How in the world did Kaine's outfit escape censorship?

[Walrus Beard]

Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy and very pleasantly surprised that we get to see her in all of her glory, but given the state of the game industry, I fully expected some nonsense to happen. Glad it didn't.

[Arcade Bumstead]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

If you feel like you are walking on eggshells all the time it is because you are incapable of not being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Not exactly an admirable quality to have lol. Believe it or not the vast majority of people have self control so that isn’t an issue.

I obviously don't have that problem, but good job coming up with an epic witty comment right off the cuff like that. High five!

[kiteless 凧無し]

anime/videogames aren't real, people need to stop forcing their real life viewpoints into fantasy. Kaine is a fantasy character and fan service sells, so if it triggers you? Awesome because your reaction just reminds me to keep liking things that you hate.

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

anime/videogames aren't real, people need to stop forcing their real life viewpoints into fantasy. Kaine is a fantasy character and fan service sells, so if it triggers you? Awesome because your reaction just reminds me to keep liking things that you hate.

I will buy a game that is hated on for fan service, even if I'm not sure I will actually play it, just to support the developers.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by Exodus:

Originally posted by MechBFP:

If you feel like you are walking on eggshells all the time it is because you are incapable of not being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Not exactly an admirable quality to have lol. Believe it or not the vast majority of people have self control so that isn’t an issue.

I obviously don't have that problem, but good job coming up with an epic witty comment right off the cuff like that. High five!

Oh, so you are just parroting propaganda then?
That is better, I guess.

[NameEntry]

Originally posted by Malagon:

Thankfully, Replicant flew under the radar of the usual crowd of loudmouthed SJWs and feminazis from the Left.

Hi.
The Republicans are the ones who censor video games. You should do a quick search on this.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by NameEntry:

Originally posted by Malagon:

Thankfully, Replicant flew under the radar of the usual crowd of loudmouthed SJWs and feminazis from the Left.

Hi.
The Republicans are the ones who censor video games. You should do a quick search on this.

That stopped being true some 15 years ago? Republicans were all about censoring violence and sex, today it's the leftist mob (not even politicians, as it used to be with republicans) going after whatever they decide to get indignated about this week (which may be too large breasts on a fictional character while encouraging softporn on twitch under "female empowerement", for instance, or asking to remove nazis from a WW2 shooter or insert black people in Kingdom Come).
It's way worse now, especially due to the methods applied (particularly so in extreme cases like doxing devs and whatnot).
It's escalated very quickly ever since the SJW culture became so rampant and got weaponized by the left.

This has been clear for many years at this point, nothing new really.

[edit]
It should also be noted that a massive difference is made by the fact that when the right attempted to censor stuff, usually under the big umbrella of "think of the kids" they were met with resistance by the actual consumers.
The new method instead abuses the orwellian "useful idiots" to make consumers fight amongst themselves and create the impression that such censorship is what's actually wanted by the majority. This is particularly effective in applying the censorship, but also in destroying business. Examples are abundant not only in the videogame business (see Battlefield V, anything touched by Anita Sarkeesian, who btw is a very succesfull scammer elevated as modern heroine, and many others) but quite a few others like the comic or movie industry, but most importantly real world issues (see antifa or BLM). Measures like those applied for the Covid pandemic could never be put in place 20 years ago, for instance. Video game censorship is just the tip of the iceberg, it's a real social issue at this point.

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by NameEntry:

Originally posted by Malagon:

Thankfully, Replicant flew under the radar of the usual crowd of loudmouthed SJWs and feminazis from the Left.

Hi.
The Republicans are the ones who censor video games. You should do a quick search on this.

They used to be. Now most calls for censorship are coming from the radical left wing feminists.

[∆ηεẘbïş]

Originally posted by Snarfblatt:

Originally posted by NameEntry:

Hi.
The Republicans are the ones who censor video games. You should do a quick search on this.

They used to be. Now most calls for censorship are coming from the radical left wing feminists.

Yup. Right is for free-speech and letting people make their own ♥♥♥♥ to sales or not. Left is thought policing, rabid censorship, must share their ideas and say their words or you're literally Hortler.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by ∆ηεẘbïş:

Originally posted by Snarfblatt:

They used to be. Now most calls for censorship are coming from the radical left wing feminists.

Yup. Right is for free-speech and letting people make their own ♥♥♥♥ to sales or not. Left is thought policing, rabid censorship, must share their ideas and say their words or you're literally Hortler.

You don’t understand what free speech is in the USA. It is the right to speak about the government without reprisal from the government. You are perfectly free to face the consequences to the words that come out of your mouth from any other persons or entities.

When people like you complain about “free speech” what you are really complaining about is not having “freedom from consequences” for what you say, which is absurd and childish of course.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

You don’t understand what free speech is in the USA. It is the right to speak about the government without reprisal from the government. You are perfectly free to face the consequences to the words that come out of your mouth from any other persons or entities.

When people like you complain about free speech what you are really comparing about is “freedom from consequences” which is absurd and childish of course.

That really depends on what the consequences are. Would you say a system like China's social score is upholding free speech?
Because by that logic, it would.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by Mepho:

Originally posted by MechBFP:

You don’t understand what free speech is in the USA. It is the right to speak about the government without reprisal from the government. You are perfectly free to face the consequences to the words that come out of your mouth from any other persons or entities.

When people like you complain about free speech what you are really comparing about is “freedom from consequences” which is absurd and childish of course.

That really depends on what the consequences are. Would you say a system like China's social score is upholding free speech?
Because by that logic, it would.

Your comparison doesn’t make any sense because “free speech” isn’t codified in China law like it is in the USA. People in China don’t have the freedom to go against the government (without reprisals) in any fashion at all.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

Your comparison doesn’t make any sense because “free speech” isn’t codified in China law like it is in the USA. People in China don’t have the freedom to go against the government (without reprisals) in any fashion at all.

You said free speech is the allowance of speaking whatever but face the consequences of it.
I didn't make any comparison, you're just evading the question.

Let me paste your exact words: "You are perfectly free to face the consequences to the words that come out of your mouth from any other persons or entities."
The Chinese government is an entity, is it not? The degrading of your social score is the consequence of your speech coming from such an entity.

So I ask again, do you think that's upholding free speech?

Let me put it this way, so we remove governments from the equation.
Should you lose your job for expressing an opinion on twitter? Would you say that's in line with the free speech concept?

[MILF & Cookies]

https://youtu.be/SNVpLTBt2Ow

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by Mepho:

Originally posted by MechBFP:

Your comparison doesn’t make any sense because “free speech” isn’t codified in China law like it is in the USA. People in China don’t have the freedom to go against the government (without reprisals) in any fashion at all.

You said free speech is the allowance of speak whatever but face the consequences of it.
I didn't make any comparison, you're just evading the question.

Let me paste your exact words: "You are perfectly free to face the consequences to the words that come out of your mouth from any other persons or entities."
The Chinese government is an entity, is it not? The degrading of your social score is the consequence of your speech coming from such an entity.

So I ask again, do you think that's upholding free speech?

What part of ‘free speech is not a thing in China’ are you not understanding here? You have the answer to your question if you can understand that.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by Mepho:

Originally posted by MechBFP:

Your comparison doesn’t make any sense because “free speech” isn’t codified in China law like it is in the USA. People in China don’t have the freedom to go against the government (without reprisals) in any fashion at all.

Let me put it this way, so we remove governments from the equation.
Should you lose your job for expressing an opinion on twitter? Would you say that's in line with the free speech concept?

Yup absolutely you can. That is how free speech works in the USA. Whether or not you should or if that is a good thing is an entirely different morale/ethical problem but it has nothing to do with “free speech”.