Possibly the best dolphin used as a character ever. He's a much better in the short story, but if the film gave us anything, it's a retired military cyber-attack dolphin.

I quit over 4 years ago. But thanks for your priceless vagina advice there, chief.

You just seem dead set on attacking the game as problematic and something that shouldn't exist. Which is simply preposterous. You can just say that you don't get the game's premise and it doesn't appeal to you instead of making sweeping assumptions, attacking the game creators and the game for being problematic or not…

Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. As I have already explained in detail.

That t's a bad game mechanic is only part of it. The main reason I think it's awkward is because the 'gaming' of intimacy by turning it into a bad game mechanic is pretty weird and creepy. That is what I was trying to get at with my earlier comments.

It's not confusing at all, it's a parody of Johnny Mnemonic. And it's pretty funny.

No, kissing or romance are not what I take issue with, as I said. I explained myself to another user in this thread.

According to that logic, any action is permissible until it has been expressly forbidden to the best understanding of the actor, and the person they are acting upon is responsible until they provide due notice.

Oh, sorry. My mistake.

The act of kissing does not have to mean an overall intimacy. Look at European customs where you kiss people twice (or three times) on the cheek as a greeting. Yes, it is not completely analogous since it is the cheek rather than the lips, but the simple act of being within close proximity to other does not…

Nevermind, I misunderstood you!

...it still has a scene where a guy gets cut into tiny pieces by a sweet laser grid.

I would say that game mechanic is a poor one as well, but you're still talking about substituting an intimate act for a violent one. The problem is that it doesn't lose its connotations of conflict, violence or coercion!

You are a person who makes presumptuous personal attacks without qualification.

If you are fine with someone putting on a ring or pushing a button their belt buckle to gain power, then you should be fine with two people who have agreed to the relationship/co-operation locking lips to do the same.

That's kind of a false equivalency. Titillation and violence are completely separate things with completely separate motivations and elicited responses.

There's no hope in his works.

I'm not concerned with kissing in some kind of prudish moral terms. I'm saying that when it's turned into a game mechanic and shoehorned into every battle without context or meaning it is indeed pretty bizarre.

When you're a child you 'absorb' and conform to your native language, and those sounds and patterns of speech are hard-wired into you. That's why almost everyone has an accent in a second language; they didn't learn the language from scratch, they learned based on their established understanding of language how to…

Being secure in your adulthood doesn't necessarily mean abandoning all standards of self-awareness and reveling in things that are rather awkwardly sexualized...