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[joe_zazen]

Latest Game Informer podcast talks about how you have to kill dogs (complete with whimpering) and how your dog gets killed.

Not as bad as Wolfenstein 2, but bad enough that I am passing.

Just thought I’d pass the info on to fellow soft hearted dog lovers.

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Mochilador]

This reminds me of The Walking Dead Season 2 dog scene.

 

[Shagger]

So you kill dogs attacking you. So.... So what? Wouldn't be the first time one has had to defend oneself against a vicious animal in a video game.

 

[GAMETA]

Are you so soft you can't see a digital doggo dying? I mean, we're killing humans, wild animals and fungus zombies, you know...

Or you think killing virtual doggos will lead to mass shootings in pet shops?

 

[Son_of_Zardoz]

The ol' Huckabee simulator.

 

[hunthunt]

Its a game.

 

[joe_zazen]

Are you so soft you can't see a digital doggo dying? ...

It is more a case of me not finding it entertaining or enjoyable.

 

[Insane Metal]

It's ok to kill people tho.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Latest Game Informer podcast talks about how you have to kill dogs (complete with whimpering) and how your dog gets killed.

Not as bad as Wolfenstein 2, but bad enough that I am passing.

Just thought I’d pass the info on to fellow soft hearted dog lovers.

That is the real driving force, isn't it?

This is going to get me all emotional, innit?

She goes John Wick on them, every last one of them.

 

[GAMETA]

It is more a case of me not finding it entertaining or enjoyable.

Well, it's just another enemy... If it was a dog hunting simulator I'd understand your complaint, but...

 

[brap]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN GOOD BOY WOOFER LONGBOY! NOT THE BOOFER SNOUT BLEM DOGGO! NOT THE FLUFFER HECKIN LONGBOY CLOUDBOY PUPPERINO!

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's ok to kill people tho.

Not all people go to heaven, all dogs do.

 

[TGO]

It is more a case of me not finding it entertaining or enjoyable.

So you find killing humans enjoyable?

 

[Fushitsusha]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN GOOD BOY WOOFER LONGBOY! NOT THE BOOFER SNOUT BLEM DOGGO! NOT THE FLUFFER HECKIN LONGBOY CLOUDBOY PUPPERINO!

don't forget "zoomies".

 

[Verdanth]

 

[Sub_Level]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN GOOD BOY WOOFER LONGBOY! NOT THE BOOFER SNOUT BLEM DOGGO! NOT THE FLUFFER HECKIN LONGBOY CLOUDBOY PUPPERINO!

 

[RavageX]

For crying out loud it's a game. It's not glorifying is it? No.

It's there cause it makes sense, to use another example...Mafia 3 has lots of racial talk and tones. Why? Cause for that time period and location it was pretty accurate.

What is wrong with people these days???

 

[Shagger]

With all due respect to the OP, it's a video game. Getting emotionally attracted to the characters and invested in the story is what it's about, especially a game like this. However, if a player is unable to maintain a grip on reality to the point they can't stand hurting a pixilated dog then I think you have to consider whether video games work for you. It's like what those idiots at PETA keep complaining about. If you cant separate reality from fantasy you have issues well beyond the Ethical Treatment of Pixels.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I like dogs, but I use them as target practice in The Division 2. Because they aren't actually dogs.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I appreciate bringing it up, but yeah, it's just a game OP. It ain't a real dog you're killing or seeing get killed, so don't be upset.

Just like the people you're watching get killed and/or are killing are not real.

Me? I love dogs, but I'd gib the hell out of them in-game, lmao.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Is this a Cunth , thread?

 

[Kagero]

: |

 

[Gamernyc78]

Boy this sensitive ass fruity society we live in is getting worse and worse everyday. I'm about to disappear from it completely and go live in the outback or the Stix somewhere lol

I had a job party the other day and everything was humas and couscous and vegan wraps lol thy would have felt the same as OP

 

[Skyr]

It weirds me out when people are more bothered by the death of a dog compared to the death of a human.
The last time I noticed that was in the Chernobyl episode where they killed the contaminated dogs.
I watched some reviews of the episode on youtube and there were a lot of people that were literally crying over the dogs dying but were rather unfazed by some violent deaths of humans.

Granted all of these scenarios are fictional I find it rather interesting. I for one am always more concerned about my fellow humans.

 

[ruvikx]

Its a game.

Imagine if you had to kill angry lesbians & transgenders attacking you with knives. Then the devs would experience just how "it's a game" wouldn't cut it. Kotaku & co would burn down their studio.

 

[BigBooper]

I wonder what some of you people would do if you were actually attacked by a dog. Lie down and apologize for your neck being too chewy?

 

[ruvikx]

I wonder what some of you people would do if you were actually attacked by a dog. Lie down and apologize for your neck being too chewy?

Some people really like dogs though. Some people also prefer dogs to SJW's. Do the maths & it's easy to see "how" some people might in turn not enjoy Last of Us 2.

 

[Javthusiast]

It's a clown world.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Its a game.

/thread

 

[nkarafo]

A bunch of polygons and pixels put together to resemble a dog. So what?

Real dogs have it worse in China.

 

[GV82]

when I loaded up Red Dead Redemption One the first thing I did was shoot the horse, I’ve shot birds in Hitman, I’ve shot at the dog in GTA V

I also jumped on many animals heads in both Mario & Sonic going years back, where they not fun?

I have never had the urge to do any of this in real life, never even once felt like going hunting, yet there was a Duck Hunt game I played on the NES.


My point is I have been killing Animals in Videogames since as along as I can remember.


Does OP not like any Video Games ever? Because OP must have killed some animals unless he’s a fifa/ race sim only kinda person maybe Tetris or is killing other Animals fine and just not dogs? Where is the line drawn?

I have a pet dog in real life which I love and haven’t harmed him.

 

[Fake]

 

[Andrew Evenstar]

i seriously don't give a shit lol

 

[Ar¢tos]

I don't remember people crying about killing dogs in Resident Evil or Souls games.
But at least it's not cute spiders or endangered Dragons.

 

[Raven117]

Well, you know....since this is a video game and no actual dogs or humans were harmed in the video game (and dare I say real life), I have no problem with any of this. You aren't "killing a dog" you are pressing a button on a controller that causes a digital animation in the likeness of a human to look like it collides with another digital animation that looks like a dog.

Would the unadjusted nerds please just take a minute to appreciate that this is a fucking video game and not real life...For fucksakes.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

So if a dog ran at you intending to rip your throat out you wouldn't get the strap?

Okay.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yo, that animation is sick. The way the rope goes over the dogs head and it adjusts to get a better view from when it obstructs it's eyes.

 

[Stilton Disco]

You'd have thought in a zombie apocalypse, where said zombies are drawn to noise, that dogs, an animal whose primary defense against agressors is to run face first at it and try to bite it to death, and alerts others to danger by barking incredibly loudly, would be pretty much extinct.

Oh well, at least Ellie is going to try to fill that plot hole. Good on the oddly well fed and muscular lass!

 

[ManaByte]

 

[DeepEnigma]

That scene had me shook!

 

[Gamernyc78]

I don't remember people crying about killing dogs in Resident Evil or Souls games.
But at least it's not cute spiders or endangered Dragons.

Because the wrong ppl are slowly gaining power and the last few years has been their coming out party. All my cuchifrito spots in Harlem are gone and in turn have been replaced with soul cycle and vegan shops and my games are slowly being turned to cute, non offensive, non sexualized, soon non violent walking simulators. Thank God I can still walk down Broadway in Manhattan and still see all the eye candy I want until thy ban the camel toe, wedgy up the ass clothes some of these shorties wear

 

[ClanOfNone]

I mowed down dozens of innocent civilians in No Russian, I can handle a few fake doggo deaths.

 

[Gamernyc78]

So if a dog ran at you intending to rip your throat out you wouldn't get the strap?

Okay.

No they'd try to reason with it and throw kisses

 

[zcaa0g]

You won't be killing dogs, you will be killing pixels or polygons, whichever makes you feel better. And it's self defense, so it is killing, not murdering. Oh yeah, it's a game so it's neither of those either.

I've had dogs all of my life and will continue to do so, but as far as this game goes, bring on the dog meat!

 

[bitbydeath]

The ultimate boop

 

[Vitacat]

They are not real dogs.

The vast majority of people are not as fragile as some want to believe. But they will never know that so long as they shield themselves from every thought, image or expression that challenges their current mindset.

 

[junguler]

op should make a change.org petition to change this, i'm sure tens of people will sign it.

 

[Silent Duck]

I have no problem killing digital dogs.
It’s only a matter of time before they join forces like real dogs and come after us.
Actual news:

Clearly we need tougher gun laws for dogs.

 

[EnzoArt]

Kill Dogs = nooooooo
Kill People = ok