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Zeus posted...

And it's emblematic of a larger trend against the very tenets of democracy where rather than try to convince people of their arguments, the far-left is focused on not letting a discussion take place at all.

What discussion do you think is worth having around the question of whether or not teachers should be allowed to inspect students' genitalia if they suspect the student is trans? Because that's the sort of thing some members of the GOP are pushing for, meaning that's what is being supported by donations to the GOP. I don't know about you, but I think that's worth criticizing, and I don't think there's much room to defend it.

There's a rather alarming trend of trying to characterize the left as shutting down all dissenting opinions, but that's really not what's happening at all. The left is trying to shut down opinions that are utter shit, and rather than defending their shit opinions, those holding them cry "censorship" and "slippery slopes" in a thinly-veiled effort to act like the problem is that their right to free speech is being violated, and not just that they have shit opinions. Sadly, people eat that right up and start clutching their pearls in terror that they could be next.

Unbridled9 posted...

You can like a piece of work without approving of what the author says/does otherwise.

You cannot, however, purchase a game (or otherwise consume or promote the media) without funding whatever the author chooses to do with their income. Some percentage of the price of every single copy of FNAF sold has been donated to the GOP. That's the simple, inescapable reality of supporting an author: you contributing to everything they do with their money, whether you like it or not.

Now, some of that sale price has also gone toward buying Cawthon a home, and feeding him and his children, and buying other video games for him and his children, and plenty of other non-GOP-related things. It's pretty uncommon for all of the profits from a piece of media to go toward a single cause (and when that does happen, it's typically explicitly stated for promotional purposes), so ultimately, you have to weigh your contribution to the cause you don't like against the contribution to stuff you do like. Nevertheless, though, financially supporting somebody means you are playing a role in whatever they are financially supporting. That's not something you can ever get away from.

Unbridled9 posted...

A loss like this, regardless of the reason, diminishes games as a whole.

It does, but pretty trivially. There are tens of thousands of games out there. Had FNAF never existed, people would have been just as entertained by something else. At this point, I don't even know of anything within the franchise that was coming down the pipes that has been scuttled by this decision to retire, let alone anything that gaming as a whole is truly worse off for not having. The market is huge: any void left will be filled so instantly that nobody will even notice.

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