but that'd be like saying neither do men trapped in lesbian bodies, right? Anyway I only bring that up because its educating the youth that you prepare them for facing comments they might not like or seeing things in the world they don't understand. Not hiding them away from it and pretending they don't exist.
Thanks for your community presence comment. I will work on that. Especially since I've only been around 2 months and I think I'm the new FL police lolz. I'll try not to be to pretentious or self righteous in my comments to others about it though.

Again I'm sorry if you were offended by my comment. All I'd ask is that you please speak to a person if such things happen to you again. You'll find it is a much better way of getting your point accross in in real life as well as in a game.

-GSR