Father of elementary aged kids that want to play, questions

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*emphatic* No, this game will mess with their neurological development, I really recommend they stick to more creative or constructive tasks like minecraft.

Perhaps you should learn to set the example?

I have been playing for 20+ years and yes I was a productive member of society, veteran, and I believe I am trapped inside EQ because it is the last bastion of virtual space that hasn't been taken over by PC millenials and their kids grandkids (who'm I have very strong usually pretty violent visceral impulses towards as an 'older male' *the get off my lawn clint eastwood with a shotgun kind*). I suggest you consider EQ very much like somethingawful dot com and filter it on your router at the packet level with plain text matching.

At least your kids will then have to become smart enough to circumvent your meager attempt at sheltering them from the horrors of forumquesters such as thyself.

If you need look no further look at my join date, post count, chemical cleavage, and then read some of my posts.

Trying to make this space 'safe for everyone' not from the 90's will just kill it. So I do not recommend some SJW crusade to make EQ safe for family with all the skeletons edited out into breadstick men. All the whips turned into pool noodles. And all the assless chaps turned into fursuits.

Sometimes, and I belive the devs were into this stuff, playing EQ is like donning a rubber suit with a zipper over the face and a tube stuck down your throat, it is very much about domming the players. So you don't want your kids to meet the strange people attracted to that kind of thing.

You should probably re-evaluate why you actually play this game if you are considering any of what I said to be exceptionally extreme or radical.