4661

I feel like this summarizes a lot of the conversation around GamerGate:

GamerGate caller: “People are deciding, a little less cleavage, a little less ribald humor. People are self censoring. How in the world did we get to the point that we have to censor ourselves because everyone has such thin skins? Half the games that we loved as kids, could they even be made today without causing an uproar? Do you think the breast bounce in Dead or Alive, you think that would be made today? That frightens me.”

Jeff Gerstmann: “Uh Dead or Alive 5 just came out. The breast bounce options are even crazier now.”

4662

That is outstanding.

4663

It would not be made in USA today… In japan they don’t care about this thing. Anyway thats a good boomerang argument thrown.

4664

They’d never make this game that was made in Japan today!
They already did…
Well, sure… IN JAPAN!
Wut?

It’s like saying the Japanese would never make the St Louis Arch today as some sort of proof of things changing in Japan. Considering they never did at any point… congrats on an iron-clad argument?

4665

Deliberately obfuscating it there. Or trying to shame Teimans command of English as a second language. His statement is crystal clear.

4666

I guess what they are saying it that it wouldn’t have been made in the US in the past neither? (that nothing has changed in that regard?)

4667

Why not? No laws against it, really nothing whatsoever preventing it from being made. The USA is super permissive.

4668

Is the word “fuck” allowed on TV yet? ;)

4669

It has nothing to do with what he said or how he said it, but what he was relating.

4670

Not on networks, but it is also the only word you can’t say anymore.

4671

Or do.

4672

Show a nipple in TV, or direct a slang term at a minority in TV, and see the reaction.

If must be hell to be a public figure, always controlling what words you say and how you say things to not [trigger] anyone.

What is to be free?

To not be scared all the time.

4673

Both Game of Thrones and basic cable would like to have a word with your assessment.

4674

Who watches Network TV anymore? That the networks don’t allow a few things is hardly the benchmark I would be looking at regarding American permissiveness or freedom. Nice try though.

-Todd

4675

I was about to continue my argument. But I remembered that XKCD comic about “Somebody is wrong on the internet”, and decided not.
Also, maybe I am the one wrong here.

4676

Did the US DOA (or was it Tekken) get that blonde cat girl that caused complaints? The Japanese dev was trolling Nu-Puritans and threatening to replace her with a muscled skinhead dude but I don’t think anything actually happened and she was/is being included.

4677

It was Tekken, and Harada was trolling out of his ass, as he often wants to do. It’s not the first time he’s threatened that either. (and he pulled the same stuff with some Phillipines cultural types complaining about Jozie Rezal- at least I got one of my friends doing a damn good cosplay of her out of that character already)

Also, the reason people were upset with the character had nothing to do with social justice issues, and everything to do with the fact they thought the character was stupid and unworthy of inclusion in a game where a number of fan-favorite characters were being left out.

4678

Even normal cable stuff like FX, not just HBO and the other pay channels, has far more nudity/violence/language than anything decades ago. Just from that single channel check out: Louie, The Americans, Archer, Son of Anarchy, Fargo, etc. On even the OTA networks (like that matters) you have Hannibal and the Following and stuff.

And watch The Americans, it’s really good!

4679

Naked and Afraid. All the bare ass you want, and unedited comments about what insects are crawling into and biting their buttholes. Fuzzed-out genitalia and of course female nipples are fuzzed-out, but otherwise an hour of naked people walking around eating grubs and enduring 21 days of starvation and exposure. No way this show would have aired 10 years ago.

4680

Well there’s no way about 80% of what is on Discovery and History channels would have aired on them 10 years ago.

This is not a compliment, at all.