▲ 458 ▼ Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 1 year ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 170 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (5 children) video games have to have green blood. This is completely untrue. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children) They might be referring to the 90s, post Mortal Kombat. A lot of games got blood censorship in a lot of countries. Even before that I know some games like Contra they replaced the infected "humans" with robots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children) There was a time before the R18+ classification for video games existed that some violent games were refused classification (Left 4 Dead 2 being one of the most prominent examples; the gore and dismemberment were cut out, but the blood was still red and it was trivial to restore the gore), but that stopped being an issue about 15 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) That's way after the SNES and NES era permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago True, but I was a child and was not old enough to remember how strict the Australian classification rules for video games were back then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago I am really fucking old, to be fair, but every time I hear about violent video games being censored it's Australia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children) They might be referring to the 90s, post Mortal Kombat. A lot of games got blood censorship in a lot of countries. Even before that I know some games like Contra they replaced the infected "humans" with robots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children) There was a time before the R18+ classification for video games existed that some violent games were refused classification (Left 4 Dead 2 being one of the most prominent examples; the gore and dismemberment were cut out, but the blood was still red and it was trivial to restore the gore), but that stopped being an issue about 15 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) That's way after the SNES and NES era permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago True, but I was a child and was not old enough to remember how strict the Australian classification rules for video games were back then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago I am really fucking old, to be fair, but every time I hear about violent video games being censored it's Australia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children) There was a time before the R18+ classification for video games existed that some violent games were refused classification (Left 4 Dead 2 being one of the most prominent examples; the gore and dismemberment were cut out, but the blood was still red and it was trivial to restore the gore), but that stopped being an issue about 15 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) That's way after the SNES and NES era permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago True, but I was a child and was not old enough to remember how strict the Australian classification rules for video games were back then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) That's way after the SNES and NES era permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago True, but I was a child and was not old enough to remember how strict the Australian classification rules for video games were back then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago True, but I was a child and was not old enough to remember how strict the Australian classification rules for video games were back then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago I am really fucking old, to be fair, but every time I hear about violent video games being censored it's Australia. permalink fedilink source parent