The point is how irrelevant it is, the sort of pompous dramatic sentences that people fetch to parallel their gaming frustration with the issue of totalitarianisms. The matter is not where the pseudo-illustrative quote has been fetched from.

Man, do I miss the times when VGs were just a hobby that had little to do with politics and activism... nowadays it seems no one can't even breathe without unwillingly taking sides, stepping on someone's agenda, or angering X group rather than Y. What the hell happened to the community?

I point to the time Reggie Fise-Aime went and killed off the NSider Forums to being a major point when gaming forums started to die off.

If you're looking for relevance you should consider the enitre post, also know as the context rather than picking one sentence out of the entire statement, a quote from a game no less, and focusing on it.

For example this from the same post
or this also from the same post
There's the further relevant context that my post you are quoting from was in response directly to the repeated concepts voiced by other users rather than as any direct reply to the specific game or situation in question which I openly stated was not something I felt all that invested in or inclined to assess as I do not believe I am all that suited to assess the value of this particular title given it is outside of my tastes.

None of which fits the defining characteristics of pompous ( Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious ) but which were quite relvant to the context and content of the posts quoted in my response. Unlike your prior which seems to highlight being willfully irrelivant and frankly rather pompous in its own right. Sensationalizing something, quoting out of context, or "shouting" in caps does nothing to foster a high quality or more mature conversation, nor does applying psudo ad hominims in response to a simple request for clarification.

If your intent is to improve the quality of coversation then I would strongly urge a more approprite method. If it was something less constructive then I suppose I see no further motive to continue this particular coversation.

Ah no, that's pretty normal. Keys are 'self generated' by devs on Desura, so they most likely used the same key list.

Sorry but when you quote huge generalist and important-sounding philosophical statements on democracy, political censorship and dictatorship, to illustrate a point about legitimate access to porn violence, in the context of complains about a particular videogames shop not selling a particular game, then yeah, the relevancy is feeble, and the disproportion of the notions dragged in makes it pompous. Bringing "denial of access of information" (freedom of the press) in a matter of accessibility to a kill-all-my-neighbours-lolz videogame is illustrative of this rhetorical instrumentalisation of serious notions for ridiculous disputes, that irks me throughout all these threads. That is Calvin yelling about oppression when his mum drags him to the bathtub.

I cannot take seriously those who jump back and forth between "oh noes gog doesn't sell hatred" and "beware beware, remember how dictatorships always limitate access to information". No matter how cool and self-validating it sounds, it's just ridiculously out of place.

I'm pointing this out (and it concerns a huge lot of people in these threads). You're free to disagree, and if you think that hatred-on-gog is illustrative of (or in any way relevant to) the struggle to ensure the access and diversity of information within modern democracies, then carry on. The price is just some remote snickering.

Doug Lombardi never said he rejected it based on the trailers. In fact, he seemed to reference some of the accusations and complaints brought up in the Greenlight forums at the time which implied the game promoted genocide and racism and was created by neo-Nazis which all seem to be untrue.

This actually prompted the publishers to reply how the protagonist hates everybody equally and that no children or animals can be killed.

In short, it was originally rejected based on false rumour and false innuendo. Presumably, Gabe stepped in, looked at the situation and corrected the misunderstanding.

Why are so many people claiming Steam's first decision to remove it was justified and correct, when Steam corrected coarse and allowed it? Wouldn't the more informed answer be the latter choice? That Steam realized they actually made a mistake and was listening to uninformed complainers?

Thanks.

How could GOG say no to this?

https://youtu.be/tgI41zVTbiY?t=11

The content of this game is suitable for persons aged 18 years and over only.
It contains: Extreme violence - Violence towards defenceless people - Strong language

The content of this game is suitable for persons aged 18 years and over only.
It contains: Extreme violence - Multiple, motiveless killing - Violence towards defenceless people - Strong language

PEGI ratings...
The only difference between Witcher 3 and Hatred is..."Multiple, motiveless killing"

Again with the single passage out of context quote/reply. Very well your intentions and motives are clear enough and as such I excuse myself from further interactions wtih you unless/until the day when actual context and content become relevant to your posts and replies sans the current heavy helpings of these sorts of things:
http://infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/02/iib_rhetological_fallacies_EN.png

So, did GOG refuse to release Hatred to avoid controversy, or are you just guessing?

Not really. I sometimes wander the country side to kill anything I come across.
These human opponents do have weapons but one of my witcher spells will turn most into mindless cattle, just waiting to be slaughtered.

Not looking forward to playing Hatred but I will most certainly purchase it with the hope to see more. Watching the pointless shitstorm surrounding a game that is no different than 90% of other games is very amusing.

can I just copy-pasta this in all the 100 Hatred threads popping up?

can you? someone should be paying you! good read +1 to both