Trigger Warnings and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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I think if you are genuinely concerned about being sensitive to the people that might react negatively to this scene, then you should put up a warning. Of course, putting up the warning runs the risk of a bit of spoilers for the events of the game, which might annoy others.Uratoh said:
Here is my random suggestion on how you could try and satisfy both parties.
"Trigger warning for upcoming content in this episode of my Let's Play. This warning does contain slight spoilers, so if you don't want to be spoiled, mute the audio until the warning is removed on the screen."
And then put up an overlay with something like "Spoiler/Trigger warning being said now, keep muted until this message (with a timestamp) fades from the screen" That way, the people who aren't worried about the trigger issue could simply mute the game for the next 30 seconds or so, but those who are wanting to warning, could listen to it, and be forewarned.
I recall seeing TotalBiscuit doing this on a recent video of his. The gameplay footage was basically swamped by a very obvious message that took up most of the screen, saying roughly "Spoiler Talk Happening, keep muted until (timestamp) to avoid spoils". Once he was done talking about that, the message went away. It was very simple and direct.
Now, if you are doing a live let's play, you will need to do something else as your warning, since you can't put the overlay. Maybe point the game field of view at a specific thing, and tell those who don't want the spoil to mute the sound until you see me start moving away from this image. And maybe point the character at a poster on a game wall or something, or have them look at an ingame clock. And once you turn away from the clock, and start playing the game again normally, they know to unmute it.
*shrugs* Those are my ideas.
The moment you said Trigger Warnings and mentioned I have no mouth, my brain wondered how long it would take before your hands were locked in arthritic husks from typing out everything offensive about the game. Maybe claim that the trigger(Not fond of that word for what its used for) list would take longer to write than the actual recording and subsequent uploading of the video.
A very good story based on very, very, very dark subject matter. It is a horror story/game and should be treated as such. If you are offended by dark subject matter than it probably shouldn't be watched, and if people go out of their way to watch and claim offense after, that is sort of their own fault. You can't really go out of your way to be offended and act shocked that you were offended.
Never got to play the game though, I really need too.
A very good story based on very, very, very dark subject matter. It is a horror story/game and should be treated as such. If you are offended by dark subject matter than it probably shouldn't be watched, and if people go out of their way to watch and claim offense after, that is sort of their own fault. You can't really go out of your way to be offended and act shocked that you were offended.
Never got to play the game though, I really need too.