It worked for my older sister who is a Lieutenant Colonel and a combat veteran. Who was genuinely someone I looked up to and was a mentor while I was serving. Ironically she also has similar tastes in art and other media, she’s not a video gamer though. She prefers the table top stuff.
The difference is, I’m willing to fight over these beliefs and have the scars to prove it. You’re begging developers to give your children a better world, rather than provide it yourself. You can’t parent with a closed door.
I’m not going to say you are a bad parent. No one is perfect, and no one really knows the best way to handle it. We’re human after all. But what is happening under your roof is your issue. There are many people here who have kids. They have their own issues and don’t need more. There are many who have kids who have grown up and left the home. They paid their dues, and don’t need your issues. Then there are some who decided not to (or couldn’t) have kids. Its still not their responsibility to help you with yours.
Just like politics or religion, your issues need to stay with you. I’m not saying that is nice or fair, or even good. But this is something every parent takes on. Someone enjoying a video game, movie, painting, drawing, or story is not making your job easier or harder. Its entirely separate.
When a girl gets turned down by a boy because of bodily preferences. Its not because of a character in a video game. When she gets bullied for her choice in clothes by other girls, its not because of what someone does with their thralls in Conan Exiles. Its because kids are ass holes.
My mom got picked on when she was growing up because she didn’t have shoes due to her family being poor. Not because An Hour of the Dragon was a best selling novel at the time (even though it got its first hardback around that time).
To be fair I don’t think he believes that either. He’s frustrated because there’s a problem and he’s looking for some way to solve it. Its the means he is going about it is flawed, futile, and way outside of his lane. You said it best here:
I remember when the ESRB became a thing in the early 90s. The idea was to give parents an idea of what to purchase and what not to purchase. Well the problem is that irresponsible parents don’t pay attention to warnings. It kind of reminds me of when I worked at a theater during the time when Team America released. Girls in the box office warned people bringing their kids and they still brought them in. Then were wanting refunds when they wanted to walk out.
Then we have this mindset which Erjoh is following where the rating system isn’t enough. The nasty content (whether it be sexual themes, violence, or in this case the depictions of the supposed ‘perfect’ form or however you want to call this), needs to be suppressed or changed at the developer/artistic level and hold them responsible.
That just doesn’t make any sense. I guarantee the artists and developers at Funcom had no intention of Conan Exiles being played by children in middle school for example. But they’re still somehow responsible for little boys thinking girls need to look like they’re pornstars.
He goes on about responsibility, but he’s holding the wrong people responsible. Why not hold the parents of those jerk kids responsible? And that’s only assuming they are bullying. I mean sorry to say… but if a boy turns down a girl because he thinks she’s not pretty is a personal preference (while shallow) that they allowed to have, or a group of girls that simply don’t wish to admit another into their group is also a thing they are allowed to do. It sucks to be turned down, it sucks to feel left out. But people are allowed to make such decisions. I mean we don’t have the full story here and to be honest… Erjoh needs to keep that stuff to himself. Its an issue he needs to deal with on his own. Not the Conan Exiles community.