Poll: The "C" word in Videogames

[Savagezion]

Where did the word **** come from and how is it even vaguely related to vagina.
Dick/cock seem perfect for what they insinuate but **** sounds like you cut something off a part of something else.

Nobody knows. Seriously. But it suspected to have originated from Germanic language with the same use it has today. (Did a little bit of googling out of curiosity.)
Dick is actually a strange word as I found one person saying that the name came first as an abbreviation for Richard and was only later associated with genitalia.

 

[Canid117]

Why are we calling **** "the C word?" You can cuss profusely on these boards and the mods wont really care.

 

[Plurralbles]

I would like to say that people need to seriously back hte hell away for just a moment and reconsider that it is not hte word at all that is offensive, but hte intent behind it. That intent is where punishment should be aimed at, not simply using the word.

Why are we calling **** "the C word?" You can cuss profusely on these boards and the mods wont really care.

Not true

I was warned a week ago.

 

[thereverend7]

Is **** really such a bad word? Maybe I just haven't taken note of it... Or perhaps the fact that I'm Swedish...

Interestingly enough, I used to talk to a Swedish girl (i live in the US) and she said that her little sister got in big trouble for calling her mom a **** because "**** is a worse word over here, its like saying fuck in the US"

This was at the time that saying fuck was getting popular... so i figured it must be some different system of something over there. lol.

 

[OrokuSaki]

Well aside from free speech and blah blah blah, why would "****" used as an adjective to describe and asshole be any worse than using the word "dick" as an adjective to describe an asshole?

I really don't understand how, when any word can be taken offensively if used in the incorrect tone or context, that people single out individual words as bad.

..... and why is it always elderly people who believe in god? I'm sick of hearing that I'm going to hell for cursing when the bible has NOTHING to say on "foul language" whatsoever.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

To tell the truth, of all the curse words uttered in my presence, **** is one of the rarest. I'm not entirely sure if it is because it is so rarely used but the word is unpleasant to say or hear (whereas twat is somewhat funny). As to the question is it a vulgarity too far, I'd have to say "it depends". Vulgarity must be used correctly (in terms of timing and situation alone), and if one fails to do this the words lose what power their vulgar status gives them. The words "fuck" and "shit" are almost meaningless when used these days to the point that I know people who use them during a verbalized pause (in place of "like" or "um").

 

[Sir Ollie]

****? That's not offensive at all, try meecrob.

I fucking hate meecrob!

 

[Cheesebob]

I think The Darkness was the first game I ever heard it in, although they only used it once. I thought it was awesome.

Because I'm a child like that.

Try playing that with your mum popping in.

I did. My mum laughed and said she liked the game.

You have one cool mum. I have borrow her?

 

[GonzoGamer]

Okay, this is not meant to be an incendiary post, and i'm not trying to offend our lovely lady escapists but the c-word has almost always been considered more offensive than most profanity. The first game that I've noticed using the c-word was GTA IV when Pegorino is getting paranoid and says to Niko "The world is a ****!" which actually made me laugh out loud, cause it was kind of funny. RDR also employs the c-word on occassion. So my question is, is the c-word too far? Is it something that games could do without? I certainly don't believe so, but what do you guys think.

That being said, what games besides these do you remember hearing the c-word in?

Were you offended or indiffernet?

please share.


EDIT:
Don't know why the poll isn't showing up. I promise I'm not retarded.


Just for the record, to clarify if my stance is confusing, I am in total support of free speech, period. So if developers write the word **** into the script of a game, thats fine by me.

Fist off the polls have always been weird on this site but they got weirder when they started doing the capsha thing.

On your subject. The games you mention originated in the UK where the word is treated like any other curse word and is just as often attributed to men as to women. In the US it's almost as taboo as the N word.

In that respect "the c word" is one of my favorite curse words.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Sorry for the double post. The polls aren't the only things acting weird.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

See I think **** has lost it's power and changed it's meaning recently, Pussy replaced it as a vulgar term for .... well pussy, and it now is used as a derogatory term for people in general.
I personally think it's hilarious that people get offended by words, due to the fact that WE as a people invented them, they hold no real power, if you just accept them into culture they lose their strength, just look at the word Damn

I blame the religious people

 

[LogicNProportion]

Words are just words. They only have power when people give them power.

This is why I find the common taboo on curse words to be idiotic to one of the highest degrees. **** should be no more offensive than pussy, queef, dick, cock, etc.

And yes, I DO laugh sometimes at curse words being spoken. I don't use them all the time. My parents have used them around me wince I was a zygote. I remember being 3 and watching Godzilla with my dad, and when something strange happened, we'd look at each other and say:

"What the fuck was that!?"

Then we would laugh.

Good times.

 

[LogicNProportion]

****? That's not offensive at all, try meecrob.

I fucking hate meecrob!

O_O

Epic reference is epic.

 

[Dogstile]

I think The Darkness was the first game I ever heard it in, although they only used it once. I thought it was awesome.

Because I'm a child like that.

Try playing that with your mum popping in.

I did. My mum laughed and said she liked the game.

You have one cool mum. I have borrow her?

Sure, although if you want her to use her bouncer qualifications its £20 an hour

 

[reg42]

Never played the game, but I love this movie:

Spoiler: WARNING: THIS ENTIRE VIDEO IS ALMOST NOTHING BUT PROFANITY

WARNING: THIS ENTIRE VIDEO IS ALMOST NOTHING BUT PROFANITY​

So I have no problem with any sort of swearing in video games. If I did, I'd be a massive fucking hypocrite.

You win 20 awesome points.

 

[Chewiemuse]

...People use the C word in real life. Therefore I think they should use them in games. That whole...believability thing.

So no it's not too far, in fact it's used quite a bit in the real world...

BOOM...done...print

 

[Mydnyght]

I actually remember hearing **** on San Andreas when you first meet Maccer and Kent Paul, Maccer pulls a drugged Paul off the ground saying 'Get up you soppy ****.'

Yeah, I remember that scene too. I would've described that scene myself if it hadn't already been mentioned on this thread. Actually, I think it was Kent who called Maccer a ****, but anyway, one of them said that word.

So, on a side note, am I surprised to hear "****" in a rated-M game? No, not really.

You *really* wanna surprise me, however, say "tits" in a rated-T game. Michelle Ruff did (2:53 for truth):

 

[Cheesebob]

I think The Darkness was the first game I ever heard it in, although they only used it once. I thought it was awesome.

Because I'm a child like that.

Try playing that with your mum popping in.

I did. My mum laughed and said she liked the game.

You have one cool mum. I have borrow her?

Sure, although if you want her to use her bouncer qualifications its £20 an hour

I was going to use her for that...and other things...



By that I mean come into the room when I am playing games and laugh, then walk out

 

[boholikeu]

Doesn't bother me in the least when I hear it being used in a game or movie or whatever, but if someone called me one I'd punch their lights out. Simply because when a man calls a woman a ****, he usually intends to imply that she is nothing more than her reproductive parts, and therefore is worthless to him (as a person) and is simply something that ought to be used for his pleasure. I do not think that 'dick' has the same implications when said by a woman to a man (usually just means you're a jerk).

So then it's similar to when a woman calls a man a nice piece of a**?

In that way, calling a woman a **** is a lot like a white person calling a black person a ****** - it reminds them of a time and a culture where they were devalued to the point of being not a person.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to draw comparisons between the c word and the n word. The n word is widely associated with the time of slavery and public racism. The c word is not, and in fact it wasn't even considered particularly derogatory until the last century (IE until the rise of women's rights).

Personally, I think the "special status" that the c word holds in America is actually detrimental to the position of women. Why is it that a word for the female anatomy is so vulgar that it has to be off limits, whereas words for the male anatomy are pg 13 at worst?
I think associating that kind of negativity with the c word implies that women need to be treated "specially" because they are too "weak" to handle bad words associated with their anatomy, unlike "stong" men who can take whatever insults are thrown at their gender.

 

[TyrantGanado]

Just as we use "fucking" as a fucking comma in Scotland we us "****" as an exclamation mark, ya ****.

So no, swearing has long become a non-factor to me. In fact, it bothers me when characters don't swear when you'd expect them to in real life. It can become quite jarring.

Also, censoring swearing isn't as big a thing over here, we have teenage dramas dropping swearwords every other fucking line, ya **** (e.g. Skins) whereas American shows (less so recently with adult-aimed shows) have, at most, the word "bastard" dropped every now and again.

The amount of times I expected Jack to tell Locke to shut the fuck up or for Mulder to shout "holy shit, Scully, aliens!" versus the times they've done as such is akin to dividing by zero.