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Poll: Do you find it offensive? (36 member(s) have cast votes)

Do you find it offensive?

  1. Sure, you're just like a street pusher selling dope to kids (16 votes [41.03%])

    Percentage of vote: 41.03%

  2. Absolutely no, it's so funny the potion parallelism (13 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  3. Don't care about it (10 votes [25.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.64%

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#21 fs_theloneman

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 05:27

Hmm..

that is obviously a potion bottle like the kind they use to make potion of fury or potion of dull edge.

#22 spidey101

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 05:27

blah

#23 doa4life

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 05:50

Only because of America is this avatar unacceptable. So many people in my country vouch free speech until its something they don't like, then they petition to remove it. Yeah, free speech my butt. Really, most western countries have no issues with drugs and them being legal, yet the United States does, go figure.

90% of America's Prison population is there for something related to drugs, either selling them, buying them, stealing them, stealing something to buy them, killing for them, killing because someone told on you for selling them, etc,etc.

If America would just legalize the drugs it would help a lot, People would be able to easily get drugs, so the robbing and murder would go down. Also if its legal it will take away a thrill many youngsters get from doing something illegal. (Its the only reason I began to drink at a young age, tapered off at age 23 too) Also many teens use drugs when hitting a rebellious stage, why? Well if its not allowed than that is the first thing they will want to do.

I do realize that drugs are addictive and bad too, however I feel like legalizing them would do more good than harm. As far as the avatar? It does have a drug related paraphernalia on it, really big deal. If you actually see this and know what it is chances are that you have already seen one in real life, maybe even done it yourself already. The avatar (While I can understand why it was revoked) shouldn't have IMHO, because there are too many self righteous hypocrites that play this game and now the downright censorship of the game is a tad overboard.

BTW, If I was 10 or 11 and had no idea what was on that avatar from previous experiences I wouldn't think twice about it.

#24 TheEggman

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 14:02

they removed my avatar and i guess its because it had 2 weed leafs in bacground...which is rediculous - people who know what that leaf is - dont mind...on the other hand kids have no clue what it is...


some people say they are addicts to this game and that they want to change that - quting the game...i dont mind being an addict im addicted to many things and ive got enough free time...but what i do mind is spending my time in higly censored internet site...

btw this was the avy they banned...

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So get this, i wake up one mornin and look myself in the mirror, it is the walrus that i see.


#25 fs_kall95

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 14:03

I voted:
Don't care about it

#26 fs_vitz

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 14:55

lol @ people getting "offenced" by avatars

#27 doa4life

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 15:33

@ DOA4LIFE
'If America would just legalize the drugs it would help a lot'
If you have ever seen someone on ice you would definitely not want drugs legalised...It messes alot of people up and I really hope you dont want it to be easily available...
As for marijuana...I have unfortunately been in the position to see peoples lives ruined by it...and I truly believe that 'legalising it' would make it so much worse...
'most western countries have no issues with drugs and them being legal' which countries is this refering to?

As for the avy, they have removed it again...so I cant judge...


Yeah, I have seen people on drugs, most of which only started in the first place because it was "cool" to do something illegal. Then they got hooked. If its not illegal most young teens wont do it just because there is no risk to it. Some still will do it, but chances are these people would do it whether it was legal or illegal. I guess you have never had friends beat up or been robbed by some dopehead all because he needed a fix. Prices on drugs are high because they are illegal (risk and reward) Dealers jack up prices (which causes robbing and murders) to offset the potential legal troubles they will get into if caught. Again, only reason drugs are illegal in America anyways is because the government cannot control and tax them. Im done and off my soapbox. LOL

#28 greenguru

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 15:51

@ DOA4LIFE
'If America would just legalize the drugs it would help a lot'
If you have ever seen someone on ice you would definitely not want drugs legalised...It messes alot of people up and I really hope you dont want it to be easily available...
As for marijuana...I have unfortunately been in the position to see peoples lives ruined by it...and I truly believe that 'legalising it' would make it so much worse...
'most western countries have no issues with drugs and them being legal' which countries is this refering to?

As for the avy, they have removed it again...so I cant judge...


Yeah, I have seen people on drugs, most of which only started in the first place because it was "cool" to do something illegal. Then they got hooked. If its not illegal most young teens wont do it just because there is no risk to it. Some still will do it, but chances are these people would do it whether it was legal or illegal. I guess you have never had friends beat up or been robbed by some dopehead all because he needed a fix. Prices on drugs are high because they are illegal (risk and reward) Dealers jack up prices (which causes robbing and murders) to offset the potential legal troubles they will get into if caught. Again, only reason drugs are illegal in America anyways is because the government cannot control and tax them. Im done and off my soapbox. LOL


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oh, edit: on the actual topic I agree with Maruk there, showing how ridiculous a reaction like this is:

What the sense of this ban? Don't tell me is about the 'drug' stuff. If is the case you have to remove all the images with a sword or a gun because they can induce someone to use them in real life.


relations between fiction and 'reality' are complex and removing an avatar like that shows a simplistic conception of those relations :P no picture, word, fiction is innocent, but I believe that people can think by themselves if they want - do they want? that's another question ^^ do we do good by thinking at their place and hiding instead of showing and helping people to build their own opinion? I don't think :P

#29 fs_supmet

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 17:47

Well, not everyone who is on drugs and experimenting just coz its illegal...and not all drug crimes are based on the financial side...
A couple of days ago I helped a friend clean up her house after a party she held was gatecrashed by a bunch of ice-heads...They trashed the place...they fought each other..they broke things...and they only left when the police got there...Their violent actions had nothing to do with the high cost of the drugs, it was the side-effects...
She has cuts all over her hands from where one of them shoved her over into a pile of glass...clearly not related to the cost or because its 'cool' to assault a teenage girl
Clearly the cost of drugs were not the problem...the DRUGS were/are the problem

/rant Sorry to hi-jack the thread all


And none of that would have happened if people were just drunk? :roll:
Those are broken people, don't blame the drug because its the easy way out. Alcohol produces violence much worse than any drug.

Anyway this thread is about to be locked so I thought I'd throw a few thoughts in here. I happen to agree that drugs should be legalized in America, for the reasons pointed out. Overall crime would go down, these stupid gangs out here in california would be immediately stripped of all their power, and then the gov't could tax the hell out of it, and make trillions instead of spending trillions on a futile war.

But- none of that matters. The first time some kid - and you're right they don't know what any of this is - goes and asks their MOM, who is paying 60 bucks a month for their kid to play FS - Hey mom - what's so funny about this potion bottle? FS loses 700 bucks a year just so you can be funny.

Like I said earlier, their server, their rules, deal with it


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