My business card says I'm junior negotiator for a broker of souls.
Ah, kids that die. Let me tell you one of my favorite Deus Ex videos. It has that annoying kid in Hong Kong who says he's going to get you in trouble with a triad boss he knows because you had the audacity to ask him a question. In the video, as he says this, he's approaching a carefully-placed LAM (proximity mine).
And then he goes boom.
It makes me so very happy.
I never completed it, but I made a mod where the player's job was to lure villagers into the forest, kill them, and throw their body into a well occupied by a trapped spirit in an effort to free it.
What? After years of murdering evil cultists I wanted to be one for once.
The Batman picture Steve is talking about.... I've seen it because of a comic book fan I know Here we go (maybe not worksafe) [http://webspace.webring.com/people/ld/d-patanella/batman2.html]. The specific "forbidden" items being depicted are listed at the bottom of the image, upside down in case you want to play along.
And restrictions can be good, but some of them can be very idiotic. You can't slap someone in the face but you can kick them in the face? You can't make reference to murder in a series where the protagonist's entire motivation is that his parents were murdered?
The problem is the people setting limits often have no idea of what's bad and what's not. They've been looking for demons so long that now they see them in innocence. For every one inappropriate thing they block, they'll make a half-dozen edicts where a girl can't kiss her brother because it suggested incest [http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Broadcast_Standards_and_Practices].
As for Skyrim.... The immortal-kid motivation was to keep parent groups off their backs. It had to be - if not then someone's got something very wrong with them, because I can't see any other sane motivation. Why is killing kids so much worse than killing adults?
Kids are innocent? That's like slasher-movie logic where sexuality makes a person a "deserving" target.
Kids are defenseless? So are most adults to the protagonist of a video game.
Some idea of wasted potential? So it's fine to kill senior citizens then because they probably won't do anything important in the time they have left?
If murder is wrong, then it is wrong for everyone. Any exception is incredibly situational: Anyone who claims you can pick or choose more or less appropriate targets by a physical trait has something wrong with them. (And I include a number of parent groups in that assessment.)
Ah, the creepy Skyrim video. Excellent for evoking feelings of discomfort and dread, far better a scare than the last three "screamers" idiots sent me. If that's proof that the creator was crazy, then that news item on Pedobear being used only by pedophiles was valid.
Observing gameplay as an image of the player: I have several characters for a game.
One is a ruthless cur for whom friends are something to keep until needed. Then she will calmly lead them into madness or death if that's what she wants. If she defends a friend it's because she thinks she might need them later, or because they're her property (ah, intelligent pets).
Another is altruistic and helps people out. His friends are his friends and he does them favors simply for sake of friendship.
Another is a seducer. He has some friends but he prefers to have conquests, and will convert the former into the latter if he can.
So what am I?
Did Susan say Fenric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox][/I] foxes?
