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'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam (aftermath.site)
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[–] 87 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

That being said this derives from stripe threatening Valve in the near past (which is why their previous games didn't face this scrutiny). This is a known thing that any game developer, especially one developing mature content, should know. And the content in that game is definitely mature, if the screenshots of the game were shared without context I would think it's one of those sex simulators, which I get this is not and those are just small parts of the bigger picture of the game, but that's just like saying "this chocolate bar shouldn't need to be classified as containing peanuts, it only has 1 peanut".

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  • [–] 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

    Just Christian moral panic and puritanism, which has fucked us up mentally and psychologically for centuries now.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Rather than put us against invented enemies, I like to think a lot of Christians actually don’t care much about these subjects, and that the push specifically comes from Christofascism (rich people without a soul in their body using religion as a weapon to restrict and control people)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    It's much easier to have power over people who can be blackmailed for "sexual deviance" when the definition is very broad, can be tracked online, and tracking and banning are voluntarily enforced by corporate entities like banks (no-free speech problems).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Which is weird because "thou shall not kill" comes before adultery in the commandments, and go forth and procreate is also somewhere in that book.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I didn't say it made sense.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Almost makes you think that the bible might have been written by humans and is just as flawed in its text as humanity itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    While that's very much true, that's not really what I take away from it. The bible could be 100% true and this wouldn't really change anything in this particular case.

    What it instead tells me is that people will pick out whichever parts of the bible suit their biases and follow them, all so they can feel good about themselves despite ignoring the half of it they don't like. I also don't see many Christians avoiding mixed fabrics despite their god supposedly saying that's a no-no two different times.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    There's a lot of killing in the bible as well. Moses and Joshua committed genocides sanctioned by the Christian god. I can see how people who hold the bible in high regard could be motivated to downplay the horror of murder.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If the problematic content isn't crucial part of the game, they can try to go for the "official 18+ patch" like some VN re-releases, which would be like adding a peanut in a separate box

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Absolutely, have the game without it and a free (or with a stupid price like 10 cents just to ensure legal age requirements) DLC that's parked as adult only. But I think in this case it might be too engrained to the core of what the game is, that they can't, and if that's the case it makes sense to mark the entire game as adult IMO

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