Recent content by Chriss_m

Wouldn't work. Samus is trans.

WHERE'S REY?!?!?!?!!?

I love Yakuza, but the localisation time is fairly outrageous. It must hurt sales.

How are two examples of content being changed due to cultural differences related in any way? Uh. I'm not sure how I can make that any clearer for you. Here's the thing. Lady Gaga *wasn't* forced to censor it. She chose to. In order to release it in those countries - not ALL of which had in...

No, we're talking about art and censorship. Why is Lady Gaga's album any more worthy than Fire Emblem? Why do you support the censorship of one but presumably oppose of it of the other? Or perhaps you agree. Either way, I'm going to find your response heinous, so it really doesn't matter. Like I...

Well, there we are. That's our arguments. And that's fine. It actually kind of fits with a theory I've had. Much like Western women 'tailor' their works to fit the sexually repressive countries in the Middle East ('cause they listen to that feedback you love so much), Japan, based on that good...

I was very specific in my wording. I didn't speak of anyone being forced to censor, but instead having their ability to freely express infringed upon, by, for example, a moralising mob. Choosing to tailor your work to an audience isn't self-censorship, it's tailoring your work to an audience...

Your argument would be more convincing if the sales figures for a game for the game were actually bad, or if a prior installment hadn't been released on a console almost exclusively bought in the West. Or, you know, if other developers weren't cutting any content which could even be construed as...

Apologies for triggering you. You outright say you have no issue with self-censorship (i.e. an external force infringing on an artist's ability to freely express). What am I supposed to say to that? We will never agree - my liberal values will never be in line with yours, so we'll move on...

I'm not sure how to combat that. I mean what is it you actually need before you will accept that content is being cut from games because they think the west thinks sexuality is immoral - when of course this isn't true. A tiny minority of people have all this weird repressed sexuality shit. Like...

Oh, it wasn't an insult. It was a genuine interpretation. Censorship is censorship, regardless of how you misunderstand it. The way you discuss it, I kind of get the sense that you support this censorship. Nintendo removed it on their own, yes. They self-censored. The end phase of any...

What does Pokemon have to do with Sherlock Holmes, or the Sengoku Jidai? Baffling criticism. "You do understand sexual standards and practices aren't static even within a given culture, right?" So how about you stop your faves from trying to impose oppressive, static sexual norms within art?

Also, I hate that I have to do this. But I will. This once. Often when I defend sexual content in games, the advocates of censorsorship will try and cast aspersions on my own character, insinuate that I have perversions - I've even seen some of these moralists suggest anti-censorship...

That feeling when your reaction to cut game content is to minimise and dismiss the concerns of censorship and moral panic. When will we be free of these people and their unending projection of their own sexual neuroses on the rest of us?

Relax. I don't mean to get on at you. It's just the way I put my points across. I did law, but worse, grew up on the Internet. It's in my bones. You presented your points perfectly well, and provided exactly what you said you would.