HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

@pianotm: It's probably a bad idea to write a game using Middle English. Most people wouldn't be able to understand it. I mean, they used fert instead of fart for God's sake. I don't know, though--maybe it could work as a single character in a large ensemble that lampoons the need for accurate period speech.

author=Rod_Wadd
I think that shit is a much more sensible word than say, poop, or crap, or feces, or BM or whatever else I can come up with, when talking about excrement, I don't know about everyone else's fantasy medieval worlds but in mine people aren't squeamish about that sort of thing so euphemisms, and god forbid, medical terms, would be much more jarring.

I think that "evacuating your bowels" is easily the grossest way to say "taking a shit."

Like Desertopa said, if cursing informs the character, then leave it in. The danger with going out of your way to avoid profanity is that you come off as hokey because it's a transparent evasion of a curse word. The whole Battlestar Galactica "frak" shit, for example, just drives me up the wall. It's like when you're a kid and you say "shit" in front of the teacher, then she goes, "Excuse me?" and you say "I meant crap," then she glares at you and you say, "crud?" The fact is you still mean "shit," but you're taking all the power out of your words.

All that's to say: use the appropriate word for the appropriate place. If the right word is a curse word, then don't drain it of its power because of your personal feelings over it.

I happened to be on the forums, so this might be the quickest response in history:

On my current project, I can't get a taunt skill to behave correctly. I want a taunt that makes all enemies target the caster. Here's how I'm doing it:

-The taunt skill runs a common event that puts a state on all the characters that multiplies their target rate by zero.
-The taunt skill then removes that state from the caster and multiplies the caster's target rate by a thousand (I realize that there's no reason to increase the caster's target rate if everyone else's is zero, but I couldn't fight the urge that "bigger is better").

The thing is, this method works fine on the project I was working on before I started my contest project, so I suspect that one of the Yanfly scripts I'm using is producing a weird conflict, because the character in first position is getting targeted exclusively by monsters after a different character uses the taunt.

Here's the full list of scripts I'm using and the order in which they've been added:
-Yanfly Ace Core
-Yanfly Ace Message
-Yanfly Ace Core Battle
-Yanfly Ace Equips
-Yanfly Ace Skill Restrictions
-Yanfly Ace Steal Items
-Yanfly Ace Menu
-Yanfly Ace System Options

I suspect that the core battle engine is overwriting the targeting formula, but I don't really how to look for that or if that's even the issue in the first place. Any suggestions?

I'm just really happy that A Very Long Rope is finding an audience!