Actually, true story: when I was 16 I met this girl and liked her and thought I'd stop using profanity for her sake because she was nice (at the time I was agnostic, so I have no other explanation), and so I did. Just kind of quit cold turkey: dead serious about that, I just kind of thought "eh, let's not" and then I proceeded to do it. (I had a lot more willpower than I do now, I should say.) Incidentally, it's actually fairly bizarre being the one student in a full school who
doesn't curse and has to find linguistic workarounds for the sake of communication, but yeah, I managed somehow.
Anyway, in much later years, well after we had stopped knowing each other, I would find out through the grapevine that she actually swore quite often and had no qualms with it--woo, plot twist--but I was too far out of the habit to switch back. And, even if I did, I would kind of feel as if I was reverting closer to my junior high self, which is nothing I particularly want to think about since--as I think I've said on GAF somewhere or other--I really don't like
quasi-humans children under the age of maybe 15 at lowest, including myself. (I like to pretend I didn't exist until I was at least in high school, but barring that I'd at least like to disown any and all activities I did when I was that young--ah, that is, except for a select few activities like criticizing Final Fantasy VII and Ocarina of Time long before the rest of the Internet started doing so as well.)
Besides that, people tend to notice when a person has different speech patterns from everybody else--for example, a peculiar affinity for immense compound sentences and overuse of the em dash, as seen in this post--and I rather prefer to be non-standard since I generally have little respect or, at the least, little desire for what might be called an "average lifestyle," as I understand "average lifestyle" to mean. I suppose a non-professional psychoanalytical type could internally translate my words into "I'm shilling for attention by filling my life with wacky and gimmick, lol"; not that I don't think that would be a misrepresentation and/or an oversimplification, but I can see how
someone else might come to that conclusion, which may or may not be incorrect. I believe it was crowphoenix who once posted "Jiggy sure is an enigma," and this is how I'd like to stay. Sometimes, purely for variety's sake, I'll even cast aside my own writing style and borrow the styles of other quirky personalities like Amir0x or The Take Out Bandit, who both tend to speak hyperbolically and love exclamation points a great deal. Actually, I'm not sure I
have a consistent writing style--though others have claimed that I do--but just run with whatever comes to me when I decide to post at the time I decide to post. For example, today is not one of those days where I've decided that I can't allow myself to reuse the same word more than three times in a single paragraph, even if that word is an article, though that kind of thing often bothers me for no discernible reason.
Also, "damnation" is not profane, nor is "bitching" (and only that variant). Other words, however, are. In fact, I won't even use a certain word that's somewhat similar to "crud" except that the "u" and the "d" are not a "u" and a "d," which is highly stringent since I've never encountered anybody else who considers it to be a vulgarity--or anything, really, other than an equivalent to "trash."
But that's enough about me. Back to Virtual Console, and the 4.6% chance that NA will see any VC games released on May 12th while Europe is partying with import games all over the place.

Again, not to begrudge Europe getting something good for once, considering how abused that region is, but I demand love here too. This though I'll be buying like 4-7 games at WiiWare launch, maybe more if there are a bunch of unannounced surprise projects totally ready for launch. (Which is a perfect possibility, but this isn't the WiiWare thread, so I'm not going there.)