• qaz@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I’ve never bought a porn game nor ever played one, but I just think it’s stupid that such large companies fold to a lobby organization and start moderating the sale of products. Christian fundamentalist activists are persistent and organized, and it’s effective. I think it’s bad how a small minority is able to dictate the lives of other people and I like how people get riled up because I hope it will remind the people in charge of those large corporations that catering to extremists is a bad decision.

    TLDR: Idgaf about the games, I just hate it when religious zealots dictate the lives of others.

    EDIT: I might have been wrong about “Collective Shout” and didn’t look into it enough before forming an opinion.

    EDIT 2: Yeah, I don’t think “Incest Daughters BDSM” deserves saving. They seem to be primarily targeting rape and incest games, and I can definitely understand that you want to see rape games gone from if you’re an organisation like this. Article However, I still don’t know how accurate their own article is, I might check out more sources/perspectives when I have time.

    EDIT 3: My initial assessment seems to be correct, a large amount of games are affected and the “policies” seem to be enforced with a disregard for accuracy. The organization also seems to be more extreme.

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        2 days ago

        It might be because of child abuse themes and the portrayal of robot sex workers. It has been criticized before.

        We knew right from the start that Detroit: Become Human was going to be heavy going. The 2016 and 2017 trailers both featured children in peril: first a child dangled from a rooftop, then a young girl being beaten by her father, but David Cage defended the dark subject matter with the promise that “there’s a context in the story, there’s a reason for that”, and we gave the game the benefit of the doubt. The problem is that having now seen the game in full it is clear that Cage’s child abuse narrative isn’t content with just one scene, and definitely isn’t used with care, context, and solid reasoning.

        ‘Detroit: Become Human’: Exploitative and Tasteless

        I’m not sure if I agree with this sentiment. I feel like it was mostly focused on the way Kara goes out of her way to protect Alice, but I can kind of understand how someone else could see this differently.

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          18 hours ago

          I truly could not care less what they claim their reasoning is. I’ve played the game. I know how it handles things like child abuse.

          This is not a game that should even be included in any conversation about censorship. The idea is fucking absurd.

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            17 hours ago

            I’m wondering how long it’s going to take to revert this policy

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        3 days ago

        I’m against the censorship, to be clear, but a David Cage game might not be the best example to use in the future lol

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          3 days ago

          Why? Because you don’t like them?

          It’s a perfect example, because there’s nothing even close to pornographic in that game. The only possible reason would be because there’s a lesbian android couple that runs off together (if you let them).

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      3 days ago

      There’s a solid argument that most of the porn games are some form of sexual abuse. You could argue that adults should be allowed to commit fake sexual abuse but its still likely not a positive for those who consume it.

      Its interesting noone here has argued for porn games, just against censorship.