I was always big on Samus. I inherited a copy of Super Metroid from my dad and got copies of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 alongside Smash, so I was a HUGE Metroid fan as a kid and that absolutely influenced my decision to main her.

That’s maybe going a bit far. It’s pretty much all down to just his health failing and him not actually doing anything lately imo

God I hope so…

Folding Ideas called this the Thermian Argument

Grapes of Wrath scene where they hose all the plastic down with acetone

If it were built at full-size, an underground golf course might actually be the most expensive structure to be constructed in all of human history

Eh, I wouldn’t really bother going down that rabbit hole. The most I could believe is that the US had some advance warning of the attacks and chose not to act on it - the idea that the US was specifically courting the attack on the twin towers, or that they staged it themselves, is basically just total nonsense. With all the wars the US has staged on foreign countries on a whim, would they really need to fabricate so much pretext to do what they’d already been doing for years?

On the advance warning thing - it’s worth noting that “receiving a tip-off about a possible terrorist attack” is not the same thing as knowing 9/11 is about to happen. Ignoring any warnings is careless, but it isn’t necessarily the same as being willingly complicit.

Look, I get it, implying that the way to escape the woes of modern life is to just move out into an idyllic countryside and, you know, REJECT MODERNITY RETVURN TO PARSNIPS isn’t really an actual solution, but also like. Come on. Stardew Valley is explicitly about how capitalism destroys community - the game’s megacorporation LITERALLY destroys the center of the community to improve their profits if you let them. Also you’re expected to treat everyone in the community with respect regardless of their circumstances - e.g. the unhoused man Linus and the heavy drinker Shane are designed for you to empathize with them rather than the usual right wing response of being shamed for their ‘inferiority.’

No comment on the wider genre, haven’t played that many other games.

Honestly I’ll take anything. I made the mistake of trying Graveyard Keeper a while ago and it was sooooo fucking bad, like just abysmal dogshit all around.

It is a furry game with talking anthro pokemon. I wouldn’t have wasted this forum’s time with generic anime women.

(Also the game isn’t exclusively focused on women, you can actually choose the bits for basically all of the characters, with I think a few exceptions for characters like Magnezone who don’t really have either.)

I was admittedly not expecting this comment chain to come back up. Still a little embarrassed that I got mod booped on the root of that comment chain for posting cringe tbh

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Yeah, that’s been my experience too actually. I do write for a lot of trans people personally (probably at least half of my stuff LOL) and that very much aligns with my experiences, I was just using imprecise language a bit there. I get specifically commissioned to write stuff for individuals, and from that perspective I feel like I have definitely noticed a gap between the tastes of specifically cis men and non-cis men who I have worked for, to a degree where, while I can’t imagine there’s one single neat explanation behind it, I feel like it can’t just be down to culture. I probably chose to phrase it that way specifically because the AFAB people I know just mention that it takes a lot longer to, you know, pleasure themselves, and I figure the process taking longer and being more finnicky and difficult is probably one of several contributors to these different consumption patterns. Also, wasn’t really speaking about live action vs. animation at all in that regard, I think that’s kind of an orthogonal discussion. Plenty of drawn and animated stuff still fits into that “immediate, visual-focused gratification” category just as neatly as filmed pornography.

ADMITTEDLY not really, I haven’t spent much time with them. They’re definitely out there, I’m just not your guy. I really need to do more longform reading in general, right now I’m more of an Ao3 dork, and even then I tend to do more writing than reading.

I also have. Really specific and niche tastes in character designs that most media doesn’t appeal to, and most of the stuff that does is completely safe for work.

I’m sure some of the anime stuff approaches that, and there are some genuinely startlingly good offerings I’ve seen firsthand in the indie porn game scene (Monster Mind comes to mind, it’s like a based and queer version of Huniepop with anthro Pokemon), but searching for any needles in that haystack is such a process. One of the less talked about problems with online porn is that it’s impossible to Google anything or discuss compared to normal media because you’re worried you’ll faceplant into porn about SA or some kind of trojan that steals your credit card. You pretty much have to get recommendations on the normal Internet from people you actually know and trust, it’s a lot harder to do any searching yourself. I definitely think that is one aspect where our current porn environment is specifically worse than before, it’s a lot less safe to go looking for stuff.

They exist and always have. It’s just that we’ve moved to a platform model and most of our porn sites are more like the YouTube of smut than the Netflix. You can absolutely find stuff with actual cinematography and special FX, including in modern resolutions, but the market clearly favors an influencer approach in getting people to pay for individual media than a hollywood approach.

Also to be clear most of the money in those big budget productions is just finding ways to make the actors look all greasy and shiny like that one picture of the peppers. Not money wasted, but you aren’t going to get Shakespeare by renting some studio lights and hiring half a dozen CGI artists.

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Do not hand Donald Trump any non-progression items, as it will ruin his low% run of the United States Presidency

I thought this was completely real actually, totally ate the onion for a second there.