Romance and Goonstation RP

[ZeWaka]

posting as myself, me, not as a Developer / admin / Administrator / etc

There is an entire category of "teenage / young adult romance".

books are an entirely different medium. you cannot talk to and form a (potentially extremely sus) relationship with someone in a book (sanely).

christ i know this post is gonna get censored

apparently not. huh.

... this is being more prude than vhs tapes aimed at kids

as a prior admin, you know very well that the same people who do weird shit like IJKL'ing and cuddling in dorms on the same bed are also ERPing when no admins are online. this has happened time and time again, and it's weird you're just ignoring your knowledge of the past

this is, to put it bluntly, your (the people running this game) fault. ... more than capable of marking and moniotiring [sic] accounts like this.

you could ...  you could ... you could ..., or ask people their birthdate.

This sounds like an incredible amount of work for a volunteer staff. You know just as well as I do how non-feasible this is.
Furthermore, lmao people are going to lie about their age, this is the Internet.

would you say "i'm going to rip off your limbs" to a 13 year old, in a position where you could conceivably do so in game?

yes. i would. i played battlefield when I was 13. sounds exactly like the chat. my cousin says the same exact shit in amog us
further, you don't know the age of the other player.

what about "i'm going to murder your friends, in front of you, and then kill you too"? is that too far?

idk this is kinda sus, and makes me both cringe and make me think someone is being weird about harming others in this silly online game
it could make more sense in context, it's just weird to see it as a standalone

skill issue. not all players are in the right place in life to play this game, either

why are you talking about ways to protect players above, and then just dismissing them here? bit rude.

this quickly becomes the "i consent! i consent! (jesus) I DONT!": if you aren't comfortable seeing your friend get dismembered by a rocket to the face, maybe you should play a different game

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

"...we won't tell you where the line is, just that one exists..."

huh. i wonder why there's this clarifying post here to help people.


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methods exist to police age and none of them are in place here

the only method that actually works is to get people to take pictures with IDs, which isn't happening anytime soon
nor are we interested in policing age like this? not sure why you think we are

yes, minors will lie to get in occasionally,

there is no need to lie? unless you mean < 13

but the demographic actually playing is mostly 20s to 40s.

you would be surprised by the amount of minors on the discord and ingame