So I haven’t been terribly productive lately, but I am still around and still working on my game/prototype. I’ll have some more posts soon. I blame all the insane projects I have been working on at work and the fact that my wife is due any second with our second.
Despite the excuses, I saw an amazing act of duh-ery today, this time coming from Japan. Now Japan makes some cool technology, but they definitely do not have what one might call a “western” set of values/morals. To me, this is absolutely astonishing at how long it took them to realize that this was out of line:
Japanese Software Group Bans Rape Games After Protest
It took the game getting published over seas and another country having a cow over this game before they decided to take some action against it. Now I am all about artistic freedom and all that, but in some cases, that is a total farce and facade. Some people argue that they are entitled to do something blah, blah, whatever. There is no excuse for something this heinous to ever make its way into the mainstream. There are places for stuff like this, should someone want to spend the time to create it. Sell it in some black alley at night, but don’t try to get this crap into the mainstream. I’ll call serious shenanigans on anyone making a case to defend stuff like this. It’s just way out of line, and doesn’t bode well for the future of the industry (or world for that matter).
I won’t turn this into a big moral rant, especially because I shouldn’t have to. So to sum up: A big duh goes out to Japan this week for finally doing something they should have done eons ago.
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