What the hell is THIS?!

[BadMojo]

I thought it was skirting the boundaries of what would be acceptable to post here on the forums. It was another moment where I cringed as I saw the page. I found it to be in bad taste, and I was offended.

My reaction was similar. I found it to be in bad taste, but also hilarious. Ok, maybe not quite the same as your reaction.

To answer the question in the thread title:

It's exploding panties, what else?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

 

[Asmor]

Uhh...

They're panties. Say it with me. Pannnn-tieees. Ooh, don't you just feel so dirty?

There's nothing inherently sexual about panties (panty fetishists aside...), there's nothing inherently sexual (or even remotely sexual) about explosions, and the phrase taken as a whole is just plain nonsensical. What the hell is a panty explosion, I ask you, and how in the name of Garl Glittergold do you manage to turn it into something sexual? At worst, it's just plain silly and designed to appeal to a juvenile sense of humor ("Haha! They said panty!").

I mean, if it was, say, "Lingerie explosion," at least that I could see since lingerie is designed specifically for sexuality, but trying to say that anything with the word "panty" is sexual in nature is, quite frankly, juvenile. I'd liken it to giggling at the word "poop." Would you still be offended if it were called "Boxer explosion" or "Tighty-whity Explosion?"

 

[airwalkrr]

I'm sorry, but this just gives the Role Playing Game industry a bad name.

...and the Book of Erotic Fantasy doesn't? Frankly, I think there are worse things out there to worry about.

 

[Andor]

I sort of liked the name, actually.

I probably didn't "get" it, if it is a reference to something ... I probably don't watch enough anime.

I just didn't figure I'd be playing it any time soon. Labrynthine social drama with school-age girls is something I tried very hard to avoid as a lad in school.

Of course one of my favorite anime shows was FLCL and that was just one big sexual innuendo with a good soundtrack. I had to give a few a few crash courses in Japanese visual literary conventions just so people would get why I was laughing.

This is what higher education does to you, kids. Avoid it at all costs. Everybody's insane by their master's program.

--fje

FLCL rocks, although it takes about 3 viewings to figure out that there's actually a plot in there. Also... eyebrows.

The game seems to have some really neat ideas for storytelling in an enviroment where internal party rivalry is a major driver of the plot. I'm curious to pick it up just for that.

 

[Crothian]

More in the 'dirty old men seriously pretending to be school girls' kind of way. I'm sure that's not what it's really about, but that's the impression.

Well, pretending to be school girls is what the role playing game is about. Just like pretending to be an elf can be D&D. And I imagine there are some males that have gotten up in age and perhaps they are not as clean as they should be as gamers. But that really depends on your group.

 

[Crothian]

I thought it was skirting the boundaries of what would be acceptable to post here on the forums. It was another moment where I cringed as I saw the page. I found it to be in bad taste, and I was offended.

In what way are you offended? Is it the mention of undergarments or them blowing up?

 

[jaerdaph]

A company called Manga Graphics is releasing an RPG next year called Witch Girl Adventures designed to get young girls ages 11 to 16 interested in gaming: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=299044

I think this is awesome. My niece has shown an interest in RPGs and I can totally see me buying Witch Girl Adventures for her.

If I were to buy her a game called Panty Explosion, however, I can just see my the look on my sister's face as she comes at my head with a baseball bat. And I wouldn't blame her.

 

[takyris]

In what way are you offended? Is it the mention of undergarments or them blowing up?

I was offended by the existence of that ad on this page. I'm not really interested in getting any more specific than that, because frankly, about half the time, it turns into something like, "But it's just ____. ____ is totally natural, and if you're offended by it, that says more about you than it does about ____." And you know, feelings are not wrong. They can be based on faulty information. They can be irrational. But they're not wrong.

The last ad discussion turned into some huge thing in which someone I can't remember went into an incredibly convoluted "But how do you know that she isn't wearing anything, since you can only see down to her arms? And how do you know that that's supposed to be a sexy pose? And how do you know that she isn't actually an avid gamer who is greatly interested in the product?"

No.

Again, not an argument for censorship. But as long as people are casting their opinion-votes, that's mine. The ad offended me, it didn't make me want to buy anything, and it did make me feel uncomfortable visiting this site.

 

[Crothian]

I was offended by the existence of that ad on this page. I'm not really interested in getting any more specific than that, because frankly, about half the time, it turns into something like, "But it's just ____. ____ is totally natural, and if you're offended by it, that says more about you than it does about ____." And you know, feelings are not wrong. They can be based on faulty information. They can be irrational. But they're not wrong.

And the other half it turns into good discussions. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just trying to hear your side of things.