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.