It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing.

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1194·
    17 hours ago

    It stiles me as a bit absurd that we find simulated violence normal but simulated eroticism abnormal

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      11 hours ago

      That’s only because you are ignorant of how much of American values are based on puritanical lifestyle and regressive sensibilities

      You can show all the heads exploding you want but god forbid some kid sees a boob

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      111·
      10 hours ago

      Iirc George R.R. Martin has a similar reaction when people complained about the amount of sex in Game of Thrones. A telegraph article that immediately asked me to login said that he was

      always astonished that there’s always so much more controversy about the sex than about the violence," and that this reaction “says something about us that isn’t necessarily a good thing to say”

      • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        9 hours ago

        There’s something to be said about sex scenes being shown. It’s an entire different thing when literal assault scenes are shown and the onus is always on the female victims and their torture. The perpetrators are never shown as the perpetrators they are. Not even mentioning how much assault is used as a driving factor for these female characters’ character development.

        • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          8 hours ago

          Oh that I fully agree with. I believe in this particular case he wasn’t talking about complaints of sexual violence, but just sex in general. I personally have a huge aversion to media depicting sexual assault, and I avoid watching most shows that have it, even if it’s “important for the story” or “it’s really good despite that”.

          Since I like anime/manga a lot, I’ll use examples there, but I won’t watch/read Berserk, Goblin Slayer, and DanDanDan, and I have a huge issue with how Rose is treated by the original Full Metal Alchemist anime series. The last especially because it wasn’t by the original author making the choice, by tv execs deciding it made better drama or something. There are lots of other reasons I prefer Brotherhood over the first anime, but the rape of Rose is definitely a significant one.

          Weatern media is a bit harder for me to pull out examples I would have maybe watched but avoided because of this, but I guess I probably won’t ever watch A Clockwork Orange and I didn’t feel like watching Jessica Jones for those reasons. I’ve never followed Game of Thrones deeply either, so until looking up this quote I wasn’t quite aware sexual violence played a role( I think I suspected it, but heard more about red wedding etc). I was putting off watching it then everyones reaction to the last season dropped my interest, so I can’t claim sexual violence was the reason I haven’t seen it.

          • thallamabond@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            6 hours ago

            I think American Horror Story would be a good Western example. I watched each season until the first episode of Hotel. It contained a scene of sexual violence brutal enough for me and my significant other to agree to quit the show. While discussing it we realized ALL seasons contained episodes featuring sexual violence.

    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      137·
      17 hours ago

      It’s because you cannot under normal circumstances engage in a killing spree but most can get laid if they have previously put in effort.

      • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        I’m not sure that’s it - there are plenty of very successful games that simulate activities requiring less effort than getting laid.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        271·
        16 hours ago

        This still assumes both are equal in both motive and morality.

        Sex is just better than violence in all respects (except when combined, yuck).

        • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          15 hours ago

          Both combined is perfectly fine when both (or all involved) people specifically want it. It can be a lot of fun as long as youre being safe.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            14 hours ago

            Yes! Exactly! And you also have to both know and trust each others limits. If you offer for your partner to spank you, and you’re expecting a light little funishment, but they go full ham, and blister and bruise your ass, you’re both going to have a bad time.

            But if you both know and expect similiar ideas, and thats whats engaged in, respecting limits, and respecting consent, and respecting bountries, it can be a lot of fun.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    93·
    20 hours ago

    The majority are, well, what you expect: various ways to make Eve and other women in the game various levels of nude (with the most popular level being ‘fully’). Someone did put her in an apron, though, which I suppose leaves something to the imagination. There are also a lot of main menu replacers that just put hardcore smut of one variety or another right there on the home screen, if that’s your bag.

    Now. Look. I have no issue with what adults do in the privacy of their own home. If you want to turn your copy of any game into an overstimulating carnival of omnipresent erotic delights, please do so with my blessing. But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography.

    Up next, a reaction video of Joshua Wolens as we expose him to progressively more-intense degrees of the Skyrim mod library.

    • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      821·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah I’ve never been the same since I found out about the mod that gives every woman in Skyrim their own tracked menstrual cycle - with added pregnancy and fluctuating fertility throughout the cycle.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      25·
      18 hours ago

      But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography.

      It must be the author’s first day on the internet.

      If the internet were banned globally, porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves, and anything up to and including national geographic where they show cultures where clothing is sparse would all be hard to find, as the porn starved masses come out of their jizz encrusted caves to find something to give them that little hit of dopamine and oxytocin.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        16 hours ago

        I’d hate to have to go back to lingerie catalogues, especially since Sears went out of business :(

      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves

        Nah, dude, immediately back to sneakernet. But way more porn now.

  • Drekaridill@feddit.is
    51·
    20 hours ago

    I’m shocked that the game I know nothing about except how people were drooling over the character has smut mods. Shocked I tell you.

  • NotNotMike@programming.devEnglish
    253·
    20 hours ago

    This article was pretty funny. I loved the writing style

    As for the subject matter, I have never understood these mods. When I was young I gave them a try in Skyrim but I remember it just being distracting. It feels like multitasking: I’m doing two things half as good. I really don’t see the point.

    So that being said, I would love it if they had metrics on how long the mod stayed installed and how far into the game the player made it. Impossible, surely, but it would really clear up for me whether people are genuinely playing the game or whether they’re installing for a level and… Ahem… Moving on to another activity

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I put genitals on all my monsters in Monster Hunter. I derived no sexual pleasure from it, I just loved that it was a thing.

    • impudentmortal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      Wasn’t planning on reading since I don’t care about Stellar Blade but thanks for the heads up. Article is hilarious.

      Just a small note, you forgot to include quotes in your comment. Didn’t realize you were quoting the article until I read it.

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
    171·
    20 hours ago

    Isn’t that kinda half of the point of Stellar Blade? Let the pervs perv to pixels. It’s better than creepshotting girls on the street.

    Stellar Blade without gyatt is like Doom without edge, or TF2 without Australian references. It’s the heart and soul of the game.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      81·
      19 hours ago

      I mean I liked the gameplay… And the music. Was like baby’s first souls like. I normally suck and don’t the time to practice in actual souls games so it was nice to have some bit of challenge but not to the degree of souls games.