Still waiting for someone to jokingly comment "Desert Bus is offensive to mother earth as it forces the player to pollute the air by driving the bus for eight hours."
I just got reminded how much I respect Penn Jillette that man is truly a great example of calling people out on their BS. Unfortunately the world is literally packed to the rafters with BS so it's kind of a yelling into the void kind of situation.
Female protagonists have been pretty offensive to male gamers in recent memory, as a counter argument to this. Don’t need to be an SJW to be“lol triggered offended”.
@@bloodysoba3245 this isn't true, there have been hundreds of epic female protagonists in video games since the 80s and 90s. And I've never ever heard of male gamers finding them offensive ffs why would a straight dude only ever want to play as dudes lol...
@@Goleon The bus brutally hits and splatters an innocent fly on its windshield, before driving away from the scene of the impact. What kind of message is that sending to kids who play this game?
I really don’t know what schools y’all are going to. I’ve been to one community college and two universities. Between those I’ve been told by my professor that being hard of hearing was my problem and he did not have to nor would he let me use an audio recorder (to listen back later at a louder volume with less distractions) or even let me sit closer to the front, I’ve seen a geology professor deny climate change, I’ve seen a science professor and a student get in a shouting match over evolution, I got into a shouting match with a professor over him saying women shouldn’t even be allowed in universities, much less work, etc., I’ve been involved in an activism club that had full on territory wars with an extremist conservative club on campus whose members went out of their way to shout obscenities at us and post hate messages about our races and health conditions all over campus, including spray painting one persons door (because that was vandalism, it was the only thing that got in trouble, but not from the school, just the police), and harassing a classmate to the point she dropped out of school because she did not feel safe on campus due to the ra pe threats we were getting. None of these were private btw, they were all public, part of the state system of colleges.
(That activism club I was involved in, btw, was open to any and all races, genders, sexualities, and religions, and was focused on community service. We supported local political candidates who were going to attempt to help the poor and homeless in our area. But the other club (a division of a national student conservative org) got it into their heads we were antifa....)
@@doubtful_seer it definitely sucks when people shout at each other and don't listen. I empathize with you, but of course there is a bit of a caveat. What public university did you go to? Was this ever in the news or corroborated in any way? You asserted that the homophobic people were "right wing" but haven't identified any traits about them. If I didn't ask, someone would.
@@HenriFaust I feel nothing but love, compassion, and understanding for all of humanity. While there is much ugliness and depravity in the world, I see the miracles of generosity and forgiveness every day. You just have to keep your eyes open to see it.
Having driven the route in Desert Bus all the way through and owning all the Euro Truck and American Sims? Give me the latter as I can at least catch a podcast and take FAR shorter trips.
Truck Simulator taught me one thing... i really can't back up with a truck into a parking lot... my brain can't comprehend the physics behind it and my driver cabin ends up crashing into the trailer while they are connected to each other somehow and OMG ragequit never touching this nonsense again! But i have mad respect for anyone who can do this in real life now lol
You know you've picked an excellent clickbait title when 99% of the comments are responding to the title in a way that makes it clear they haven't watched the video
To paraphrase Duckman, "Video games should provoke. They should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions. Video games should always leave you different than when they found you. Sure, video games can hurt - even alienate, but the risk is better than the alternative: a steady diet of innocuous, child proof, flavorless mush. Demand to be challenged, to be offended, to be treated like thinking, reasoning adults! And raise your children to be the same! Don't let a gamer, a network, a congressional committee, or an evil genius take away your freedom to play whatever you want!"
Most video games are inoffensive, at least to normal people, but 2020 has caused the biggest case of Cabin Fever in history that someone is offended by smallest of things even if it's not offensive in nature.
Not sure if it might just be social media tbh 2020 certainly didn't help by giving these mobs more free time, after social media allowed them to connect with each other more easily, now it seems like there's an outrage mob every day over some trivial thing
where had you been for about 5 years? I mean the churn out over such stuff while upticked abit was not that huge a increase in 2020 it just had some more notice as more people was noticing the crude going on of the mobs offended by most things
Desert Bus’ successful 8 hour let’s plays, different derivative versions, charity events, etc. feel like that Tumblr post about English teachers leaving students alone in the classroom to teach a lesson about human cruelty, only to come back and have their lessen upended by the students being good and helping each other out instead
Neil Druckmann the creator of the Last of us series did not like the design of Chun Li, Cortana from the Halo series, the girls from dead or Alive and Tekken series cause it's too sexist oh yeah even Quite from Metal gear 5 plus he really simps for Anita
@@camharkness I don't know to him tho ironic tho his female characters on Uncharted series looking hot too lol and complaining about other female Characters designs
Damn, I don't think I've ever realized how anti-censorship Penn, and Teller were, and still are to this day, that's fucking awesome! That's another reason why these guys fucking rock!
I feel like I owe penn and teller an apology. I honestly thought desert bus was a dig at gamers who are willing to play for hours on end for a superficial reward.
That's why the answer is moderation. Nobody cries over censorship by putting an 18+ sign over windows so kids can't see pron, but knowing the option to sin is too much for morons who don't want to parent. News to parents: your kid wants to let out their aggression. Trust me, they'll find a way, and you won't like any option they pick.
that game literally consists of nothing but black and white pixels, and the white pixels are the privileged ones that get to be the player and the ball... that game is the definition of racism!
Animal Crossing is truly an Inoffensive video game, no blood or violence, entirely built around the idea of building a community, friendly characters, ability to change all your features of your character whenever you wish, rewards for cleaning the environment of your island, even all the in-game items your villager can build or buy are vegan-friendly.
There are people who believe fishing with hooks is unethical, that keeping fish in museums or tanks is cruelty and unnatural, that selling wild animals not raised for food is unethical and immoral Don't even start me on the people who believe the flashier villagers like the blue unicorn are stand ins for gay rights Or the people who believe using Dodos is wrong because they can't fly or are extinct, or that going to other islands to DeForest and basically make the entire land barren for your own gains is related to invasions and ecological terrorism Also villagers like lucha are cultural appropriation Or that boys can wear dresses Or that Tom nook is a tanuki and somehow that equals sexual content despite him being censored in game Or that it was a game developed in secret with China to be as popular as possible as covid spread across the world and to steal money from American economics because nintendos red and the game has you going outside when we cant and that the game supports the use of 5g for multiplayer support to support the spread of the 5g covid signals.....yeah that's a thing I heard from a 50-some odd woman at Walmart
Here'a one thing you failed to bring up. Penn and Teller even planned a Desert Bus contest at one point. You'd send in your score, and the grand prize was a trip on a real-life desert bus from Tucson to Vegas. You'd get to see a show and have a 4-night stay at Bally's.
It’s a perfect allegory of what the psychos on Twitter actually want. They don’t want fantastical adventures that challenge their suspension of disbelief. They want a boring slog that reminds people of real life, which is the very thing we attempt to escape from when we play video games. I applaud Penn and Teller for creating an example of what this would look like, since it’s something to never strive for. There will always be someone that’s offended by something, no matter what. I guess what I’m trying to say is, why bother trying to appease absolutely everyone, when the end result is either an exercise in futility, or ends up feeling like DesertBus?
I love how there are no passengers in the bus. Also, pretty sure the idea of getting just 1 point for each trip is a joke about how video games incentivize people way more than employers ever will. No wonder we're now in a time where playing video games for the internet is the new American dream. Not that I would know anything about that.
Actually, in order to have the game be truly inoffensive, they would have had to of left out the fly, the nametag, and the music. Not that there's anything wrong with them...
Wow, this whole episode was kinda like "Desert Bus", where all of this lead to the one small part of the show telling about "Desert Bus". Very interesting and great video
>People want games to be ever more realistic. Me: I have the solution. You must play through Desert Bus each time you want to buy or review any other game.
Honestly, complete cynicism with this one. Pong, most sports games (especially older ones) and a bunch of other games can easily be viewed as inoffensive. While Desert buss has it’s place in history, its argument is ill conceived. It is fair to say, however, that most games have some form of political or social statement in them. Even Super Mario Bros. features the kidnapping of a royal official by a rival kingdom. Such things as view points are nearly unavoidable in art. And, in all honesty, bc it is in part a response to criticism, Desert Buss is a political statement, which some in the late 90s and early 00s would have considered offensive. To some conservatives today, the idea of having a political concept in a video game is obscene and offensive. To that, Desert Buss failed its goal. They should have just made a pong clone instead.
sports games can be offensive, you just have to think like a Twitter blue check. like, It's offensive for people who are deaf, blind amputees, just like how the term "blind playthrough" is offensive to blind people. also add some complaint about diversity in there and lack of representation for disabled people too. yep sports games are more problematic than desert bus.
One thing I've been confused about is if you try looking up this game some places say it is a 2 disc game and others just say it's 1 disc. Which is it?
0 because it was never released, any physical copies you find are going to be reproduction disks, actual official hardware thats not just core dev kits, you'd have a very rare find
No piece of Art is inoffensive. What matters to me is who is being offended, what are they offended by, and why do they find something offensive. There's a big difference between something being offensive because its racist, homophobic, ect vs something being offensive because it insults your cultural or religious sensibilities.
The best kinda satire. Fuck polticsl correctness. I completely agree. Ppl *SHOULD* be offended and games, along with any form of art, commercial or otherwise, shouldn't be so overly concerned about trying to be inoffensive. ...That's fucking stupid.
It is impossible for all media to be inoffensive, yes, but all statements that you can say, or even think, can't be inoffensive. Edit 1: because what is inoffensive to one person can be extremely offensive to another. Edit 2: though that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be inoffensive, you should try to be inoffensive when possible, you should be tolerant toward people, but not too tolerant or you could end up letting purposely offensive people that have no intention to be better get away with their bullshit. So all in all, what's offensive and inoffensive is hard to determine, and is a case by case basis. Sorry if this is annoying.
@Mewaddlee I was refering in game reasons as you put ''Games should at least try to avoid bigotry.'' which is thus why I put if the bigotery fits the in game world for the story or even time period its set as .. For Example lets say a game is being set during the wild west it'd be fair and understandable for all kinds of bigoted views put in the game for that time period the game is set in .. Among other cases like that or lets take Bioshock infinite for example while the game has a scene of bigotery that could be cut out but its not a senseless put in factor it no only was put in to help set the tone but also to show pretty quickly the sort of society the place is and how it treats specific races in the game world.. Those those sort of bigotery in games work to improve the games world .. As its for the realness of the in game world or other factors that serve the game rather then be there to just be there
@Mewaddlee But yeah you get why I messaged you the first time given how you phrased that matter of games and Bigotry right? I mean it came off as in a way meaning you wouldn't be okay with valid in game world reasons or valid logic of how a actual time period a game is set it would logically have bigotry in theme .. Rather then just not okay when its stuck in there to be there
This comment section is going to be a nasty annoying war of people who just argue without listening. I'm leaving this comment to instead state that I enjoyed the video that, while could have expanded on the subject a bit, I learned some about it regardless.
Beyond Good and Evil? Had that NOT released in 2003 (when NO ONE cared about what was political, left or right, besides Fox News screwballs) and released today, it would be panned as "politically correct garbage", rather than the cult following it's got today. Michel Ancel (who's gotten Joss Whedon reputation once the Ubisoft allegations leaked out... yikes) apparently hated Lara Croft and created Jade as the antithesis of such. Plus, it's anti-fascist messages and being influenced by criticisms of the United States during the George W. Bush administration. Meanwhile, when newer footage of BGE2 released a couple years back, certain conservative circles got pissed that it "portrayed" men as pigs (because Pey'j never existed in the original apparently) and has POC women as main characters (again *points to the original*). Anita Sarkeesian is even a fan of Jade. What does that tell you?
@Mewaddlee No, I agree with you. I'm pretty liberal (who are hated by leftists and conservatives alike these days) and I don't mind political messages in my media. Star Trek is political (about space socialism). Star Wars is political (left-wing paramilitary vs space Nazis). I've even enjoyed games with a right-wing edge (like Splinter Cell) as I have a left-wing one (again, BGE, and even Metal Gear Solid). If the artist WANTS to make a political message, let them. How they do it is another story entirely.
@Mewaddlee I think it's because the ones now trying to censor stuff and cry they're offended now are generally on the left, not sure when they became the morality police telling people what to think and be offended by but it's funny how the more things change the more they stay the same because you're definitely right it used to be the right that did it over the silliest things
@Mewaddlee wow nice generalising sweeping statements even a few buzz words from the idiots hand book also if you really think the worst the left are doing is embarrassing itself you've not been watching lol
From the looks of it, as a video game, Desert Bus sucks as. But as piece of art, as a statement against the political correctness and moral panic of society, this game is genius. In that way, Desert Bus has a lot of novelty, and shows the potential of video games as a legitimate medium for satire, and for artistic expression. Pretentious as this may sound. 😅
I am offended by desert bus! Not only does it portray cruelty to insects (poor fly) it also condones wasting massive amounts of fuel to drive across the desert! What would Greta say? How dare you! You have two feet, it would be more environmentally friendly to simply walk!
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Still waiting for someone to jokingly comment "Desert Bus is offensive to mother earth as it forces the player to pollute the air by driving the bus for eight hours."
Why cant it be a electric bus?!
It’s offensive because it’s a bus and that’s offensive to planes and cars
Lol I wad going to say that it was offensive to mother earth lol
it's slight drift to the left is offensive to those who experience slight drifts to the left
Driving 8 hours in a Bus? ...sounds like many peoples day job.
Turning a game into a job is offensive to gamers.
Fun diving sims exist. Games that fell like jobs have there fans. Desert Bus was deliberately made to be unenjoyable.
Trucksim bro
This how I feel about madden m8.
"desert buss is offensive toward blind people who cant drive"
@Wil E you are now banned from twitch
I’m offended that people like me who have seizures that prevent them from driving weren’t included in that statement.
Unlike the blind people who can drive?
It's also offensively boring.
Its impossible to not offend " SOMEBODY" in media anymore. " oh my! They're breathing!! I'm offended!" Its ridiculous!
Breathing literally does offend certain people if you're the wrong skin color or prefer the wrong genitalia/chromosomes.
@@angolin9352 this stupid planet
Some Games might cross the Line for me personally but then I don't play it. Easy as that
I wish everyone had that mindset instead of making an big deal about it on Twitter.
That is the use of Common Sense, which is becoming or already changed to Uncommon sense.
How can you continue to exist knowing that somewhere out there, there exists content you don't want to consume?
Exactly, if you don't like it, you just ignore it instead of bitching online
Can I know examples of games that cross the line for you?
I just got reminded how much I respect Penn Jillette that man is truly a great example of calling people out on their BS.
Unfortunately the world is literally packed to the rafters with BS so it's kind of a yelling into the void kind of situation.
As a circle I'm offended by Tetris's overuse of squares.
Go play Puyo Puyo or Puzzle Bobble, you filthy infidel! 😜
As a cup I’m offended by coffee I’m tea total. ☺️
Coffee: hold my beer.
Why can't video games be inoffensive? Because some people always go out of their way to be offended.
As Thoughty2 once said: "Being offended, does NOT give you the right to control how other people behave!"
Female protagonists have been pretty offensive to male gamers in recent memory, as a counter argument to this. Don’t need to be an SJW to be“lol triggered offended”.
@@bloodysoba3245 this isn't true, there have been hundreds of epic female protagonists in video games since the 80s and 90s. And I've never ever heard of male gamers finding them offensive ffs why would a straight dude only ever want to play as dudes lol...
@@itadapeeza8559 do you mind giving examples?
@@bloodysoba3245 I recall Samus being revolutionary at the time for the surprise reveal. Never was there any controversy pertaining to that.
Inoffensive? The game features graphic violence and gore! Won't someone please think of the Fly Children?
They meant the mini game Dessert Bus.
@@Goleon The bus brutally hits and splatters an innocent fly on its windshield, before driving away from the scene of the impact.
What kind of message is that sending to kids who play this game?
That quote about universities is so true. Universities don’t feel like a place that upholds free speech anymore.
Where have you been, man?
Same, I had a professor who got kicked out because he spoke out about something he “wasn’t allowed to” speak about
I really don’t know what schools y’all are going to. I’ve been to one community college and two universities. Between those I’ve been told by my professor that being hard of hearing was my problem and he did not have to nor would he let me use an audio recorder (to listen back later at a louder volume with less distractions) or even let me sit closer to the front, I’ve seen a geology professor deny climate change, I’ve seen a science professor and a student get in a shouting match over evolution, I got into a shouting match with a professor over him saying women shouldn’t even be allowed in universities, much less work, etc., I’ve been involved in an activism club that had full on territory wars with an extremist conservative club on campus whose members went out of their way to shout obscenities at us and post hate messages about our races and health conditions all over campus, including spray painting one persons door (because that was vandalism, it was the only thing that got in trouble, but not from the school, just the police), and harassing a classmate to the point she dropped out of school because she did not feel safe on campus due to the ra pe threats we were getting. None of these were private btw, they were all public, part of the state system of colleges.
(That activism club I was involved in, btw, was open to any and all races, genders, sexualities, and religions, and was focused on community service. We supported local political candidates who were going to attempt to help the poor and homeless in our area. But the other club (a division of a national student conservative org) got it into their heads we were antifa....)
@@doubtful_seer it definitely sucks when people shout at each other and don't listen. I empathize with you, but of course there is a bit of a caveat. What public university did you go to? Was this ever in the news or corroborated in any way? You asserted that the homophobic people were "right wing" but haven't identified any traits about them. If I didn't ask, someone would.
Clearly, this game is ableist.
Where is the option for the wheelchair lift
To quote Tennessee Williams, "Nothing human disgusts me unless it is unkind."
Wish more people think like that
If we all worked with homeless people with severe psychological disturbances, we would all feel that way.
You must view your peers with utter contempt.
@@HenriFaust I feel nothing but love, compassion, and understanding for all of humanity. While there is much ugliness and depravity in the world, I see the miracles of generosity and forgiveness every day. You just have to keep your eyes open to see it.
@@100Servings Are humans really such dirty, lowly creatures that you recoil against the very thought of us, and the feelings we all carry?
2 Thicc characters in the beginning
Edit: i meant chun li and Mai
Coomer
I know right? Penn and Teller are pretty thicc.
I meant Chun li and Mai
@@artisticsolarninja Yeah if you want to be lame about it.
No wait... because ONE person find it offensive is enough to make a wave or something...
Offensively boring, at least give me a radio.
That's Twitter
@@alexandrerodrigues9844 And ResetEra.
I am offended by Desert Bus' advocacy to insectoid genocide.
only the one bug died tho
As the old saying goes, your taboos are my normal and your norms are my taboos.
There is also a VR version of Desert Bus
“Insert a certain YTP line from Penn and Teller”
3:33 Oh man Tips & Tricks, that really takes me back lol. RIP...
Embarrassing enough, I still have many of them.
The classic days of true gaming journalism. Wasn't perfect, but a hell of alot better than most of todays "journalism".
Desert Bud is offensive for not featuring roads of color.
The road is grey with yellow dividing stripes; were you expecting a transparent road (which also is a color in and of itself?) /jk
A fly dies on the screen? That's offensive! Death is offensive! Blood is offensive! /s
Now that I think about it, this game may have foreshadowed Truck Simulator.
Having driven the route in Desert Bus all the way through and owning all the Euro Truck and American Sims? Give me the latter as I can at least catch a podcast and take FAR shorter trips.
Truck Simulator taught me one thing... i really can't back up with a truck into a parking lot... my brain can't comprehend the physics behind it and my driver cabin ends up crashing into the trailer while they are connected to each other somehow and OMG ragequit never touching this nonsense again!
But i have mad respect for anyone who can do this in real life now lol
You know you've picked an excellent clickbait title when 99% of the comments are responding to the title in a way that makes it clear they haven't watched the video
Or they’re just joking
"These Rocks"
- Censored Gaming 2021
That is why Censorship happens.
Sadly so, and on PC there are Decensor patches.
To paraphrase Duckman, "Video games should provoke. They should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions. Video games should always leave you different than when they found you. Sure, video games can hurt - even alienate, but the risk is better than the alternative: a steady diet of innocuous, child proof, flavorless mush. Demand to be challenged, to be offended, to be treated like thinking, reasoning adults! And raise your children to be the same! Don't let a gamer, a network, a congressional committee, or an evil genius take away your freedom to play whatever you want!"
I'm sorry but Desert Bus is way too violent, the player is forced to kill a bug, so it must be banned.
Most video games are inoffensive, at least to normal people, but 2020 has caused the biggest case of Cabin Fever in history that someone is offended by smallest of things even if it's not offensive in nature.
Not sure if it might just be social media tbh 2020 certainly didn't help by giving these mobs more free time, after social media allowed them to connect with each other more easily, now it seems like there's an outrage mob every day over some trivial thing
where had you been for about 5 years? I mean the churn out over such stuff while upticked abit was not that huge a increase in 2020 it just had some more notice as more people was noticing the crude going on of the mobs offended by most things
Ah, I think I saw what you did there (maybe not a big case, but one that's on Steam and Switch.) Mallory is a real sweetheart.
I never heard of Penn and Teller until a few weeks ago, and now they are everywhere
Never confuse Desert Bus for Crazybus.
Desert Bus’ successful 8 hour let’s plays, different derivative versions, charity events, etc. feel like that Tumblr post about English teachers leaving students alone in the classroom to teach a lesson about human cruelty, only to come back and have their lessen upended by the students being good and helping each other out instead
5:00 you'd think no one would want to play this, but euro truck simulator is very popular
Love Penn & Teller. So on point politically. And great magicians.
Here is my 100% inoffensive, politically-correct comment.
100? Don't you know that emoji is hateful against people who are incapable of getting perfect scores on tests? How offensive!
I'm angry this comment makes me upset and offended
Also i dont need to explain why I'm offended because asking me too would be racist
I need my eyes to read that comment so its ableist against blind people.
Neil Druckmann the creator of the Last of us series did not like the design of Chun Li, Cortana from the Halo series, the girls from dead or Alive and Tekken series cause it's too sexist oh yeah even Quite from Metal gear 5 plus he really simps for Anita
That explains why TLOU2 is sjw garbage.
ok coomer
I'm confused on how Chun li is sexist in any way. Shes hot, and a complete fucking badass.
@@camharkness agreed with Chun Li (and obviously I’m envious of Ayane’s face) but c’mon. The rest are stripper gear tier.
@@camharkness I don't know to him tho ironic tho his female characters on Uncharted series looking hot too lol and complaining about other female Characters designs
I'm offended about being offended and must let people know how I feel because I'm insecure and have nothing better to do with my sorry pathetic life
As a long time fan of Penn & Teller, none of this surprises me.
AVGN made a video of Desert Bus.
It sure did.
Damn, I don't think I've ever realized how anti-censorship Penn, and Teller were, and still are to this day, that's fucking awesome! That's another reason why these guys fucking rock!
7:28 we all know about No Russian from Modern Warfare 2. And yes, its fiction and caused controversy.
I feel like I owe penn and teller an apology. I honestly thought desert bus was a dig at gamers who are willing to play for hours on end for a superficial reward.
1:44 I don't swear but i can vibe with that
basically this game was the anti-thesis of Running with Scissors does with the POSTAL franchise
That's why the answer is moderation. Nobody cries over censorship by putting an 18+ sign over windows so kids can't see pron, but knowing the option to sin is too much for morons who don't want to parent.
News to parents: your kid wants to let out their aggression. Trust me, they'll find a way, and you won't like any option they pick.
My parents taught me to talk out my aggression. Seems to work.
Bless these two beautiful people.
lemme introduce you to a little game called pong
that game literally consists of nothing but black and white pixels, and the white pixels are the privileged ones that get to be the player and the ball... that game is the definition of racism!
@@ZeroB4NG 😀
Animal Crossing is truly an Inoffensive video game, no blood or violence, entirely built around the idea of building a community, friendly characters, ability to change all your features of your character whenever you wish, rewards for cleaning the environment of your island, even all the in-game items your villager can build or buy are vegan-friendly.
Anthropomorphic animals = bestiality
@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte Thank you for providing irrefutable proof that the authoritarians can be "Faux-fended" by *ANYTHING.*
Animal Crossing is clearly a critique of capitalism.
Yet the spacebuns debacle happened on twitter. Sad world
There are people who believe fishing with hooks is unethical, that keeping fish in museums or tanks is cruelty and unnatural, that selling wild animals not raised for food is unethical and immoral
Don't even start me on the people who believe the flashier villagers like the blue unicorn are stand ins for gay rights
Or the people who believe using Dodos is wrong because they can't fly or are extinct, or that going to other islands to DeForest and basically make the entire land barren for your own gains is related to invasions and ecological terrorism
Also villagers like lucha are cultural appropriation
Or that boys can wear dresses
Or that Tom nook is a tanuki and somehow that equals sexual content despite him being censored in game
Or that it was a game developed in secret with China to be as popular as possible as covid spread across the world and to steal money from American economics because nintendos red and the game has you going outside when we cant and that the game supports the use of 5g for multiplayer support to support the spread of the 5g covid signals.....yeah that's a thing I heard from a 50-some odd woman at Walmart
Can you make a video about how those chauvinistic bastards left out Chun-Li from Mortal Kombat?
Chun-Li is owned by Capcom
@SNES Nes It's a reference to an infamous Jezebel article that came out a little over a week ago.
The Angry Video Game Nerd wants to know your location.
Here'a one thing you failed to bring up. Penn and Teller even planned a Desert Bus contest at one point. You'd send in your score, and the grand prize was a trip on a real-life desert bus from Tucson to Vegas. You'd get to see a show and have a 4-night stay at Bally's.
It’s a perfect allegory of what the psychos on Twitter actually want. They don’t want fantastical adventures that challenge their suspension of disbelief. They want a boring slog that reminds people of real life, which is the very thing we attempt to escape from when we play video games. I applaud Penn and Teller for creating an example of what this would look like, since it’s something to never strive for. There will always be someone that’s offended by something, no matter what. I guess what I’m trying to say is, why bother trying to appease absolutely everyone, when the end result is either an exercise in futility, or ends up feeling like DesertBus?
Yay! A new video!
I love how there are no passengers in the bus. Also, pretty sure the idea of getting just 1 point for each trip is a joke about how video games incentivize people way more than employers ever will. No wonder we're now in a time where playing video games for the internet is the new American dream. Not that I would know anything about that.
Crazy to see Geoff on fox news for video game nudity lmao
I believe it was over the Mass Effect rage Fox was having because they believe M rated games are for children
@@gibmeaway100 lol crazy
There's a French version of Desert bus for Hope: desertbus.fr/
I don't know if other countries have adapted it as well.
I freaking loved Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Desert Bus should be the premier Sony title of 2021, leaving all other titles in the [offensive] dust.
Actually, in order to have the game be truly inoffensive, they would have had to of left out the fly, the nametag, and the music. Not that there's anything wrong with them...
Interesting type of the video
Wow, this whole episode was kinda like "Desert Bus", where all of this lead to the one small part of the show telling about "Desert Bus". Very interesting and great video
Driving for eight hours? That sounds boring and worse than Death Stranding.
>People want games to be ever more realistic.
Me: I have the solution. You must play through Desert Bus each time you want to buy or review any other game.
That straight totures
Honestly, complete cynicism with this one. Pong, most sports games (especially older ones) and a bunch of other games can easily be viewed as inoffensive. While Desert buss has it’s place in history, its argument is ill conceived. It is fair to say, however, that most games have some form of political or social statement in them. Even Super Mario Bros. features the kidnapping of a royal official by a rival kingdom. Such things as view points are nearly unavoidable in art. And, in all honesty, bc it is in part a response to criticism, Desert Buss is a political statement, which some in the late 90s and early 00s would have considered offensive. To some conservatives today, the idea of having a political concept in a video game is obscene and offensive. To that, Desert Buss failed its goal. They should have just made a pong clone instead.
sports games can be offensive, you just have to think like a Twitter blue check.
like, It's offensive for people who are deaf, blind amputees, just like how the term "blind playthrough" is offensive to blind people. also add some complaint about diversity in there and lack of representation for disabled people too. yep sports games are more problematic than desert bus.
Desert Bus: 1/10 too much sand
This game is honestly so tedious and boring but at least it does a great job of getting its message across to people.
idea: Deset Bus Speedrun Championship
I would rather play Desert Bus than Crazy Bus. Crazy Bus literally made my ears bleed.
One thing I've been confused about is if you try looking up this game some places say it is a 2 disc game and others just say it's 1 disc. Which is it?
0 because it was never released, any physical copies you find are going to be reproduction disks, actual official hardware thats not just core dev kits, you'd have a very rare find
No piece of Art is inoffensive. What matters to me is who is being offended, what are they offended by, and why do they find something offensive. There's a big difference between something being offensive because its racist, homophobic, ect vs something being offensive because it insults your cultural or religious sensibilities.
"That Doom Wad"
Censor Gaming, can you stop the differences on Sonic X?
That’s already been done
@@dwainsimmons3447 It has? I didn't notice.
Challenge accepted. I will earn the bronze trophy for desert bus.
hey can you make a video about lego city under cover and how the wiiu version was untredtionly but tecnecly was censoerd for the ps4 version
Unless it's illegal or immoral I don't think anything should be censored once the game rating gets to m or higher.
The best kinda satire.
Fuck polticsl correctness.
I completely agree.
Ppl *SHOULD* be offended and games, along with any form of art, commercial or otherwise, shouldn't be so overly concerned about trying to be inoffensive.
...That's fucking stupid.
It is impossible for all media to be inoffensive, yes, but all statements that you can say, or even think, can't be inoffensive.
Edit 1: because what is inoffensive to one person can be extremely offensive to another.
Edit 2: though that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be inoffensive, you should try to be inoffensive when possible, you should be tolerant toward people, but not too tolerant or you could end up letting purposely offensive people that have no intention to be better get away with their bullshit. So all in all, what's offensive and inoffensive is hard to determine, and is a case by case basis. Sorry if this is annoying.
@Mewaddlee Bigotery in a game can work especially if its part of the narrative or fits the time period the game is set in just saying
@Mewaddlee I was refering in game reasons as you put ''Games should at least try to avoid bigotry.'' which is thus why I put if the bigotery fits the in game world for the story or even time period its set as .. For Example lets say a game is being set during the wild west it'd be fair and understandable for all kinds of bigoted views put in the game for that time period the game is set in .. Among other cases like that or lets take Bioshock infinite for example while the game has a scene of bigotery that could be cut out but its not a senseless put in factor it no only was put in to help set the tone but also to show pretty quickly the sort of society the place is and how it treats specific races in the game world..
Those those sort of bigotery in games work to improve the games world .. As its for the realness of the in game world or other factors that serve the game rather then be there to just be there
@Mewaddlee But yeah you get why I messaged you the first time given how you phrased that matter of games and Bigotry right? I mean it came off as in a way meaning you wouldn't be okay with valid in game world reasons or valid logic of how a actual time period a game is set it would logically have bigotry in theme .. Rather then just not okay when its stuck in there to be there
That looks like pain and terror from bl3
I loved the bullshit series wish it wasn't only on hbo
I now want a remake of Penn and Teller Smokes and Mirror. Anyone with me?
This comment section is going to be a nasty annoying war of people who just argue without listening. I'm leaving this comment to instead state that I enjoyed the video that, while could have expanded on the subject a bit, I learned some about it regardless.
lmao can't believe I've never heard of this. Hilarious concept for a "game," I wanna see the rest of the stuff in the collection now
Desert Bus shows the future of where games are heading in this day cancel culture.
Think of it, an entirely inoffensive game theoretically has no conflict. So what would there be without some sort of offense?
Indeed
But, BUT...you KILL a bug!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!
there's… a lot of digits on that score card… how long would it take to completely fill it with nines, legitimately?
Around 14 years and 3 months I think.
Beyond Good and Evil? Had that NOT released in 2003 (when NO ONE cared about what was political, left or right, besides Fox News screwballs) and released today, it would be panned as "politically correct garbage", rather than the cult following it's got today. Michel Ancel (who's gotten Joss Whedon reputation once the Ubisoft allegations leaked out... yikes) apparently hated Lara Croft and created Jade as the antithesis of such. Plus, it's anti-fascist messages and being influenced by criticisms of the United States during the George W. Bush administration.
Meanwhile, when newer footage of BGE2 released a couple years back, certain conservative circles got pissed that it "portrayed" men as pigs (because Pey'j never existed in the original apparently) and has POC women as main characters (again *points to the original*).
Anita Sarkeesian is even a fan of Jade. What does that tell you?
@Mewaddlee No, I agree with you. I'm pretty liberal (who are hated by leftists and conservatives alike these days) and I don't mind political messages in my media. Star Trek is political (about space socialism). Star Wars is political (left-wing paramilitary vs space Nazis). I've even enjoyed games with a right-wing edge (like Splinter Cell) as I have a left-wing one (again, BGE, and even Metal Gear Solid).
If the artist WANTS to make a political message, let them. How they do it is another story entirely.
@Mewaddlee I think it's because the ones now trying to censor stuff and cry they're offended now are generally on the left, not sure when they became the morality police telling people what to think and be offended by but it's funny how the more things change the more they stay the same because you're definitely right it used to be the right that did it over the silliest things
@Mewaddlee wow nice generalising sweeping statements even a few buzz words from the idiots hand book also if you really think the worst the left are doing is embarrassing itself you've not been watching lol
From the looks of it, as a video game, Desert Bus sucks as. But as piece of art, as a statement against the political correctness and moral panic of society, this game is genius. In that way, Desert Bus has a lot of novelty, and shows the potential of video games as a legitimate medium for satire, and for artistic expression. Pretentious as this may sound. 😅
Joel Desert bus.
Desert Bus is art
We need a *desert bus* remasted
i see desert bus as the inevitable end to the culture war.
I am offended by desert bus! Not only does it portray cruelty to insects (poor fly) it also condones wasting massive amounts of fuel to drive across the desert! What would Greta say? How dare you! You have two feet, it would be more environmentally friendly to simply walk!
That is actually the most offensive game I have ever heard of lol.
These comments make me grateful for whenever the comet kills us all.
I love Penn and teller but I have to disagree with them in regards to the Episode of Penn & Teller's BullSh*t where they talk about Walmart.
pong is the most offensive game ever made.
I wish some of these stupid mobile phones games would be censored. Or at least yeeted from existence.
Same. some of them dont even have what they show in the add
@@Pika-Chu64 Well then they should be removed for false advertisement and not for their content
5:21 Wait, wouldn't that make it political? Amazing, even the least political game out there is political.
6:25 That's also political.