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I really wish I had my old Cartman licking Scott Tenorman's tears avatar right now. But I lost it. Anyway: TB wins "Most Trending Gamer". Antis go nuts. And I am amused.

Edit: Xbro responds to Sela Davis. I am further amused. I've only been awake for 15 minutes and this is a good start to my day.

Edited, Dec 5th 2014 9:52pm by Poldaran

Yes, what does he say?



And you're still insisting that GG is about effiks in game journalism and not an anti-progressive agenda, right? You're fucking terrible at this.

That's a Decent point, Poldaran.

What makes you think he's talking about censorship rather than critical analysis? What he's saying is word for word the old cliche you hit someone with when they complain about something you like. Secondly, unless they've been compelled to do so by the government, shops pulling games from their shelves is not censorship. Has that happened, and if so where in the media has celebrated?

I assumed it was in response to the recent GTAV/Australia Retailer removal.

And also, it does not have to be the Government doing the censorship to be counted as censorship. You are confusing the general idea of censorship with the First Amendment. You can censor someone without violating their first amendment rights. And it can still be censorship.



I had to look up who he is. Disturbed. I listened to some of their songs when I was in High School.

I guess he's as much of a celebrity as any other of the late 90s/early 00s popular musicians?

Edited, Dec 7th 2014 6:51pm by TirithRR

I'd think it was more being against the general move to stop the games they don't like. Not so much that Kmart suddenly not selling it has stopped it from being distributed anywhere, but that the goal of the people who got Kmart to not sell it would be a result where it was no longer distributed anywhere.

I'm not American. Generally, if you think I'm confusing a general concept with one particular to your constitution, you are wrong.

My view is that that censorship implies an active and effective suppression of information and thus a significant imbalance of power between the would-be publisher and the guy stopping them. I don't think anyone but a government could effectively censor a game. Even if all the bricks and mortar retailers refused to stock it, most sales are online. I suppose if Steam and the other major online retailers all joined in with them in some kind of cabal, I'd agree with the classification of it as such. A shop not stocking a game because it offended a bunch of potential customers isn't censorship.

Score one for the hookers eh.

My guess is K-mart did some rough napkin calculations and found that call girls spent more money in their 'family' store than angry gamers.

Censorship....lol.

When mommy tells you you 'can't' play ur video game cuz it's too violent,... that's censorship.

When a store chooses not to sell a particular product because it could be offensive, dangerous, or simply unprofitable...that's marketing.

So boycott prostitution.

You didn't read my otter essay.

I didn't originally agree with TirithRR but I think he's right. It's not "Kmart won't sell this so censorship" it's about the goals of the group putting pressure on Kmart. THEIR goal, attainable or not, is to keep the game from being sold due to content they find objectionable. It's not that they don't want Kmart to sell it, they just want the game gone. That's censorship.

Can we spin this metadiscussion into another 25 pages or so? I so rarely get to read about Kmart.

There's a thread on gas attacks at a furry convention you can read instead, you know.

There is no fifth star.