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I found it hypocritical coming from an industry that very often relies on the entertainment values of random acts of violence. "Look, in this game you can shoo
by armandososa 16y ago
I found it hypocritical coming from an industry that very often relies on the entertainment values of random acts of violence.
"Look, in this game you can shoot people on the face as long as you don't wear any swastikas or call people 'fags' becaus then that would be wrong."
- ig1 16y agoDifferent people are offended by different things, there's nothing hypocritical about not being offend by game violence while being offended by a swastika. Some people are offended by nudity, gambling, pigs, swearing etc. There's no rule saying that if your not offended by one thing you can't be offended by anything. It's simply an arbitrary personal choice.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoDifferent people are offended by different things Certainly true, but this makes the whole exercise futile. How can one try to prevent their platform from becoming a medium for offensive speech, when every viewer can potentially be offended by different, orthogonal, thresholds?
- ig1 16y agoThey make an arbitrary judgement call about what is acceptable to the majority of their user-base.
- JeremyBanks 16y ago"Look, in this game you can shoot people on the face as long as you don't wear any swastikas or call people 'fags' becaus then that would be wrong." You're not going to turn off any customers by having shooting in shooters. That's less true for swastikas and slurs.