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To be fair, there was a lot of pushback from religious communities against violence in video games as well (i.e. "video games cause school shootings"), so I wouldn't say Christian influence would favor one but not the other. Mainstream games like GTA V also show that sexual themes can be present in video games and still be immensely popular.

I think it's more so a matter of mainstream high-budget video games portraying (and relying upon) graphic violence more often than sex. There's countless video games with graphic violence, ranging from Doom to CoD, and the similarity I see is that the graphic violence is integral to the gameplay itself. Removing the violence from these games would be tantamount to removing the game entirely.

With sex in video games, Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3, and the aforementioned GTA come to mind- all of which took off and became very successful, with the former two afaik being praised by many for the sexual content available. A lot of games that "rely" on sexual themes though, from what I've seen, tend to be porn games (not intended to be an insult), which at least from what I've seen, tend to not have as enthralling gameplay as other popular games. There's good ones, no doubt, but far fewer in number than the Dooms and CoDs as mentioned before.

At least that's my take on it, as lengthy as that might be lmao

That last sentence almost made me spit out my coffee, kudos to that

Damn, the stick drift as soon as you got it is unfortunate- I'm also surprised an open box product managed to be that defective. I remember getting a gaming laptop open box around 5 years ago, and from what I remember, it looked pristine and operated without any issues. I've recommended getting tech open box since, though with an experience like yours, I should probably temper my expectations and advice in the future.

But wow, I didn't even know Razer had a controller selling for that much. That's really steep. And yeah, I'm surprised as well more options don't exist, though I suppose it makes sense that the top brands like Microsoft and Razer dominate a market that (from what I imagine) is rather niche, as most people stick to standard Xbox/PS/Switch controllers. It's a shame modularity isn't more popular when it comes to controllers, or other pieces of tech for that matter. It's a real shame products like the Google Ara didn't take off, since those are the kinds of modular devices I'd absolutely love to see setting a mainstream trend.

It's strange to think that when modeling the conditions under which our solar system was created, it in part models everything humanity ever has been and (perhaps) everything humanity ever will be.

Lemmy got more than just "marginally" popular. It saw the biggest boom within its entire lifetime and became a viable alternative for anyone seekong an alternative to Reddit. We both still use it.

The article proves that enough noise was made to catch the attention of the biggest news publications, which remember the protest to this day. In other words, people still remember what Reddit did.

As far as online protests go, that was more successful than any other coordinated online protest in recent memory. Gotta start somewhere.

What is there to take seriously? It's a community vote on what games people liked across various categories. If the outcome of the vote isn't to your liking, accept that your opinion differs from them and move on. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.

My thoughts exactly. If it's making finding solutions to problems worse for the end user, that's obviously bad for the end user, but it also means it's affecting the reputation of the site in some meaningful way- even if it's as simple as inconveniencing a guy looking for an answer

Oh yeah, new or even used most of the time is pretty pricey. I think I got mine (series 2) for 44 bucks, with the case, accessories, and all that. The grip was peeling off the front, but thankfully it was only on the front panel, so one I had some spare change from Amazon gift cards, I got the replacement cover for another 10.

All in all, I think it was mostly luck on my end and not the norm xD

Very much agreed there. I still play Civ V to this day largely because I couldn't stand the art style of VI. Here's hoping VII tries something different.

To my knowledge, these privacy laws prevent corporations from holding onto your data after you have requested to delete it. Lemmy is not a corporation, and there is no single entity that holds onto all of your data. That's just a tradeoff of being decentralized.

If modern social media trends have shown us anything, it's that content quality could be shit and it doesn't matter if there will be thousands - if not millions- of people swarming to view it.

Nothing against you btw, it's just a general frustration I have with trying to move focus away from these sites

I found a cosmetically defective Elite Series 2 controller on the cheap on eBay, so I've been rocking with that with zero issues.

Definitely beats buying one new that's for sure