Pity da fool. I am the victim of similar phenomena from other 90's games like The Legend of Kyranfia, Must, Power Pete, MathBlaster, ShufflePuck Cafe, and Sim City v1.0, Dumb and Dumber, Ave Ventura: Pet Detective, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and CKY2K.

I enjoyed it at the time but given the current political climate cannot recommend to others. I continue to hesitantly and remorsefully enjoy, an indemnible stain on my soul.

Not sure what political climate has to do with anything here?

Some of the jokes and themes therein are now widely considered racist, forbidden, or otherwise *-ist, and were founded on now banned or socially unacceptable concepts, assumptions, or thoughts.

One obvious case is the transphobia portrayed at the end of Ace Venture: Pet Detective when Jim Carey's character reacted to the Chief of police having taken measures to conceal her physical gender identity.

It comes down to respecting others and I get that. I consider myself a supporter of all well-intentioned human beings and intelligent species and entities at largt, yet I still can't stop laughing about all kinds of immature stuff, including when myself or my spouse step in dog crap.

I'm sensitive but generally have tended towards trying to focus on self-acceptance and surrounding myself with people who are understanding but also won't put up with too much.

What should I do? Suggestions welcome.

You're doing the right thing. Some of the humor you enjoyed is dated, based on outdated ideas and stereotypes that perpetuate marginalization, othering, and dehumanization of certain groups and we should limit young people's exposure to that kind of material and, at a minimum, contextualize it for adults. And hey, maybe Ace Ventura needs to permanently go into the Warner Bros. Water Tower like Song of the South went permanently into the Disney Vault.

One of my favorite cartoon shows (and the source of the technical term "yak shaving"), The Ren and Stimpy Show, was created by an emotional abuser who eventually became a rapist of underage girls. I cannot really enjoy the show the same way anymore, in light of this knowledge. It's not "cancel culture", it's a natural reaction to material that, in retrospect, is disrespectful or was created by horrid people.

Meh…I have Ace Ventura on my Plex and plan to show it to my 10 year old in a year or so. People can still enjoy things that weirdos on the internet consider “outdated”.

That authoritarians on the internet push as outdated or dehumanizing I think you mean. They aren’t outdated the authoritarians have just been winning.

"Authoritarianism is when you make the personal choice not to watch Ace Ventura again."

No he isnt. Keeping quiet when you think the pushed narrative is wrong is not the right thing. There is not a thing wrong with Ace Venture and if you think that’s “violent” then you are the problem not Ace Ventura. What the OP should do is push back against comments like yours who equate jokes we all laughed at with dehumanization.

They were jokes that informed our humanity.

What's controversial about Sim City?

They all have lines that we're repeated quite a bit on the playground, but would be considered offensive by today's standards.

For me, it was:

- Hotel Mario "No" Sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwz7YN1AQmQ)

Honorable mentions include

- Sleepy Mega Man Dub (https://youtu.be/pmMispgpUs0)

- Me? Gongaga (https://youtu.be/kKnkhAQxLKI)

- Hotel Mario "All Toasters Toast Toast" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7jvyslRek)

All combined, this is less than 60s of total content. What overarching theme do you perceive?

I think they were just mentioning some catchphrases that got stuck in their head at the time, not presenting a grand theory of everything based on cartoons.

The unified frame theory