OK, so if I was to write a generic thread about "please don't send me newsletters for games I don't like" I probably wouldn't have titled it "porn games in email again".

Revealed their opinion is. This is about not receiving porn games in their email because they don't like receiving newsletters advertising porn games. Not just specific porn games, or generically all games not liked. Porn games. If the OP didn't want this discussion to be about this specifically, then they need not have included it in the thread title.

And no, I'm not picking on the OP for being a puritan. But I will knock on the head the blanket statement that all adult content which depicts flirty behavior, sexual references and suggestive clothing are porn or pornographic. There is a very big difference. GOG actually doesn't sell a great deal of the truly pornographic stuff - even less depending on your region's censorship.

God-forbid they actually want people to, you know, buy what they're selling. We're consenting adults of appropriate age and we consented with our newsletter subscriptions. Perhaps, rather than complaining about the situation, we can exercise some personal initiative and just deal with our end?

I'm seeing your point here but I got a big crap to do right now so I will get back to you shortly.

Thanks

But which was destroyed? The master, or the apprentice?

Yes, his opinion. Not his reasons for it. Which are, in any case, not really relevant.

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I give up.

Why do you assume it is males who need protection? Maybe they are real men who are protecting a vulnerable family member, like their spouse, who may accidentally see the marketing material?

There are certain topics that will trigger people who have experienced violence. This includes sexual violence. You may like boobies with your cornflakes but some people do not wish to EVER see sexual imagery. (Hence the ratings system.)

Assuming this isn't a trolling exercise botan9386 has already refuted your comment.
I would argue that sexualized content, similar to violent content, needs special treatment. (This can cause a physical reaction in vulnerable people: violent vomiting.) In 2025, it is indefensible to stream undifferentiated material to prospective customers for any reason and especially if it may cause harm.

In any case, it is poor strategy to carpet bomb the mailing list with everything available. This type of sorting algorithm is the first way to customize a letter, after the person's name and address, and its absence speaks volumes about the Gog's marketing sophistication and motivation. Either they can't or they think it is not worth the effort.

Tangent:
There is a (de facto) category for such (non-) fiction called "cozy". Unfortunately, some authors do not bother to categorize their material accordingly and what at first appears to be cozy is in fact laced with graphic sexual content without any contextual signposting — at the start of a new chapter, for instance.

So you have identified a legitimate refutation to your own argument. QED.
Yes, this was my solution.

OP's point aside, I was pointing out the unnecessary misandry laced within that user's post. People against such things can be men or women, not just 'fragile men afraid to see naked women bits', so there was no need to try and frame the viewpoint as one held by men and men alone.

You're arguing for nothing. There isn't just one correct answer. We each have to choose and individual choices can be different. However, GOG has to cater to all of us and if that's not possible, to most of us. To do that, they need to present options, as varied as they come. This might conflict with our individual choices, but that's an us problem.

Every time we make a choice, something has to be left behind. In this case, GOG's choice of reaching the wider audience means your individual comfort get to be that something.

Whatever you do, don't open that email, or you could be shocked or shamefully titillated.

Just delete the email, unopened ... not hard to do and barely takes any time.

GOG have some issues that will sadly never be likely rectified.

That said, I opened the email just in case there was something good in it. I got slightly titillated, but that doesn't bother me, and I didn't even bother to have a wank. Nothing good to report, same old same old.

LOL

Then it is their responsibility and their responsibility only to avoid this kind of content. Gog is selling adult game, violent games, horror games and worse... Smufs games, if peoples are "triggered" by any of those content then why do they subscribe to a newsletter which has a good amount of chance of containing said content ?

That peoples ask if it is possible for Gog to add some filters (based on ratting, tags, whatever...) for the newsletter it one thing, but subscribing to the newsletter, knowing there is currently no filters, and then make threads whining that they were traumatized because Gog dared send them e-mail about games they don't like is stupid.

Can I say? I completely agree with you. But it is strange that on the same day, GoG sent two separate newsletters: the first with "gaming" content and the second one just with adult-content games. Yes, I agree we need something to customize the game we like to play and stay up-to-date with.

I doubt the reason for the two newsletters is the type of games they contain. I did not even receive the fetish locator newsletter because I own the games already but if I am not mistaken these were actual newsletter exclusive discounts in opposite to the usual newsletter that is just showing several games (with and without discount) GOG is acually selling. Imo this is why they were sent seperately.

The contents of the newsletter has manifestly changed over time. Years ago there were approximately none of these pr0n games and now the website is replete with them. (Violence is ubiquitous and eternal.)

You seem to be saying that being triggered is some sort of personal choice.

People who know their triggers will be vigilant for them. I have been patrolling the virtual perimeter for many years, hence this is not an urgent personal concern. You are basically correct, however; the simplest solution is to abstain from the newsletter. I haven't subscribed for years.

But herein lies an opportunity for Gog. They could be bothering me (and others) daily with extra tempting games if they only created a filtering system that removed those games that each individual would not be interested in.

Every time someone objects to having nudity shoved in their face the same reactions happen:
It's not actually porn don't be such an [insert term]
So what if it's porn don't be such an [insert term]
It's just as bad or worse than violence don't be such an [insert term]
Are you some kind of fanatic?

As stupid as all of these panicked deflections are.... there is nothing that will actually hurt the distributor enough to incentivize them to not do this because these kinds of tactics actually WORK when it comes to silencing a lot of people, and if they don't there is always enough of a mob that ends in their cancellation or a drowning out of their objections with a small mountain of garbage.

Happens every single time.

Nvm the porn addicts that reveal their little problem to the world in a panic as soon as the possibility of it being de-normalized occurs.... or that it's not real congress its watching other people engage in it.... which is rather pathetic no matter how you swing but somehow so many people are PROUD of it. Imagine, being proud of being pathetic.

Totally agree. Not to mention about all those ad personam inserts, poorly hidden behind pseudo-humoristic style. Which doesn't "hide" anyway those histeric/aggresive motives.

It's just a couple of users ( by some reason, erotic/naked/whatever stuff seem to be extremely "worth defending" for them), but they make extremely off-putting atmosphere on the forum.

BTW - all arguments aside, as long as someone is buying games here, addressing things he like/doesn't like is something completely natural for customer. What is not normal though is chasing customer by other customer, making all the effort to embarass and belittle that other customer, because it goes way above and beyond disagreeing/having different view.