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I would argue it comes down to how you present it. I believe in terms of fiction nothing is really off limits, but that doesn't mean including child rape or whatever is always a good idea.It's funny seeing people moralfag about one scene in a relatively minor indie game but having no clue about the horrific shit that goes on in written works. Not even the low-rent smut you see women read on trains though that is also horrible, i mean pop-literature.
Everyone knows about the child gang bang in "IT" but child sodomy is actually a semi-common occurrence in Steven Kings entire bibliography. A Song of Ice and Fire is chock full of child rape. Neuromancer has drug fueled incest orgies. Snow Crash has a scene of a 16 year old girl getting deflowerd (even played up for laughs). Hell we can keep it to videogames, the Blade Runner videogame has an underage character which is not only implied gets sexually abused by her boss, but the main protagonist can even run away with her. Where's the moral fagging for all of that shit?
Is the scene in question skeeve? Yeah, it is. Is it shitty that they pulled an ME3 and retconned the sexuality of 2 character? Yeah. However looking through this thread and the drama as a whole it just looks like people pulling at straws to call the game woke, because outside of a few questionable decisions, it really isn't much different to the first game.
In IT the sewer orgy had no reason to be there really, that's why we think it was fucking weird yet, for example, in the extended version of Last House On The Left the rape scene had a very specific purpose and was terrifying because that was the point. In ASOIF Jeyne Poole is horrifically abused because Ramsey Bolton is written to be the most evil character in the entire series and GRRM tends to go for rape and torture when trying to add edge, but at least in that series it's pretty well established that the nobility are a bunch of insane deviants so IDK it's a wash.
And in video games, while there isn't an explicit scene in the Lisa series the whole point is that Lisa was sexually abused by her father, and the theme of the game is trauma, cycles of abuse, and how these things follow you around. It was very tasteful and well received because it was for the purpose of discussing these subjects and their ramifications, not for exploitation of fetishes.
In this game here, it's just for gay bullshit and people can tell what's put in to express certain things in your art and what's gay troon weirdo bullshit.
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