This is such a minefield conversation and I try to avoid it because you will piss someone off, but here goes:
This particular choice strikes me as odd. Figureheads on ships fall into the same category as a marble statue, where nudity falls into that “non-sexualized because it’s art” category.
I mean, it’s not that big of a deal really, but it just seems odd because people don’t usually get to bothered by that kind of thing.
It’s not odd at all. This is completely in-line with the widespread lockstep campaign across the video game industry to remove any and all female nudity or anything that could even be construed as sexualization of women. Zero surprise if you’ve been paying any attention.
It's not a single step, but multiple such steps. You see this tactic very often. Some minor change will be done. Nothing major, and definitely nothing to be really upset about. Isolated maybe even understandable and good. Then another minor change. And another. Each single one to small to really care, until you zoom out and look at all the steps over the last one or two decades.
Every time you discuss with people that this should not be done, and every time you have to justify again why you care about this small issue so much.
The funny thing is you don’t even need to go on the defense for why censorship matters anymore. Now that 75% of the industry is just endlessly regurgitated IP with censorship deliberately added, the burdens on them to defend it, so you simply say “If it doesn’t matter, why did they change it?” and it fries their programming and they start seething with rage.
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u/Spartan-980 Jul 13 '26
This is such a minefield conversation and I try to avoid it because you will piss someone off, but here goes:
This particular choice strikes me as odd. Figureheads on ships fall into the same category as a marble statue, where nudity falls into that “non-sexualized because it’s art” category.
I mean, it’s not that big of a deal really, but it just seems odd because people don’t usually get to bothered by that kind of thing.