The inherent irony in seeking to upbraid me for intellectual honesty whilst having dismissed my previous post more or less demonstrates that you’re the one with no fucking clue how the concept works.

In this specific instance, what we have is a concept of irony in performance: your stated positions and sophistic…

There’s a definite element of both Triss and Yenn using their looks for duplicitous purposes in the books—but Geralt’s a willing “dupe” just as often as he is unwittingly led around by the nose, so it’s not as if he’s completely blameless in the whole thing. If I had to guess, most of the reason behind the glamour is…

I don’t think you’re being oversensitive at all re: the glamour argument.

I think for me, as a fan of both the novels and the games, the “deceptive” nature of the glamour comes not from sorceresses desiring to appear more attractive in order to trick men, but rather serves as a sort of companion to the operations of…

There’s a cheat/menu bypass in the PC version that allows you to stock as many experience points as you like with the touch of a key.

I definitely exploited that in my second playthrough so I could have all the cool shit.

YES.

The still from that video remains one of the most frustrating moments ever for me in a game. It’s like, “here I have a laser-cutter in a convenient pistol form, which I have used to blast limbs off of large, violent creatures for the last several hours. I have also shot out parts of bulkheads.

...on the other side…

Better than the shipment of baby skin gloves they nearly received.

Stuffed him in a barrel of salt, the better to admit a continuance for purposes of export.

Holy shit, dat straw man. I am not in the least denying the base sexual nature of the human condition.

We are talking about a distinction between sexual intent in an act (such as body paint) and sexual response to a non-sexual act (arousal in the audience).

Response does not dictate intent, nor does it dictate total…

You’re conflating what is perceived as sexual by one person with overt sexual performance by another, which is the root of the conversation here.

Some people are aroused by inanimate objects, like stuffed animals. Does that mean, then, that the teddy bear marketed toward kids is suddenly a sexual object?

Absolutely not.

C…

Combination of the red herring (an emotional distraction that appears, at first blush, to be related to the central argument, but is in fact removed from it—and is specifically designed to derail the main line of discourse) in the “think of the children” bit, and the straw man fallacy.

Truly, a stinging, witty rebuke.

She’s actively worse in the books, if you can believe it. The conclave they keep mentioning in the games? The one where Geralt broke Reuven’s ankle?

Yeah, that’s in the books, and Yenn practically loses her shit all over Geralt because another sorceress is looking at him, despite the fact that she just finished…

You’re misreading what I said; demanding coverage of the female breast does not span the entirety of human history. It’s really only with the rise (and eventual cultural dominance) of the Abrahamic faiths that “shame” was applied to the breast.

Shit, look at the Romans. Coverage was more or less optional in a lot of…

If Twitch reaches a point where they are enforcing rules consistently across all channels, irrespective of subscriber count, then sure.

That said, the central argument here is that the human body—and particularly the female breast—is not inherently sexual. While the breast does have a secondary sex purpose, its primary…

Yup. There were known caches amongst school groups—and there was always the added sense of discovery in stumbling upon a porn stash during a normal walk/bike ride.

The Goonies really hit it on the head with the nature of One-Eyed Willie.

Terse observation maligning the media for not massaging the OPs feelings, masquerading as an insightful, erudite comment.

Truly, my shock knows no bounds (comment/username synergy is solid, too).

If you walk around naked within the confines of your own home, and someone happens to see you through an open window, you’re protected by the reasonable expectation of privacy.

If you go through the rigamarole of accessing a particular streamer’s stream because you want to see the content they produce, you are actively…

I think there’s an additional concern here that afriendtosell didn’t hit: whether you intended it or not, you’ve created an additional defining line here by pointing out that the woman featured in this article is conventionally attractive.

Attractive people tend to be more arousing to others in purely physical terms.…

Resorting to the “but think of the kids” defense elides two things:

The first is parental responsibility. I know, I know, parents cannot watch what their children are doing at all times—but they can teach them boundaries, respect for others, and basic adhesion to a moral/ethical code.

Many don’t bother, and thus we end…

I love you for this.