Speaking as a non-American, it's always funny for me to see America accused of prudishness when it comes to sex. If people think the US is backwards when it comes to that stuff, they should try being in my country where the Eternals movie had intimate scenes between the gay and straight characters edited out for release, to say nothing of how it was banned in other countries. I'm just not seeing how America is this sex-negative place.
Well, there's gradients. I would say the country I'm from is more sex positive than America, and I guess America is more sex positive than where you're from, but that doesn't mean there's still not a significant stigma on sex in both my country and America.
Yeah there is totally gradients. There are places where women aren't allowed to even show an ankle.
Just to point this out but you realise much of what you're saying is somewhat addressed in 300 Rise of an Empire right? The sequel film where the ending is basically "The Spartans decided to stop being asshole isolationists and help us in revenge for what happened to the 300 and try this whole working together and democracy thing."
That's the funny thing. America is prudish still in a number of regards.
Maybe this is just me, but I don't think we should judge how accepting a country is towards sex based on how much boobs and ass we see on tv. Especially when porn is pretty easy to find elsewhere.
That's the problem, people like that don't think that far, or only strive for the most shallow thing.
That's kind of the weird thing it's a duality of a country where.
I would argue that hentai faces more restrictions because it is cartoons and can possibly be grabbed off the shelves by kids who dont know any better? Or if not grabbed off a shelf, accidently turned to whatever channel would show that shit and not realize until sex is happening. Either way i think the cartoon stuff requires more care.
If the US is more prudish than Japan, then Japan is less prudish than the US, at least so the argument goes. Transitive property and all. If the argument is "it doesn't count because it's on a paid station", that's true in Japan too.
Also why are we talking about porn when that isnt relevant to video games? Not directly asking you per se but like...wtf does hentai have to do with anything?
Same reason we had a discussion about 300 and the blatant politics thereof. Bad whataboutism, mostly
Other way around actually. It were the critics of TLOU2 which latched on to Ghost of Tsushima as the true game for true gamers, as the big alternative to woke trash, while being hilariously unaware that Ghost had in fact far more woke themes than TLOU2 ever did.
That certainly helped to reveal how the critics of that game weren't really acting in good faith. I don't have a lot of respect for TLOU2 but like the new Star Wars movies its biggest ''sins'' seem to be to take a stance(or being perceived to take a stance) in the culture war that the alt right doesn't agree with.
I always found that really weird. Clearly Adora was designed to just look younger rather than more like a boy. I know there was a running joke about the Quartering being angry he couldn't masturbate as much because the character designs were less attractive.
Exactly why I have 0 respect for those assholes, nor rarely give them the time of day. They're a colossal cavalcade of fucking morons.
*points to and taps on the articles I posted on the past page showing outlets trying to find any reason to go after the game*
Kind of the core of wokness right there though. Hollow tearing down of what came before with vague trappings to make it seem more progressive.
Clearly didn't stop some of the male feminist ally types and shippers masturbating to her based on the rule 34 art that emerged.........
outlets which consistently scored the game highly you mean?
The metacritic stands at a pretty respectable 83 so obviously not all that many must have claimed the game was bad.
And rightfully so. But if people claim to like it for reasons that don't exist then that does indicate something. If they think its the true game for true gamers which left politics at the door and which is the antithesis of all things woke then they can't have liked the game enough to play it for very long.
I doubt most woke people would agree with that definition or that things like crunch are particularly woke. In fact most of the list seems just a list of everything you don't like and it therefore being woke.
Some of the sites I linked don't even give scores so no they really didn't lol.
Metacritic only scores and weights a score if a score of some kind is given.
And what prey tell were the non existent reasons people claimed to like it?
That's the point. Woke is hollow.
