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A scuffle typically between two women that involves actions such as nail scratching, pulling hair, and slapping.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
Some games just won't settle for laughs. Some games make you want to cringe as you're busting a gut.
Extreme violence pertains to excessive amounts of blood, gore, or violent acts. These include decapitation, mutilation, dismemberment, amputation, defenestration, disembowelment, torture and much more.
The film grain effect gives games a cinematic feel by simulating the grainy visuals that are present in some movies.
A system that gives a game the technical capability to implement the effects of gore which include but are not limited to, dismemberment, charring, beheading and gibbing. Gore systems have progressed significantly over the years from enemies scattering into pixels to highly detailed body tearing.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
A designer can use a racial stereotype to make a character easier to understand, though in the process the character may come across as offensive and hurtful.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
An audio signal that contains noise at the same level at all frequencies. Appears on TV screens and video transmissions as static "snow".
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