Goonhub
08-26-2014, 07:14 AM
To touch on the kidnapping example, I feel that a lot of it can be in good fun if it's done in a kind of over-the-top slapstick kind of deal. If we look at the extra creepy example below, the primary difference is the loving detail which goes into making it weird.
For instance, both of the red sections are text in which I feel the player crosses the line between scary violence and goes into creepy (here defined as the gross kind of creepy; not the atmospheric kind) detail that subtly suggests they might be enjoying this a tad more than normal, they're clearly aiming to make this a lovingly rendered torture scene above and beyond the call of duty.
However, the blue example still falls under the slapstick comedy violence bit on its own and I'd find it quite funny if done in-game.
Overall, however, I feel that the tone of the entire scene is way too lovingly crafted to not appear skeevy as hell and in the end I think this is the kinda thing that a person should get a talking-to for.
To take the example that set this off:
If this was just said as something like "I want to fart in the face of every admin" it'd be a kind of slapstick thing that nobody would take seriously. As it stands it's a pretty deliberately and detailed crafting of someone's farting fantasies and it's clear they've given the subject more thought than can be considered normal and triggers the natural "what the fuck is wrong with you!?" response.
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The exception is, of course, for sexual things. There's really no doubt about the whole "if it involves your genitals it has no business being here" clause in the rules and people in violation of this should be slapped harder than above as there is no real ambiguity here as to whether or not their actions are in violation of the rules.
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In cases where there's ambiguity regarding the creepiness of the act the person carrying it out should probably be told that "this is gross, stop" and then be expected to respect this, much like how people get told off for using the really bad words before getting a proper smackdown if it's clear they just slipped up.
popecrunch Wrote:ALICE, IS THERE SOMEONE WE SHOULD CALL TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE TAKING YOUR MEDICATION:
Alice shoots Bob with a tranq dart. When Bob wakes up, he's lashed to a chair in a dark room somewhere with a couple dead bodies around, and Alice is laughing. She tells him that he can't escape, that he's going to die here, and starts hollering on the radio that unless Jones The Cat is taken safely to the owlry and arrives unharmed, she's going to mail pieces of Bob to various parts of the station, starting with beakers of blood, going through the limbs, then ending with his brain. Nobody responds to the demands, so she extracts some blood, *laughs afterward and does a custom emote about licking the needle afterward,then mails that to Chemistry, hacks off his limbs, does a custom emote about slapping him with his own severed arm and hollering STOP HITTING YOURSELF and mails those to the Bridge, and finally mails his brain to the kitchen after doing a custom emote about licking it clean.
For instance, both of the red sections are text in which I feel the player crosses the line between scary violence and goes into creepy (here defined as the gross kind of creepy; not the atmospheric kind) detail that subtly suggests they might be enjoying this a tad more than normal, they're clearly aiming to make this a lovingly rendered torture scene above and beyond the call of duty.
However, the blue example still falls under the slapstick comedy violence bit on its own and I'd find it quite funny if done in-game.
Overall, however, I feel that the tone of the entire scene is way too lovingly crafted to not appear skeevy as hell and in the end I think this is the kinda thing that a person should get a talking-to for.
To take the example that set this off:
popecrunch Wrote:Code:OOC: i want to fart inside every admin
OOC: my ass gas billowing angrily past their lips
OOC: taking seed in their stomach
OOC: turning them into pruney men full of hate.
If this was just said as something like "I want to fart in the face of every admin" it'd be a kind of slapstick thing that nobody would take seriously. As it stands it's a pretty deliberately and detailed crafting of someone's farting fantasies and it's clear they've given the subject more thought than can be considered normal and triggers the natural "what the fuck is wrong with you!?" response.
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The exception is, of course, for sexual things. There's really no doubt about the whole "if it involves your genitals it has no business being here" clause in the rules and people in violation of this should be slapped harder than above as there is no real ambiguity here as to whether or not their actions are in violation of the rules.
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In cases where there's ambiguity regarding the creepiness of the act the person carrying it out should probably be told that "this is gross, stop" and then be expected to respect this, much like how people get told off for using the really bad words before getting a proper smackdown if it's clear they just slipped up.