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Your Dunkle Sans posted:It didn't really get answered in the Stupid poo poo thread, but why does the AO rating for video games even exist? I don't know of any games that are even released with an AO rating. Looking at the list on Wikipedia, it's pretty much all hentai games and other such stuff with really explicit sexual content (like San Andreas during the Hot Coffee situation), with some games with really gruesome violence. Most of the bigger games there chose to make edits to get a lower rating; the only one that didn't that wasn't outright made as pornography anyway was Hatred.
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My favorite anime censorship situation was Yu-Gi-Oh's. I'd say Yu-Gi-Oh's censorship was lazy, but it really wasn't, because most of the violence in the seasons we got was supernatural. Not a lot of blood to photoshop out when Yugi's just killing people via psychic powers. A lot of pointing where there were guns, admittedly. What they did do was scrub any mention of death or explicit violence from the (remarkably murder-happy) show, usually replacing them with something about the Shadow Realm. Kaiba's 'ghost' turned up at one point, which was especially unbelievable because nobody in the dub tried to kill him. Later, Kaiba's threat of suicide if Yugi didn't forfeit their duel turned into... basically nonsense, because his threat of self-harm had to have any elements of self-harm taken out of it. The best poo poo came with the Battle City arc, though, where like every bad guy had set up a Saw trap for some reason. But the dub couldn't talk about actual death or violence, so we got things like a trap in the dockyard that would
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Thin Privilege posted:Around here all the radio stations have different words they have to censor. One is allowed to say bitch, another isn't. One is allowed to say rear end and another one isn't. It's weird when there's a song that is popular so plays on 4 stations but each station has a different version. I heard a radio edit of Power by Kanye West late last year, and I thought it was loving hilarious because like half the song wasn't there.
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because it was so different from the radio version.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Speaking of Nintendo and censorship, there's the whole issue of crossdressing, transexuality, and ambiguous gender that gets totally whitewashed for American release compared to their Japanese counterparts as is the case with Birdo the dinosaur, Vivi the ghost (from Paper Mario), and Gracie the giraffe (from Animal Crossing). It's actually really ambiguous what Vivian is in Japan. Beldam says she's a man as an insult, but that could either be an actual thing or just insulting her looks (as she does more directly in translations). All later mentions of it, which are few, are in-universe as Goombella's notes and observations. Goombella's kind of a ditz though, so it could also be that she's just taking the insult as a statement of fact, and either way she's clearly confused by it. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 05:23 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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