There’s no such thing as objectivity in art.

You have to remember that Japanese culture has a huge, societal-defining emphasis on hard work being the key to success. Even if that hard work is just in name/theory, rather than actual effort—as seen in how “napping on the job,” is a positive thing in the Japanese workforce, for example.

And Paradise Lost is just self-insert fanfiction of the Old Testament that Draco in Leather Pants Lucifer, yeah lmao

Dweeb 🙃

Jsfc this comment section. Gamers will turn on anyone, for anything, the moment their vision of that person is challenged.

Now, Arn, to be fair: there is quite a bit of incredibly original and well-executed fanficfion out there. The entire concept of an alternate universe/canon-but-not approach to writing can bring out the best in some writers.

I know, I’m more not okay with the implications.

Not even remotely what I mean.

What they could develop from the AI is more my concern, tbh

This is legitimately horrifying

Read closer: I’m not asking you to invalidate their work on GoT. Everyone involved in that series, even if I don’t necessarily like B&W, deserves whatever critical acclaim they’ve received got GoT. There’s no arguing that. Adapting a story from text to screen is an art-form in and of itself—and something that, you’ll…

Name something that either of them have done, outside of adapting GoT to varying degrees of success, that stands out or is as critically accalimed.

As much as I love the joke, this headline does make it so that every time I hit the front page Chrome asks me if I want to translate the contents it.

Coaching that statement as a joke, however, leaves room for an interpretation that the poster isn’t arguing that, however.

@ Munster00

...and getting ahold of porn was not difficult

I think it, honestly, comes down to intent. If the author intends for a piece/work to be more artistic than titillating, than we should take their word for it*. But, there’s also a conversation to be had about what the ramifications of most fictional videogame characters being highly sexualized is, in terms of fandom…

America has its own distinctive flavor of sexual conservatism, this is true. But let’s not also reduce this to a uniquely American thing wrt to culture / history. Plenty of the more liberal countries in the world (and I’m speaking as someone heavily influenced/living in Spanish-speaking cultures) still have their own…

In terms of the minority comment, I more meant that these grognards doing crap like this are probably not as much of a minority of “gamers” (in the wider sense of the word) as we’d like to think.