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It's not a slippery slope, they're targeting non-porn games literally right now. Detroit Become Human, a very well reviewed cinematic/adventure game especially among non-gamers was one of their targets.

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From the subhed: "Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet."

Detroit: Become Human has abuse as significant element to its story. It came under attack from the "National Association of People Abused in Childhood" when it came out, and also from Collective Shout.

Should we only tell stories about good people respecting their fellows and living happy, wholesome, conflict-free lives?

By their own logic that association should disband, as their existence could remind people of their traumatic childhood experiences.

They might want to take a look in mirror and see what institutions have been involved in many such abuse cases in the past. Hint, it's not video game companies.

This amuses me, as my wife deals with trauma from childhood abuse, and she absolutely loved that game.

Much like some people with drug addictions love Disco Elysium, specifically because of the authenticity it has regarding substance abuse.

That was part of it, as well as the idea of an RPG that represents skills as essentially "shadow work". Very much helped me on my mental health journey!

My pro-fascist brother-in-law with massive social anxiety hated it for some reason..

It was such a masterpiece right up there with The Last Of Us.

The theme is about androids being abused by society, so I suppose answering that question gives insight into your views on what may happen decades from now in this pursuit of General AI.

Yeah that's exactly the kind of framing that I am against. "caught in the dragnet" implies that there was some kind of mistake. Surely they didn't mean to argue for banning these ones, they just want to target 'porn' games. Nevermind that this started as just targeting 'extreme porn', we'll continue to say that the critics criticizing them for doing the thing that they are doing right now as arguing slippery slope.

Same slope, also slippery: this thing is not limited to opinions of moral minorities, because payment processors are a weak point for government pressure. We already started: pressuring CBS to fire Colbert for political speech, pressuring Columbia to curb anti-genocide speech, etc etc. So wait until this same route -- pressuring visa/mc -- is used on any product or creator that's not doubleplus good newspeaking.

The government doesn't need to touch you to ruin you, if they can yank your payments.

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