See I was more than willing to defend the developers in regards to Sigma, his mental illness, and the controversy behind it. But I recently saw a spray that made me rethink my position a bit more.
Has anyone seen the “Diagnosis” spray for Sigma?
It’s electroshock therapy. You know, the kind used on patients with extreme temperamental and/or behavioral disorders. The kind of treatment that is so bad, most people would prefer it be outlawed. It’s also used to “treat” certain other “disorders” that related to sexual preference, but I really won’t get into that. The point is, it’s bad. Real bad. Painful, too.
I don’t know what they were thinking with this. I could be overreacting, but I really wanted to get the communities feelings on the spray before making any further comment. Am I just looking at the spray wrong? Because I swear to God, that’s Electroshock Therapy.
Edit: A lot of people have weighed in on the subject and I want to clarify; my initial position on this is that I was bothered because the spray harkened back to a very dark time where mental illness was treated with extreme hostility and poor treatment.
I was just trying to voice my displeasure with that notion by pointing out the spray in particular.
Man you didn’t read the beginning of my thread at all.
I already said that I originally didn’t really care about the controversy surrounding Sigma’s mental illness or anything like that because I felt like people were grossly overreacting.
But this spray? They are basically saying Sigma was treated much like the psychiatric patients from the old days of when people were kept in sanatoriums and tortured to understand their mental illness.
(Also true, it is just a game, but that’s one hell of a thing to just arbitrarily add to the sprays.)
There are a million movies featuring shock treatment. Its in Frankenstein, nobody gets offended by it. I don’t care that your fee fees are hurt, its super dumb to get offended by a spray for no reason other than it feels good to get offended. Being offended isn’t actually doing anything to help anyone, it just makes everyone else have to suffer with bland and overly sanitized everything
Yes, yes you are. The devs aren’t trying to comment on serious issues, just make a fun character using common tropes. Nobody is going to see this and think “mentally ill people are all criminals and we should electrocute their brains”.
Moira falls into the mad scientist trope, aint nobody going to think science is evil because Moira.
There are times when it makes sense to be offended and to speak up on it.
MOST things don’t offend me. I’m afraid to admit that sometimes I even enjoy chaotic situations if they’re fun to watch; but this one got under my skin.
idk I feel like with how Sigma is presented now, it makes sense to have a spray representing the trauma he experienced which made him who he is.
Nowadays, EST can be helpful for a lot of patients, but they also do it waaay differently, so coupled with the straightjacket we can assume they’re referencing the unethical science. It kinda plays into his character and I don’t find it offensive, even as somebody with mental illness and experience with inpatient care.
