Marinate the porkchops in the teriyaki and 2-3tsp of chopped garlic. Let it marinate for about an hour.

Grill (if you can) or pan-fry the pork chops until they’re done. While they’re cooking, sprinkle the pineapple rings with the cayenne pepper, and grill (again, if you are grilling) or pan-fry until you see the edges separating a bit.

Make your rice, as per the instructions, and add a bunch of black pepper.

Serve it all up together, and make sure that you get a bite that combines the rice, pineapple and pork all in one mouthful. Tasty, tasty.

Simple!!!

I’ve had a select few people tell me personally – via PM, IM, etc – that they “just can’t play on a PG-13″ board; and then there’s the folks posting on discussion boards saying that they feel “too limited” if they have anything lower than a PG-13 – and you know, though I’ve only had a few people tell me directly that they don’t want to post on my board because of the rating, I imagine that a lot of the “I need my freedom!” sect is actually just putting on appearances; there’s obviously a distinct desire in the online roleplaying community to change these things, if there wasn’t your ratings system wouldn’t be as popular as it is (side note: I do love RPGR and what it stands for, I just can’t decide how it fits my board!) … but people want to be seen in certain ways, I think. Nobody wants to be that admin that restricts people, but I imagine the margin of people who wants to roleplay sex and things like that is probably in the minority – just, you know, they’re a very vocal minority!

I do appreciate what you’ve done to help the ratings problem in this community – I do think also that it’s something that could be fixed if people were more honest with themselves, and their games. A big part of it I imagine are the people that can’t separate “writing game” from “actual writing;” because yes, a lot of the writer folks I know have daily wordcounts (in the thousands!) to help them stay on track, and yes, they don’t have to limit themselves on what they write as far as sex/violence goes (unless mandated by a publisher, I suppose) – but that’s because that is their job, and they are writing a story. When you are playing a game, you owe it to EVERYONE you play with, even when you’re not posting directly with them, to remember that its still a game – or else it gets no fun for anyone!

And I completely agree with your last bit there – the Vault has had our fair share of sex and violence that falls comfortably BELOW a 333 rating, and it makes it no less saucy or interesting!

I also see that bubble over at the R/M/333 side of things. Or a lot of talk about how people want to be free to do what they want. But I think you and I have both found at our moderately rated sites success! I know the people who write at AO are happy with the rating – that’s where we’re comfortable. I don’t have any data on who sees our rating and walks off, though. And I rarely encounter people joining and attempting to exceed the rating. Where are you seeing this bubble? Discussion boards? The number of sites created that are rated a certain way? Just curious to know what your impression is.

I’ve been informally gathering data on what ratings role-play sites have been choosing for themselves.

Of the 245 sites who’ve rated, 131 of them have a rating that is made up of only 1′s and 2′s. (No 0′s or 3′s.) That’s quite a glut in the mid-range. The single highest rating is 222 with 59.

100 sites had ratings made up of only 2′s and 3′s, with the second highest rating used at RPGR being 33 with 35.

In a super informal poll, 42% of responders said that 333 was their favorite rating answering from a role-player’s perspective, top choice in the poll.

I don’t know, Manda. I certainly don’t appreciate the More Open The More Better attitude. Creativity is finding solutions within limitations. It certainly doesn’t mean that plots at AO (or 713) aren’t deep, developed, exciting, grim, frightening, intimate or any of the things that seem like you’d need a 333 to accomplish.

Fight the good fight. :)