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Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by ziml77 »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #70
numpad0 wrote: post #60

It's a relatively old game, so I'll put up here a spoiler so to remove potential confusion: DDLC is a __horror__ game that contains some gore, death, and self harm content, as well as small fourth wall breaking, disguised as a Japanese Visual Novel style soft/hard porn game. The entire game is a figurative jumpscare. Which makes it technically true to call it a "disturbing and shocking" game, but not as in """disturb…

I'm intentionally not reading your post, but the "it's old so I can spoil it" is never an acceptable stance in a world where they keep making more people. The world doesn't begin and end with your experience.

How can people ever discuss something in public fora if spoilers have to be eternally avoided? Keep in mind, people often disagree on what even crosses the line into being a spoiler.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by snicky »

anonym29 wrote: post #64
oceansky wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brazil and India have created alternatives to Mastercard/Visa duopoly. EU is seeking to do the same.

Bitcoin exists. Completely permissionless, anyone on earth can use it. Easier to accept as a merchant than any third party integration. Doesn't require you to trust any government at all.

Cool, but unfortunately, it has the same same drawbacks as cash. If you get scammed, accidentally pay too much or lose your wallet you will never get it back. I sleep safer knowing that there is some protection in the banking system against losing money all of sudden.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by peterspath »

cubefox wrote: post #103
lxgr wrote: post #24

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Hey, on the other hand, zero malware! It is zero, right? Please say it's zero... Just today I found a malicious version of Ledger on the macOS app store. It's been there for five weeks , and there are already some anecdotes out there of people losing their coins. I guess that's somehow the developer's fault for not "staking their claim" to their name, as Apple seems to only monitor for malicious duplicate submissions…

And only 30% fees, just for being on the app store!

15 for most

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by snicky »

nickv wrote: post #128
esperent wrote: post #121

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I downloaded the Android version yesterday to see what everyone is on about. It's absolutely stuffed with trigger warnings. I had to click through about 4 screens saying that yes, I'm definitely ok with seeing disturbing content, and there's even a setting that will warn you before each individual disturbing screen. I played 30 minutes and realized my personal trigger is sickeningly "cute" anime girls, and there's no…

Oh dude, this game is going to rock your world. I'm like giddy for you experiencing this for the first time with no spoilers. I was like "meh" too at first ("what are people TALKING about?") and, then, it just gets incredible.

I played it years ago and sorry, it didn't rock my world even for 5 minutes. It's a very naive story with a jump-scare sort of ending that totally didn't work for me, because it was well expected. The story felt very underwhelming comparing to most books, movies or games even. IMHO a complete waste of time.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by pasquinelli »

brookst wrote: post #126
echelon wrote: post #95

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There hasn't been so much as a finger lifted against antitrust behavior since 2000. They feel as though they're invincible at this point.

This is false and it weakens your position. https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-g... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-l... https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-a... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/19/eu-orders-apple-to-open-up-a... …and there are many more. You can say those aren’t enoug…

can you explain how someone being incorrect about something weakens their position? i assume the position in question is that their should be more trust busting. "there have been these antitrust actions" isn't actually a counter argument to "there should be more antitrust actions", so it doesn't weaken the position, unless i'm not understanding what you mean by that.

you know what my favorite fallacy is? the fallacy fallacy, the mistaken assumption that by showing an argument is invalid you've shown its conclusion is false.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by devmor »

userbinator wrote: post #160
Anvoker wrote: post #141

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If you've ever had trauma, especially recent, you'll appreciate well done content warnings. You don't want the dramatic plot twist to happen to be exactly the topic you've been trying to avoid so that you can slowly get better. If you've experienced a certain kind of trauma, it's not a matter willpower. It involves a loss of control over one's emotional response and thoughts which can be triggered by things that rela…

Teaching people to not let emotions get to them, and offending them to build up that immunity, used to be a normal part of life. I wonder what happened.

People gained more exposure to eachother and realized it was kind to warn eachother of things that might bother them a lot.

There’s quite a difference between the popularized image of what trigger warnings are and the common sense use-cases like “this media contains depictions of graphic sexual assault that some viewers may find disturbing”.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by kelnos »

I'm so tired of the paternalism from Google and Apple. And of course we have little choice, since we've surrendered to monopolists and walled gardens.

It's disgusting, really, that most of the world is totally fine with this. Most people probably don't even realize how bad this is.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by JayDustheadz »

bengotow wrote: post #7

Just want to drive by and mention - a friend told me to play DDLC and I was highly skeptical given the anime pin-up girl art style. I eventually gave in and gave it a shot. It's an amazing "playable story" unlike anything I have ever played. Super creative and well worth the couple hours it takes to play. I think it could use a few trigger warnings and it should be rated PG-13 / R, but there's stuff on Netflix 10x mo…

If you want something just as surprising & good, I'd recommend giving "Slay the princess" a go - a really unique hidden gem. Or, if you're not into it, then check Euro Brady's playthroughs for this game ( he also did DDLC btw. ) - the commentary is awesome and gives insight into many things you wouldn't normally find out yourself.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by acheron »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #70
numpad0 wrote: post #60

It's a relatively old game, so I'll put up here a spoiler so to remove potential confusion: DDLC is a __horror__ game that contains some gore, death, and self harm content, as well as small fourth wall breaking, disguised as a Japanese Visual Novel style soft/hard porn game. The entire game is a figurative jumpscare. Which makes it technically true to call it a "disturbing and shocking" game, but not as in """disturb…

I'm intentionally not reading your post, but the "it's old so I can spoil it" is never an acceptable stance in a world where they keep making more people. The world doesn't begin and end with your experience.

Have you seen Passion of the Christ yet? Jesus dies.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05/as-regards-spo...

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