On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > If the player is considered a pedophile, there are opportunities for > abuse at every corner. Similar to other games, where you have a gun. > > The only game I know that challenges that is Aquaria. After acquiring > the skill to throw energy balls, most players shoot everything they can > see. This triggers a monologue from the – usually silent – protagonist > about how powerful she feels when killing weaker creatures. Ouch. Again, not ftpteam, just my opinion: I don't believe this is an entirely fair comparison. Most games where you kill people it's done in a way that keeps your player as 'ethical', which is not to say you follow the geneva conventions (perhaps someone out there can patch a WWII game for this? :) ), but you're on the ethical 'high ground'. Mostly. Not all of it, but mostly. Most games where you are unethical and killing a non-hostile force are often condemmed -- or even banned! One such game was Postal 2. Postal 2 is a game where you don't have to, but can, shoot innocent people. You can play through without shooting a single person, but it's very hard. It goes so far as to give you such weapons as an 'anthrax filled cow head'. It's intentionally provocitive -- you can play as the taliban, priests, midgets or any other group that was open to mockery at the time. As a result, it was banned in NZ and elsewhere in the world. I think shooting games where you are fighting some force for ethical good is more similar to pornography then child porn - I'd say games like Postal 2, where you can kill innocent people for fun to be more similar to that. Again, I have not played this game, so I pass no judgement on anything as of yet. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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