Kinda’ looks like how a psychotic break feels:-?

I think there’s a point on the “Weird Shit Kids Do” spectrum after which the parents stop questioning it and just establish it as routine if necessary.

I used to be fascinated by disappearing coin tricks. I never could get the hang of gracefully making them reappear, because my brain logiked its way to “the only possible, scientifically proven way to make a coin disappear is to swallow it, of course.”

At first, my folks were a bit baffled by this, especially considering that I did, indeed, present it as a magic trick every time, and secondly because, yes, it happened repeatedly. But after the second occurrence (from what I can remember, I was 3-4 years old), they just incorporated the routine of waiting for the coin to… uuh… show up again.

It went so far as to not even question why I would swallow all of my grandma’s heart pills (which I didn’t, I just cleared them of their sugar coating, then fed them to the nearest potted plant I could find), they just casually took me to the ER to have my stomach flushed. No questions, no discussions afterwards, “our kid likes swallowing stuff he really shouldn’t, what’s the point in questioning, just be ready with that esophageal hose.”

And I didn’t even have an oral fixation, I just liked magic tricks and sugar…

Nonsense, this is a non-issue. Why are you gaslighting us?!

Too late. And I’m not even that big on butt stuff!

Holy shit, it’s true!😮

Also, that thing about George Takei, too, yeah. (HOLY SHIT!!)

Why are you booing me, I’m right!=)))

Fair enough, should’ve phrased it as “where the abuse is presented as a positive in any way, or is the goal in order to obtain gratification,” what you said is essentially what I was thinking:))

I think a lot of people understood that I wanted to start a censorship war with porn, but it’s not at all what I meant. I would just keep the inhuman, the monstruous stuff away from shelves, and by that I don’t mean kinks and such.

Wait… waaait, wait wait! So you’re telling me that isn’t an alien?! Well, what do you think it is, a dog?! Hah! Yeah, right! Star Trek would never lie to me! Our relationship is built on Respect, on Trust!

Goldie, but very Oldie!:))) Think this one may have existed since before puberty smacked me:-?

Real Talk: exercise your throwing arm and use moderately heavy rocks from a safe distance:)) Hornets are NOT happy campers!:))

Yeah, it’s hard to explain, it’s not to the gameplay, more, like… the overall vibe I get from it, maybe aesthetically, maybe atmospherically, something thereabouts:))

Honestly sounds kinda’ nice right now, too much Darktide…

I am not being glib, I simply don’t know how else to respond to “why not allow games about raping people, or paedophilia, or abusing people in a romantic context” other than with “because all of those things are objectively unconscionable.” And, yes, I’d argue that they are all worse than Video Game Violence™ even when just taken within the “it’s just vidya” context.

I dunno, I fully accept that it may be just getting old and outdated, but… I genuinely can’t see that stuff otherwise, nor could I agree with the distribution of such stuff out of the same website on which you can also get, like, Tiny Tots’ Fluffy Fun Town Adventure, the hit platformer for 1-year-olds, y’know?

I’m not stupid enough to believe that such stuff will never exist, as I’ve seen it exist already. Like, ok, but that’s different. Horrid stuff will exist in one way or another, there’s still a market for snuff films and such, ok I can accept that as an inevitability. But it’s one thing for It to exist, and another to sell It as one would a can of soda, in full view and reach of just anyone.

Thanks! It really does look neat! Getting heavy Cultist Simulator vibes, for some reason:-?

But it’s pretty clear Nintendo’s almost exclusively in it for the money and nothing else at this point. I wouldn’t even expect them to curate anything, quite the contrary, I expect everything Nintendo-wise to keep getting worse.

Steam, on the other hand, still has hints that it primarily wants to be a one-stop-app for gaming, which is why I believe there would still be room for them to “own it,” y’know?

Myeah :-<… it’s a damned shame, though…

And I was referring more to games which have you abuse other characters, broaching abuse as an element and studying it for what it is is ok. Hell, I’d even argue we need more games which show the effects and repercussions of abuse…

Y’know what? I’ll disagree with you there, let the porn games be on Steam. BUT! Do a thorough quality and content check (i.e. no rape, kiddy diddling, spousal abuse, any other type of abuse, etc.) on ALL of them, and throw the slop away. Then do this for every other genre, and make the porn harder to find - like the video store backroom.

Edit: Steam should assume more curation roles. I mean, even SOME curation roles, because the Steam library looks like my old dorm room the morning after my birthday party: filled with trash, vomit, and loneliness.

Edit 2: speaking of video store backrooms, maybe they could do just that, branch off that section of the library and set it on its own domain, like a Steam After Dark, or whatever.

Edit 3: STEAMY AFTER DARK! I want my 10.000 Internet Points NOW!

Yeah, that one!

I would Capitalism one of these for myself, I swear.

If it’s between Art Deco and Cubicle Glass And Steel, gimme that damned gold pinstripe filigree! A bit too sharp a detail material for my tastes, but at least it has some soul behind it! (and goes well with black, totally impartial on this one, honest:")

Oh! OH! If Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the aesthetic of our near future, I would NOT be disappointed, either! Renaissance mainly, sure, but those thin lines, smoky contrasts and overall vibe, that’s pure Art Deco influence to me. Neo-Noir by way of XVIth Century Venice!:)))

I genuinely think it’s impossible. I think this would land us into Robocop 2, where they started overloading Murphy’s system with thousands of directives (granted, not with the purpose of generating the perfect set of Laws for him) and he just ends up acting like a generic pull-string action figure, becoming “useless” as a conscious being.

Most certainly impossible when attempted by humans, because we’re barely even competent enough to guide ourselves, let alone something else.