@FallenSphereLL@PurrsonVT@DocStrangelove2 too many people associate the “authentic” cyberpunk aesthetic with the future noir aesthetic which is like, just ONE part of the cyberpunk setting. also even invoking authenticity together with cyberpunk is missing the point entirely.
@JimboxShrimp@Lil0qui@prblmchId comes with exceptions and caveats, and it is mediated by ind. sexual/romantic/intimate experiences but if you are a typical hetero male that is otherwise psychologically well it is normal for liking someone (however deep or superficial) to manifest as a physical sexual attraction
@goblinfren@GarrettPetersen it’s amazing how many women do not understand that the very patriarchy they decry is, in modern day, explicitly created and enabled by the fact that they have deliberately and consciously made themselves available to a common minority of men
@TheNumerophile0 There are a lot of things Americans (particularly American liberals) say they want from European style social democracy while not understanding the very basic sacrifices, cultural norms, and pragmatism that permits it.
Liberals can’t even handle socialists holding office.
@wakararau so like the biggest problem rn with going to anime cons and overtly hitting on women there is not that this is inherently a bad idea but that every other guy is doing it right now.
@wakararau I think the worst sort of advice is typically [do normal/accepted thing] as experience has told me that people’s libidos live at the very fringes of shared social experiences. You gotta be trying “unsafe”/original things that few or hardly anyone else is doing. That’s hard.
@Lil0qui@prblmchId the problem with framing it that way is that a guy “liking someone for who they are” often manifests as wanting to physically touch their bodies, even when it is inappropriate. It’s kind of like the primary move of the male libido, you aren’t gonna get far by trying to shame it.
@iiiiwanttolive tbf I think part of this is specific cultural problem with the culture of a lot of the wealthier countries/areas, because people will often act excessively nice to get money
If you go some place where people are a bit more poor you will get a lot more genuine human reactions
@sclubbVEVOII@GarcherAlios@ConeOfArc I fucked my wife on the first date and we’re happily married, lmao. You need to chill imho different people do different things by both desire and circumstance and it’s actually not up to you to dictate otherwise.
@sclubbVEVOII@GarcherAlios@ConeOfArc lmao who the fuck are you to say what everyone SHOULD be doing?
relationships “occur naturally” for some people, it doesn’t for others. Lucky you if that describes your experience but some have to be very intentional about getting what they want otherwise they get no one.
@StrayRoyal@Shinobu_L0verz@kris_chrome yaoi paddles, glomping, and hentai watchalongs have existed since the early 2000s bro.
in 2004 one of the most popular anime shows in the west was about a girl with the mind of a toddler who would go on murder sprees and occasionally pee herself
@PurpleColonelSP do you think maybe you are actually just a humongous dumbass because you got your “dream job” and it’s shitty Fortnite rather than doing what most people do which is work on something much less superficially amazing but more stable
@PurpleColonelSP@dour_knight there are people who work for companies that skin them alive and they have literally no other choice. They’re stuck.
This does not describe most of the soft precious adult children that choose game dev yet they make by far the most noise.
@kizukuriii pcsx.
the 8-bit and 16-bit emulators were dead easy, just get the rom and run it. and the roms were tiny.
pcsx introduced the idea bios and plugins which lost a lot of people. like you could own the disc even but you couldn’t emulate it because you still had to pirate the bios.
@yggdrizzle AX crowds are seriously attended by some of the worst human beings on earth, and more than one time I’ve been in some that are actually dangerous, not to mention chaotic.
Japan queues are annoying and even sometimes soul crushing but are at least well behaved and safe.