xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
I’m not advocating for an authority to apply rules to media. I am explaining how romance options in games are pornographic.
If certain things weren’t pornographic then there wouldn’t be a classification of pornography.
Romance options in games portray an absurd and fantastical version of human interaction. If used as an empowering fantasy they can help people fulfill their unmet needs safely. If normalized they degrade people’s understanding of normal social interaction and romantic relationships. One of those is porn, the other is non porn.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
No, I’m sorry. Art is not any creative expression. We can both recognize that neither of us is talking about such a generalized use of the word. We’re not talking about art class, we’re talking about art. Art represents a different qualitative class of expression. Quality is literally how you understand its unquantifiable nature.
Even if you were right, and art were just any creative expression ever, and I was able to gain the sublime transcendence and understanding of a visit to the lourve by recognizing a well balanced composition in my pre-flush =|dookie logs|=, games have another impossible to clear hurdle in their lack of elevation.
We can’t simply say that the Pepsi logo is art. For pop artists to do so required them to define and establish a context for that work to exist in. Pop art was also a cia funded psyop and absolutely not art but that’s neither here nor there for my purpose of taking the most obviously non art thing and establishing that games cannot rise to meet even its made up fake standard of artworthiness.
Games are not art and that’s okay. Not everything has to be art.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Rather than tease out a point by establishing a shared understanding of the sacred and profane and building off it I’ll just cut to the chase: The mechanical or fantastical relationship is pornographic. It has no place outside of pornography. As I said, there should be no romance options outside of porn games. The pornographic mechanical or fantastical relationship needs to be confined to the medium of pornography so that its destructive, maladaptive influence can be applied judiciously instead of expanded to everyday consumption.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
We should talk about how the sims isn’t a game in a different thread. Why not make a post about it? There’s a lot of material to draw from.
Do you think people are learning the same things from say a pornographic movie and a non pornographic movie? What about a centerfold and a landscape? A steamy woodcut and a family photo?
If all those are a big resounding nope, then how come porn games and regular games are the same?
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
If that is so then why are all examples of art as taught (reproduction of the institution has its own problems but even if you were to go with the vernacular understanding the results are the same) in school represent the most communicative, moving works that express a culture and why are they always determined to be so many years after the fact? Why are even the works that use unconventional techniques judged using qualitative language is art has nothing to do with quality?
To put it more simply: why is Etruscan boar vessel art and disco elysium not?
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
The sims is its own bag of problems (not a game).
Pornography is different, so what’s acceptable and harmful in it is different.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Games aren’t art. Not everything has to be art. Things don’t start off as art and get dragged down to some other classification. Things are elevated to the status of art over time as people recognize their importance. Disco Elysium is literally too new to be art even if it weren’t made in a non-art medium.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Because the “romance” shouldnt be part of the mechanics in non porn games and it shouldn’t be part of the fantastical conceit in non porn games.
Which of these is cool and okay outside of porn:
I was able to make someone love me because i manipulated them according to the rules.
this game is different from real life not because I’m able to chop through three sentient beings heads in a row or conjure mystical fire, but because I’m lovable.
Neither is acceptable.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Video games aren’t art.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 66%
There should only be “romance” options in porn games.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
If that sounds compelling, consider that the Chinese room thought experiment was created to argue against machine learning.
Not only does it represent an intuitive way to understand how machine learning is fake, but how masking isn’t going to change the way you handle social interactions or help you develop skills.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
I’m one of the 3% voting for moe.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Our government just reauthorized section 702, which allows domestic law enforcement agencies (fbi, etc.) to conduct warrantless search for us citizens in databases created by agencies tasked with prosecuting noncitizens (cia, dhs, ins).
So the noncitizen agencies are using mass surveillance technology and techniques to create a huge database of everything and it’s fine because they don’t have jurisdiction to use it against citizens, then domestic law enforcement is allowed to go searching in it with no warrant due to a legal side door.
FBI 702 searches were used against the January 6 people though, so it’s good. Literally reauthorizing the domestic surveillance state every year because it could be used on political enemies.
To hear the spook watchers talk about it, cia is pissed because there’s an outside chance fbi will get the new toy taken away.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
To expand on what another poster said, the problem people are seeing with government response is that it was never driven by a desire to accomplish any public health goal, but instead was primarily based on what the Protestant ethos would allow to be proscribed. Oh we actually need people to do things for the economy to stay running? Okay you’re allowed to go and work, but you can’t have any fun.
The only policy available to the us government was based on shame and valorization of work (not workers), so it required that people to forego any pleasure to stop the virus.
As it turns out, morality is not a very good prophylactic.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
You’d think the ai could get lums hair right
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
Anselmo is a white supremacist for sure, but idk about the rest of the band. After Darryl and the other brother kicked him out for being a big fuckup in a lot of ways someone shot Darryl ostensibly over it.
Idk. Pantera isn’t burzum, at best the band is an expression of party hick shit and all that comes with it.
xXthrowawayXx 10mo ago • 100%
That’s a pantera poster. He was a drummer in a metal band.
The comments section absurd. Just everything from ethnonationalism to personal grievance politics. Not an optimistic take to be seen.
Is this useful to anyone? Would it win over enough libs to federate with lit.cafe? The actual text: > This week @nutomic finished implementing the block instance feature for users. It allows users to block entire instances, so that all communities from those instances will be hidden on the frontpage. Posts or comments from users of blocked instances in other communities are unaffected. I think that would let smaller instances that don’t wanna be overwhelmed by our posts avoid that but still let them see our comments on their posts.
This is the shitposting thread for the week of September 3-9! Talk about your shitposting journey here! Health is of paramount importance: we can’t struggle, do praxis, act in solidarity, read theory or even post if we’re unhealthy. But how can we know we’re healthy? We can rely on doctors, but even if a bear has the resources and opportunity to see the doctor they might not be able to do so as often as they worry about their health. We can rely on how we feel, but just like our pets can conceal pain from us, our feelings aren’t always the best indicator of what’s going on inside us. We could just go by what we put in our bodies, but that relies on the assumption that we’re healthy and has no diagnostic value. To borrow a car metaphor: we have to look at the exhaust gasses and used motor oil and transmission fluids to have a clear picture of what’s going on inside the sealed engine of our bodies! I’m eating Raisin Bran 3-4 times a week to maintain a safe, healthy diet and keep myself regular! Some resources: [Bristol stool scale](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale#/media/File%3ABristolStoolChart_(cropped).png) - use to judge the amount of time food is staying in your digestive system. Most bears will want a 3 or 4.
Lots of ppl in the “stay with .ee/hook up with shit” thread said everything is fedi drama. They’re not wrong. There’s a new kind of posting in the air and it’s suffused everything. It must be given space to grow without interfering with the other posts. If we had a lemmydrama and/or a lemmydunks comm and quarantined that stuff there it would allow for avoidance of fediverse stuff and give space for lemmy drama and dunking culture to develop. Thedunktank is for non-fediverse shit. Twitter, Facebook, etc. it should stay how it is. It wouldn’t stop the problem of federation stealing our posting energy but it’s a start to help people who don’t want to see the new hotness lib of the week. Pic unrelated.
Pic unrelated. No subscription ones plz. Most interested in stuff that doesn’t need a tablet or computer but if I gotta put a nexus or mba in the toolbox that’s fine
Is birds nest soup vegan? Would it be vegan if instead of swiftlet saliva it was just a nest made of twigs and pine straw and stuff like a robin makes?