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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3170548" data-attributes="member: 7883">I wouldn't say this is limited to just Wizards.....it seems pretty prevalent in western, particularly American, cinema.  How many movies will allow kids....let's say 13 year olds, watch a bunch of "heroes" engage in gun battles with "villains" in the streets of major cities, or blowing up a villain's truck, throwing him out of a plane, or whatever?  But throw some pics of a woman's bare chest in there, or of consensual relations between two adults, and all of a sudden, it's an R movie.  I remember when I worked at a video store like 12 years ago, when I would see parents put away a movie featuring a sex scene, because they didn't want their kids to see it, but pick up Rambo, or the Rock, or some other gratuitous action flick instead.  I mean really.  *That's* supposed to be more healthy?What about the oddity of that incident with Grand Theft Auto, a game where players can spend hours killing people indiscriminately in the game......but at the end, there's a "sex scene" that could be unlocked via a code?  I mean, the player's just spent how many  hours killing fake people and committing crimes in the game?  Where's the love for a little life affirming scene at the end? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I hadn't heard about the removal of the romances in NWN2, but am disappointed in the choice.  I honestly didn't come across them in the first NWN, so I didn't think they were included even there.  But I remember them fondly in BG2.  They gave a sense of depth and realism to the game....and a level of maturity (ie. well-adjusted, grown up, etc....I don't mean simply 18+), that most D&D games lack.Banshee</blockquote>

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