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I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

That being said this derives from stripe threatening Valve in the near past (which is why their previous games didn’t face this scrutiny). This is a known thing that any game developer, especially one developing mature content, should know. And the content in that game is definitely mature, if the screenshots of the game were shared without context I would think it’s one of those sex simulators, which I get this is not and those are just small parts of the bigger picture of the game, but that’s just like saying “this chocolate bar shouldn’t need to be classified as containing peanuts, it only has 1 peanut”.

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

Just Christian moral panic and puritanism, which has fucked us up mentally and psychologically for centuries now.

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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Rather than put us against invented enemies, I like to think a lot of Christians actually don’t care much about these subjects, and that the push specifically comes from Christofascism (rich people without a soul in their body using religion as a weapon to restrict and control people)
  
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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Which is weird because “thou shall not kill” comes before adultery in the commandments, and go forth and procreate is also somewhere in that book.
  
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I didn’t say it made sense.
    
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    VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Almost makes you think that the bible might have been written by humans and is just as flawed in its text as humanity itself.
    
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Gutek8134@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If the problematic content isn’t crucial part of the game, they can try to go for the “official 18+ patch” like some VN re-releases, which would be like adding a peanut in a separate box

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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Absolutely, have the game without it and a free (or with a stupid price like 10 cents just to ensure legal age requirements) DLC that’s parked as adult only. But I think in this case it might be too engrained to the core of what the game is, that they can’t, and if that’s the case it makes sense to mark the entire game as adult IMO
  
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