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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1673897" data-attributes="member: 16936">Graphic violence tends to be tolerated in small doses; it gets weird if someone lingers over it, spending several minutes describing a particularly gory act.  There's something distinctly off-putting about that.Also, on a personal level, I hate describing torture scenes; so much so that I try to avoid having NPCs who use torture to get what they want, and if I can't, I fade-to-black over a torture scene and just let people imagine whatever they want to.  I don't get any thrill out of trying to describe it, I guess.As for sex, just in everyday life my friends and I tend to adhere to the philosophy that the only people who really care about your sex life are the people you are having sex with (unless you're a porn star, in which case I suppose you can add in all the people who buy your DVDs).  We're aware that, yes, people have sex, but we don't ask for details and none are volunteered.  That carries over into the game, so pretty much all sexual description is confined to a few off-color jokes and fade-to-black scenes.--and on some nights, more than a few off-color jokesryan</blockquote>