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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneme fr(ule)
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    5 days ago

    I think there’s a point on the “Weird Shit Kids Do” spectrum after which the parents stop questioning it and just establish it as routine if necessary.

    I used to be fascinated by disappearing coin tricks. I never could get the hang of gracefully making them reappear, because my brain logiked its way to “the only possible, scientifically proven way to make a coin disappear is to swallow it, of course.”

    At first, my folks were a bit baffled by this, especially considering that I did, indeed, present it as a magic trick every time, and secondly because, yes, it happened repeatedly. But after the second occurrence (from what I can remember, I was 3-4 years old), they just incorporated the routine of waiting for the coin to… uuh… show up again.

    It went so far as to not even question why I would swallow all of my grandma’s heart pills (which I didn’t, I just cleared them of their sugar coating, then fed them to the nearest potted plant I could find), they just casually took me to the ER to have my stomach flushed. No questions, no discussions afterwards, “our kid likes swallowing stuff he really shouldn’t, what’s the point in questioning, just be ready with that esophageal hose.”

    And I didn’t even have an oral fixation, I just liked magic tricks and sugar…





  • Fair enough, should’ve phrased it as “where the abuse is presented as a positive in any way, or is the goal in order to obtain gratification,” what you said is essentially what I was thinking:))

    I think a lot of people understood that I wanted to start a censorship war with porn, but it’s not at all what I meant. I would just keep the inhuman, the monstruous stuff away from shelves, and by that I don’t mean kinks and such.


  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAdult on the internet rule
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    9 days ago

    I am not being glib, I simply don’t know how else to respond to “why not allow games about raping people, or paedophilia, or abusing people in a romantic context” other than with “because all of those things are objectively unconscionable.” And, yes, I’d argue that they are all worse than Video Game Violence™ even when just taken within the “it’s just vidya” context.

    I dunno, I fully accept that it may be just getting old and outdated, but… I genuinely can’t see that stuff otherwise, nor could I agree with the distribution of such stuff out of the same website on which you can also get, like, Tiny Tots’ Fluffy Fun Town Adventure, the hit platformer for 1-year-olds, y’know?

    I’m not stupid enough to believe that such stuff will never exist, as I’ve seen it exist already. Like, ok, but that’s different. Horrid stuff will exist in one way or another, there’s still a market for snuff films and such, ok I can accept that as an inevitability. But it’s one thing for It to exist, and another to sell It as one would a can of soda, in full view and reach of just anyone.


  • But it’s pretty clear Nintendo’s almost exclusively in it for the money and nothing else at this point. I wouldn’t even expect them to curate anything, quite the contrary, I expect everything Nintendo-wise to keep getting worse.

    Steam, on the other hand, still has hints that it primarily wants to be a one-stop-app for gaming, which is why I believe there would still be room for them to “own it,” y’know?



  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAdult on the internet rule
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    9 days ago

    Y’know what? I’ll disagree with you there, let the porn games be on Steam. BUT! Do a thorough quality and content check (i.e. no rape, kiddy diddling, spousal abuse, any other type of abuse, etc.) on ALL of them, and throw the slop away. Then do this for every other genre, and make the porn harder to find - like the video store backroom.

    Edit: Steam should assume more curation roles. I mean, even SOME curation roles, because the Steam library looks like my old dorm room the morning after my birthday party: filled with trash, vomit, and loneliness.

    Edit 2: speaking of video store backrooms, maybe they could do just that, branch off that section of the library and set it on its own domain, like a Steam After Dark, or whatever.

    Edit 3: STEAMY AFTER DARK! I want my 10.000 Internet Points NOW!



  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneayn rand rule
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    11 days ago

    Well, “Any Frustration” would certainly fit, in a way!

    From what I remember, Rand could not emotionally detach herself from her work, so everything I’ve read felt as a frustrated “fuck you all, I’ll get mine.” She had a rough upbringing, not gonna fault her for her traumas, but she seemed to thrive on hating everything which wasn’t “everyone for themselves,” to the point where she’d simply refuse to answer questions challenging that by frequently insulting the person who would ask.

    Edit: oh, and if I remember correctly, I think she lived off of food coupons/stamps and state aid for quite some time, while proselytising that they encouraged layabouts…

    Edit 2: now that I think about it, Jordan Peterson’s overall presentation and composure kinda’ reminds me of Rand. Except Rand didn’t have a lobster kink, afaik.




  • Honestly, doesn’t even have to be… Handwriting is slowly but surely becoming an obsolete means of recording information, most everything’s typed nowadays. Unfortunate (*purely subjective opinion, I enjoy writing by hand A LOT!)

    As long as someone else can understand it at first (or second, s’fine!) glance, no need for it to be pretty:D



  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAluminium
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    14 days ago

    This is how we’ve (myself and the kids in my class, at least) been taught to write cursive, yes - m’s and n’s rounded at the top of the swing, and u’s and w’s with the downward side being rounded. The only acute downward swing I know is in some version of v’s, but I’ve also seen a lot of people rounding their v’s out of inertia a lot of the time.