This line of thinking seems problematic. . . I'm aware that most BDSM does not result in permanent mental or physical damage and that's totally ok. But if it does, like consensual mutilation, is it still morally acceptable?

Red Dead Redemption. It's glorious. Bear punching too by the way.

I was definitely disappointed there were no bears. GTA Online bear-punching DLC please.

"Don't tell people what they should and shouldn't do."
I was hoping you'd self-annihilate.
Oh and a wink too!

... what the fuck Valve?

Best of all, when wandering you'll hear little conversations like this one, in which a creative-type young woman is getting turned down for a job:

How's that ground taste?

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Well it's not like most video game companies know how to write men either. Instead of "a man with boobs" (nice gender essentialism btw), games are usually populated by cardboard with cocks.

Also here's a picture of a woman in Antarctica. . . in 1946.

GIANT MECHA DOGS.

The thing is that would be just as offensive. It implies that it's shameful to be attracted to transgender women, and using it as a "gotcha" or "trap" for shock value like in Sleepaway Camp or something isn't really charitable to the trans community.

It's Kojima, he loves to play around with these kinds of tropes. So chances are her character was originally written with some silly "gotcha" twist in mind to supposedly make up for the fact that she looks like this. That doesn't really make a difference but he probably is attempting to comment on gender and the…

They're all really ham-handed, that's part of what makes them great. The early ones seem rather sincere and authentic. MGS4 and onward is really, really self-loathing.

It's like that classic review of spec ops which had similar shameplay: "We recognize almost immediately that the male is committing senseless acts of evil. We recognize this because we are not idiots."

"Every few hours the sandstorm lifts to reveal a smirking developer, who asks us if we enjoy all of this killing. He…

I think he's trying to do the Spring Breakers / Sucker Punch thing where you blatantly objectivize women but have some sort of commentary in it so you can have your cake and eat it too.

The jury is out as to whether this is smart and or good.

Well they have deviated quite a bit from their initial strategy.

All the mechanics seemed designed around the joy of goofing off. Throwing CDs at zombies, running around with a moose head, trying new combos were all a bunch of fun. But the game is like "NO! You gotta hurry up there are people whose life depends on you!" So the player quickly resorts to making a couple of knife…

"female soldiers in a non-sexual way, as the FROGs in MGS4"