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(Gaia Online) Dumbass Gaia Online removes all virtual game objects that refer to tobacco and cigarettes, because we hate it when our online avatars get virtual lung cancer   (gaiaonline.com) divider line 30
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Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 10:49:19 AM  
yay for censorship I suppose.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 11:18:15 AM  
VirtualLOL

 
Saborlas [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 11:31:18 AM  
It's Gaia Online. It's not like anyone there is legally old enough to buy tobacco.

 
SeamusFerrell 2009-11-21 11:43:34 AM  
Their website, their decision. It's not like they have strange rules (new window)that are arbitrarily enforced.

 
halkun 2009-11-21 11:44:49 AM  
I love how the admins talk to the audince as if they are farking four years old

 
Lehk 2009-11-21 11:45:19 AM  
Hey guys, let's go play gaia online.

 
crab66 [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 11:56:59 AM  
What the F is Gaia Online?

 
TheRaven7 2009-11-21 12:01:57 PM  
crab66: What the F is Gaia Online?

It's a forum where your avatar levels up and can buy items and accessories.

 
Twigz221 2009-11-21 12:04:33 PM  
halkun: I love how the admins talk to the audince as if they are farking four years old

Because for the most part, they are. Or at least mentally equivalent to.

 
ZoSo_the_Crowe 2009-11-21 12:05:32 PM  
Gaia should start selling 4chan-sourced stuff for their avatars again.

That was fun.

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 12:25:00 PM  
Weaver95: yay for virtual censorship I suppose.

ftfy

 
ramen_for_all [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 12:34:56 PM  
www.vh1.com

 
rat_brain_flies_plane 2009-11-21 12:39:10 PM  
we don't think they make your avatar look any sexier.

For some reason this disturbed me.

 
Giltric 2009-11-21 12:55:11 PM  
I remember the day my factories stopped producing Booster Blue and Muon Gold in SWG.

farkin puritans

 
FormlessOne 2009-11-21 01:19:36 PM  
Giltric: I remember the day my factories stopped producing Booster Blue and Muon Gold in SWG.

farkin puritans


Luckily, you can still get all sorts of pipeweed in LOTRO.

/Just sayin'.

 
warwithtostitos 2009-11-21 01:29:35 PM  
Gaia is somewhere on the totem pole in or around Twilight in terms of intellectual stimulation. I've witnessed the diseased minds that actually go to that stupid place. I'm even dating a former admin.

Sad thing is, apparently knowing an admin IRL is like being a celebrity. The website is that farking stupid and disconnected from reality.

 
Stickdeath 2009-11-21 01:43:21 PM  
I can't believe that someone said something about keeping "virtual lungs lookin' clean as a whistle".

WOW. I don't know shiat about Gaia online, but whoever says that deserves to be cock/coont punched many times.

 
Mike_LowELL [TotalFark] 2009-11-21 02:29:25 PM  
Can it really be any worse than Digg?

 
onomatopoetic 2009-11-21 03:11:01 PM  
You can have your virtual Gaia tobacco as long as you're behind seven Boxxies.

 
platedlizard 2009-11-21 03:59:54 PM  
halkun: I love how the admins talk to the audince as if they are farking four years old

That's because they are.

 
Reverend Otis 2009-11-21 04:11:58 PM  
Weaver95: yay for censorship I suppose.

Offensive. Censored.

 
God-is-a-Taco 2009-11-21 04:38:51 PM  
I was always under the impression Gaia was for kids and teens, so this seems like a normal thing to me.

 
kicker_conspiracy 2009-11-21 05:05:23 PM  
And if they're northern, that makes it even worse and....

 
Ambrotos 2009-11-21 06:47:45 PM  
The site is directed at, and full of, kids under the age of 18, so it does make some sense.
However, I'm sure none of them were more likely to start smoking just because there were cigarettes on the website.

I think it would be funnier if they put an age restriction on the virtual smokes.

 
Dr. Poison 2009-11-21 07:05:13 PM  
s3.amazonaws.com

/makes you look cool.

 
Funk Brothers 2009-11-21 08:47:28 PM  
Gaia Online is the reason why 4chan's /b/ has stage four lung cancer.

Gaia is the cancer that is killing /b/.

 
ZoSo_the_Crowe 2009-11-21 11:35:04 PM  
Funk Brothers: Gaia is the cancer that is killing /b/.

/b/ is the cancer that is killing /b/.

/b/ was never good.

 
scalpod 2009-11-22 02:01:50 AM  
I stopped doing things by proxy and just started doing them in the real world as the consequences are nearly as bad.

Thanks everybody.

 
Wils 2009-11-22 02:39:47 AM  
Thankfully they replaced all tobacco and alcohol items with a virtual bowl of warm pitted prunes.

 
Potothpe 2009-11-22 03:47:59 AM  
Don't smoke. Vape!

Youtube, some guy vaping (new window)
The e-cig forum (new window)

 
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