Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs
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Man, I knew it was only a matter of time but I didn't think it would be this bad, this soon.
Fear & Hunger is a goddamn masterpiece. Yes, it has depictions of nonconsensual sexual acts. It's in keeping with the lore of a world that is truly fucked even beyond our reality. It's an integral part of the worldbuilding, and it is by no means glorified.
Agreed. Fear and Hunger has it's issues and I would not broadly recommend it to anyone. I would also say that the FREQUENCY of sexual assault in the game, and the presence of some weirdly sexual status effects like anal bleeding are a bit overboard. That being said, when one of the earliest enemies can sexually assault you, or maim your character in a way that leaves you able to keep playing, but effectively crippled, it really nails home not just that the world is dark, but that your assumptions about what is in the game don't apply here. Anything could happen. REALLY anything. And exploring a harsh, hostile world with that expectation set is one of the best parts of the game, because it's a unique experience that you just can't get at that quality anywhere else.
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NOW that they've started curating, that has become way more likely to actually happen. They could have claimed to be a neutral carrier before. Actively filtering means they've decided to take on that responsibility, and the consequences for missing stuff.
They're morons
Time to sue my credit card company for preventing my purchases, but failing to prevent a purchase that was detrimental to me
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I've never seen any argument from them that this is the reasoning.
What argument have you seen from them that is their reasoning?
We don't know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not "no illegal content." It's "no content involving rape or incest" or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn't what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that's what their requirement would say, but it isn't.
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We don't know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not "no illegal content." It's "no content involving rape or incest" or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn't what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that's what their requirement would say, but it isn't.
Okay so none then.
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Okay so none then.
And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn't check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn't about legal content. That already wasn't allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don't know. I'm not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I'm only proving that it isn't what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.
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Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?
A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
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Time to sue my credit card company for preventing my purchases, but failing to prevent a purchase that was detrimental to me
That's one way to not understand what I meant, I guess.
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And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn't check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn't about legal content. That already wasn't allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don't know. I'm not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I'm only proving that it isn't what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.
The point is "I haven't heard them say this" is not a legitimate argument, because you haven't heard them say anything about anything, because they haven't said anything, and speculation is all we have.
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
And kids, that's how I met your mother
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
Nah, most likely Veggie Tales. Elmo is too woke and might cause dissonance with supremacists and Christian Nationalists. Oh, wait. I just repeated myself - sorry.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
I feel like even those games will be banned if we don't stop them now. My thoughts are that games like 'I am Jesus' is the end goal here.
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It's an asterisk...
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
gross, who would fuck them?
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Yay were back to the 2000s again, Jack Thompson rises again !
don't you mean Joe Lieberman?
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NOW that they've started curating, that has become way more likely to actually happen. They could have claimed to be a neutral carrier before. Actively filtering means they've decided to take on that responsibility, and the consequences for missing stuff.
They're morons
i assume you’re allowed to buy guns with them in the US? that’s WAY more directly attributable
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Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?
E Pluribus Anus.
So close to the Greendale flag from Community.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
I think there are probably some skeletons in the closets of Collective Shout's members. It's always projection with these people.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Honestly horrors get old when you can read in the news about "respected people" calling to exterminate Gaza and build beachfront cottages there. Even from just reading that and knowing that the same people can put anything onto your Android devices via a Facebook update or any of the Google applications update, on a whim. Nobody will even know.
About this - is it even legal to obey such pressure?
EDIT: I mean, how is it different from banning sellers by skin color when racists complain, or by religion when Muslims complain (all Hindus are Satan worshipers, didntcha knaw), or whatever else.
EDIT2: But it pains me to see how public offering was, in fact, an important part of market regulations, when everybody just ignores it without getting 9 lifetimes in jail for executives. I was against it at some point. That is - customer associations are important, and there are almost none, and when customer associations demand businesses to act like public offering, then it's almost as good as if enforced, and no such regulation is a good stimulus for customer associations to keep existing. But - feels shitty when it's in the law of most countries and hasn't been removed.
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We should, but also they aren't the root cause. If they're gone, there's nothing stopping a different group from doing the same thing (except for fear of retaliation). The ideal solution is to force payment processors to process any payment for legal content.
But they can be used as an example