Censorship In Gaming

[Darkening Demise]

Wow who would've thought even back then the feminists were a threat (devs scared of lawsuits because a woman was an enemy you had to beat up so Western release had a male sprite replacement). Also good to know that Poison isn't exactly....well....insert General Ackbar meme.

These guys do good at showing the cultural differences across the world especially with how the West loves genocide but condemns sex and Japan loves sex but condemns genocide.

 

Censorship of Transgender

 

 

 

 

 

RE7 Censorship of Violence

 

 

 

 

 

ESRB Q&A

 

 

 

 

Australia Can't Handle Anything (Shocker like GTA V was 'too much')

 

 

 

 

[Chaos63]

It's a video game. Not a social re-education project.

IE I want to blow shit up and slash off heads, not take a sexual orientation class.

[winny257]

violence-glorifying games get so in Germany no approval.
This happened with Half-Life, Human military was replaced by robots.

 

 

It's normal for America, you love the violence. and it is also normal that Asians and Europeans, more love the sex.
And I personally find it good that violence games will Banned.

 

High live America!!! 

http://observationdeck.kinja.com/the-complete-list-of-weird-sex-laws-in-the-u-s-a-1485048155

[Redoneter593]

Would just like to say that supposedly tentacle porn was invented because of Americans seeing the clothing norm for Japanese and/or Chinese (I forget which) and freaking out over them only wearing what looks like underwear that is only a single large and long strip of cloth (women might have had a second strip over their knockers) that was wrapped similarly to what is currently seen on sumo wrestlers. So the Americans put in laws that basically said no public nudity, or penis like images, or penis like stuff getting inserted into a vagina. But the Japanese and/or Chinese people still wanted their porn scrolls, so they made pictures of ladies getting boned by octopi, squid, and various other things that don't have bones.

 

The moral of this history lesson/story is that even when Americans (myself included) try to subvert and control our own or another country's culture, it may cause something much worse to be born. Like pictures of seafood getting used as a dildo. Or ZoneTan.

 

There is a short-ish video on Youtube that informed me of this stuff, but I unfortunately and fortunately don't remember the title, how I found it, or how to find it, as well as its details very well.

 

Also, I find the fact that one of the Borderlands games (The pre-sequel) was made in Australia quite unusual as it would mean that working on the game in that country would technically be illegal or at least likely to be heavily fined (I don't know any of Australia's laws, just common sense), thus a very bad choice for placing development, unless their goal was to have more freedom of game creativity by not having any property there.

[FauxFurry]

Wow who would've thought even back then the feminists were a threat (devs scared of lawsuits because a woman was an enemy you had to beat up so Western release had a male sprite replacement). Also good to know that Poison isn't exactly....well....insert General Ackbar meme.

These guys do good at showing the cultural differences across the world especially with how the West loves genocide but condemns sex and Japan loves sex but condemns genocide.

 

Censorship of Transgender

 

 

 

 

 

RE7 Censorship of Violence

 

 

 

 

 

ESRB Q&A

 

 

 

 

Australia Can't Handle Anything (Shocker like GTA V was 'too much')

 

 

 

 

It wasn't the Feminists of any wave who they were exercising caution to avoid upsetting but religiously themed 'Family' advocacy groups though you could hardly be blamed for making that mistake as the rhetoric and motivations of so-called modern Feminists (it would probably be more accurate to call them Dworkinians or MacKinnonites) is almost completely indistinguishable from that of Christian pro-censorship organizations. 

 

They are also thoroughly obsessed with suppressing anything which could potentially sexually appeal to male audiences (Sex-positive Lesbians tend to be seen as acceptable collateral damage in this regard whenever there is overlap), be they heterosexual or homosexual while turning a blind eye to any similar content aimed at predominately heterosexual female audiences (male homosexuals/bisexuals are unintentional beneficiaries in this case, well, if they can stomach the package that the eroticised male content is delivered through). It was an early form of social engineering that you can learn about if you actually communicate with an Abrahamic religion motivated pro-censorship advocate (it does not stop at the idea that such content could motivation to actually go out and find a mate).

The standards have shifted to be closer to equal under the law in the 21st Century but there is still a way to go on that front.

It could easily be reverted to the standards of the early 20th Century if not all the way back to 19th Century (US)American censorship standards complete with obscenity laws if law makers are swayed by those repackaged arguments spoken by people whom they do not find to be visually off-putting or physically intimidating.

[Captain Cobra]

So the Americans put in laws that basically said no public nudity, or penis like images, or penis like stuff getting inserted into a vagina. But the Japanese and/or Chinese people still wanted their porn scrolls, so they made pictures of ladies getting boned by octopi, squid, and various other things that don't have bones.

 

The censorship of pornographic images (among other things) began with the Meijing Restoration.  Occupational forces tried to remove most censorship (although they did add a some well), but some things remained censored for a quite a while afterwards.

 

 

Additionally, pornography involving invertebrates has been a thing in japan for many centuries.

[Tzenker]

Would just like to say that supposedly tentacle porn was invented because of Americans seeing the clothing norm for Japanese and/or Chinese (I forget which) and freaking out over them only wearing what looks like underwear that is only a single large and long strip of cloth (women might have had a second strip over their knockers) that was wrapped similarly to what is currently seen on sumo wrestlers. So the Americans put in laws that basically said no public nudity, or penis like images, or penis like stuff getting inserted into a vagina. But the Japanese and/or Chinese people still wanted their porn scrolls, so they made pictures of ladies getting boned by octopi, squid, and various other things that don't have bones.

 

The moral of this history lesson/story is that even when Americans (myself included) try to subvert and control our own or another country's culture, it may cause something much worse to be born. Like pictures of seafood getting used as a dildo. Or ZoneTan.

 

There is a short-ish video on Youtube that informed me of this stuff, but I unfortunately and fortunately don't remember the title, how I found it, or how to find it, as well as its details very well.

 

Also, I find the fact that one of the Borderlands games (The pre-sequel) was made in Australia quite unusual as it would mean that working on the game in that country would technically be illegal or at least likely to be heavily fined (I don't know any of Australia's laws, just common sense), thus a very bad choice for placing development, unless their goal was to have more freedom of game creativity by not having any property there.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife http://www.visitmuseums.com/_images/0d/16/0d16606dc8d657c0898776ba28577891/440x298.jpg is a pretty famous print. It dates back to 1814, back when America had precisely jack and possibly shit to say about how the Japanese went about their business. Even Victorian England didn't really influence their culture significantly for another fifty years. While this print may be the first, there were other ones made in that period.

The US did do some quite draconic censorship, and it certainly didn't help their culture. Pornography suffered pretty hard, but on the upside the US also mostly did away with sexual slavery. On the DOWNSIDE, again, there sure was a lot of rapin' going on, and the aforementioned media blackout on the issue.

But no, tentacle action was not a result western interference, although it may well have made it more popular.

[Kriegera]

Technically the Japanese version of the severed hand is more accurate. After blood has been exposed for a while it becomes a thick dark almost black substance.

[FauxFurry]

Technically the Japanese version of the severed hand is more accurate. After blood has been exposed for a while it becomes a thick dark almost black substance.

That censorship choice's end results definitely fall under the category of being 'Right for the Wrong Reasons'.

[oFrenzy]

You can't blame the censorship in the first video on the West. That's just Japanese devs being completely out of touch.