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Chunder · 6th October 2005, 11:33 PM

Having sex for the sake of having sex in a game is a touch lame, but then again the other industries do it.... Plus, the only people I know who bought the latest Leisure Suit Larry game where more casual gamers, rather than the hardcore geeks.... I don't think its neccesarilly bad, especially since sex tends to sell... Saying that I'd feel a bit of a dick having to work on such a game.... So yeah, probably a good idea but not for me is my attitude here... And definitely yeah on the considered use

I completely agree with what was said about the similarities to the film industry (lets not forget the Comic Book Authority either and the stagnation of comics....). Problem is, you cant really compare games to either of these genres or time periods. Theres completely different social parameters at work, the medium is *very* different, so its difficult to use *equal * weighting...

I think the government realises it needs to censor games, but it really doesn't have any understanding of them, or its effects... Various reasons probably, the fact that psychology is still, at best, a lot of guesswork, games are a young persons thing, and games are notoriously difficult to nail down and describe due to their emergent and interactive nature. Nobody goes chasing after an individual who wants to make a game experience as similar to a drug-like experience as possible, but show a breast and its in the Sun as the next worst thing (alongside topless models and sharkbaiting)...

It doesnt help that you have some pseudo dark age retard pond-scum like detritus of society regects who regularly like to stick a cattle prod on full into the proceedings with ridiculous salem witch trail like statements such as 'Everquest killed my 2 year old baby' or whatever they come up with, based on absolutely nothing but their current bigotrys in life, and maybe a message from god at some point...

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Chunder Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: 今治、えひめ、日本 Posts: 388	Having sex for the sake of having sex in a game is a touch lame, but then again the other industries do it.... Plus, the only people I know who bought the latest Leisure Suit Larry game where more casual gamers, rather than the hardcore geeks.... I don't think its neccesarilly bad, especially since sex tends to sell... Saying that I'd feel a bit of a dick having to work on such a game.... So yeah, probably a good idea but not for me is my attitude here... And definitely yeah on the considered use I completely agree with what was said about the similarities to the film industry (lets not forget the Comic Book Authority either and the stagnation of comics....). Problem is, you cant really compare games to either of these genres or time periods. Theres completely different social parameters at work, the medium is very different, so its difficult to use equal weighting... I think the government realises it needs to censor games, but it really doesn't have any understanding of them, or its effects... Various reasons probably, the fact that psychology is still, at best, a lot of guesswork, games are a young persons thing, and games are notoriously difficult to nail down and describe due to their emergent and interactive nature. Nobody goes chasing after an individual who wants to make a game experience as similar to a drug-like experience as possible, but show a breast and its in the Sun as the next worst thing (alongside topless models and sharkbaiting)... It doesnt help that you have some pseudo dark age retard pond-scum like detritus of society regects who regularly like to stick a cattle prod on full into the proceedings with ridiculous salem witch trail like statements such as 'Everquest killed my 2 year old baby' or whatever they come up with, based on absolutely nothing but their current bigotrys in life, and maybe a message from god at some point...