Recent Spate of Video Games Set in Japan Cause Concern For Cultural Sites

[the54thvoid]

Begs the question why mods don't, y'know, just prevent obviously inflammatory news articles from being posted at all and avoid the problem entirely... but I have long given up on trying to fathom the logic behind editorial decisions made on this site.

Let me help out here.

1 - The site is not the forum. The news items posted are part of the front page. You don't need to join to read them - it's free news. The moderating team has no power to act on the front site, that includes the news posts. We can't edit them or delete them.

2 - The forum is where people join TPU (of their own free volition) to discuss tech or the posted news. This is where we come in. Our mandate is to moderate the community forum that is derived from the front site news posts. Sometimes we lock news posts, but we have no power to delete them. The news team are part of the paid staff team. The mods are part of the volunteer community.

3 - TL;DR - we're only here to moderate the community - not the news.

I hope that clears things up.

 

[FierceRed]

Ah more hand wringing over videogames causing real world bad juju.

At least we seem to have moved off the ridiculous "video games cause mass shooting events" dogshyte of the early 2000's.

I remember the Mortal Kombat moms fearing the game would cause school violence in the 90s.

Yeah sure mom, school bullies definitely needed a videogame to be child assholes. It totally wasn't natural or anything

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I remember the Mortal Kombat moms fearing the game would cause school violence in the 90s.

Yeah sure mom, school bullies definitely needed a videogame to be child assholes. It totally wasn't natural or anything

- Yeah, nothing like growing up in the late 80's and 90's and watching society lurch from one moral panic to another. Looks like all those chickens have come home to roost for us Americans anyhow...

 

[Assimilator]

I remember the Mortal Kombat moms fearing the game would cause school violence in the 90s.

Yeah sure mom, school bullies definitely needed a videogame to be child assholes. It totally wasn't natural or anything

That was always a very American case of stupid hypocrisy.

 

[AusWolf]

I remember the Mortal Kombat moms fearing the game would cause school violence in the 90s.

Yeah sure mom, school bullies definitely needed a videogame to be child assholes. It totally wasn't natural or anything

Yes. The world was a peaceful and tranquil paradise where everyone lived happily and smiled all day before video games promoting violence came along. Oh wait...