idbeholdME: Wasn't aware. Mentally cataloguing as "troll" from now on. But others also talked about satanism in this thread so my statement is more of a "old man yells at cloud" kind of thing than aimed at him specifically :P

Then we are truly doomed. At least it's not Astfgl.

BanditKeith2: Ya its moronic usuallt to complain about it.. Which is kinda why I like to bring it up in threads where it complains about G.O.G having games being this or that how late people are to the party to complain let alone video games was seen as sanatic or demonic from the start and some beliefs still sees computers as satantic or demonic anyway if one wants to go down that rabbit hole of complaining about satanic and demonic

kohlrak: The odd thing is that there is a certain degree of truth to it, but you ever notice we never ever actually deal with the high level thinkers when someone talks about this sort of thing. We get the highly emotional gut reactions, which are often overblown compared to what the high level thinkers who come up with this stuff come up with. For shits and giggles, i'll actually take a stab at this to show you what i mean, even if i wouldn't avoid the game myself on these grounds.

What we see here is a character classified as a demon, and it's a total misrepresentation of demons as a whole, and a misrepresentation of traditional literature regarding succubi, and the most likely origin of that literature. It's probably not a big deal, though, because almost everyone can separate fiction from reality, except children, who probably shouldn't be exposed to this until they are adults and have enough experience to separate BS from reality, like I usually can.

Then next down the path you have the not so smart guy, but not completely nuts, either:

Sure is alot of demon things going on her. Sure is dark. I wouldn't be surprised if the author who made this secretly believes this, or maybe even had an experience that they believe actually happened to them that confirms this, so we should probably keep it out of hands of the people easily convinced of things.

Then you have...

This is straight up satan-worship propaganda, for sure. Clearly the authors were touched by demons, and so corrupted that their form of misery becomes despirate for company. We need to ban this, because this will corrupt everyone it touches.

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I'm sure we could do one for blind support, too, but this game doesn't seem to be prone to that. It tends to be more political games that get that sort of bias. Things like this seem to get people going after and people defending it, but not going as far as trying to say everyone should play it for it's ideology. Otherwise, there might be a stronger point to be made, as there is with the political games (which still probably should not be banned).

BanditKeith2: Fair enough I honestly am not a fan of modern Greek pantheons myself of most modern depictions given Zeus is almost always portrayed as faithful and not perverted or sex crazed among other dieties.Gods and Goddesses portrayed as super wholesome and good when most was anything but ..

kohlrak: Watch how other religions are portrayed, too. There's some clear obvious patterns, and i think there's something to be said about the politics of the "macro-portrayals" as i might be able to call them (how the religions are portrayed on the whole vs the characters).

The thing about politics is that they're in everything. The more you shy from them, the deeper they go. That's the lesson of gamergate. Everyone tried to make video games a sort of "safe space from politics" even though we knew damn well political games were going to exist. Of course, a handful of people offering opposition turned into dragging the games industry on the whole into politics. Now we have games that won't come to the west because we've declared through the whole thing that we don't care for alot of asian games. To make matters worse, our politics have been imperialistic and have been going to those regions: for example Sony America has been telling Sony Japan what kind of games are inappropriate for release even only in Japan. Instead, i think GOG should stop being hypocritical in selling games that are political then demanding we don't talk about the politics of the games (one of the blues made ti clear to me that it's "no longer about the game" if it has any IRL crossover, which effectively means you can put content in a game that we simply can't talk about) or gog's own advertising.

The rub here is that during the enlightenment we finally accepted that church (religion, not really christianity, but good luck explaining that to certain peoples today) and state need to be separated, because, clearly, the two of them together create one hell of a mess. The belief was that church corrupted the state, but I think you noticed just as well as anyone else who would dare look at today from an outside lens would notice real fast that it was the state that was corrupting the church. The religions today are shells of their original forms (and that means before they had governmental power, too), and this largely does not seem to be a good thing at all (the power structures are clearly the problem). Just look at the karens running the forums, here and elsewhere. It doesn't take long for the power to show some inconsistent moderation, and often times they end up destroying their own positions as a result, because that's what streisand effect does.

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