Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoIt’s sad that people think like this
Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoIt’s sad that people think like this
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why is it sad? Some people want sex to be a private thing that individuals do outside of the public eye. Not everyone is a coomer who wants to revolve their life around sexuality. Just because people have different values than you doesn’t make it sad.
Djennik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s sad that the commenter allows his children to go cyberpsycho on virtual bystanders but won’t allow them to see a nipple.
There is a reason the game has an age restriction.
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Continuous exposure to sexual content throughout childhood can have significant effect on their sexuality later in life. I don’t think the same thing is true for shooting games.
Jumi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s the parent’s job to control what their children consume
GalacticHero@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lots of games are made for adults, and relatively few mainstream games have sex scenes at all. Many of the games with sex scenes have an option to disable those scenes and nudity. Practically all of them have an M rating with specific content descriptors on the box or store page, making it easy for parents to avoid it altogether. All modern game platforms also have parental controls that can be set up in a couple minutes.
All this is to say that if kids are seeing sex scenes in games, it’s because their parents have ignored all the warnings and options. For a parent to say that these types of games should not be made (as one of the above commenters did) for adults because they’re too lazy and feckless to use any of the options available to control and monitor the types of content their children consume, when it’s been made so easy, is disturbing. It’s especially disheartening to see it in a gaming community, from someone who presumably plays games themselves and therefore has absolutely no excuse to not know about the options available. I’m accustomed to hearing it from places like Fox News, but not here.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Continuous exposure to violent content throughout childhood does too.
Goronmon@kbin.social 8 months ago
You can acknowledge that sex exists without someone's life revolving around it. Just like "wanting sex to be private" may not mean that someone is just terrified of the topic itself or things all sex is gross and should be avoided.
Some values are perfectly valid for criticism. "No one should make content that I don't personally approve of" is one that I would categorize as worthy of criticism.
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who said no one can make content if it has sex in it? People are just saying they don’t like it and everyone is sperging out about how children should see sexual content because they also see violence.
Goronmon@kbin.social 8 months ago
OP stated that only porn games should have any sexual content in them because his kids play video games.
She people aren't kids should see sexual content, but that's it's weird to be against any kind of sexual content but not be bothered by violence.