Social Justice Warriors cancel release of innocent video game!

[Underseer]

This is censorship! The Social Justice Warriors are attacking our free speech because they hate our freedom!!!!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-outrage-amid-spate-school-shootings-n878156

'Active Shooter' video game pulled from platform after outcry
Parents of Parkland victims called the game, which simulated school shootings, "disgusting."

A video game that simulated school shootings has been pulled before its release date after facing a colossal backlash.

"Active Shooter" encouraged players to open fire inside classrooms and auditoriums as a heavy metal soundtrack thumped in the background.

Did you hear that? He said "disgusting." Those evil SJWs think that freedom is "disgusting." Not only are they attacking free speech, but this is an obvious attempt by the SJWs to take away our guns, which proves once again that they are Nazis!!!!!!! Run out and buy more guns now before president Hillary sends her jack-booted thugs to your house to confiscate your guns! I told you it was a mistake to not impeach her!!!! [/conservolibertarian]

On a more serious note, there is this from the article:

The post is attributed to a developer named Arthur Belkin, who lists the Russian Federation as his home country.

Which makes me think this is all a deliberate attempt by Russians to stir up more shit. Unless you are a conservative or a libertarian, in which case you're not supposed to believe that Russia does things like this, because that would cast doubt on the legitimacy of His Orange Holiness.

 

[fast]

If the target market are big fans of heavy metal, they're already too far gone for the removal of video games (depicting discusting acts) they would otherwise have the freedom to play--to matter.

 

[repoman]

Maybe only Norwegian black metal fans would be that hardcore. Church burning, bandmate killing folk.

 

[Underseer]

If the target market are big fans of heavy metal, they're already too far gone for the removal of video games (depicting discusting acts) they would otherwise have the freedom to play--to matter.

Indeed! This is clearly an attack on everyone's rights, because the evil SJWs have no morals! [/conservolibertarian]

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Did this game ever exist?

 

[Mumbles]

Did this game ever exist?

It was on Steam's release list in any case - and Valve isn't known for reasonable curation of their store. Jim Sterling discussed it earlier this week - as well as the people bitching about how they needed it to "show the SJWs", and his argument that this invites government interference, which is far more worrying.

 

[fast]

There may very well be an attack underway, but what an attack (is an attack on) squarely depends on the target. The freedom to do something can be maintained and supported while simultaneously making life miserable for those that exercise their freedom to act.

Take flag burning for example. There are those that will both fight to keep the freedom to burn flags without monetary fine or incarceration yet at the same time ridicule or act in hopes of causing financial harm or perhaps even cause bodily injury to those that do.

Take voting for example. There are those that abhor the idea of it becoming compulsory yet will chastise those for exercising their right to refrain from voting.

If there is indeed an attack on those that participate in releasing the video game, that is not necessary therefore also in addition to that an attack on the freedom to do so.

It might have the air of hypocrisy, but when the separate ideas are compartmentalized, it's not the same and thus not hypocritical. A judge that admonishes others for drinking and driving yet drinks and drives himself is one thing, but the judge can advocate the changing of laws to make it legal while admonishing others for breaking the law.

The point is that it's a leap to say that the freedom to do something is what's under attack.

 

[RavenSky]

Did this game ever exist?

It was on Steam's release list in any case - and Valve isn't known for reasonable curation of their store. Jim Sterling discussed it earlier this week - as well as the people bitching about how they needed it to "show the SJWs", and his argument that this invites government interference, which is far more worrying.

How does a petition and a social media protest constitute government interference? Is he afraid that when we get AR-15's banned, it will include cartoon depictions of them too?

 

[Derec]

How does a petition and a social media protest constitute government interference? Is he afraid that when we get AR-15's banned, it will include cartoon depictions of them too?

Well, pop-tart depictions are already banned at schools, so maybe.

 

[Arctish]

How does a petition and a social media protest constitute government interference? Is he afraid that when we get AR-15's banned, it will include cartoon depictions of them too?

Well, pop-tart depictions are already banned at schools, so maybe.

Did you read that article? Because it pretty clearly states that the shape of the pop tart wasn't the problem.

 

[Derec]

Did you read that article? Because it pretty clearly states that the shape of the pop tart wasn't the problem.

Or so the school board claims now, after they have become a laughingstock.

 

[Arctish]

Did you read that article? Because it pretty clearly states that the shape of the pop tart wasn't the problem.

Or so the school board claims now, after they have become a laughingstock.

So you didn't read the article.

 

[Mumbles]

Did this game ever exist?

It was on Steam's release list in any case - and Valve isn't known for reasonable curation of their store. Jim Sterling discussed it earlier this week - as well as the people bitching about how they needed it to "show the SJWs", and his argument that this invites government interference, which is far more worrying.

How does a petition and a social media protest constitute government interference? Is he afraid that when we get AR-15's banned, it will include cartoon depictions of them too?

It's not that any government did interfere, so much as that they could do so, with bad effects for the industry. As Sterling said, the ESRB ratings in the US were created specifically so that Congress would stop whining and howling about how games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap were turning the children into zombie-like mass killers. Much like those "explicit lyrics" stickers on rap albums were made to calm down congress, which at the time was holding hearings on the horrors of "rap" songs like "Cop Killer", which was supposedly turning black children into murderous thugs.

And never mind that "Cop Killer" was actually death metal and not rap.

Games like this threaten to bring all of that back, and in this climate could actually see at least temporary but heavy-handed restrictions placed on video games of all sorts. Ironically, the same people who screamed that Anita Saarkesian was trying to destroy video games, and are enraged by a woman on the cover of some WW2 shooter, also championed this game because it "triggers the sjws".