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In any case, very funny. Good sense of humor right there.
07/31/09
You know, looking at that photo just makes me question our censorship attitude as a society here in the US. Apparently, as long as you don't show the nipple or areola (circle around the nipple, for the uninformed) you can show as much of the rest of the boob you want (See Lil' Kim outfit from circa 2003, etc). WHY NOT THE WHOLE THING? I mean, what's so sacred about the nipple and its base??
At least the Europeans are cool with showing boobs, nipples and all, even in the newspapers.
Or maybe it's that fact that our society is getting more liberal and this is a trend towards the European way of thinking... 10 years ago, showing that much boob (even without the nipple) was probably NSFW. Then the sideboob and underboob was allowed and now we just have to unrestrict the showing of the nipple. I'd give it to 2020...
07/31/09
i think it's a conspiracy by the bible bangers and other religious zealots. you see they want you to believe being gay is bad, so you need to find god and blah blah blah. so they outlaw the showing of female nipples, but male nipples are shown everywhere without remorse. so you see male nipples everywhere, thus some mistake seeing a nipple at all as being sexual, thus thinking they might be gay. so they seek god to make them ungay, and fills the churches coffers with gold.
makes perfect sense.
excuse me while i go speak in tongues.and go stare at some awesome man nips.
07/31/09
BTW, this is the kind of developer support I LOVE. The game gets censored and they release, essentially, an AO version of it through digital distribution. I wish more game companies would do this when their games get content cut out to appease the ESRB gods and the market of walls.
07/31/09
Dear fellow americans,
They're breasts. Everyone has a pair. Even men. It's part of being a mammal.
Kthx.
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The US edition not only cut the sexual content (including the Dryad, which, IMO, was completely stupid), they cut the blood and dismemberment from the game.
07/31/09
Germany usually gets their own censored versions of games, the rest of Europe is unaffected.
07/31/09
2nd-ed. Though nice breasts are nice to look at. :)
07/31/09
Fortunately, they've gotten more tolerant of violent video games. When I lived there for 3 years, I saw lots of violent games in Media Markt and Saturn that were uncut. They have ridiculous packaging (red plastic sleeves that cover it to show that it is USK 18)
Something funny as well: I own the German version of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. In the US, it's rated M. That usually means in Germany it will get the USK 18, and Vampire is a pretty violent game as it is. However, I'm looking at the box right now and it's rated USK 16.
That means that VtM: Bloodlines is rated the same as Metroid Prime 3. Yippie.
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Probably more polished and refined controls as was said on the Witcher website. The combat was completely revamped for the console port to be more action oriented and not just click.....click....click.
07/31/09
I guess I just don't see it as a console game, not for the combat reasons, but mainly for how the game was designed. If they can pull it off, more power to them, but I don't see how it would be "better" than the PC version. Diablo and Morrowind are good examples of RPG's ported that didn't do quite as well on the consoles as they did on the PC.
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This.
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Now, I'm not saying artistic expression = boobies. However, being able to include adult situations (and even nudity) when appropriate is really telling of the level of freedom that's accepted.
I look forward to the day that some shmuck on a "news" show tries to bash the next big game because it has adult situations, and everyone laughs it off just as quickly as we (as a gaming community) laugh off that kind of thing right now.
07/31/09
Is this shame I feel real? ;_;
07/31/09
Er.........ಠ_à²
PS.I miss those little fishies ^_^
07/31/09
@Curse_Lily: our country's high moral standards
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@TaylorEatWorld:
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@Curse_Lily:
Something about high moral standards is going on here?
07/31/09
i WAS gonna post goatse but that's just WRONG....even with "our country's high moral standards"....
07/31/09
@icepick314: WHOOOOOOA! we don't need to go that far.
07/31/09
@Curse_Lily:
wait...i fogot about this G-Rated goatse...
07/31/09
*laughter explosion*
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By the way I love the Kotaku NSFW Fish.
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lolz.
promoted for truth
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*Takes a bow*
07/08/09
Any news on that or did I just miss the memo?