oh you’re the thread starter! ahem…

i find the first reply to yours absolutely insane and completely off-base. so i continued in the same vein. turns out the guy was being completely serious.

more than one program

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using a computer is bloat when the browser can use it for you. i have a second computer just running selenium to use my computer for me.

using a full-blown operating system to do everything is bloat when the browser can already do it all. just kernel and browser should be enough.

all major browsers have built-in fully functioning video players, ergo they are video players. and most people have a browser running anyway so startup is likely faster than a standalone application. using a separate video player is bloat. same with music players, and text editors, and pdf viewers.

the browser is truly the new emacs.

a separate video player is bloat. just use a browser.

yeah forced encounters are always ass. and nice that you liked altaïr! he’s never coming back.

yeah that’s also a whole genre. i don’t think that’s ever been in court though. i don’t really feel like checking that tbh.

is it huggbees

Edit it was

remember when sony did the same to microsoft

the first one is definitely rough. i really liked the story beats but it is the clunkiest of the bunch. 2 and its spinoffs are all excellent though, the levels really shine in those. try out the tourist mode too.

so the real-world id requirement is also user protection? play store is basically an info stealer at this point.

they’re going to make it more difficult too. you basically need to enable dev mode a second time, then for every application that can install ap, you need to re-approve then wait 24 hours.

ew yeah

well here it’s not a grey area since 2012. it’s explicitly a different thing according to our supreme court.

to your last point, i think there’s research that shows that people tend to act less on their urges when given an outlet. same as with violence. in fact i think that there’s even some that says that people who commit the acts do it because what they get off on is the sense of control rather than the characteristics of the victim.

that said, yeah we obviously shouldn’t be encouraging creeps to act on their urges. i also don’t know what the situation is in japan but it’s possible that in their “shame-based society” as someone put it in the thread, calling someone out on it is enough to discourage it in a way that doesn’t translate. in that case the translation is also wrong, but in the other direction; it should be harsher.

that wasn’t my intention. i just think the rules are different with drawn material, that was what i was trying to illustrate. the law also distinguishes the two, at least where i live. i know that varies greatly by country, and there’s the question of whether the artist is using reference, but considering how unrealistic most hentai is wrt proportions and poses that feels like it would stick out.

i mean… i’ve seen that kinda porn on furry sites. there’s a whole subgenre. usually the animals can talk, but they’re still animals. as in, not anthropomorphic.

not that i really want to continue the discussion (we agree that SA is bad and the people doing it should be put in prison) but isn’t this a bit like saying furry porn is pretty much the same as bestiality?

not intrinsically, at least not for long. in most of europe it was legal up until the 90s and there were even porno mags that ran specials.

…i do compulsive late night wiki walks, before you ask how i know that. i had a period where i read up on what happened to the “flower power” generation with all their “free love” stuff and that came up. i tend to do breadth-first search so i just read through articles while opening all the links in the background, then go down a level, etc etc. when a term like that comes up on a wiki page it triggers your fight-or-flight response.