honestly, i figured this out just some days ago: it's all a matter of context, and historical perspective. when Cortana, or bikini armor, or Lara Croft all came out back in 2005 or whatever, Early Porn Introduction just wasn't as developed yet. there was no Discord to groom kids in, tranny movements hadn't got going at this blazing fast speed yet, etcetera.
so all that had little effect. they were just good looking women in games, sometimes in skimpy outfits. most men went "nice" and for most kids it probably didn't even register next to all the cool gameplay they had.
today? if Cortana came out today there would be 20 new pages of pornography on every site that hosts it. popular twitter artists, NSFW or not, would be coming out with art that directly sexualizes her. Discord servers would crop up to roleplay weird master-slave shit about soldiers and their hologram sexbots. there'd be no discussion of Cortana as a character or what the hell even happens in the game, it'd just all be about how much people want to have sex with her.
the exact same character design has profoundly worse effects today and that can be objectively measured. maybe some can't be blamed for still being stuck in 2005, but the truth is that a lot more is gooner bait today than yesterday because gooners have exploded in both numbers and ferocity. think about this: for most of Italy, Tifa Lockhart is a porn actress.
It's goon fuel back then too. There is no problem with attractive women, it's the hyper sexualization of everything and every woman that is the problem.
Kids don't need a half naked slut ai when they wanna play a space ranger video game. But a bunch of coomers can't help but insert hyper sexualized versions of everything into their media because they don't see the damage lust can cause, even to themselves. Cortana could be attractive and still wearing normal clothes.
yeah i mean, honestly agreed. inserting naked ladies everywhere or giving characters prostitute outfits for no reason is just crass, it's not even sexy for the adults playing if you have actual taste. but probably the only way to rationally start the discussion with the many people around who think that sort of stuff is good (like most people here) is to first acknowledge that they still think like the media makers back in 2005, who felt they could toe the line of titillation without consequences as grave as they are today for both groomed kids and pornsick adults.
high-speed porn is really new. sure there were tapes around in the 60s or whatever, but we have only a few decades of experience with getting 10000 images of perfect naked ladies with just a few keystrokes on a computer. for these bikini warrior types i don't think it's sunk in just how much of an effect porn and titillating content at this rate really has. back then they were salivating over triangles on Lara's chest but now people are turning a thin bug in a loose dress into hardcore pornography with Silksong. things have really progressed.
Once again, if Anita's videos replaced "muh misogyny" with "muh Christian values", you lot would have lapped it up.
It's not the devs fault most parents these days idea of proper parenting is giving their kids a tablet with unrestricted access to the internet where they'll get groomed by creeps on roblox.
And putting the blame on people who enjoy non porn games for reasons other than tits and ass is just going to remind them of how we spent a decade getting lectured by annoying feminists on how we're all pedophile rapist nazis for thinking ugly women are ugly.
Additionally, if you didn't conveniently forget how the left got so big with the younger generation in the first place, you'll be reminded of crap like the comics code authority or how the right tried to call everything from DnD to the og Doom "satanist propaganda".
They had VHS stores with rooms for adult content in the 90s already, some of the stuff from back then was way more nastier than they do nowadays. Attractive characters just sell better and they needed every sale back then since the market was very small still. And almost anything was a new ip. Not everything is a setup for demoralization and the destruction of the west. I would rather say taking attractive characters in the last decade away is way more demoralizing. At least these can still keep you partially hooked to a game even if its bad. Now games are bad and have nothing to look at.
honestly, i figured this out just some days ago: it's all a matter of context, and historical perspective. when Cortana, or bikini armor, or Lara Croft all came out back in 2005 or whatever, Early Porn Introduction just wasn't as developed yet. there was no Discord to groom kids in, tranny movements hadn't got going at this blazing fast speed yet, etcetera.
so all that had little effect. they were just good looking women in games, sometimes in skimpy outfits. most men went "nice" and for most kids it probably didn't even register next to all the cool gameplay they had.
today? if Cortana came out today there would be 20 new pages of pornography on every site that hosts it. popular twitter artists, NSFW or not, would be coming out with art that directly sexualizes her. Discord servers would crop up to roleplay weird master-slave shit about soldiers and their hologram sexbots. there'd be no discussion of Cortana as a character or what the hell even happens in the game, it'd just all be about how much people want to have sex with her.
the exact same character design has profoundly worse effects today and that can be objectively measured. maybe some can't be blamed for still being stuck in 2005, but the truth is that a lot more is gooner bait today than yesterday because gooners have exploded in both numbers and ferocity. think about this: for most of Italy, Tifa Lockhart is a porn actress.
It's goon fuel back then too. There is no problem with attractive women, it's the hyper sexualization of everything and every woman that is the problem.
Kids don't need a half naked slut ai when they wanna play a space ranger video game. But a bunch of coomers can't help but insert hyper sexualized versions of everything into their media because they don't see the damage lust can cause, even to themselves. Cortana could be attractive and still wearing normal clothes.
yeah i mean, honestly agreed. inserting naked ladies everywhere or giving characters prostitute outfits for no reason is just crass, it's not even sexy for the adults playing if you have actual taste. but probably the only way to rationally start the discussion with the many people around who think that sort of stuff is good (like most people here) is to first acknowledge that they still think like the media makers back in 2005, who felt they could toe the line of titillation without consequences as grave as they are today for both groomed kids and pornsick adults.
high-speed porn is really new. sure there were tapes around in the 60s or whatever, but we have only a few decades of experience with getting 10000 images of perfect naked ladies with just a few keystrokes on a computer. for these bikini warrior types i don't think it's sunk in just how much of an effect porn and titillating content at this rate really has. back then they were salivating over triangles on Lara's chest but now people are turning a thin bug in a loose dress into hardcore pornography with Silksong. things have really progressed.
Its like an old alcoholic who thinks the first drinks of alcohol weren't necessary first steps of the problem which led to liver failure and death.
Once again, if Anita's videos replaced "muh misogyny" with "muh Christian values", you lot would have lapped it up.
It's not the devs fault most parents these days idea of proper parenting is giving their kids a tablet with unrestricted access to the internet where they'll get groomed by creeps on roblox.
And putting the blame on people who enjoy non porn games for reasons other than tits and ass is just going to remind them of how we spent a decade getting lectured by annoying feminists on how we're all pedophile rapist nazis for thinking ugly women are ugly.
Additionally, if you didn't conveniently forget how the left got so big with the younger generation in the first place, you'll be reminded of crap like the comics code authority or how the right tried to call everything from DnD to the og Doom "satanist propaganda".
You blame parents for giving them a tablet & blame them for taking it away.
They had VHS stores with rooms for adult content in the 90s already, some of the stuff from back then was way more nastier than they do nowadays. Attractive characters just sell better and they needed every sale back then since the market was very small still. And almost anything was a new ip. Not everything is a setup for demoralization and the destruction of the west. I would rather say taking attractive characters in the last decade away is way more demoralizing. At least these can still keep you partially hooked to a game even if its bad. Now games are bad and have nothing to look at.
And that was a very fine animation.