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[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh no, Macie's wife

[–] iMastari@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

It's too bad I will not be playing it since the game has Denovo.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 131 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

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

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 37 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

Oh I'm unfortunately quite familiar with repressed American values

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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"

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.com 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

I just think it's a little strange to hear complaints about hypocrisy like this coming from an author that deliberately uses SA as a plot point - that's all I was trying to point out.

Oh yea, as a huge soulslike fan, I would really like to know about Berserk so see where Miyazaki pulled a lot of his inspiration from, but I won't ever watch or read it because of the SA it includes. Just not interested.

Even my favourite anime, Samurai Champloo, uses SA or involuntary sexual advances as plot points, which I didn't really grasp back when I was around 13ish years old, and was shocked to see when I tried to rewatch the show with my SO. It's a little perverse to see just how much this is used as a plot device when it's not unnecessary. Anime is full of it for some reason. It might be a cultural thing because Japanese people are sexually very closed off, from what I've heard, so they include such themes in anime and in porn. But yea - not for me, please.

Recently started watching Breaking Bad for the first time, and I was just shocked seeing that scene in the first season where Walt tries to force himself onto Skyler when he tries to hide his shadiness. Fortunately, not a lot happens there and she snaps back immediately, but come on dude - really??? Nothing like this happens again in the following seasons, currently around the end of season 3, so I'm just sitting there wondering what the point was. Was it just shock value? Because it didn't add anything of value otherwise than to see that Walt is becoming more and more immoral and shady in his business, but there would have been so many other ways to show that apart from SA. I don't know, man.

I think it's a touchy subject for me in general, and I won't ever tolerate seeing it in media. I don't even know if there's a case to be had about SA being used as a "sensible" plot line, but even if there were, I wouldn't be able to see past my absolute aversion and disgust I feel over seeing that.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 5 points 8 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.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 46 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 98 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.zone 86 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 89 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

From what I understand, the mod author also worked for compatibility with as many sex mods as possible.

Skyrim Nexus is a dark place...

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 57 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think he was asking for more details with that reaction photo

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think I was sharing them with that comment

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wow, that's terrible! What mod is this? So I can avoid it? What a weird thing! That I'm definitely going to avoid and not go check out.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 27 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Skyrim Nexus is a dark place....

I'd call it the second-most-restrictive "tier" of Skyrim mod site after Bethesda's official mod site.

Look at LoversLab, which is more permissive.

And there are Skyrim mod sites that carry content that LoversLab won't permit.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago

LoversLab is where I got my Monster Hunter World - Dragon Genitals mod and it was AMAZING

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 20 hours ago

Real Skyrim modder right here. I shudder to think what LoversLab might ban.

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I tried that mod (or similar) once where you could impregnate NPCs. Good thing my guy was super rich and owned a ton of real-estate, because he had like 20 kids by the end.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Skyrim child support laws are actually pretty awful, the guards will at best fine you less than the support you owe

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 27 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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.world 11 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

That title was written by The 700 Club.

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 12 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club

The 700 Club is the flagship television program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing each weekday in syndication in the United States and available worldwide on CBN.com.

Not to be confused with The 300 Club.

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[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 57 points 22 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.

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 27 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I don't get the appeal. Porn is free on the internet and everywhere.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

The vast vast majority of porn is either completely contextless or any just plain trash. People prefer porn when they have some kind of connection to a character with actual personality.

Also these mods are also porn, free, and on the internet.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 46 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

But is it interactive?

Also I'm sure part of it for some people is the corruption of something that wasn't originally smut.

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[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 22 points 19 hours ago

As are these mods.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Also you need two hands to play. Do they just like to play aroused for hours?

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 22 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

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.com 4 points 15 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.

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