For everyone second guessing my reaction. I actually read the article.

Please listen to the audio tapes of Noreene Gosch. She is the mother of Johnny Gosch(disapeared in the 80's at age 12.) There is proof that he was trafficked to Elite government officials. It’s really dark and exposes just some of the evil that exists in our world.

This is, honestly, why I’m remaining a bit doubtful about this. I don’t doubt SBC’s story, I just am unclear on whether this guy was humoring his “client,” because it’s really hard to imagine anyone copping to this stuff with a camera pointed in his face. Unless it was a hidden camera, this just seems hard to square.

The FBI declined to investigate something that would implicate rich white men?!? No. Way.

Yeah... I really need more of an explanation for this. 

Wait a second...

It's the gaming variant of when a guy argues a 15-year-old should be fair game bacuase "she has an old soul" or "is mature beyond her years". 

Except psychologically speaking that isn’t how it works, ready access to the material generally reinforces the behavior as though it is acceptable to society either in part or in whole. Behaviors escalate rather than holding steady, most people don’t wake up and say “I really feel like raping a child today” and…

But does that work, or is it the opposite, that the fiction helps them justify their inclinations and escalates their desires?

here’s the problem, and you’re really not getting it (as you keep doing this weird goal-post moving and straw-man kinda thing), these are people who are actively harming other individuals and taking away their agency.

Cool that the USA protects it under the first amendment.

No, you’re advocating for child pornography, albeit animated, to exist for people to actively consume. Mere Exposure Effect teaches us that an individual who engages in an activity they may find any level of pleasure in, who then repeats that activity, continues to find more pleasure in the repeat over time.

Personally, I’d give them mental health services that can help individuals with pedophilia fixations. Specifically, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to help individuals escape pedophilic fantasies.

I predicted (no great skills needed here) that Steam would continue to be capricious and inconsistently violate their own rules even after this latest ‘for sure this time’ and sure enough.

Don’t give a shit if I get dragged for this, but:

Very effective and unsettling experience. I’m glad I only read the first paragraph and played it before reading the full article. I appreciate the tip off to this developer, though. Definitely keeping an eye on them. I’ve gotta say, it’s a shame to see other people arguing over what a video game is as if it even…

I agree. I think it looks great and 10-year old me would have had this on my wall next to my Countach one.

Who knows man? He said he was going to win the nomination. He did against the odds. He said he’d win the presidency. Looks like he’s going to do it again. Maybe if he says he’ll destroy ISIS and get rid of the trade deficit, maybe he will.