Skylavijas
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This all feels very reminiscent of the drama caused by the release of "RapeLay" way back in a day. The game... as the title suggests... was explicitly about sexual abuse, with one of the characters featured being underage, causing it to get banned in multiple countries and brought on such a massive shitstorm, you can't even purchase it via official distribution in Japan... yes, it was that bad.“Excuse me, I cannot enjoy a video game unless I can commit rape in it.”
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Imagine being so brain rotted by culture wars that you can't separate violent porn consumption from gaming.
However, unlike "No Mercy", I've never seen the internet going up and arms, trying to defend it... Probably because it all happened in the 2000s, before the culture war bs infected the internet. But it still feels so surreal for me to think about how if RapeLay were released today, a game that I distinctly remember being so universally panned, that even the people who liked it openly admitted to being fucked up for enjoying it, or used it for shock factor to scare people, would have an army of people defending it, that would equate places like the UK or Australia to authoritarian dictatorships, because they decided to ban a rape simulator. Like that would never fucking happen on 2009 internet, except select few anime obsessed image boards, because gamers were still struggling making society accept just regular military violence in games as normal.
The fact that "No Mercy" is met with so many defenders, while "RapeLay" had almost none at all, has a slightly disturbing implication that people are getting numbed to this sort of content. Give it 10 more years and rape simulators will be allowed on steam, or there will be a rise of some alternative gaming marketplace that will allow the distribution of that sort of thing.