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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was scrolling through the eshop deals page and found a game that was called “Real Hentai”

  Now I have a tendancy to misread things, and misunderstand reality. So I read the title again.

  Real Hentai.

  Ok, I’m clearly not getting context here. What’s the app icon? Ok, it’s half naked hentai girls looking real thirsty.

  Ok. I HAVE TO BE missing something here. I must be missing context.

  Google search.

  “Charming girls in Real Hentai are waiting for your touch. Immerse yourself in a world of high-quality images, where charming girls are waiting for you, demonstrating their seductive forms in the most intriguing poses! The game is created with an emphasis on visual details, conveying the feeling of assembling a real puzzle. As the difficulty increases, the images become more and more piquant. Relax and enjoy every moment of assembling the puzzle.”

  Ok, no. I read that right. I understood it right. This game IS called Real Hentai, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. On a Nintendo system. Sometimes my brain refuses to believe things that are obviously NOT true. I call it my bullshit filter.

  It’s just this time my brain flagged this as a false positive. That is to say my bullshit filter said “No. Something isn’t right here. Nintendo wouldn’t allow a hentai game on their eshop. Are you reading it wrong? I bet you’re reading it wrong.”

  And my bullshit meter was REAL persistant that this was obviously fake. I mean, it’s a reasonable thought process, right? The same company that censored final fantasy on the nes, and also changed tapper to root beer tapper, and censored the hell out of their own games.

  They want to be family friendly. They wouldn’t let porn on their system. It made sense for me to think that.

  Nintendo let porn on their eshop. I didn’t bother checking the esrb rating. I assume M, or maybe even AO. Because I swear. If this thing is rated T, my bullshit filter won’t have a functioning barameter to know what’s real and what’s bullshit.

  How do you filter out the bullshit, when the real world is a living breathing onion article come to life??? Even The Onion wouldn’t accuse NINTENDO of peddling smut! The satire has to at least be BELIEVABLE!!!

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  • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Teen: partial nudity and sexual themes

    www.nintendo.com/us/store/…/real-hentai-switch/

    So it’s soft porn

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The images are all AI generated as well, which anyone with a few hours and a consumer GPU could create. Low effort AI slopware should disqualify it more than any porn-iness…

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      flips a table

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      • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Username checks out

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The ONLY game that I’m capable of being pissed about on the Nintendo eShop is Night Trap. Because the President of Nintendo of America testified before congress that Night Trap would never be available for play on Nintendo hardware. I am physically unable to forgive the sheer amount of lying that happened that day.

    I am going to trot out the perhaps tired old question of why we’re less squeamish of teenagers or children playing violence-based games than we are sex-based games, why we’re more comfortable with a 15 year old boy thinking about bullets going into heads than penises going into vaginas. But. Society has failed, answers are noise, nothing matters. Bring on the sea people.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok, you had me for the first half…but then that last line threw me.

      Bring on the sea people? What do mermaids have to do with this?

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      • Itwasthegoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a reference to the sea people that have been theorised to have brought about the end of the bronze age. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m referring to a phenomenon of the late Bronze age in which poorly identified people came from the sea to attack the likes of ancient Egypt. Writings of the time do not identify who they were, where they came from, exactly what their mission was, but basically bronze age civilization was coming apart and these folks decided to be on the side of entropy.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nintendo (and Sony, actually) have been highly criticized for censorship of games on their platform. Particularly, adult anime styled games.

    I know this may come as a shock to you, so please sit down before you read this, but adults do infact buy and use Nintendo consoles.

    Hentai games (or rather called by their proper name, “eroge,” which is a portmanteau of “erotic game”) are pretty popular amongst Japanese gamers. In fact, many of Japans biggest games or game franchises started off as eroge. Nintendo intentionally cutting out that much of their market would be stupid, as it means less sales of their hardware, obviously.

    I am unsure how these games are filtered in the eShop, though I would imagine that a parent would be able to control the ratings or tags of games that would appear in the eShop of their child’s account, to prevent these games from being in their child’s eShop feed. I don’t know how, as I haven’t used a Switch since about 2018.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know this may come as a shock to you, so please sit down before you read this, but adults do infact buy and use Nintendo consoles.

      He said, as he tries talking down to a 41 year old, old enough to remember playing an NES in the 80s.

      And then follows up with this gem:

      I haven’t used a Switch since about 2018.

      You can’t make this shit up. Or, well, I guess I personally can’t make this shit up. I’m not creative enough to create this level of self satire.

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I am old enough to remember consoles connecting to an RF Switch, which then plugged into the TV. Channel 3, baby. Whats your point?

        Me not using a Switch since shortly after it came out doesn’t mean anything. I brought it up because it was part of my point that I could not remember if there was a profile or parental setting to filter eroge on the Switch eShop. Perhaps ther was not when I had used the Switch but now there is, a lot can change in 6 years.

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  • heavy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    +1 basically went through the same mental process.

    FWIW, I don’t have a problem with adult content on game stores, hell I think we should be more chill about it, but let’s call a spade a spade and say what it is. Better yet, separate it into its own category that you can lock or something. Whoever approved it clearly doesn’t care.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      let’s call a spade a spade and say what it is

      I’m not sure how you could get any more explicit and direct than ‘real hentai’.

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      • heavy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean the fact that it’s mixed in with all the other games and not in a T&A section.

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  • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Long story short: The USA are not the moral compass of the world (thank god).

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