Hello, fine people of the world!

In the last few weeks, mainstreamers were exercising their already overgrown outrage muscle, in the last entertainment realm they have any influence left (video games).

Some half-baked profane visual novel (Rape Day) was about to go out on Steam, involving high levels of violence in terms of rape, obviously.

I didn’t bother publishing anything on it, because I prefer rapists to spend their time playing video games on their computers, instead of being out and about – but that’s just me.

Then, after a collective outcry of your typical suspects, Steam got cold feet and bailed out on releasing the game.

Leaving them to once again keep rationalizing their dodgy policies about adult games.

We are still as usually stuck at grasping the notion that portraying something does NOT actually mean you are doing an active promotional campaign in its favor.

A cynic would say that the world has seen a significant drop in violence, since the advent of violent films. But logic is not the favorite tool of people who are quick to swarm you with their emotional outbursts of any variety.

People, as you can expect, have tried to get rid of the film Irreversible much in the same fashion.

However, as we are increasingly aware, the movie industry has much less fucks to give about what its critics think, and rarely ever rolls over because of such tantrums.

Regardless of what you and I may think about this case in particular – as expected, this puts increasing pressure on Steam’s adult plans in general, as various forces try to make them reconsider their overall position.

A beautiful thing this time around is that, instead of a nondescript spin-doctor line, someone over at Steam actually had the guts to give a simple and direct explanation about the whole affair without their trademark bullshit:

-They simply can’t predict and don’t want to deal with the ramifications.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1808664240304050758

The situation has gone in the predictable corporate fashion – as yours truly has explored recently:

This is just one more event, where you can grab your popcorn and watch people do stupid things – much like that time THQ Nordic decided to do an AMA on 8chan of all places.

I personally am more disgusted by mainstream pop music videos than some small-time edgelord’s low budget depiction of sexual violence, but I am very well aware I’m a minority on the subject.

Keep in mind, however, that even the content that exists now would not be able to – without the never-ending push to disregard the censorious among us.

If I were Steam, I’d solve two problems at once by throwing out all the garbage tier production quality games on Steam. But they are much more willing to screw over the customer by selling them unusable trash, than selling them a crude game about screwing.

Also, this time it is not just minor sites like mine calling Steam amateurs in the way they handle these affairs.

Even outlets that are generally against adult content now can separate their outrage and look at the behavior independently of the product at hand.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/03/06/valve-will-not-allow-rape-day-to-be-sold-on-steam/

https://kotaku.com/valve-removes-rape-day-from-steam-with-vague-nonsensic-1833104632

In any case, Steam’s adult future is one step closer to Tumblr’s. We will just have to wait and see how future controversies play out.

The level of stupidity that people are willing to sink to for some nickel and dime is always worth the spectacle.

Steam probably thought that sooner or later they would be able to tap into sexploitation like the movie and music industries have been able to for decades.

But they, apparently, can’t keep their shit together and have a consistent position that doesn’t make them look like fools in the eyes of people on all sides of the adult argument.