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Violence is apparently better for children than two gay men.
Statik:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/poll-sex-in-gam.html
(The original poll is from a "parents guide to video games" website.)
This is actually kind of disturbing.
Don't get me wrong, I love violent video games, I like swinging a sword around and watching body parts fall off and such. But it seems odd that violent human interaction is thought of as "better" for children than two men kissing.
Or that our culture (in the US) stresses that destruction of life is "better" than sex (the potential creation of life).
Evander:
I'm more concerned about the fact that a man and a woman having sex is 11% WORSE than a graphically severed human head.
The homophobic aspect is bad, sure, but I think it's more symptomatic of the overall "sex is evil" vibe.
imapiratearg:
That's messed up. I think society on a whole needs to lighten up and embrace these things.
I was kind of surprised that (relative to this survey) vulgarity is not much of an issue.
Ikrik:
I've never seen a video game where two men have kissed.......ever. TV shows? All the time, but a video game? I find swearing to be the most offensive personally, but that's just because I think that if 30% of the words are swear words then the script-writers have been very lazy. Man...the video game generation is too jaded to find anything offensive, parents are really overreacting.
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 11 Apr 2008, 13:46 ---I've never seen a video game where two men have kissed.......ever. TV shows? All the time, but a video game?
--- End quote ---
Rockstar's Bully and Bioware's Jade Empire, for two.
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