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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.

Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.

AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.


Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 171 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Havent you heard? Violence appropriate, sex and nudity not. Its totally okay to see people being dismembered, but you better never show a nipple.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin

“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.”

[–] lofuw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener...

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently published my novel, and at the last minute I had this panic about what was appropriate. There's one bigoted character who calls gay people "f***ot" multiple times, as well as many characters that drop F-bombs on numerous occasions. There's a (semi-magical) event similar to a mass shooting, many references to torture, and someone's hand is chopped off. To be really safe, I put a content warning on the first page just to make some of that clear. Surely, that puts it a level beyond the Young Adult region, right? But...possibly not, given what I tend to hear offhand of some series.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stephen King's best (solo) book, IT, has probably over 200 N-bombs in it. It's still his best book. Very much a product of its time (and an author who was so coked up he doesn't remember writing a lot of it), but still his best book.

Your novel is Young Adult, or no? It's not clear. I don't know what the rules are for YA in America/Europe, but I'm reading the Sword Art Online series (rather, having anime lead Bryce Papenbrook read it to me, via the audiobooks) and SAO (which is LN which means Light Novel, which is Japan's version of YA) has dismemberment. Arms being chopped off, people being chopped in half... the anime is known for its scenes of SA, but the first two weren't SA in the books (the anime exaggerated what happened). The one in season 3 absolutely is an SA though. I haven't gotten to the one in season 4 yet but I've heard it's not. There's also torture, but it's not too serious. They're playing video games, VR based. At one point the pain is amplified and a character is viciously attacked, so he feels it 10x more. In another case, people are trapped in a world that moves 1,000x slower than real life (so like a year in the game is like an hour in real life or something like that). The kind of stuff Black Mirror did (White Christmas, Black Museum, USS Callister). But not a lot of profanity. (Of course, I'm also reading it translated to English. I have no idea what Reki Kawahara actually wrote, because I would not be able to read the original Japanese text.)

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love the IT audiobook but you absolute cannot listen to it where somebody might hear it.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

I listened 100% on my AirPods.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok. 🙄

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Twitch also has that rule for streamers.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

To be fair, there would be a loooot of nipples on Twitch otherwise. It’d be nipple sea.

Still stupid, though.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] Clairvoidance@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Something about it giving teen boys a higher propensity for porn addiction, and maybe teen girls issues in relation to self-image and what they have to do for validation 

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Who fucking cares?

Credit card companies.

And their ad buyers, maybe.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Back when bash.org was around: Person 1: Person 2 has so little game he could fall into a barrel of nipples and come out sucking his thumb. Person 2: The concept of a barrel of nipples confuses and frightens me.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've heard "if it were raining titties, I'd open my mouth and catch a dick."

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That would be a sight worth seeing.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the days before Bailey Jay transitioned and got in trouble for showing her breasts while waiting in line at Comicon and then protested "but I'm a boy."

[–] Yohnstoppable@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

"line trap" was literally when I realized I was into trans women, lol

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It was a meme when I transitioned to post top less pics until they got censored. This was back when free the nipple was a bigger force though

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And encouraged, as featured in Nintendo's own Super Mario Odyssey!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Odyssey Dem Mario Nips

Yeah, also if we argue that violent videogames don't cause violence - what's the problem with sexual content? If they're censoring sexual stuff because they believe videogames if corrupt and change behaviour, the violent ones should definitely be banned.

Also - I'm using Google's Android keyboard and just realised the dictionary didn't know the word 'sexual'. Just in case someone might try to write something spicy. FFS. It knew 'violent' though.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nudity is fine

Weve got boobs and dicks even in children cartoons here

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 day ago

Those cartoons on Hentai Haven and Pornhub aren't for kids.

[–] goferking0 3 points 1 day ago

Not really. Have violence without blood and they'll rate it teen. Anything close to nudity instant mature rating. Same with searing. Can gun down hundreds if no blood but if they use naughty language while doing it mature /: