Off Topic: censorship and video games

I wish I could come home to this.

 It has been a very long day. The type of day that pinches your shoulder blades and twists your back, makes you yawn non-stop and pushes pain through your eye sockets. If I could be served as a meal, I would be bitter with a dash of salty, and probably bite back.

A perfect time to let loose a totally not dinosaur/science related rant about one of my lifelong passions: video games.

Plus I just drank some vodka. Here we go.

While browsing though the various internet drugs I'm hopelessly addicted to, I spotted an article from Niche Gamer about Idea Factory, the developer for many Japanese RPGs that are imported to America, making the choice to stop bringing over select games "that need censoring for western regulations".
Alright, so what kind of naughty games are these assholes peddling, right? They must be some raunchy, sex driven, adult only, porno games that are pushing the boundaries of our tame, American sensibilities.

/snort

Compile Hearts, the company behind the Hyperdimension Neptunia games are the ones who are deciding to take their business elsewhere. The censorship became too much for the developer, claiming that it was starting to "not be true to the original developed art". Now, in these games, you get to play as very pretty ladies who represent the major gaming consoles as Goddesses fighting essentially piracy, or becoming pop singers, or other silly themes like that. All the ladies/girls are adorable, some of them well endowed in the chest area.
Since these games are meant to be funny, the chests on these characters do in fact "jiggle" as they move, because well...boobies do that.

And if you've ever seen an anime before, titty mechanics are not based on real life AT ALL.
They are also big on panties, which is a big running joke in Japanese culture, based on women actually adopting the western style of clothing.

How much sex are in these games?

Uh, none. There isn't any. Bam.

Games in the United States are regulated by the ESRB system, which monitors the content in games and gives them ratings based on said content similar to how movies are rated. The games brought over by Idea Factory from Compile Hearts are rated T (teen) or M (mature). They are not AO (adult only), which are not sold in retail locations in the USA.
I know because I worked in a video game retail store for a decade.

So who's pissed off and why?

If you aren't familiar with the SJW movement, let me enlighten you. Take a wonderful concept like free speech, equality, fairness and justice and hand it over to angry, vengeful zealots who froth at the mouth at any remotely opposite their views on society. I wouldn't even say opposite...just not 100% parallel. These are the same overly PC ass-clowns that started the "check your privilege" bullshit that is tossed out anytime someone has a goddamn opinion about something.
The blow up from the SJWs involvement in the gaming community, mostly based on Who Shall Not be Named, started an equally stupid, over the top opposite group called GamerGate, who threaten and harass people who back the SJW crowd.
Cause you know. Fire with fire always works right? Talking rationally and being adults is way too fucking hard.
There has been a vicious backlash from these people all over various social media outlets from Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, attacking the video game industry for their portrayal of women in games. So when a Japanese dev comes over with bouncing boobs and panty shots, they go ape-shit.

I assume the reason they're so mad is because they believe that these kinds of games what show boobies and panties and have women being over the top is degrading towards women. They are worried that this will perpetuate the negative stereotype that women are viewed as sexual objects and not as things. It was cause sex crimes and belittling of females.
I get it. I really, honestly do. I'm a female and I know my skin crawls when I hear sexist bullshit that still flares up in the United States. We could have a whole different long post about the Planned Parenthood debockle going on right now.
But video games causing sexism? The evidence just isn't there.

Since these boob-filled games are from Japan, Japan must be riddled with sex crimes, right?

HAHAHA NOPE

According to NationMaster.com, USA is ranked 27th in rape crimes were as Japan sits happily at 52nd. That's 27 x more rape, my dears.

Now, I'm all for people having opinions, free speech, and blah, blah. But when you start effecting people because of your rhetoric, you better step up with some hard evidence about why the fuck you get to step in my weeb zone because it hurts your goddamn feelings.
I don't like Nascar. I think it's stupid as fuck. Do I think it should be shut down? No. Because I'm not an asshole. It even have females drivers, and I looked it up for lolz. I still don't give a crap.

You know what else has females playing an active role?

FUCKING JAPANESE ANIME MANGA, GAMES, AND SHOWS AS FUCKING DEVS, ARTISTS AND STORY WRITERS.

Sexuality isn't bad. You know what I like as much as I like boobie anime things?

Dating sims were I get to pick out which boy I like and date him. If I could have a game were they just prance around and be cute, you know damn well I'd have that shit day one.
Is that demeaning to men? No, because it's not fucking real. It's a goddamn game and they're drawings.
It makes me a weeb and kinda lame. And I'm really alright with that.
I have  hug pillow of my favorite character from said game. BOOM.

Plenty of sexy in male form too. Where is the outrage?!

I'm upset because this means a media I love and have loved for a very long time is getting locked down by the minority because they scream extra loud. Because developers are getting so much backlash and hate from people who are not fans of their work standing on high-horses to speak for all of us.

These games have to be bought by consumers and are not available to just anyone because of the regulations that go into game releases. They are extremely niche, not overly advertised and not at all shoved into anyone's faces. 

They are not causing anyone any harm. They are entertainment and not taken seriously in any way.

I'm a woman, a married woman, who thinks there is absolutely, 100%, nothing wrong with any of Compile Hearts games, and I think they are awesome.

Stop effecting me because you don't like anime titties. Fight for the stop of female genital mutilation, of sex slave trafficking, of women getting stoned and beheaded every. Single. Day. It makes me sick to think of all the good that can be happening with this kind of influence, but instead harmless art and entertainment is getting trampled.

I'm going to hug my Souji pillow and go to sleep now.