Archival is extremely important and one of the side effects of copyright schemes is that they limit its viability. The less access people have, the more likely some work becomes lost forever. I’ve seen it a few times already, with recent work, but in one or two hundred years we’re talking about libraries of art that could have been preserved but are just gone.
Closed source software, that’s actually distributed to people, has all kinds of problems beyond that too. Tons has been written about that, but from an artistic perspective, I think the biggest loss is that people can’t legally expand the original work. Giant franchises with a central cultural presence get walled off and usually just go through a huge creative decline, which is crazy because there’s millions of people preoccupied with the concepts from the franchise who are barred from using them to express themselves. With software in specific, if it’s open source you can modify it, fix it, expand it, maintain it, whatever - there’s all these great resources they could use, but we won’t let them.
It’s pretty insane. At first I thought damn, from now on our culture will be so thoroughly documented that future historians will struggle to parse it all, but now I can’t trust anything to last for 5 years and I can’t have copies of it, either.
Piracy shmiracy, some random dude’s homegrown server is not an archive, and anything that fails without electricity to power it is not a copy.
Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.
Someone is going to be super triggered about a woman somewhere not liking women being portrayed as sexual objects in games and is going to post about it here
So tired of it being 2025 and these posts making it to Lemmy. Have any of you ever actually played some of the queer games out there? I’ve played lesbian games made by women mostly targeting an audience for women that are so spicy they’d set your skin on fire. It’s not the sexuality that’s an issue, it’s a larger cultural conversation about where these things belong, how they’re viewed by the masses, and the impression it creates on children who this is ostensibly for too, I guess? Teens? Still impressionable.
Grow up and go play an h-game in your own privacy and don’t make it everyone else’s problem. And stop laundering your opinion with “someone is going to make a post”. You made the post, you brought the trash into the house, and the (current) 9 upvotes shows you’re giving it space to breath and quite frankly, it reeks.
EDIT: no opinion on post, I don’t care how caked she is. If I were that actress, I’d honestly be proud, too.
You know, fair enough, you caught me in a “think of the children” argument and I never expected to be the one here. But I stand by my point. And wash my hands of the matter.
Returning to the queer games I mentioned earlier, those are by and large indie games. And quite adult/NSFW. Not strictly by nature of being queer to be clear, simply having LGBTQ+ representation doesn’t make it adult. Just being in that space, those are the themes they choose to explore. Do you see the nuance here?
We’re mammals, we stand at the pinnacle of human technology and evolution, man and woman hand-in-hand shouting, “Boobs! Boobs! Boobs! Boobs! Boobs!” (or butt, whatever, I’ve made my stance known). The boobs and butts belong in specific times/places and when that lines up properly, let us exalt them. But can we at least agree that the time/place is at a bare minimum NOT everywhere all the time?
Bringing up these tired arguments forfeits your place at the table. But even further, these are all mainstream corporate interests regarding Marvel and Disney and property/brand characters. Let it go. Fuck them into a hole in the ground, fill it with cement, and leave the grave unmarked. These arguments exist because we choose to exalt these properties instead, of which there are limited spaces in a roster, dying for “mainstream” representation of everyone’s preferred “thing”. Just go play an indie that suits you. You’ll find weirder ones that hyper focus your own fetishes and fixations to a point where it’s almost terrifying.
Last post and I’m done here, but let me explain the post and my response:
Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.
Poster is implying that someone (leftist, feminist, anyone they don’t agree with) will come in here and complain about how sexual this is. Rather than expressing any genuine sentiment or opinion of their own, they assumed one for someone else, a strawman to bat at. It’s a dogwhistle, an attempt to bait out and rehash old Gamergate shit. I mean, I do have to assume because again, I cannot overstate how lazy and insincere it is to make a post like this that does not express your own opinion and implies someone else’s.
The primary point I was trying to make with the overall post is that it’s not sex or sexuality that is the problem. Didn’t Larian release a mainstream game where you could have sex as a bear? Look, the ORIGINAL Twitter post is the model indicating how proud she is, I think we can very confidently say she does not feel like she’s being treated as a sexual object in this context and most people can see that. OP cannot distinguish the difference between sexuality in videogames and treating women as sexual objects. That’s gross and they need to sit and think on that for a LONG while, preferably before ever talking to a woman again.
EDIT: Just listen to women. If a woman says, “I feel like I’m being objectified”, you stop. If a woman says, “Damn, I look sexy!” you say, “Hell yeah!”
I thought the connection to the initial comment was made very clear. The initial comment said:
Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.
audaxreik’s initial reaction basically just berated them for saying this, but in the most recent post audaxreik explained this hostility. Loosely speaking, the initial comment was an unprovoked strawman attack against feminism - and audaxreik wanted to push back against that.
In any case, I think the discussion here has run its course.
Well just you make sure and save this post to share in the future since it obviously undermines and refutes all of those concerns from those other broads.
Ironically in dunkey’s revisited review he talks about how if the game was only focused on deliveries, and reconnecting the world after some event, and not beaches and BTs and bridge babies and all the wild stuff it would be a better game. But then it wouldn’t be a Kojima game
Honestly I feel the best way to play any Kojima game is to seperate the story and gameplay mentally. Like playing monopoly but every twenty minutes your great grandfather drops family lore and rants about how the English are at fault for all the worlds problems in increasing long winded rants.
I just block everyone who participates in this dumb idea. Even the people posting to make fun of it. I want to live in a fediverse where this stupid idea never existed.
I checked the wiki, Haley should like beer, but why would you get her beer when daffodils are free and she likes them just as much. Haley (and Shane) is one of the easiest people to get to dance with you, for the first flower dance because she has a birthday before it.
This applies to many things. That guy down the street who acts super macho and has a lifted truck? Don’t date him unless you want to be disappointed. The quiet nerdy dude with a prius? Absolutely freak in bed, and a hung power bottom that will ignite things within you.
Games from 1999-2007 aged really well. I’ve been playing Aliens vs Predator 2, No One Lives Forever and a bunch of GameCube, PS2 and Xbox games on my Steam Deck.
If you can deal with the extreme tedium of making an entire roster of "Jacob Paterson"s (changing letter casing here and there), you’ll be steamrolling everyone. Kinda ruins the fun of the game, but I find it really satisfying to watch >700ft home runs that clear the entire stadium and hear Kuip and Krukow endlessly call dinger after dinger. Pure dumb fun :D
Makes me wish the Deck OLED wasn’t worth blood money on this side of the pond.
I’ll be interested to see how the Orangepi Neo reviews when it releases, it’s the only handheld I reckon can hold a candle to the deck, though I suspect Orangepi’s track record of record shite support will derail that one.
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