(10-28-2013, 12:58 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: It's not particularly difficult to figure out what is socially acceptable and what isn't where ERP is concerned. A loving couple cuddling each other beneath the stars and whispering in each other's ears is a lot more acceptable than someone emoting a wench sucking a guy off in a bustling tavern.
I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but MMO's are not a playground for people to act out their deepest, darkest fetishes. It's important to take at least some responsibility and not just brush it off as other people 'having different thresholds'. That's just a cheap cop out. I say this as someone who isn't afraid to touch upon mature themes myself.
This, basically. If it's something you don't want to see people doing in public, or something you don't want people to see you do in public, then it doesn't belong in a public chat channel (and no... not even in /say or /em in far off corners of the map where you think you're alone... with what Jana mentioned earlier about the "ERP in /say or not at all rule," I'm beginning to understand why RP on TERA quickly devolved into a cesspit of glorified cybering).Â
Holding hands and kissing is fine. Some teasing and making out is pushing the lines if it gets graphic or is any place too public (just think in RL terms; you don't want to see two people shoving tongues down each other's throat in the middle of the mall). Anything beyond that or anything involving genitals should be taken some place private. "Different thresholds" is an excuse. Just because someone doesn't mind seeing it doesn't mean you need to be blind to the fact that it's not socially acceptable. As for ERPing in /say, no one wants to see that, IC or OOC, and I hate to be "that person," but there are kiddies in these games.
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