Thanks Oli. Now I have to go play mass effect again. Swiving whoreson. >>
In all seriousness though, man's penchant for profanity has been around for a long long time, and I kind of look forward to seeing just what kind of words get invented as time goes on. I want to be that old guy who says 'well back in my day, we used to call it fucking. You kids and your newfangled slang.'
Back on-topic though, the use of certain words being discounted from the game is indeed likely because of the teen rating. I think only Spaceballs got away with that once with Dark Helmet's 'Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!'. Then again, Mel Brooks has always been good at sneaking things out the back door. They use the more archaic words for things like fuck because they actually can. A lot of people are lazy. They won't bother to look up what a lot of the words mean, and more old curses can slide by since they're not under whatever censorship bureau's 'words you absolutely can't say on TV' ratings list. It's just easier to slip them in that way and at the same time give them setting-context. Doesn't mean the other words don't exist. Just means they can't put them in the actual dialogue.
In all seriousness though, man's penchant for profanity has been around for a long long time, and I kind of look forward to seeing just what kind of words get invented as time goes on. I want to be that old guy who says 'well back in my day, we used to call it fucking. You kids and your newfangled slang.'
Back on-topic though, the use of certain words being discounted from the game is indeed likely because of the teen rating. I think only Spaceballs got away with that once with Dark Helmet's 'Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!'. Then again, Mel Brooks has always been good at sneaking things out the back door. They use the more archaic words for things like fuck because they actually can. A lot of people are lazy. They won't bother to look up what a lot of the words mean, and more old curses can slide by since they're not under whatever censorship bureau's 'words you absolutely can't say on TV' ratings list. It's just easier to slip them in that way and at the same time give them setting-context. Doesn't mean the other words don't exist. Just means they can't put them in the actual dialogue.
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