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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 768255" data-attributes="member: 151">I should hope you do.  Note how I say I'm not sure whether you know or not.  It sounds like you do, which I think is wonderful.  You're preaching to the converted here.  Notice that I didn't ask Paizo to stop, but stated that I just don't like it.  I wish they wouldn't do it.  But I also said that if it keeps them in business, and makes them money, I don't begrudge them that.  It's my personal preference they not do it, and I use my own parenting decisions to guide my choices.  I don't expect Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, WotC or Paizo to make those choices for me, and wouldn't want them to.  That's my job, and my wife's job.  It worked for me, and it's what I do for my children.  But I was mostly disagreeing with s/LaSH's contention that "innocence is overrated".  I'm not trying to force my parenting decisions on anyone else.  Neither am I trying to force Paizo to do anything due to some internal moral compass.  But I just wish they'd saved that picture for the inside of the magazine, where'd it have better context, if anything.  I'm a strong advocate of giving your children the right tools to function, and they'll work out fine.  Events like Columbine don't come out of left field, the come out of a breakdown of multiple levels.  Doom 3 doesn't cause violence, a lack of context, support and values does.  My parents both were regular church-goers, and made us go every Sunday.  But my mother, bless her, looked at the D&D books after I bought them, found them unoffensive and let it go at that.  She liked to keep an eye on us while we played, to make sure it was all what it appeared to be, but that was it.  She trusted me, because she knew that I knew how to make the right moral choices.  It's my goal to repeat that for my kids.The other thing you have to consider is that I dislike the cover on purely aesthetic grounds.  It's like DOA: XBV...it just seems kind of unnecessary and juvenile.  If I want porn, I'll go get porn.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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