And the result is always bankruptcy if a bunch of narcisstic know-it-alls believe they are the only ones with any clue about the development process.

Self-righteous? Thanks for confirming my point.

You haven’t. You’ve been making assertions.

Because you say so? Sorry, doesn’t work that way

Didn’t say that the design of promotional material isn’t important, it’s just irrelevant to what we’re discussing.

A) It’s still just promotional material. Promoters aren’t selling their artistic vision to consumers; they were just hired to help spread a message. Including necessary “scientific information” is just part of effectively communicating your product to the customer.

Promotional material isn’t consumer content, it’s just an introduction.

Changing a marketing strategy is a little different than changing the product, especially when the product is predicated on an artistic vision. Context is important, and I’m not even claiming that whatever Nintendo is doing is definitely censorship. I’m just stating that censorship can be, and very frequently is…

I’m not really talking about any specific instance, just disagreeing with the idea that censorship can only happen through some kind of authoritarian enforcement.

It’s a little more complicated than that.

If I were to end up in jail for any reason I would want to spend the entire time in solitary confinement. Lonely and uncomfortable? Sure, but it beats getting your ass pounded every night.

Blizzard should be able to license their IP to the Nost people for a fee, but they probably don’t want to. At the end of the day Nost was pirating access to Blizzard’s IP and Blizzard probably doesn’t want to take any public action that appears supportive of that.

Why don’t you tell me where you live or give me an example of how popular media differs in your part of the world, wherever that is. Again, all you offer in rebut is vague nonsense, less than nothing.

I do generally agree with Nance’s message, but obviously him going off on some person who donated and wanted to thank him for helping them through a tough time is completely ridiculous.

What I’m saying encompasses the western world and is proven in our media. I say we’re ok with violence because it’s in ALL of our media, without restriction and without repercussion.

I’m simply stating that our society as a whole seems to have a deep seated hatred of and aversion to anything sexual, and it causes the people in society to behave like hypocrites regarding sexual material.

It’s funny to watch you devolve into arguing semantics while trying your hardest to avoid the topic. “Exploring the world” vs “Driving around.” So, you did all of your exploring on foot, on a bike, with someone else technically driving? Excellent diversion tactic.

First, I’m not unsure about anything I’ve said about you. Your own words make the conclusions I drew obvious, so if you feel the conclusions are incorrect you should probably choose your words more carefully.

I’m aware that society views virtual torture and sex to be worse than virtual killing; I’m just stating that it’s a hypocritical view to have, and your reasoning behind that view makes no sense. There’s no specific gratification or stress release that Virtual killing provides, it’s just escapism. Virtual torture and…

First of all, the “torture is seen as unpleasant,” argument doesn’t make sense to me. Mass murder isn’t unpleasant or sadistic? I’m not sadistic for wanting to gun down a street full of innocent people in GTA, but I am sadistic if I torture one in a cutscene? It’s just nonsense.