No matter our differences, we can all agree that belligerent midwit atheists are the most insufferable of all cunts.
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It's not arguable, IMO. The rainbow mafia are far, far worse than anything else I've experienced in terms of their ability to warp reality through censorship and force awful changes on everything.
In the 1990s we had blood replaced with sweat and green slime. In the 2020s, every female character is downright ugly and we have configurable feminine penis options on a game and it's not satirical.
Sometimes I think people fail to make a distinction between "compliance under protest" and "enthusiastic compliance"
"Compliance under protest" was when the studios made a change because the choice was either to do that or not get their game shipped to that country. So they did green blood, or the Nazis were robots or whatever. They'd change a texture, or the color of a texture to comply, but it's done as an afterthought.
"Enthusiastic compliance" is when you're a true believer who complies with both the letter and spirit of whatever law you're following. And you're usually going way above and beyond what the regulators would demand of you. The game is designed from the ground up to comply, because they want it to comply but maybe they have to change one thing at the end to make a regulator whose already happy with your game actually be able to check the final box.
In the 90s we had "compliance under protest". Today we have "enthusiastic compliance".
With MK, that was only on the Super Nintendo version and IIRC, only the first game. SEGA's big thing was being edgier compared to Nintendo's "safe for kids" branding. We had alternatives back then. Now the only hope is mods, and even those are subject to de-platforming. It's a 1000 times worse.