If boycotts by reli gious groups worked, then wouldn't the Flying Spaghetti Monster's followers already have shut down all gluten-free noodle shops? No, because they worship ab surdity. It's like watching an orange man change tar iffs every other day, a loss of ration ale and stable insti tutions, yet nobody seems to figure out how to replay his ab surd script. Let's don't play that game.

Finally! It's true there are censored words here!

No! The Dick Elders! Back to the past, Dan, so we can get laid!!

Religions are not fan clubs or activism associations, or some extremist parties, at least have not been so for a century or two. If the Pope says "no premarital sex" the typical reaction is that someone (die-hards, a minor portion) holds to the rule, someone (most believers) tries at least not to go unhinged about it, using that as an "ideal guideline" (so they just end up doing it only when it's something a bit serious) and some do literally what they want at a whim, just keeping a facade. Some religions indeed have more involved followers, but it's not really about religion but culture/traditional morals, so they prolly don't buy/do those things already, and an official ban by a cleric is not needed.
So the impact is not as complete and mechanically successful as you picture, way less severe, nuanced and disomogenuous (still some bucks lost...well enterprises profit and keep a margin and have to get used to think and plan beneath short term gain&losses and offer stability instead!)
The whole panic has started American-style whith the immediate aim to make ruckus and still is about it. These whole kind of threads, quite frequent on GOG, have a bit of fearmongering in it (I remember "Covid everything" times, forceful "bi and queer" cringe season, "Ban everything Russian/Russia did nothing wrong" polar quarrel, etc: bah)

We're giving them publicity. We should just deny support to this, but quietly. I suspect many such campaigns are focused on visibility (maybe, more bluntly, this or that association's self-preserving interests) at least as much as their ideals (given to others that were minding their own business, btw).
Here we're having MOIGE for decades - Italian Parents Movement, and their claims against free-on-air anime on tv...quite close to the "think of the children" meme. To be precise, actual children that can't understand double-entendres or sinister implications (but can well be scared by violence, harm and direct threats, that are actually more frequent on teen shows..) or at most "children" of 15+ that actively search and crave for such naughty content. It gained attention, then it started to thrive less with less attention.

Shimoneta was right? I'm baffled. Weren't left-wing feminists about sexual freedom? Did it go so far that went full circle back?!?

Surprising yes as they are largely only okay with such if it fits a very narrow perspective such a thing.. as they campaign against most media type sexual freedoms but if its real life they are largely okay with it in any form.. Atleast last I checked

So is indeed about propaganda (picturing something only as if the world were already the way as it should be/everybody's imagination is the same as yours). No one should fight to do something and then be ok not to show people are doing it! (privacy aside, of course, but fictional heroes do not have that) .
Plus we're ultimately speaking about making up stories, so the actual set of things in them should be broader, not narrower: that's what stories are for. Equating stories not with dreams, exploration and desires but with real-life actions or purposes is mind sclerosis. There are so many stories about post-apo Australia, so, to go with such absurdist train of thought, australians are wishing for a nuke?!?
The "education" argument goes back to the propaganda mindset: they're not school books (very ironically, they were the ones rightfully complaining about others' tentative ban of forward-looking school books, not porn of course...my brain cells start to mingle now for the lack of consistency, which could actually be a very peculiar or nitpicky moral instead..). My hair would raise if Kagura (whose main sin is still not pursuing higher quality) would be used as realistic sex-ed.

Ya this sort of insanity has been going on sense atleast 2010s in being noticable in varies fandoms and media circles

On the practical side (not freedom principles) porn sites exist (regulated centrally or not, that's another issue and its solution is not trivially the lassaiz faire approach).
Porn sites, so a lot more risque content than say anime tiddies or Witcher one-night-stands, get paid. They have subscription plans and I doubt they receive bank transfers or cash. What credit card do they accept? Sites should go with them instead.

PS. Imho the bulk of EU is not some moral state ancient times nostalgics or all-seeing big brothers. There are some fringe groups and they get overrepresented as they spend their time at politician's ears (something other people should do more, if they didn't have more interesting and necessary things to do). The only "big brother mode" topic to politicians in EU is, I bet, taxes, and I kinda understand it.

As a quite old fellow, thus shifting towards traditionalism to my own horror, I don't really like some content, or I actually like it less than I used to, and I doubt I would do it in reality.
That's unintuitively one reason not to ban those things heavily or entirely: they give additional value to the product, they make it rare and prized while it often is not worth such reputation.
I noticed that even the most trivial non free adult game is typically at the same price as big name sagas with much more meat to them! Ten euros for a whole collection of arcade classics, two indie gems at day one or a graphics-heavy strategy with basic campaigns; fifteen or twenty euros for a visual novel with on-screen written dialogues and mostly static pictures...(!)
I came to think over the time that the whole "prude and sinner" ride is (or can be often used unsincerely as) a two pronged trick to create tension and bloat "taboo content" importance. Sex is trivial to rabbits, after all. To humans is crucial since they started make it sensitive, I bet. How was it..."Alert the calm ones, and calm the alerted"?

Interesting point. Most of all, It can't be at somebody's discretion (heavens forbid if they change ideas back and forth to add to the problem).
And they seem to be mindless about it, also. Some content (hello Meryl) is here to be condemned, not to be promoted, and that's not the same, unless you actually want your viewers and/or yourself to be in denial and erase the topic from media (even regardless of how is treated or how explicitly is depicted). The last "strategy" is arguably the one that leads to issues being a danger in real life, since many don't think they exist.

Booh! Keep those sexist attacks out of this topic! Plus we're talking about real people now

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Very wierd considering how frequent this is as a dramatic scene in battles. The Empire should not strike back, then. Luke has to keep his hand! (Luke does not even have an Id.. "Luke does not exist!")

Well, when we say it's disquieting that the boundaries between fiction and reality are blurred when (portions of) the public reacts (without thinking enough) we're implying also this. In fact, it kinda happened, but related to actual crime offences, not depictions!! It happened that pedophiles tried to jump on the success of civil rights movements and say "ours is just a different kind of love, let us be". Nice try, they failed. Let's not put all different things into the same bag, let's not simplify.

It's a special breed called a Shroedinger cat. You can't say it existed (both in and out of the clip) since the specially sealed "kitty stomping box" is not opened. It's a doubly fictional beast! Fantastic Beasts and where not to find them.

I see what you're doing here!

I nearly read "power of nipple gods"...

Well, I'm not sure about that. It can be a vent outlet but it also an incidental inspiration, depending on real-life intentions and situations that were already there, so I'd argue that their contribution to crimes is a +x-x= net zero

First, they're (again) fiction, so no concentration camp is happening while you are playing with a non-existent one.

Second, the line is between reality or at least reality-impacting (with proof) material or not. Unless you want to be charged with manslaughter (and not in-game!) when you run on pedestrians on Carmageddon.

Third, we already have such thing at home, just not literally, or in very not graphic games. When you just explore ideas, everything is fine, everything is an indirect reference to things and events both good or bad, and everything can be considered disturbing. Not enough of a reason to sanitise your art to death.
What are these games that can let you run a (comedic?!) oppressive regime on pixel people?
I'd say: Dungeon Keeper/Overlord, Lemmings (if played in a certain way at least, ehe) Rimworld I think. All of them non specific. But if someone is bent on finding inspiration for crimes, then they will find it, as they could find it everywhere. Then there's the more literal Wolfenstein 2. You're against them, but they're still on screen, and these campaigners do not seem to care much for context.
They actually were on store shelves. EA published C&C Generals back then , a satyrical/slightly comedic take on..future wars in Middle East, for example (its mold was the same as Westwood games, and someone raised a brow; it was I think 2005, real troops were in Afghanistan back then)

Fourth, to speak of Middle East, what are we making a fuss about? Fictional mass suffering? When we have a wide array of real one ongoing? That's the ultimate point of this: so much ire about art, so much less about actual people being undeniably harmed.

Lastly, it's an Alabaman Horse so you can get used to far more stringent moral codes..

Correct. A lot of this in general is actually sourced from the UK/Australia.

hey GOG the solution is simple just implement internal gog virtual currency for buying games. call it "gog vbucks". then when someone pays with these payment providers you sell the currency not the actual game. then sell the game for the internal "gog vbucks"

if the vanguard&blackrock mafia want to take a loss and cut you from the payment providers make your own payment provider THAT will work on steam and epic and whatever else. infact the most clear solution is to make your own payment provider that is not censored, who manages to make this will make trillions, you can even stop making and selling games, who cares anymore, everyone will want the uncensored payment provider that doesn't suck balls.

yeah I know

just the fact that none has the courage to do this tells you everything about the world

Thanks for the clarification. I was in a hurry so didn't post any details.

But yes, the Japan action is not because of this specific instance, but anti-trust vs VISA for unfair competition and market manipulation. Japan FTC has applied sanctions on them.

Still, they are the first to actually start doing something about the unimaginable power VISA and MC wield.

In case you did not notice: Real people and companies are attacking and patronizing other real people (gamers) because of non real sexist game content as a matter of certain "real mostly sexist stuff" that could happen out of non real games.

Where to draw the line? We are mixing up everything and ultimately a entire cake is being baked out of it.

No, you're stirring up the pot: drawings are drawings and laws against rape are laws against rape.
It's just a big work and not their business to take. Save for real (real!) extremes, intermediate service providers (including IPs actually and Internet itself) should do their job and be neutral. The fact they submit to national laws is already enough, sometimes even "too much" as is implicitly in conflict with their global nature, but that's an historical problem awaiting a strong solution, and way out of our scope.