carbon - when are you playing anymore?  I'm typically on between 8PM EST 11PM EST or round abouts and haven't bumped into you in a bit. 

Im playing when i get bored.

So it varies.

Im not as active as I was b/c If just lost alot of intrest. Wanna play it more but...eh. 

Btw...I whispered you the other day You so stood me up. hahahah. 

nah - I was likely on a space mission so I didn't see it in the chat (chat closes completely when you do missions... and I take about 22 minutes doing the space missions.  Anyway, that's why.

heh...i figure it was something like that.

Im sure i'll catch you soon.

Wont be on tonight, going to a hockey game.

Curse you, active social life!

I've read the article and a few comments. As a mother and grandmother, I would like to bring the following information to everyone's attention.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/star-wars-video-game-to-allow-characters-to-have-homosexual-romances?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8921c1fcb0-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_03_16_2012&utm_medium=email

I am going gay when i renew my subscription for the expansion next year. Really a nice feature to add to character immersion.

Lula, please take your homophobia somewhere else.

To get back on topic, I tried out the free to play weekend on this. Was certainly pretty fun but I don't have time for MMOs, so I'll probably wait until its where WoW is now, with the game pretty much done with expansions and you can get a good deal on everything.

Well, if its about the old republic, it is on topic.  re: lula's post and same sex marriage, etc, I really don't know why this is even a desired game feature.  As it stands, there is no marriage, etc, in the game that I'm aware of.  Is this something that they have in WoW or something (eg marriages)?  Personally, I think the idea of having the option to marry someone in game silly... and would likely lead to some creepy things (some 45 year old gamer marrying at 12 year old and what have you).  And that's just talking about marriage in general.  Just seems like an idiotic thing to lobby to have. 

re: the free weekend - yeah, I was glad to see that they were opening things up a bit to get in more folks.  Looking forward to when they change things up so that you can play up until X level without buying the game.  That said, my accounts staying canceled until they get more development done with useful features or have an expansion or w/e.  MMO's are something I just can't see myself playing for long durations of time... think I lasted like 2-3 months tops and then dropped my sub because I became bored with it. 

Of course it is.    I found the article and thought it a good idea to share it. 

If you read the article you can get an idea why BioWare plans to create an update that allows players to practice homosexuality as part of the gaming experience.  Evidently, BioWare has caved into the pressure from homosexual activists, experts on social engineering and getting kids exposed early to this kind of sexual behavior. 

There are no marriages, but you can date your companions. Why not date the same sex? I see no negative reason not to. As far as gameplay goes, as a spy, I flirt with every person I need to use. As in real life, if you are not gay or your religion prevents you from being gay, don't be gay. No reason to stop other from doing what they want. I don't think anyone was pressuring MMO's to allow gay equality. I do, however, see there being religious groups putting pressure on this game to not have it.

Funny how that works...

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/star-wars-video-game-to-allow-characters-to-have-homosexual-romances?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8921c1fcb0-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_03_16_2012&utm_medium=email

Well, yes, according to the article there was pressure applied and for quite some time. 

I intuit you are an adult and if you want to play in gaydom that up to you, but the concern all along is for children.

And rightly so. ....at least minimumly in the form of rating it "mature". 

Ah yes, we must protect the 'children'. Best way of doing that is obviously denying that homosexuality exists. If not they will all become gay

But I doubt Lula cares about games beyond insulting them as forms of society's moral collapse. And the romances I assumed were with NPCs just like with the heterosexual romances already in the game. But clearly my attempt to avoid it has failed, so may as well go all in.

Technically this game has a teen rating, parents should not let mere children play it. As it has a subscription fee and thus needs a credit card or equivalent, I find it unlikely that they are ignorant that their kid is playing. If they object to that and fail to do their research that's there fault.

I admit I was surprised it got a Teen rating in the first place as it has apparently always been possible to get laid in the game, but it did and I don't think its justified increasing the rating just because homosexuality got added to the types of things your characters can do if you choose. If teenagers can handle the concept heterosexual sex they can handle homosexuality as well. Indeed a very small homosexual relation if not sex was in the first Knights of the Old Republic, and it has a T-rating.

I think you're missing the part where society itself is being far more tolerant of homosexuality (especially among the younger and more secular groups who actually play these games) and thus having it in there can be a sound marketing decision to appeal to gays.