The first time I saw your post about the 'censorship' I rolled my eyes.
I'm still rolling my eyes.
due to a few comments made on a discord channel about this, have sprite people2,1 with eyes as clothes. so she can roll all 6 of them at this thread with you, Cel.
I call this piece, The censorship of 2,1 aka
my eyes are here, buddy
Seriously, though, this is beyond dumb (and it took literally less than a minute to edit this (as you can probably tell)).
Now, as the the question of "Is censorship bad?"
The answer is no. No it is not _all_ bad. There are times when it is called for - times when racial, sexual and cultural additions to a game or image need to be changed so that it doesn't cause offence.
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not saying you should go and throw Huckleberry Finn on the pyre or anything like that, but if a modern game decided to throw in various negative stereotypes just for the hell of it and then got sent to the country where those stereotypes are highly offensive... well, we might need a bit of clean-up in aisle four, if you get my drift.
If something is created with the intention to deliberately hurt or malign a people/race/creed or go out of their way to deliberately inflame hate or purposefully use shock value tactics then I say "**** you, buddy, and your 'artistic' bull**** vision. **** that. **** you. **** all you stand for."
Like, seriously, censorship has some good points - hence why it is an accepted practice at times. Sometimes it can go a bit overboard, sure, but it's there to protect. Nobody is saying "Don't go out and make naked posters of Hitler and a rooster" but posting them up all over the Las Vegas strip during prime time might not be the best idea.
The thing a lot of people don't understand when it comes to game development and 'censorship' is that (if you're lucky) you're working for a company, you're being paid to create a product - and that product has specifications that need to be followed. That company has an image it wants to uphold. So slotting in naked barber #6 into Bambi's Fun Time Adventure might not be a good idea - and screaming censorship when the company goes "yeah, no we're not keeping that" is beyond stupid.
If it's your own work, fine, whatever, go wild. It's your reputation that's at stake and if you don't care that people see you as that weird guy who produces rip-off anime gigolo games, that's on you. You're the one dealing with the fallout of that. But if an artist goes "Hey, I think I want this sprite to have proper silk harem pants and top instead", screaming about it being censorship is like, ****ing stupid man. Especially when you're making up **** about why it was done (like you'd ****ing know).