You miss the point, it's pretty obivious with how the game was designed, named, released and reacted from the dev, that the dev knew exactly what he is doing, the dev want people to be riled up, the dev want controversy, because controversy is exactly what he is trying to capitalize on, he's not contributing to the bigger ideal of "freedom of speech" like a whistleblower, he is trying to make himself look like a whistleblower so people like you can give him money.
A brilliant strategy, the dev deserves to make a few bucks off of this. Girl Scouts are being told that this is a bad game, so they are downloading it and playing, and they are upset when they find that they can't kill babies. Pure poetry.
Well it's like I said the game's controversy is what it really is and the game itself is pretty much nothing. It's a game that will have a stirring for a little while and we're seeing it now where it will whither out and be forgotten because if a game is mediocre or bad no matter the controversy people will just forget it. There's only so many times you can argue the same points about the content before every point is exhausted.
Dualism is the branch of philosophy you're more describing. In Taoism it would simply be "A child died."
Of course. Why wouldn't you marry someone that was raped? Being raped doesn't make you lesser of a person.
I don't believe anyone is against publishing actual accounts of rape written by the victims.
I don't know why I'm gonna analyze this but I guess I'm bored. This person is clearly stupid as racism doesn't always end in action it could literally be the dumb kid on a forum shouting slurs. A rapist has a confirmed physical action behind it and generally as a black male I can shrug off someone calling me a "ni**er" because it's just words at the end of the day unless it devolves into physical attacks. It comes down to actions speaking louder than words.
I think it is you who is missing the point. Even if what you said is true, the mere fact that the game was being quoted and showed out as this evil thing that needed to be censored, it gives light into what these so-called "moralist" are doing. They are the ones that will stop at nothing until their agenda is fulfilled. It wouldn't have mattered to them if the game was good or bad. They would have stuck their nose up and apply censorship with any other game with the same name or implication. In other words, if it hadn't happened to this game, it would have happened eventually to another. And you would be fooling yourself if you think it wouldn't, it was just a matter of time.
The game itself isn't the point here, it is the reaction of the rape culture we live on that is the real eye-opener. Normal everyday people don't think about this stuff because they need to get on with their crappy lives and could care less about what happens in the spectrum of partisan society. However, it is very important to note that that partisan society strongly helps to shape the culture normal people live on, and thus are subject to manipulation and censorship. It may seem strange since we've had the typical violence in games for decades now, but this standing question and debate of what to allow and not to allow, which includes video games, has been going on for the same amount of time. Rape itself was never touched that deeply because developers didn't really care to put it in videogames unless it was an integral part of their game story. And sex games have always had their own category, as evidence to the use of this website even.
I got the feeling people don't want to react to it in the same way meaning it's not much of an eye opener and they need to react to it the way you think they do. Normal people can't care about every single person around them that's just how reality is and even though I am against this type of thing as much as violence stressing over everything that ails you in the world is unhealthy and a waste of time you could be helping as many people as you can. I do agree with what you said as this isn't a subject touched on a lot and personally yes....I would like for someone to tackle more sensitive topics like this but not in the way this game does it which is specifically design to be more porn styled and fetishy. Thing is though you need to tread this subject very VERY carefully and I don't think the industry is there just yet unless it's a personal edge like an indie developer.
"it wasn't even worth all the controversy as the plot and the context is either silly or nonsense" As supported by you yourself, my own point is taken. It' doesn't matter to these people the content of the game. The second you give them the narrative they are looking for to pounce on, they will take you out. For me, this was it. To pounce on such a meager game with the full-blown media backing them just so they can push their nonsense into the airways. Telling all us all how "terrible" it is, and misogynist and "I'm not gonna support Steam for this" and then proceed to cry like a baby is precisely the kind of attitude we DON'T need. You want to talk about treading this subject carefully? Tell it to those people. But they won't listen, why? Because they don't need to. They already have the moral "high" ground. Or at least, that's the goal, their version of the high ground.
This argument goes for both sides here as the dev played everybody including everyone who played it here and payed to play it. People get their "story" about dumb rape game because "RAPE IS BAD" and they get to parrot that over and over to the ears of people who want their opinions shouted at them from another source. The other side gets their gem in the controversy of the week so they can hold the game in this high regard of being an antithesis. This is how this controversy works as you say they have the moral high ground when everyone who has ever argued in a manner of a game like this (the game where the controversy is talked about more than the actual game) already have their grounds of many standpoints. Both sides need to evaluate how they approach these topics and how they are argued otherwise it just devolves straight into flame wars with people chimping out on each other rather than the respectable platform where people can debate clearly and fairly.
I don't recall the origin of this comedic sketch, or the actors but it goes like this... 2 guys talking about the southern states.
Yep and there's plenty of games that explore ultimate freedom away from any law or any enforcement of actual consequence but at the end of the day reality will always have consequences even if we don't acknowledge them. Games are about the emotional immersion rather than the physical immersion as I am to believe a lot of us can tell what is fiction and what is happening in front of us that can physically effect us.
This white guilt thing annoys me and it isn't specified towards just white people but people of a race who do this are infuriating. It's what I like to call accommodation through deprecation because you look at the stereotypical person of this nature and they talk about how bad white people are and how horrible they are but they don't want to project that thought further than the words. It's the idea of hoping that she probably doesn't actually have to go through the action of actually marrying a rapist but she can get those likeminded nods that go "wow she's right racist are the true scum of this earth and need to be stopped". This is the sad current reality we do live in where people can speak strong but with little to no action and call games for example out for promoting misogyny or homophobia but the thing is the context is ultimately loss because people like her I'm sure only deal in a way that is absolute to them seeing everything as an entire problem for one thing.
Like I said, moving the goal post. What USED to be the neutral stance has shifted into a direction that the moralist decide it to be. It is very easy to say "well, I can't really say I support people that cry foul on this, but I also cannot condone the actions that have been taken against it because they are both wrong, it should be done in this fashion" That's a typical thing to say.
Well that's the point I was trying to get across or maybe I didn't get it across clearly. There isn't an ultra oppressive nature when you can freely post as much insanity as you want on sites like here and many other places. Sure this place isn't Steam or but it would be a really risky and probably dumb move to try and prove a point by getting a game with this kind of content on the store shelves considering how sensitive the ESRB truly is (GTA SA was pulled from the shelves because of a mod that was virtually inaccessible and doesn't effect regular gameplay you had to go out of your way to find it even if it was in the game's coding). I am sure people will trek heavier grounds but I suppose not yet as I don't see surgence of controversial content we need to actually break through and get a wide people talking about it in a manner that isn't caustic to the product itself. There's is no zero percent chance here though we will get a game with this same subject matter handled in a fair way that people won't push back so aggressively as I said before the product's perception will dictate how people should see it. If someone can sit down and make a good, story-driven sexualized violent game as you say then it will be all worth the higher tier of controversy as people can have a cleaner debate. I mean some games on this website have pretty deep characters and mechanics but then again it's a porn game. That's also another barrier here not just the whole rape thing but this sensitivity to pornographic material. These people want accommodation for themselves so there is no group justice unless it benefits themselves and a person exactly like their line of thinking. I stand by what I said this game doesn't break it hard enough to send a shock through these people as ir gives them the ammo they need to counter it.
The problem here is that you have faith in a "good" game breaking the narrative of this kind of violence. Given what I've seen, with publication after publication. Focusing on this sole subject of smearing the idea of nonconsensual sex with a woman is the biggest issue for them. Why? Because the outrage culture has decided for it to be so. And they are the one who control the airways as I've said multiple times. There isn't an ultra-oppressive nature, yet. Again, how far are we willing to push it? How many people are going to suffer because of this? And not just in gaming, but in every form of our culture. I don't believe for one second that they wouldn't take you to the mob court of justice if they had even an ounce on you to go by.
A "good" game will at least provide better leverage to counter arguements while a "bad" game will exemplify their points which will be worse for everyone involved. I don't know anymore ways to answer you but I've enjoyed this experience. People just have to keep at what they want and what they're doing as you can start a revolution over night. If we want to weed out this SJW culture or whatever it may be called by other then more people need to start rising up in their own way. Remember justice is blind they may be abe to tilt it in their favor only when people let them do it and it can be thrown back at them. Like I said I don't agree with the execution but the controversy of the game shows there is light in something there is a spark there that can ignite something bigger but once again I don't have a definitive answer though I wish I did. We need to see more of the creators that tell these people to fuck off when they want something changed and it has happened just not at such an amazing magnitute and this goes for other forms of media not just gaming.
Because of this "developer" Steam, who had started relaxing their rules, have now done an about turn and started banning anything they don't like the look of all thanks to the media and government attention this dickhead brought.
