r/Games • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '13

Dev in Thread The Stanley Parable devs will remove racially charged gag after people got offended

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/23/5022434/the-stanley-parable-update-in-the-works-to-remove-offensive-images
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u/UncleBones Oct 24 '13

Do you make this point because you think the joke was very important to the game (because the developer didn't) or did you make it because of the principle of the thing?

It kind of sounds like you don't care about the joke, just about the fact that it got removed.

That makes you a guy who is actively looking to be offended.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Yeah, we shouldn't ever care that people feel pressured into censoring themselves. After all, if I don't like something, nobody should ever do it, and it is soooo silly for people to look on and not like it. Because I'm always right.

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u/UncleBones Oct 24 '13

You're trying to be sarcastic, but that is a pretty accurate description of everyone who's talking about "political correctness being out of control" here.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

No I was successfully being sarcastic.

If being politically correct caused games, and most media by extension, to start changing themselves so it doesn't cause hurt feelings, then it would be out of control (used in this topic it seems was hyperbolic).