• GhostSpider [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Most normal people don’t fly airplanes either, but that’s not a requirement for Flight Simulator to mimic real life well too.

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            You’re sounding like a 90’s christian parent worried that video games are going to turn their kids violent.

            Which reminded me, I should have mentioned this earlier, but you used the word “depraved” in the first post; I am not comfortable with you using that christofacist language.

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                Well, you do sound like one. Condemning a piece of media for its “depravity” sounds like it came straight out of a Republican’s playbook. As for perspective, I mean, if it means “things with a sexual tone that I consider morally bad”, then it is a problem regardless of culture.

                Edit: maybe I am being too exclusionary, all religious fundamentalism is bad, not just christian.

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                    1 year ago

                    either you are promoting the moral depravity in society

                    Holy shit, you’re literally talking like a conservative, let’s drop the religion talk completely and just call this what it is: conservatism. And wth is that list? Am I supposed to agree that games like The Witcher, DDLC, Resident Evil and L4D should be banned for “depravity”? You’re literally proving my point.

                    In fact, China is a great example of why that talk about “depravity” is nothing more than another tool for oppression: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-official-morality

                    I don’t hate China like your average westerner, there are many things there that I like, the unfortunate conservatism in the government is not one of them.

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            1 year ago

            Games are the newest bugaboo in a long line of media 'boos. Movies, tv shows, books (really). Its extremely tiring to see this same pattern play out

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        1 year ago

        Yea why aren’t there more video games about following the speed limit in your 10 year old car then filling out spreadsheets for 8 hours.

        Where the fuck did all these boomer ass takes come from.