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<blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 5440732" data-attributes="member: 30709">I paraphrase slightly.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Those sound pretty weird and lousy games, Coldwyn.&nbsp; Sorry you had to sit through 'em.It's an oft-noted phenomenon in bad games that players carry out rape, but I've always been a little bamboozled by it.&nbsp; I mean, I'm used to the &quot;PC aura&quot; which makes players think that they can bad-mouth and attack whoever they want and be ultimately vindicated, but why do people sit down and think to themselves, &quot;The perfect thing to do here is to pretend to rape someone?&quot;&nbsp; Even in the dire evil alignment game I ran back in university, for all the assassinations, backstabbing, mind control and what have you, no-one seriously carried out sexual assaults.The best I can manage is that the freeform nature of D&amp;D means you can basically do anything, just to see what happens - and as a real taboo subject, rape is one of those things you can't really &quot;experiment&quot; with any other way.&nbsp; (It's not like there's a secret code in Ms. Pac-Man or anything)&nbsp; I wonder if it's perhaps a bit like all the people who play The Sims and do stuff like purposefully box in their Sims to make them starve to death or what have you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GQuail, post: 5440732, member: 30709"] I paraphrase slightly. :-) Those sound pretty weird and lousy games, Coldwyn. Sorry you had to sit through 'em. It's an oft-noted phenomenon in bad games that players carry out rape, but I've always been a little bamboozled by it. I mean, I'm used to the "PC aura" which makes players think that they can bad-mouth and attack whoever they want and be ultimately vindicated, but why do people sit down and think to themselves, "The perfect thing to do here is to pretend to rape someone?" Even in the dire evil alignment game I ran back in university, for all the assassinations, backstabbing, mind control and what have you, no-one seriously carried out sexual assaults. The best I can manage is that the freeform nature of D&D means you can basically do anything, just to see what happens - and as a real taboo subject, rape is one of those things you can't really "experiment" with any other way. (It's not like there's a secret code in Ms. Pac-Man or anything) I wonder if it's perhaps a bit like all the people who play The Sims and do stuff like purposefully box in their Sims to make them starve to death or what have you. [/QUOTE]

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