So, why do we need trigger warnings in video games...

[LonePunman]

Used to be people were taught to suck it up when something offended them. That's life. Of course these days everybody is a fucking victim.

 

[Mutant1988]

IT's just an overly common example of someone not backing down from an argument not because they care about the point they are making but because they don't want to be seen as losing, people do it all the time even loved ones, you will be arguing about something and if you show you are 100% right they will often go "remember that unrelated bad thing you did", people just seem wired to see winning as more important than giving in to reason.

You pointed out that what they where complaining about already existed and rather than admit ignorance and just admit a mistake had been made they just waded deeper into the mud.

This is the truth.

As for the topic itself - The PEGI/ESRB rating is sufficient.

If it's not, a bare minimum of research should suffice.

Genuine advice: If you're looking for something specific (Or rather, how to avoid it), there's Tvtropes. Just go to the work's page and search the specific trope giving you issues. Of course, that's not a fail proof method, but it's by far the best one I can think of, since it offers the most comprehensive breakdown of what any given creative work is made out of.

Soap box mode engage - Only other advice I can give is to remember that fiction is fiction. Rarely, if ever, is it an attack on you personally.

If you make a mistake in buying something that upsets you - Turn it off, go return it, buy something better. Horrible things happen and no one likes being reminded of those things in any way. But lingering on it and making your problems everyone else's concern isn't a solution. Expecting the world to cater to your tastes and protect you from any and all emotional triggers is just plain unrealistic.

 

[MatParker116]

When has someone ever been seriously inconvenienced by a spoiler warning or trigger warning? I mean really, at best it's a sentence you can skim over in seconds.

I think it comes down to a combination of three things:
1. People acting hard on the internet, scoffing at people being concerned about "some words, or a picture."
2. People taking the jokes and horror stories about trigger warnings passed around as gospel, and lose common sense.
3. People taking the concept of trigger warnings not as a warning about content contained, but as a form of censorship, and flipping out because oh nooooooooooo censorship (even though its not censoring any topics, its simply warning they will be discussed/shown/mentioned).

Problem is there overuse by certain sections of the internet and those same people demanding them on every little thing has caused those situations from extremists on the other side.

 

[PurplePonyArcade]

Opinions, opinions, everyone is entitled to their own. In my opinion trigger warnings are among the absolute dumbest things to come out of the already ungodly, horribly low standards of social media and politics and anyone who takes them seriously has a scary level of delusion that should be considered not fit for normal daily life.