I don’t really understand why farming is always so tedious in a franchise like Borderlands, or literally any other (primarily) single-player games that have a minuscule/couch co-op based multiplayer aspect. For MMOs, sure: you want players to feel like sinking countless hours into your game loop is rewarding, and…

Dear Clueless Hero: observational comeday is only funny when you have something new, or subversive to say about the observations you’re making.

“In playing it, I found swords and throw daggers, traipsed about a graveyard picking up collectibles, and opened plenty of locked doors. MedIEvil is a straightforward game, almost entirely linear, except for some occasional branching pathways that soon lead back to the main area again. It feels like an arcade game, a…

Well, yeah. It is a legal gray area (unfortunately/fortunately/whatever your opinion on the subject is.) But, that said:

ok

You don’t seem to be grasping my main point.

Yeah, I was just trying to elaborate on why the headline of the article wasn’t a dead giveaway insofar as the image originally used to preview the article was much more likely to get “flagged” as nsfw.

There’s a difference, in terms of “getting caught” browsing NSFW content, between an image and text. It’s much, much harder—unless someone is actively monitoring what you’re reading/meta tags/etc that appear on a screen—to get in trouble for reading something you maybe shouldn’t be reading while at work, than it is…

That’s not the issue. The title gives you enough evidence to steer clear, but the original image used to preview the rest of the article was still NSFW (tame, but NSFW) and depicted an underage—albeit virtual—rendition of Hermoine/Emma Watson from Harry Potter sitting pantsless on a couch.

Because the characters are underage.

The issue is that, even if you didn’t open the article, the very first image and preview of the article was of a pantless, definitely underage or close-enough-to-looking underage Hermoine/Emma Watson wearing nothing but a long shirt.

I mean, even then: the original header image—and thus the image that appeared on the front page, with NO prior NSFW warning—was softcore porn/a NSFW image of Hermoine sitting on a couch with no pants on.

Nowhere did I make the connection that people who produce this kind of fetish material, or material I find disagree with/doesn’t pander to my set of morals or kinks, are they themselves abusers. I think making that kind of connection, and then arguing that anyone who enjoys or creates those kind of things endorse said…

At the end of the day, they still got Capone.

Well, I think at least two big things come to mind as to why those perceptions/the reaction from us as a fandom have changed:

Look, we always have this discussion when something like this happens. It’s not that this is anywhere near close to a real representation, or as bad as X or Y in Real Life; it’s that, in it’s own venue and genre of Fucked Up, the production and consumption of media that celebrates, or situates the act of underage /…

“It’s only been in the last few years that people seem to be raging and offended that such porn exists”

Yeah, like. If we’re gonna talk about animated porn, let’s fucking talk about animated porn. Pros, cons, and weird hyper-fixation on noncon that the genre has rn.

Your statement literally reads, to me, as saying: “Well there could be something wrong with this, and someone might find something wrong with this, but that’s okay—even when it’s not, to them, really—because that’s just How Life Is,” and like.