As someone who tends to have quite the sailor's mouth in real life (but who never tends to use profanity in text), the use of profanity by NPC's does not bother me, and I sometimes find the British-esque dialect interesting.
ICly, Kevaraan's also not the type to swear and has only done so once or twice, I think. Usually, other characters' profanity doesn't bother him, but if it's sexually charged and/or dropped with great frequency, he might roll his eyes or otherwise indicate annoyance. In the worst cases, he might leave, since he's not likely to get along with those types of characters anyway--but he'll never be the "nanny sort" who goes around reprimanding people for language.
I generally have no issue with profanity, or violence/gore/torture/what have you, but it gets a little ironic because what DOES bother me is sexual or hedonistic topics. Going into the "why" would turn this into a psychological post, but I just can't agree with either of those behaviors. I can handle the quips by NPCs because SE doesn't overuse them, but that's about it.
Out of 30+ characters I have in my broader universe(s), I think only two to four drink or smoke, and most are asexual outside of romance (and if they reasonably shouldn't be, any more hedonistic attraction never comes up in the text.) It's just not something I prefer to write about or bear witness to in RP, and I hardly know how to react to it as is. The same principle, although not as severe, applies to drinking.
Kevaraan already dislikes a few characters because of their tendency toward this behavior--but that is, as others have stated, an IC thing. OOCly, I'm capable of putting up with it, but if, for example, a character is fetishistic, I'm probably going to just confide to the player that I can't reasonably be comfortable with the RP for OOC reasons.
I'm also the type of person to get quietly annoyed by things said in chat--in the interest of keeping the peace, I refuse to participate in debates (odd, given this topic, but this is likely my sole post in it). For my guild's IC and OOC channels, if a debate over a topic that I'm sensitive to starts up, I will just announce quietly and without detail that I'm turning the chat off, so people know how to reach me. The same thing goes for discussion of my guild's IC plot in the IC channel, which I want little to no part of. Besides enforcing an "out of sight, out of mind" policy given that I'm poor at tuning things out, this also limits chat scroll, as debates tend to involve long posts that clutter up the tiny chat box.
Probably the last thing that annoys me is something Rock Sandbourne brought up, which is the use of "glomping" and other silly or memetic things in OOC chat. I understand that some people like silliness, but I find that type of speak to be too prevalent in the RP community, and I'm not a big fan of "talking for the sake of it" and don't know how to react anyway. I am in two linkshells that I always keep turned off unless I actually need their help because of this, and sometimes that gets swallowed up in the banter. This is why my "writers' guild" LS has an explicit ban of this sort of silly speech, because I don't want it clogging up what is rightfully a discussion channel.
ICly, Kevaraan's also not the type to swear and has only done so once or twice, I think. Usually, other characters' profanity doesn't bother him, but if it's sexually charged and/or dropped with great frequency, he might roll his eyes or otherwise indicate annoyance. In the worst cases, he might leave, since he's not likely to get along with those types of characters anyway--but he'll never be the "nanny sort" who goes around reprimanding people for language.
I generally have no issue with profanity, or violence/gore/torture/what have you, but it gets a little ironic because what DOES bother me is sexual or hedonistic topics. Going into the "why" would turn this into a psychological post, but I just can't agree with either of those behaviors. I can handle the quips by NPCs because SE doesn't overuse them, but that's about it.
Out of 30+ characters I have in my broader universe(s), I think only two to four drink or smoke, and most are asexual outside of romance (and if they reasonably shouldn't be, any more hedonistic attraction never comes up in the text.) It's just not something I prefer to write about or bear witness to in RP, and I hardly know how to react to it as is. The same principle, although not as severe, applies to drinking.
Kevaraan already dislikes a few characters because of their tendency toward this behavior--but that is, as others have stated, an IC thing. OOCly, I'm capable of putting up with it, but if, for example, a character is fetishistic, I'm probably going to just confide to the player that I can't reasonably be comfortable with the RP for OOC reasons.
I'm also the type of person to get quietly annoyed by things said in chat--in the interest of keeping the peace, I refuse to participate in debates (odd, given this topic, but this is likely my sole post in it). For my guild's IC and OOC channels, if a debate over a topic that I'm sensitive to starts up, I will just announce quietly and without detail that I'm turning the chat off, so people know how to reach me. The same thing goes for discussion of my guild's IC plot in the IC channel, which I want little to no part of. Besides enforcing an "out of sight, out of mind" policy given that I'm poor at tuning things out, this also limits chat scroll, as debates tend to involve long posts that clutter up the tiny chat box.
Probably the last thing that annoys me is something Rock Sandbourne brought up, which is the use of "glomping" and other silly or memetic things in OOC chat. I understand that some people like silliness, but I find that type of speak to be too prevalent in the RP community, and I'm not a big fan of "talking for the sake of it" and don't know how to react anyway. I am in two linkshells that I always keep turned off unless I actually need their help because of this, and sometimes that gets swallowed up in the banter. This is why my "writers' guild" LS has an explicit ban of this sort of silly speech, because I don't want it clogging up what is rightfully a discussion channel.
