Do hamburgers in games, books, and movies make you sad?
Let’s not open that box in this thread. If anyone wants to talk about animal rights veganism and so and so forth their is all ready a thread for that.
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I’m not vegetarian, just anti-hypocrisy. But, shutting.
@Monk65 Well said. I totally agree, but it’s like that- different people are different. We’re some of the awesome ones. teases everyone
I have a feeling that I’m going to hear a lot of …interesting and varied opinions when I open up my game to WIP.
-high fives-
We definitely are the awesome ones.
Woot high tolerance! XD.
I’m actually kind of really interested in your game the more I see you post about it around the forum.
@Monk65 If you’re interested, I can let you join on the beta testing- I should have things ready either later today or tomorrow, I hope. Just put a message in on the thread for it so that I’ll remember.
Sorry, sorry, I knew that, a bad choice of words in my side but… Duck died!
personally I put a bullet in his head, didn’t let Kenny do it.
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Oh no! I did it! I wouldn’t let Kenny do something like that!
WAFFLES?!?!?! WAFFLES?!?!?!!
Not okay, faewkless. Not okay.
storms off
Felicity Banks
Since most of the serious topics such as abuse, drugs, race, and religion have been covered already, I only have some minor complaints lol.
I agree with @Kait in that I dislike excessive profanity too. Personally I don’t curse but assuming that others don’t as well is pretty unreasonable; I can tolerate a good amount but there’s only so much a person can handle before it turns plain annoying. I’m sure that this aspect doesn’t really bother many others so this is just sort of my personal opinion.
I also feel uncomfortable when all the RO suddenly are into you after the first meeting. It’s like the development isn’t really there and like the RO are shallow since they’ve only seen you like once (unless the person knows you from the past or something, then that’s fine).
What I’d consider “romance tropes” or beautiful characters acting like assholes and the narrative tries to justify it rather than punishing said character for it.
Example, character A hurts character B to “protect them”. This is justifiable because character A cares about character B. When character B realizes this, they forgive A.
I think everything else is fair game. It’s mostly just if a narrative tries to justify something despicable.
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Lols, you made quite a list there. I agree with some of them including the rape as drama and racist/ stereotypes AND the lousy romances (I think you might as well call it a one night stand for such romances lack any depth or development).However I actually like Medieval games from time to time and while I find Tolkien to be borng, I do like elves.
I find drinking and drugs in games or anywhere else as a way of entertainment to be thoroughly disgusting. I don’t smoke or drink or use drugs myself, I’m not against alcohol but I find it stupid, and only stupid, to drink yourself into a coma or into a semi-conscious state just because it’s possible. It’s very much possible to have fun without having all kinds of filth in your system.
Things that make me uncomfortable in games, is that a lot of games rely on a (stereotypical) male lead to carry the story. Usually ther are some other strong male characters to back him up and the only female around acts as both the LI and fanservice. I dropped/ never played a lot of games just because of this very stupid and cliche setting.
Something along the same lines is when the game tells you that the player is in love with someone or in a relatioship withone and you have to save them. It makes me uncomfortable because I don’t even know the person in question so how am I supposed to love them >.<
A relatively minor thing that bothers me, is the big focus on America or some alternate version of America in games. I live in Europe and while I have no problem with games being located in the USA, it’s nice to have some variety once in a while. Although most of the time I don’t care about it and the setting doesn’t make me uncomfortable, I just miss the diversity.
A thing what does bother me is the focus on anything non-western as ‘exotic’. I’m studying Art History at the moment and I’m surprised by the amount of prejudice people having when it comes to foreign/diffrent cultures. Games often tend to carelessy take over these prejudices, sometimes played for laughs other times it’s just a lack of development.
The last thing I want to mention, is the focus on murder and death in quite some games (FPS’s exist solely for that reason). I absolutely hate to kill/murder/torture, etc. any kind of person/creature/alien or whatever they call themselves. It’s one of the resons I never play FPS or hack ‘n slash games. It also means I love games that give you the option to solve conflicts in a peaceful way or at least try to make your actions matter (there are enemies that simply refuse to surrender, but at least I made an effort :’)).
@Kait I know, and I totally agree. Coincidently I recently played Life is Strange, one of the choices you have involves whether to kill someone’s dog and remain undetected or let her live and get noticed by the owner. About 15% of the players killed the dog, how could they?!.
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And just to clarify, there is an important distinction between pedophilia and child molestation. Pedophilia is a psychiatric condition, and it is not illegal. Child molestation, on the other hand, is a crime.
Pedophilia is thoughts and urges; but child molestation is an action.
I greatly respect the pedophile who fights his urges and refrains from being a child molester.
Child molesters, on the other hand, have forfeited their humanity: they are monsters.
While I actually agree with this, the two key words here are needless and frequent. I firmly believe that there can be occasions within a story – even sometimes in a children’s story – where swearing is not only appropriate, but where no other reaction will quite do.
I actually have a particular children’s story in mind; out of kindness, I’m not going to identify either it, or its author: but the situation follows.
This was a “science fantasy” tale about a group of families colonizing a distant planet where all of the native vegetation is crystalline. The colonists plant wheat (their “survival crop”), and are horrified when the ears of wheat come up crystalline! Very beautiful-looking – but how are they going to eat glass?!? The colonists are in despair, and are on the verge of taking suicide pills rather than slowly starve to death.
The colony’s children, on the other hand, have not given up hope quite so easily. Their idea is utterly drastic, but also under the circumstances perfectly reasonable: if they’re going to die anyway, why not just take the chance and see what happens?
So the kids gather up some of the wheat, and grind it into a fine powder. They mix it with water, and bake it for awhile (it smells heavenly, which of course foreshadows the outcome – cooked glass doesn’t have an aroma, now, does it?), so now they have a flatcake, of which they all partake.
Then they go and tell one of the adults what they have just done. “It’s good!” says one girl (the man’s own small daughter!).
Stop now and absorb that for a moment. Put yourself into that man’s place – your own beloved little daughter comes to you and tells you she has eaten what you are sure is, effectively, a deadly poison! How do you react? What do you say?
If that’s not an “OMG!” moment, I cannot begin to imagine what else would be… except that the man doesn’t say “OMG.”
The man turned pale. “Oh, my dears.”
Ooof!
“Oh my dears”?!
That whomp! soud you just heard, was me, falling violently out of the story and into cold, hard reality again!
(I get the very distinct impression that the author’s editor probably got a tad too overzealous here.)
And it took me a very long time to get back into the story again!
I have never forgotten that, and I doubt I ever will.
The moral here is that there are situations, even in a children’s story, where only a “swear” word is appropriate (Aristotle would probably have used the term ordinate) to the occasion: i.e., nothing less will quite do.
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P.S.: Turns out that, crystaline or not, when turned to a powder, the wheat is still wholesome. 
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Something that makes me want to commit arson irl just to stop cringing, is when there’s only two flirting options in romance games: shy or bold. And since “shy” always makes the character suddenly contract a fever and speech impediment, I’m always left with the “bold” option to keep me in character. Basically turning my somewhat badass character into a sleezebag, who says some stupid lines like a desperate drunk pervert shooting their last shot at 3am before the doors close and embarrassing the hell out me. Lmao.
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I can only think of ONE game that would be a total turn-off for me. It was a parser game, not a CYOA; it was a game where you (the MC) turned out to be Lee Harvey Oswald – the man who assasinated JFK.
The reviewer wondered how any given player might react upon learning this.
I can answer that: “Type QUIT.”
…and with disgust, too.
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My God, what game is that? Tell me, & I’ll shun it like the pneumonic p!ague!*
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*The Black Death was bubonic plague; but the pneumatic variety, although slighly less virulent, is actually far deadlier because it is much more contagious.
I recommend using the more recent thread Tropes and stories you hate.