Lunncal said:
OT: Why not add trigger warnings for all the "offensive" content people may not want to see? Rape is the obvious one, but anything involving a nazi scientist probably needs a lot of trigger warnings too.
Problem is, with the 'Trigger Warning' craze - that some articles on this site actually touched on, is that ANYTHING could qualify as a trigger to people that legitimately suffer from post traumatic stress triggers. The big problem is though, is that the people that actually whinge about triggers warnings being on things tend to be from the tumblrite crowd, not necessarily people with real psychological trauma, and 'triggers' there basically mean 'something I don't like' which is even more ludicrously nebulous.
If we were going to "properly" trigger warn IHNMAIMS, it'd probably look like:
"Trigger Warnings: Rape, Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Mutilation, Oppression, Nazis, Apocalypse, War, Irrational Hatred, Sexism, Giant Penis, Death, Murder, Starvation, Eternal Suffering, Human Extinction", I could keep going but honestly there's so much to list in something like IHNMAIMS that I got bored.
IHNMAIMS is an astoundingly dark story and game, and labeling anything that may 'trigger' someone in it is a fools errand. A general-purpose "This contains depictions of graphic content and themes" is sufficient enough to cover all bases without trying to wallow in the madness that is trigger warnings.