> Someone with a worrying lack of media literacy: This is because it glorifies incest! Meanwhile, violence is always depicted as wrong in video games, like how CoD depicts the horrors of war > Everyone else: .............you mean the military recruitment game????
Okay but. What about the incest in that game is 'glorifying' it, as opposed to the violence that the characters engage in just as openly, spitefully, and (I assume) eagerly
Glorifying is another word I am taking out of people's mouths until they learn to use it right, because a lot of these chucklefucks say "glorifying" when what they really mean is "depicting"
it was a great way to suss out the crappy gamer in that computer lab. the first ones to complain about how 'ew girls' but yeah people just are so illiterate about a lot of media
There are two types of media for these types that is... interesting when it comes to dark sexual content. Media they don't understand and condemn, or media they do understand and like, but if anyone that is like them created it, they would jump that person.
yeah - like, not the same person, but I was in a conversation and the person was refusing to believe that it was portrayed negatively at all because the creator made that "cry about it" bit of official art with the incestuous shitbirds themselves
'Glorifying', 'romanticizing', 'normalizing' - every time an anti says these words, what they are actually saying is "I need you to pretend with me that these dark sexual themes are actually worse than dark non-sexual themes, and we will pretend this by using buzzwords that imply that they are being handled wrong"
and I was like...... yeah they made that because of people like you. people who know literally nothing about the game besides that it has incest in it AT ALL and have decided to decry it for that reason alone. no idea of the story, or portrayal, or characters, just that it has incest in it
"And we need to pretend this because it makes me look less like a hypocritical Puritan who is ONLY clutching pearls whenever Nasty Sex comes up, and not when you're allowed to gun down prostitutes on a motorcycle"
I am officially banning any anti who has not engaged with a piece of media themselves from using the words 'glorifying', 'romanticizing', or 'normalizing'
god james. the person you just reblogged talking about fight club. like. I honestly for a second thought they were trying to say how stupid it is to walk into a group of fans and tell them that toxic masculinity is bad when that is already the message of the movie so you're just being an ass by assuming they don't know that
> Everyone else: .............you mean the military recruitment game????
are you sure about thatdon't tell them about Digital Devil Saga.that's like three steps above what they can handle, gotta ease them inGore is to show realism in media. In games like DOOM its to help visualize the horrors of hellDigital Devil Saga was my first thought toobut yeah people just are so illiterate about a lot of media