r/JRPG thread about banned loli steam game devolves into "am i really a p*do?" discourse and no one was shocked
editing for full original thread link: https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1gowgug/too_sexy_for_steam_animestyle_dungeon_jrpg_tokyo/
A user posted a link to a game that was said to be banned on steam for being "too sexy". It is quickly revealed that the game was actually banned for sexualizing minors. This goes about as well as one would think.
The aforementioned comment thread is a gold mine on its own. One user argues it's low iq to compare pedophilia with attraction to drawn cp:
I don't like polish [sic] but I just find it disingenuous ti compare it to actual pedophilia I think that's the sign of a low iq person, I do think it's weird sure and it's nit my thing but it's not pedophilia, it's weird despite that.
Another upvoted comment argues that fantasizing about pedophilia through drawings can't actually be pedophilia because it's fictional, in a very convoluted string of back and forth and some golden quotes:
Correct, pedophilia is the attraction to children. Since we’re talking about drawings, not children, it’s not pedophilia.
Nobody is “fantasizing about children” — again, we’re discussing drawings, which aren’t real and cannot be harmed
Or is it possible to like something in fiction while despising it in real life?
Nothing, that’s absolutely sick. Drawings on the other hand? they’re cute and funny :) not much more I can say about that. Your argument about “attraction to kids” doesn’t work because nobody here is attracted to kids.
A branching thread of the goldmine comment devolves into "why can I murder children in video games but not want to fuck them":
One including an extremely graphic reenactment of child murder in RimWorld
You can kill kids in RimWorld. You can tie them down and remove organs and limbs while they're still alive, sell them off to slavery, or just use them as meat-shields. Shoot them, burn them to death, watch as claws/jaws of beasts rip them apart. And after they're dead, cannibalize their meat.
Or this OP chime in
Seems crazy that they're okay with gore in games like Corpse Party and Chaos;Child but swimsuits are banned.
And then yet ANOTHER branching thread of goldmine comment highlights that these twelve year-olds can't really be twelve because their boobs are too big:
Since when do 12 year olds have B to D cup breasts? I swear, aside from being incapable to distinguish exaggerated anime drawings from reality, some of the takes I read here are beyond insanity.
Hint: 12 year olds don't have D cups. Thus they cannot look like 12 year olds. Let alone exaggerated anime characters with eyes as large as fists.
This defense also shows up another time the post
From my knowledge 12 year olds don't have B or even D cup breasts. The delusions here...
There's even some bonus juice of commenters flexing that their families and friends know about their loli fetish and accept them for it:
Record you telling your mom, dad, grandparents, and coworkers you''re excited for this game and show them the trailer, I'll buy you a copy of it if they can all manage to not look disgusted or disappointed in you.
My dear mother knew my hobbies since I was a teenager obsessed with anime and games. I turned 40 this year and my hobbies and passion for this remained. Everyone who knows me knows this. As an old man all I can tell you is that you kids will eventually learn that at some point you end up giving a f*ck what other's think about you. If you are ashamed for what you enjoy and like you are quite pathetic from my point of view.
So show this to your dad and boss and see if they can manage to ever look you in the eye again
You keep saying this like a gotcha, but my relatives and friends know, so...🗣
Most of the heavily downvoted comments in this thread come from a lone user that seems to strike a nerve:
That’s not the argument being made—no one here said watching anime makes random people molest children.
The argument is being attracted to kids is attraction to kids. Not that you’ll do anything with it. Or even that you’re okay with it.
Explain to the crowd what you enjoy about seeing little girls doing sexual content.
Cause I can easily explain why GTA is fun despite not wanting to commit most crimes irl. But explain to me the appeal of seeing drawn middle schoolers getting massaged.
Don’t bother replying if you aren’t going to do that. I’ll just reply “lol knew it” and then mute reply notifications
“It’s just a drawing” isn’t an answer—why do you want this specific thing drawn
Why aren’t you into fictional adults?
What about fictional children is appealing to you over adults?
Do you confess your attraction to fictional children to real life adults? Would you be okay showing this “just fiction” to real life children of the same age? Why not? It’s just fiction
All in all, loli fans are never beating the loli fans allegations. Made for quite the read on a Monday night.