you should seriously consider what you put out into the world, because everything you put out leads to more of the same and serves as a step for an expansion of same
That is not true in the general case.
You need a successful game. If you have that, there will be imitations and more of that. Like how Cookie Clicker spawned basically the idle game genre.
Now, was there are craze about this game? Like there was about the book/movie 50 shades of grey? I dare say, no, there was not. If activsits did not have made a fuss about it, no one would have noticed the game.
These are negative fantasies, and people should be guided not into indulging in them, but towards overcoming them.
I would be interested how you perceive people that play horror games or watch horror movies. Are those not "negative fantasies" too?
Do you know the tv show Dexter? How about that one?
Things that are not possible in real life is a staple of fiction. I like science fiction / fantasy because of that, but also the adult genre. Soap opera drama is too real life for me. And that banned game probably has too much drama for my taste.
Using less extreme negative content to justify extreme content pretty well illustrates how these things build on each other.
As with many things it is a question of degree. There is nothing too bad about the horror genre in itself, but when people wallow in this kind of content, there is no doubt that it is damaging.
If "wallowing" is the source of the issue, than you would need to prove that certain content has more capabilities of getting people to wallow in it.
Also, you would need to prove that the problems are linked to the content and not linked to the wallowing. Overdoing an activity is usually a problem, no matter the activity.
You do not know why people play such a game. You do not know if they wallow in it. You argue backwards. You dislike this content and try to find ways that justify banning it for other adults. Your angle was the slippery slope, and that games are somehow educational and such games do not guide people properly.
But if your angle would be true, we could apply it to other genres as well. What good guidance do games give, where you play a criminal? Popular example is the GTA franchise. Also, tv shows where the hero is a criminal. Breaking Bad comes to mind. You think people liking that show are guided towards indulging or overcoming something? I dare say they are guided into liking the show
I am not justifying the content. I am critisizing the arguments used to ban it. They were used decades ago for games I played.
It is indeed obvious that you like to argue.
I was not suggesting that some content causes people to wallow in it, I was saying that something that is relatively harmless becomes bad when it is indulged in too much. Certainly some genres appeal to people who like to wallow in negativity, but that is beside the point.
You continue to use other less extreme content in an attempt to justify this filth. Your intention might be to be contrarian, but the effect certainly is a ham-fisted justification. I need provide no further description of the slippery slope, as you continue to do that quite well without realising it.
What same treatment would that be? The movie is available in the US. Are credit card companies and stores being bullied for accepting payments for that movie too?
That movie is a horror shocker movie which aims to disturb. It's distribution is "banned" in many countries. Germany is famous for doing such things and they now have it categorized in the same category in which also all porn is: forbidden to advertise. It previously was forbidden to sell. A sales place could not legally sell you a disc with the movie on it. It would have been a crime.
The game is a run of the mill incest porn game with artificial pictures and a dose of non con/blackmail. The aforementioned strict Germany would not have a problem with the game. Can't sell it to minors, but that's it. It is fiction and even depiction of minors would be ok in the game, as long as they do not look like real people. The game was approved on Steam, and Steam is known to have a high entry bar. The developers overdid their marketing on that angle and got backlash. A lot of it. To the point where people would call it a rape simulator and rile up the angry mob with a lot of false claims and false evidence and the usual fallacious arguments and non arguments against games, that I lamented so often in this thread.
I was saying that something that is relatively harmless becomes bad when it is indulged in too much
... that is trivially true. "too much" already makes it a true statement. When is "too much"? When it becomes bad.
You continue to use other less extreme content in an attempt to justify this filth.
I did no such thing. I am not saying x is ok, so x+ should be ok too. I am saying if your arguments hold true for x+, they should also hold true for x.
Three of your points were:
If x+ is out there, more x+ will be put out there. (1)
x+ is bad and people should be guided to overcome fantasies about x+. (2)
When people wallow in x+, that is bad. (3)
Yes? Are these your points? If so, they are all problematic.
1. You need x+ to be popular to spawn more x+. x+ is not popular. Look at popularity of horror games on Itch to see how that works. They are on page 1 and new ones are created by developers wanting to make a popular game too. It is the popular thing that spawns imitations, not the unpopular one.
2. You assert that people fantasize about it. Then you demand they be guided to overcome this. That is less of an argument and more how you wish the world to be. So I was interested how you apply this wish to other bad things. You did not answer. For it to be an actual argument against x+ you would need to show that people would fantasize about x+ because of a game about it, and furthermore that this leads to actual harm. For all you know someone playing that game might play it precisely to overcome any real life desires about x+. I would assume most play it for the appeal of the renderings and because the taboos and bad things of real life make fiction about it more interesting.
3. You are begging the question by starting with a player that wallows in such games too much. You would need to prove an addictive quality of a thing or something like that to have an argument. Like alcohol. There is danger of addiction and intoxication there. So of course, if someone who drinks "too much" that is a problem in several ways. Or gambling. Playing video games is not known to have similar problems. Besides the trivially things, like overdoing it, but you can overdo anything. Even collection stamps.
So again, no, I am not justifying content. I am critisizing how you argue against the content. Decades ago the content I played was heavily critisized by people not understanding games and fiction. They only saw people playing games where "you kill humans". And they argued how bad that was and called for bans. Mind you, those were popular games. If those type of arguments were untrue for those mainstream popular games, why should they now be true for nieche games.
"i see that as a good thing"
because you weren't bonked.
in the words of Huey freeman.
why are you afraid to be judged and not say the right thing? 
so an arbitrary line?
why is it a good thing? why finally? if you had a problem why even publish here at all?
"Polygons are not people, but you should seriously consider what you put out into the world, because everything you put out leads to more of the same and serves as a step for an expansion of same."
no it doesn't. you say they're not people. yet you use the same
you made a voyeur game. you have no right to speak. what happens when that is taken down because of objectification or some other line being drawn by an alt right hate group?
Just say you're a hypocrite and go.
The line is anything but arbitrary. In fact in the case of itch, I would say it is drawn far distant of what is damaging to society.
Just because one thing is okay, it does not mean every single thing on the same spectrum, no matter where it occurs, should also be acceptable.
you're hoping to just not get bonked with your voyeur game.
which may be next... because of the insidiously, flighty, mercurial capricious nature of censorship.
to the point where people lied about the game in the worst faith.
do you regret these words now? This is a question of a censorship this is a question of reactionary Theocratic suppression by payment processors. At the behest of extremists . That is why it was removed
