The Metal Gear Solid Collection is so true to Hideo Kojima's "original vision" that it needed a new content warning (www.gamesradar.com)

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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I think this kind of content warnings kind of makes sense for children’s television. But these are games primarily targeted towards adults. We’re able to form our own opinion.

[-] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I've been an adult for a little while now and I can confirm: Adults don't exist. We're all children with various levels of impulse control. But it is frustrating when you feel like you're being treated like a child. The reason I learned not to repeat swear words on TV wasn't because they took all the swear words out. It's because I repeated them, got in trouble, and learned my lesson. So, I'm not against it, but it shouldn't be news worthy that someone chose not to butcher prior art.

Fuck me I sound like I'm 60.

[-] bighi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Isn’t a warning good for that, though?

A warning helps you make an informed decision.

[-] nevemsenki@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When everything has a label, all labels are ignored.

Like This chemical has been proven to cause cancer in the state of California, literally plastered on everything.

[-] bighi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If there’s no label, the option to not ignore it isn’t even there.

If you guys are really in favor of adults being able to make their own informed decisions, hiding important warnings is not the way to go. Or maybe you just want to complain, like many other people.

Make up your mind.

[-] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I design and operate monitoring systems, and let me tell you, information fatigue is a real thing. Warning labels make sense when sensibly used; otherwise people get conditioned to ignore them, even if they would be crucial. Think of road signs: if there was a speed limit of 10 before every turn, all speed limits would soon lose credibility.

Hardest part of the job is actually learning which alerts we need to keep and which to trim.... if we simply slap warnings on everything, everyone would ignore them soon enough.