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Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com)
Slashdot reader xavdeman writes: Hot on the heels of its announcement of the specifications of the next PlayStation, Sony has revealed a new crackdown on explicit content. Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" and a concern of "legal and social action" in the USA, Sony has said it wants to address concerns about the depiction of women in video games playable on its platform as well as protect children's "sound growth and development." The new rules were reportedly already responsible for puritan cutscene alterations in the Western PS4 release of the multi-platform title Devil May Cry 5, where lens flares were used to cover up partial nudity.
I've never understood why so many people buy playstations. They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC that will blow it out of the water. By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games, the PC already cheaper.
Now Sony is a censored platform too? Who needs it.
M'kay???
Seriously. If we become a sexless society we will have less and less children. Add that with more pent up assholes like religious figures we'll see even more pedophilia. Blocking sexuality is actually hurting children because they will simply just not be born. Any ones that are born have future endless humanity self loathing/personality neutralizing laws to look forward to. Like giving up eating steak so you can live 5 years longer on a 70 year boring life. Thanks poundmetoo
only in 'merka would the victorian mores of sexuality still exist. fukkin puritans. fukkin merkins.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the downside of too much political correctness. He envisioned a world in which people who excelled were beaten down to conformity. So, is the final solution to the contrived "me too" crisis the castration of all men?
Wasn't MeToo about sexual harassment and actual assaults instead of age appropriate content and enforcement of age limits? Will this be the Michael Bay moment of Sony's game division?
People want it.
Don't feel like providing it?
No worries others will. Simple as that. Small minority throwing down hash tags and screaming offense were never going to buy jack from you in the first place.
Faggots love the smell of shit. It turns them on. It also causes their mouth to water because they eat the turds from other faggots assholes.
This completely dismisses the parental responsibility to use ESRB ratings. Kids with shitty parents who ignore the ratings aren't going to be saved because Sony said "no boobs" to developers.
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WTF is wrong with people? Why do they insist on foisting their own insecurities on everyone else?
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Shower porn with lots of dirty talk! Over and over and over
You stinking piece of shit. ... well, until United Socialist States of Europe decide this HAS to be the case and the playing field is equally shit for all.
Let's see:
https://store.playstation.com/...
Looks like they are. Seems like they're actually just doing the Steam two-step, where they stand there bobbing their head along to the money, until something starts making noise about being restricted in some market. At which point, they shuffle things around, until that noise stops, then resume doing as little as they can.
Which is fine as far as I'm concerned - but don't count on them for whatever standards you might hold for quality content - as long as it doesn't throw glaring error messages during an official play session loop, it's OK for the store, plus whatever the content ratings groups decide to do on their side for each regional jurisdiction.
Ryan Fenton
Always amusing to see a company both figuratively and literally covering their asses at the same time.
Wasn't the #MeToo movement about sexual abuse and harassment?
I don't know of anyone, man or woman, who with a straight face and a sane mind can walk up to the podium in front of the cameras and say "I was sexually abused by my Playstation." Please join me in the fight against it!
Here's an example of the vile and shocking "sexually explicit content" that Sony had to censor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupFJPaAn9s
Most of the other examples of Sony's PS4 censorship are equally absurd. It should be noted that Sony moved their headquarters to California, which is why we're getting these utterly deranged decisions.
Of course, there's a simple solution - don't buy anything from Sony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
"While it has been claimed that VHS won over Betamax due to the greater availability of pornographic movies on the format, the evidence on hand suggests that pornographic movies did not have a major influence."
Evidence on hand was pretty sticky and no one wanted to touch it.....
You mean "citing a desire to make less money." That's all that will happen. Games don't affect real-life perceptions and behaviors in any significant way. This censorship to pre-appease the vocal moralistic jerkwads in the United States will do absolutely nothing to reduce sexually inappropriate conduct; in fact, given that games often provide a release rather than fuel for bad behaviors, it is more likely to increase such conduct. Of course, reality doesn't matter to toxic moral crusaders. Sony is just a garbage content company and they're continuing the trend here.
Hey morality police, guess what? Sex and sexuality and sexual pursuit are part of a normal and healthy human existence. Get over it. Your lack of value in the sexual marketplace and resultant insecutiyy should not result in censorship of what others can consume.
>>> Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" and a concern of "legal and social action" in the USA ...
Because no woman, anywhere in the USA, also enjoys nudity and sex. /s
This is why we can't have nice things.
this post is not off topic, read the end , carefully, sony fanbois
Gee, seems to me the SJWs and leftists are all about telling everybody what is inappropriate for adults, so they can BAN IT!
I've never understood why so many people buy playstations.
Because they are fun and offer a lot of entertainment for the money.
They have a lot of great exclusive games, and more importantly to me, have some really interesting fringe stuff that is like indie stuff done with a higher budget.
I like to compare two large scale games to help demonstrate the difference as well - Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Witcher 3.
I have both for the PS4, the Witcher 3 I know was very popular with PC gaming friends. But to me, even playing it on a console it had way, way too much micromanagement and gear wear mechanics to make in enjoyable - even though I loved the Witcher books, and found the game story very interesting.
Horizon Zero Dawn was way more tuned to someone who wanted a pretty long adventure, but more time spent enjoying the world and learning mechanics of the game rather than drudgery. It sure seems like most of the PC exclusives are heavily into drudgery in a way that turns me off now.
They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC
Here's the thing, I've had gaming PC's before. They are only cheaper, as the old saying goes, if your time is worth nothing.
I don't have a lot of time during the week I can play games currently. So have to have any of that sucked into the nightmare that is Windows /driver maintaining... well, not worth the tradeoff for the few advantages you would get from a PC exclusive.
By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games
I don't see how that helps make the PC cheaper since AAA titles on PC or steam are all very expensive. I usually wait some time before buying most games to get a bit of a discount (there are some exceptions).
To those with the time an energy to invest in PC gaming, I salute you and am sure you will have some amazing experiences (especially visually, I've watched a number of videos of the ray tracing stuff starting to be delivered and it looks amazing). But I am extremely happy limiting myself to consoles for now, and can have some amazing experiences there as well.
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costs $600-$800. A Ryzen 2400G is about the closest you could get and it can barely do 720p/60 in e-sports titles like Rocket League. With ram prices being lower you could build one for about $150 (board/CPU) + $50 (ram, dual channel if you want to hit playable framerates) + $50 (7200 rpm hard drive, a must) + $50 (case and a cheap power supply) + $50 (keyboard/mouse/gamepad). If you don't pirate your OS add $100 (you can find shady Win 10 keys for $20 bucks online otherwise, and I've heard they work).
So you're pushing $400 to hit 720p/60 in low tier titles and you've had to shop around to do that. I can do more than that on a stock PS4 for $200 bucks. I can get a PS4 pro for $400 and do entry level 4k.
And if you want 1080p/60 in AAA titles? $300 for board/CPU (a Ryzen 2600x + decent board), $50 for ram, $100 for hard disk + SSD (trust me, you'll need it), $100 for a decent case/power supply and $200 for your GPU. You should probably buy nVidia since you skimped a bit on your power supply, but if you plunk another $30-$40 down you can get an RX580 and knock $20 off your GPU. It's mostly a wash.
Talk to me in 10 years when integrated graphics can do 1080p/60 in AAA titles, if that happens (it might, there's new tech for doing a the GPU side in a CPU). For now the cost of building a gaming PC is too high. It's something you do because it's cool and you want to or you want/need a PC for work/school and the added cost to get a gaming PC makes it competitive.
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There are very few people who don't shoulder at least some of the responsibility for the hostility toward freedom direction that we've been heading for hundreds of years now. You didn't speak up when they mandated drivers license, you didn't speak up when they gave control of your mind to a minority (ie copyright), you didn't speak up when they mandated license plates, you didn't speak up when they outlawed smoking, you didn't speak up with they mandated censorship online, you didn't stand up when they started using violence to extract your wealth and the wealth of those around you, you didn't stand up when the government suspended the constitutional rights of others.
Unless you've stood up you have nobody to blame for this other than yourself. I looked in a mirror and I stood up. I have paid a small price for doing so. I was 'locked up' even if only momentarily. The message was clear though. Sit down or else. I haven't done that. I haven't sat back down. There are thousands who have stood up with me, but still not enough to fix even one region or state let alone a country. I'm in New Hampshire today and taking part in the free state migration movement. It's working, but we still need more people here to have a fundamental impact on the underlying system. It's one thing to change a bad few laws for the better and another to restore or even achieve a free state. Something that would be a first in the history of the world. Or should I say no state? Either way the answer is probably decentralized peaceful co-existance. Not government. The good government does is for the most part just a shield for someone else's personal gain. We can't be free so long as there is a government. Nobody said that means zero security. It just means one takes responsibility for oneself.
Anyone who read and understood 1984, and then researched Orwell's long standing relationship with various forms of leftist politics in the early 20th century, would understand how monsterous Sony's actions are, and the actors behind the curtain driving Sony's SJW policies.
The ancient thinkers (and we're talking 3000 years ago) were well aware of the hopeless vulnerabilities in so-called 'democratic' societies when evil actors could subvert said societies by selling certain control messges to the 'mob' (what we call sheeple today).
It is easy to rile up the mob with meaningless but FASHIONABLE concepts the hard-of-thinking mob is currently wild about. Twisting the knife in issues of Human sexuality is an especially common technique. To the Deep State actors, it doesn't matter if the knife goes anti or pro- whatever currently works.
So today it is the 'NEW PURITANISM', as seen before with the worst and most depraved religious cults that first travelled to the New World (North America) because their despicable anti-Human pseudo-religious philosophies were playing every worse in a Europe being affected by the Age of Enlightenment. NO- early America was not about 'religious freedom' but the abilty of very vile cults to safely create communities where their leaders could impose the most twisted 'laws' on the helpless members of that community.
The current Deep State leaders are not puritanical in their own lives- indeed they are the exact opposite. But this garbage currently plays well with the rabble that still feeds from the teat of mainstream media (filthy outlets like this one).
Before the net, Britain BANNED the most vanilla explicit p-ornography- so do not buy the neoliberal sh-it about "policing the extreme". The claim that censorship is a necessary evil cos of the 'extreme', as seen daily in the press of the UK, NZ and Australia, is the standard method of engaging hard-of-thinking b-etas. Look at any society where censorship is well established, and you'll see censorship NEVER stops at 'the extreme', but is about the everyday.
Women and ethnic 'politicians' are favoured by the Deep state demons in the West cos these two groups have no fundamental belief in freedom of anything. The philosophy of wanting Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, and Freedom of Assembly is ALPHA only, pretty much male only, pretty much West only. Everyone else- especially you b-etas here, think these Freedoms are good in 'theory' only, and in practice you think these Freedoms too 'dangerous' to implement.
The 'new' politicians of the West, who certainly don't represent the West, see these Freedoms as archaic symbols of 'white' 'male' control. Their Deep State puppet masters (who are all pretty much white males), have no problem pulling their strings and having them howl that people MUST be imprisoned for long periods for sharing current event video footage (see the horror who rules in New Zealand, and her stated disgust at the idea of free expression and free access to historic data).
It should not be so, but the end of the Age of the well educated White Male politician in the West is the end of modern democracy.
Sony is thusly more than happy to go along with the meme that males who enjoy looking at sexualised material are 'sick' and 'evil'. The same meme existed in German society when H-itler was in power. The n-azis had their own weaponised SJW movement very similar to that of today, and the support of women's groups was an essential part of the German war machine. N-azi Germany was puritanical and ruthlessly censored- the opposite of German society immediately before H-itler took power.
There is good reason Deep State linked groups ruthless attack any mention of n-azi Germany when considering recent Deep state activity, and the meme ('godwin's 'law'') that has been so carefully sold to B-etas is to help ensure b-etas cannot learn from history.
Anyway YOUR Deep State masters have proven their alligience to the wahhabi horrors of Saudi Arabia beyond all question over
So I can still pull my enemies spine out though their neck? :D
Will I still be able to spend a ton of money on "loot boxes" after having paid for the game?
I am guessing we are still cool with violence and gambling, just not a bit of tits and asses on display.
Sony was behind Betamax, the VCR format that wouldn't allow porn. Totally in character for them.
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Or is it five?
Yeah, totally "cheaper" to give a thug a monopoly on your game prices and choice. --.--
...endo.
I am proud to be a member of the master race that does not need Sony's approval to play a game with my own hardware.
Who knew it would be the leftists that would turn into a bunch of Puritans and try to impose their worldview on the rest of us.
Work Safe Porn
...but please please please protect them from the horrible boobies and vaginas!!!
Cut out the creepy Japanese underage sexualising stuff, leave the rest.
Seriously, cut that stuff out.
It's turtles all the way down.
The #MeToo movement is about real girls so it doesn't really apply as much to video game characters. I mean it would apply to female players. But the treatment of female characters is a different topic all together, but it does need to be address so... good on Sony for trying something?
Just another second banana
right.. sex and beauty and beautiful bodies so BAD but mowing down scores of people with heavy weapons.. popping heads of, dismemberment, blood gushing.. A-OK. Yeah, not confused at all.
Don't conflate religious (read: christian) fundies and sjws just because there's sometimes a bit of overlap in the things they get outraged about (but not in the reasons for the outrage). It's been decades since any huge corporation has gone out of its way to pander to christians. The religious right would list a hundred additional things in mainstream video games that it finds just as offensive as a bit of gratuitous cleavage, but the left is either supportive or indifferent to all of them, so they stay in.
If christians ran things, the boobies in, say, Mortal Kombat 11 would've still been toned down, but so too would've all the lovingly animated skeleton-removal, organ-blending, and face-ripping-off stuff.
What a whiny faggot without real problems. Lord, give the whiny Republican faggot some problems. Amen.
for the avalanche of dick pics?
PC gameing for ever!
App store lock in needs to be banned just think if games like
Leisure Suit Larry / Softporn Adventure (back in the day)
Custer's Revenge
Chiller
Night Trap
Mortal Kombat
Doom (Violence back in the day)
Duke Nukem 3D
Carmageddon
Postal
Grand Theft Auto
Reagan's actual policiey literally were more liberal than the current "liberal" ones'. Look it up, instead of believing me! I'll wait
. . .
You only have extremist right-wing puritan neocons, and batshit insane extremist right-wing puritan neocons. Same team, actually.
To protect children's "sound growth and development" Sony is going to censor content deemed to be too sexy on their Playstation platform.
While, at the same time, titles with a violence level right off the charts like:
Hitman
Grand Theft Auto
Mortal Kombat
Manhunt
seem to be just fine for the same audience ?
( Good thing Timmy can't see any video game skin, imagine the mental trauma it would cause. Now go eviscerate that Dark Elf ! They deserve it ! :| )
Both Violence / Gore and Sexual Themes are designed for the Mature Audiences ( hence the M rating ).
If you really want to protect children's "sound growth and development", be a fucking parent.
Understand what the M rating is and make the decision to let your kids play it or not.
If you're too lazy to actually be a parent, perhaps you shouldn't engage in activities that create the conditions where you become one in the first place.
Women here see the freedom to be able to show their tits in public without being harassed as a women's rights moment.
The fact that they harass us with that, eludes them.
Sexual triggers? Men should repress them, and not be "animals". (Like that won't leave lasting damage in men who believe in such unnatural contortions...)
Nevermind that seeing somebody naked; wanting sex with them; trying to get to know them due to attraction; and harassing them without respecting if they want too, are four different things.
Let's see *them* repress *their* reactions when I whip it out in front of them, imagine my gilfriend, who is way sexier than them, and start masturbating! ... --.--)
My actions will be completely unrelated to them. Yet they will imply that 1. they are the center of my universe, 2. I'd want sex with them, and 3. sex equals perversion and harassment, and is mutually exclusive with good manners in men. (Tootally not sexist and prejudiced and with a perverted mind
Helly even if a guy or girl furiously masturbates TO me right in front of me... asking if they can fuck me... why exactly should I be bothered? As long as they don't ask again or try to touch me, or don't keep a comfortable (read: hygienicL distance, what's th harm? I'd only think "Thanks for the compliment, I guess..." and "Have fun!".
but you'll pay $100 bucks for that RX480 or R9 380X. I spent a few months trying to snipe one. I did eventually get an older 580 of all things, but it took a while.
The trouble with those workstations is making sure you get one with a PCI-E slot. A lot of them don't have one because they don't need them. Or if they do they're a severely cut down slot because the assumption is you're not putting anything in there except a basic card. The point of those workstations is usually the CPU and RAM.
And plan on doing a lot of research/hunting. The Xeon naming convention is a mess processors numbers don't give any indication of performance. Finally, do not plan on just moving components around willy nilly. Power supplies in those units often have weird specs or requirements.
I looked into an old workstation before the Ryzen's came out and CPU prices were still jacked and it just didn't seem worth it. Even now a console is still, dollar per frame, the cheaper option. That should be expected, since they're heavily subsidized and the games often write to bare metal.
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Why not let game developers and game buyers find what sells and what the market wants?
No need to go full SJW and tell the consumers what they should be doing.
A great new game will sell well.
A game that was altered might not sell as well.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Except, perhaps, in the USA.
Ah, and BTW. Ditch Sony. They betray their users regularly.
Especially with all the complaining about Epic Store (because of the Red China Scaremongering the USA loves to do) having their store exclusives, every singe one of the stupid fuckers forgot (or never knew, being too young at the time) that Half Life 2 was a Steam Exclusive and the only reason why Steam got off the ground. Yet suddenly now that they might have to use something other than steam, every single exclusive is a Bad Thing (tm). Never cared before. Last of Us? Playstation exclusive. Nobody cared. Steam exclusives? Nobody cared. Now it's nebulously tied to China, suddenly all exclusives are anticompetitive and horrible things...
Why should reskins infringement, etc. be forbidden yet everything else caveat emptor??? Either the store should be censored or it should not. Pick one. If you pick an arbitrary line of censorship, then THAT IS YOUR OPINION, OTHER OPINIONS ARE AVAILABLE. Therefore you need to demonstrate why they should pick YOUR line rather than another one proposed by their board. And, no "government law" doesn't apply since China does that too, yet you disagree with China's law on censorship, and these games would fall foul of, for example, Saudi law, and some of your stuff that the government bans would be fine under Japanese law. Not to mention that you would be ceding private decisions to government alone, making you one of those socialist statists you claim to hate...
I don't have a child. However, historically, half of people died without ever getting married, and the figure isn't THAT higher today. Mostly then, as now, because of work. I also don't intend to have children. However, what I can do is help with my friends and family members who DO have children. My genes will not carry on, but if I were a decent parent-figure then my effects will live on through these children too. No need for MY genes to continue for me to see a future. Hell, the average length of time for someone to have descendents is about five generations. Replacement rate births require almost every single geneological line ends in some finite number of generations, otherwise you'd end up with an overpopulation problem in no time, since reproduction is exponential.
You do not get to claim "Wrong question". If you have no information, then you should admit that your claims were based on fuck all. And one of the reasons why ephebophilia is still censured (post maturity children are still "kiddie porn", 12-18 years old) is because children cannot be left to define themselves yet, they are still socially and mentally developiong INTO adults. And so unless you're arguing in real life for the kiddie porn laws to be removed for anyone over the age of 12 (generally the age by which menstruation and sperm development has started) you too are claiming that children should be protected. The only question is why you demand that they be protected from sex with real people but not sex with virtual ones. As far as developing maturity goes, the latter is LESS healthy than the former, except where the physical partner is a shitty person, which is not the norm with humans.
But I can see clearly that you cannot empathise with the idea that other people are not you.
why the sudden need for it? You protect post pubescent children by law already, why do you demand that they be not protected any more? Is it because you are addicted to porn, but not child sex, so you don't CARE if someone else is hit by a law, as long as you aren't? Hypocrite much?
We also censor swearing and violence from children too. Yet you are silent on that as well. Why?
Reminds me of that Monty Python sketch in the restaurant.
"Well how about spam, eggs, sausage, spam, sausage and spam? That's not got much spam in it."
"I don't like spam!"
"Wow, trying to impose your Puritan world-view on the rest of us! What are you, some kind of SJW?!"
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Sony is part of the RIAA, fuck 'em.
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Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" [...] concerns about the depiction of women in video games playable on its platform as well as protect children's "sound growth and development."
See, I am completely on board with women speaking up against the "minor" sexual harassments and assaults that millions have been shrugging off because they don't want to cause a fuss.
But no, that's not good enough. It has to be leveraged into some goddamn neopuritan horseshit. What the hell is wrong with the left? It's sort of like how the Occupy Wallstreet movement lost sight of its laudable goal (that actually would've had a lot of bipartisan support, at least among the populace) almost immediately in favor of turning it a generic leftist gripefest.
Actually, this is considerably worse than that. It stealthily slut-shames millions of women (for daring to enjoy or even worse wanting to participate the same risque stuff that men stereotypically enjoy.) A lot of women, the majority in my own experience, enjoy sexy showing off stuff.
I think that our culture has finally reached the point, at least on a corporate and governmental and celebrity level (though not on an average family unit level), where the left is much more concerned with and vocal about slut shaming and other assorted neopuritan bullshit.
The fact that they do it under the guise is protecting women just makes it all the more reprehensible. I listen to self-identifying progress/"liberal" women make public statements about how much they regret doing nude scenes (Yeardley Smith,voice of Lisa Simpson) or participating in wet T-Shirt contest (Kristen Schaal) earlier in their lives because years later they realized that it degrades and objectifies women and I'm like... who is more going to listen to a statement like that and feel more ashamed? The millions of men who see such things and smiled? Or the millions of women who have participated in such things and smiled?
It's straight up slut shaming and they try to disguise it by pretending that really they're slut shaming men, but really women are far more likely to feel bad about this criticism they're hearing.
It is a normal, typical aspect of female sexuality to enjoy showing off. It's not a male conspiracy; it's a perfectly natural inclination (that is frequently encouraged by men, yes.) And if you tell them they're making objects out of themselves when they do that, you're a slut shaming neo-puritan asshole.
This needs to be pointed out more frequently.
... someone enjoys looking at scantily clad women fighting demons in videogames? Especially if it's their only chance to get close to such an experience with women?
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
One is controllable (the pool) the other is not (computer titties in random games or even movies). Dumbass.
Do you go to a job interview and then get shocked when they instead fuck you up the ass? Is it only because of the fucking, or was it ALSO the shock of not expecting that to happen at a fucking JOB INTERVIEW???? Because if you go to a titty pool, you expect to see titties. Go to a family friendly (e.g. Disney-esque) pool and you DON'T expect to see titties hanging in plain view.
Why is it so bad here?
Him: in game bad, RL good
You: in game good, RL bad
That's a false equivalence, so your question is entirely moot.
See anywhere the parent poster said they were mad seeing cartoon boobies? No? Then you must be the one getting mad at them. YOUR brain, such as it is, is the only source for that idea.
She's hardly a body role model. She's hardly attractive, ffs.
Meanwhile, shooting people in the face with a shotgun or shooting them in the knee with an arrow is totally A-OK since especially the former never happens in life AFK.
Hypocrisy, is what this is. Killing people with any weapon imaginable in a video game is "OK" (see Red Dead Redemption 2, The Division,The Last of Us) but showing a breast or a butt is not.
Yeah yeah yeah, we got it, you think the UK introducing the wank license is a great idea.
Leisure Suit Larry is now an XBox exclusive!
That's funny. I thought the METOO culture was all about running around half naked, shirtless women because men do it.
Why is this needed? The market should dictate what the market wants. Games that consumers want will do well, games that consumers don't want will go to the discount bin. I guess the same can be said on the game console market too. If Sony decided to not allow certain types of characters in their games and Microsoft does then consumers will get to make a choice. If Microsoft follows Sony in restricting certain types of characters then there may be a spot in the market for another game console without those restrictions.
I mean seriously, any time they want to kill male sex-drive these days they tend to inject her into it.
In all seriousness, it's a good time to consider building (or buying) your own Steam Machine. I built my own Wintendo, since everything else I have runs Linux anyways, but Steam is every bit as smooth as the modern game consoles when it comes to navigating with a controller. (I still suggest a PS4 controller over a Steam one - fortunately that works). Unlike the consoles your library stays good as the years go by.
I'm working on coworkers to convince them Steam is a good console alternative, this can catch on. At the price of modern consoles an APU or low to mid range gaming system is reasonable alternative to a console. All we need is to get GOOD non-gaming apps on the console . A Netflix app, a Hulu app, that sort of thing (really - Linux versions is what I'm saying).
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What a stupid virtue signalling move from a shitty company
So put aside everything I said about regret and female peer pressure and wet t-shirt contests... how do you justify your interpretation of (what I call) the left's slut shaming in the context of *this* article? Sony is removing sexually explicit content in games supposedly as part of a cultural response to #MeToo.
Yes. That is not the thing they are complaining about. It's the coercion, the Weinsteins, the "sorry but to advance your career as an actor you are going to have to get your tits out".
But this is *uncritically* removing media *only* because they contain "tits out". It's in no way examining the process to see if any women were coerced into doing something they didn't want... and indeed, in this case the tits are far more likely to be computer generated. So what does any of this have to do with the casting couch or sexual assault? No, this is explicitly, overtly passing judgment that sexual content in media is bad and TFS says they chose to adopt this attitude because of #MeToo.
I maintain that this sort of across the board, un-nuanced demonization of sexual content in media is a form of slut shaming that harms women even if it's being done in their name, because on some level it makes millions of females feel guilty about ever behaving in a way that they've been told leads to the objectification not just themselves, but also somehow all women in general.
The in-practice goals beign pursued and the paternal (a word I use advisedly), sanctimonious tones of voice are extremely similar to the Christian right. The religious right has always attacked female sexuality by talking about self-respect, and the narrative of objectification has the same message at its very core--"don't you want to be more than just a set of tits? if you take your tits out, aren't you afraid people will think less of you?"
This is all candy coated with a narrative of evil masculinity and other identity politic warfare nonsense, but the implications are clear enough. Sony is not concerned for exploited actresses. The issue here is not sniffing out coercion. Sony doesn't care where the tits came from (and indeed, we're most likely talking about 2d cartoons and 3d models with jiggle physics here, not live actresses.) Sony is only concerned with the end product. And (whether rightly or wrongly) they're doing this in the name of the most popular form of modern feminism, #MeToo.
You're twisting yourself in knots and setting off chaff to avoid the real issues here.
Yeah good work listening to women sony. They want us to keep our hands to ourselves. Ok message received.
All these other "extra" #MeToos are bullshit. They should feel ashamed for standing up next to some chick who was drugged and fingerbanged by some powerful old man and saying "Yeah and what about this titty armor in video games!!!, that's sort of the same!"
Yeah fuck you that Sony exec who just kissed your ass is going have a good chuckle over the whole thing while he bangs his secretary.
Sounds like queen Victoria came into power just now.
Well in this case the issue would be Sony not taking context in to account.
You can hardly blame other people for Sony being lazy.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Porn is why Beta lost to VHS.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Who knew it would be the leftists that would turn into a bunch of Puritans and try to impose their worldview on the rest of us.
A lot of us knew, decades ago. We were called nuts ...
Video games already have a rating sytem, E=everyone,T=teen,A=adult,M=mature.
When companies like Sony censor game content, they are defeating its purpose.
So shove your #meetoo morality standards up the ass and just rate the game how it is.
What about blaming you for you being lazy?
this is not what "the left" wants. this is Sony, a conservative corporation, interpreting what he problem is. They don't see the nuance so they just shut it all down.
Oh, it's definitely in line with what the rest of the left is doing. You should work harder to stay abreast of current events in the post-Contributor Covenant world, like what happened to the Python dev.
What if parents are deemed unfit to raise the young of the next generation? What if our species' demise is related to the individuality created at home by the failed parenting styles of the masses which were never recognized as the leading aspect of the downfall of the human race?
You cannot say you want to protect children when most of the games are sold for 20/30 years old gamers... BULLSHIT