Of course the remaining "gatekeeping" is if they can be plausibly concerned that there's graphic sexuality involving an underage character. Which led to a weird situation where GG types tried to get Life is Strange 2 taken down and I honestly couldn't see where they were wrong
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
LiS2 had a hetero romance between the 17 year old male lead and a 17 year old girl, and she takes off her shirt in the game - or so I'm told, I chose the gay option. Honestly I don't see how that's technically different than various hentai games having a character stated to be 17
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
The people who were making a stink about it were doing it to be "anti-SJW" but it did seem like a very questionable thing to include in the game
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
You can have a topless underage character (as long as she isn't played by an actual underage actor) in a movie, the number of movies that have such scenes is endless
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
I mean I agree that's historically where it's been (otherwise Titanic would be illegal) but the whole "virtual child porn" debate and how it was applied specifically on Steam by Valve's regulators to hentai did leave them open for attack there
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I mean, obviously if that case went anywhere internally - and I doubt it did, but if it did - DONTNOD could easily have pointed out that no one is going to play one of their adventure games for the titillation of a sex scene midway through, unlike Hentai Teenagers 9000 etc.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
In the UK this would come down to whether it is judged to have artistic value or not. Which is … a line that has frequently led to some odd judgements.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
Funny thing is despite the US having the reputation as the Puritan country, Pretty Baby was made here (it was a product of the rebellious auteur 1970s era in Hollywood) and got a "hard R", whereas the UK gave it an X and Canada outright banned it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Yeah. Our Puritan nature is mostly all talk, not allowing sex-ed, and thinking working ourselves to death is a virtue.
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Replying to @markemer @bazzalisk and
Well, I think it's fair to say that in general the MPAA's ratings board is much harsher on sex and more lenient on violence than their European counterparts and that reflects a US cultural bias It just hasn't been a constant rule through our history
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And is affected by the usual chauvinism of giving preferred treatment to famous directors and big studio movies (the board was, after all, created and funded by the big studios) and to movies from your own country rather than imports
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Replying to @arthur_affect @markemer and
Which is of course not the case in many other countries. The British Board of Film Classification is an officially recognised entity with legal powers, not an industry self-regulation body.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
Yeah. Harder to get away with a real regulatory body here. The 1st amendment puts some big hurdles up. Although they could for sure classify things for age groups like the MPAA or MPA or whatever they call themselves now.
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