Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper

• Djennik@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the parent’s job to control what their children consume

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      • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure but what does that have to do with what I said?

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    • GalacticHero@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Continuous exposure to violent content throughout childhood does too.

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      • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not to the same degree.

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• Goronmon@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not everyone is a coomer who wants to revolve their life around sexuality.

  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.

  Just because people have different values than you doesn’t make it sad.

  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.

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  • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “No one should make content that I don’t personally approve of” is one that I would categorize as worthy of criticism.

    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.

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    • Goronmon@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sex is so much different than violence. Sexuality is something is developed over the life of a person and can be heavily influenced by early exposure. Where violence isn’t spurred on by video games (unless you are one of the boomers complaining that video games cause violence) because shooting people isn’t a part of normal life.

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