Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Swear

I have been thinking about writing about this for a long time. My wish was to recommend tactical board games. However today, I do not want to write about board games but about a company that makes some. Eagle Games really makes great games. I have some of them and I have been active on their forum for a few years. Yesterday, I wrote a review of a game session and used the title "shit happens". The administrator or someone with enough rights changed it into "stuff happens" and one guy answered I should watch my language as it were a family friendly website (most of their customers will be adults anyway as the games are pretty expansive though worth the price). How strange is that? "shit happens" is a sort of slogan, it is totally comman. Even in a movie like "Forrest Gump" it was used by Tom Hanks. It is no four letter word. I was not offending a group or person; I was not offending anyone by it. PC is okay to protect people from being discriminated against and to be careful not to use swear words, espacially in public and in written language, is something I go okay with. But this was an overreaction.
I am sad and disappointed that a company making great games that I love is practising that kind of censorship. By the way, they did it only halfway by just changing the title but not my post itself.
I swear, I did not want to hurt highly sensitive perons.

1 Comments:

Blogger CaliValleyGirl said...

Um, I agree that it's kind of silly. However, I disagree that it is censorship. By writing on that forum, you are implicitly agreeing to that website's general guidelines (I bet they have some posting rules somewhere, and it states in there that profanity is not allowed). It is a private website, run by private individuals, and should they decide their posting rules, then you can either choose to post or not to post at their site. It's kind of like going to someone's house, you follow their house rules. And if you don't like the fact that you have to sit to pee, and have to peel a banana from the bottom up, you can also choose to leave...;-)
I would however be angry about an official governing body that made rules like that. But if I have my own website, I would like to be able to decide what goes on it or not...and if I find "shit happens' offensive, I think it is my right to delete it.
However, I don't. So in celebration of your non-PC-ness, I will say: I think they are fucking anal asshats, who are afraid of a little shit....;-)

7:28 PM  

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