Grim Fandango was born into that context. It was born to that legacy. It didn't ask for it. Grim Fandango was and is just a game. It had little understanding of how important it would become, bears no responsibility for the reasons why we love it. We love it because it was The Last One. The last adventure game that…

YOu're such an amazing colossal hater on all these threads, I'm finally starting to realize that you're either a troll or an actually unstable emo kid

No, the goggles would never be ok. If you don't want welding sparks in your cleavage, you don't want them in your face. Especially on the lips those suckers hurt. (Source: I welded it school)

Prosecute swatters as attempted murder.

I'm glad somebody else brings up that japan has one of the lowest sexual assault rate in the world. Yet they sell porn including pretty much anything (e.g children/childlike characters) pretty much like candy.

So just to be clear: First you think of better games to play, and then you pretend to be an anime pedophile?

We all happily jump into the ring and say "video games don't cause violence" but yet in the same breath we're saying that games like this cause child abuse?

Depends on what kind of 14 year olds we're talking about. Some cultures basically consider mid teens to already be in the cusp of adulthood (and people can already safely birth kids by then, depending on the maturity of the body). And some would already be considered mature enough to be a part of an actual workforce.…

I don't really understand the whole 'real life pedo' angle here considering the characters look far too stylized to be very equatable to real people. I think that's a line a lot of people are failing to connect. Much like how there is actually a huge gulf of otaku for appreciation of 3D to 2D. That becomes more stark…

Even if that was the case, what's wrong with paedophilia by itself? As long as they don't become offending pedophiles, I think everyone (who is not one) should be happy. Therefore, media where no real children are hurt that are aimed at pedophiles should actually be rejoiced as an harmless alternative. Hell,…

I don't think drawings count as child abuse.

Being against political correctness doesn't mean you're some terrorist murderer. Incredible strawman by the way.

I don't know why I can no longer see anything wrong with these sort of games. I think that real children and anime children cannot be compared. I don't think people who like these sort of games are pedos just lolicons. I am sure you will say that it is the same thing, but not in my mind. In my mind I could never…

This statement is flat out wrong. These type of games are extremely niche, and by no means representative of the mainstream market here.

I'm not a pedophile, and I agree with him. People can masturbate to whatever they want, as long as it's not harming real people and as long as I don't have to be subjected to their "interests" without exerting a reasonable amount of effort. Once they cross those lines, they no longer have my sympathy, but until…

I'm sorry sir, I'll only masturbate to what you say is ok

Well that would assume that the writers here at kotaku are some kind of monolith that all share the same views. Mike has always been upfront with his love of Japanese games and posts about them every once in a while. And if the whole issues that gamergaters have with the "SJW media elite" is that they are only…

Pesophile?

I find the game creepy as fuck, but the "encouraging abuse" bit doesn't hold up. We can't on one hand say that violent games don't encourage violence but then lament games like this for encouraging child abuse.

Daily reminder that we see the things we want to see.