It was decided by people who want to enrage you so much that you'll fight tooth and nail to secure your cell in their new digital prison, content with your shackles because they allow you to enjoy the exact same things that you never needed their permission to believe in the first place.
Infantry for some (sony?) gaming launcher service that's long dead these days. It was a top down squad based multiplayer shooter with multiple modes that significantly changed up the game play. They had a regular military shooter, a soccer game, a space dogfight, and one of my favourite was a cat and mouse game with aliens hiding in the vents of a facility trying to take out all the soldiers on the other team. Apparently it's still going
Imperial Command was one of those real time online strategy games that was all the rage for a few years, where you start in a system with each team mate having their own planet, then you explore/conquer the galaxy full of other player "families."
"Men" isn't a singular organism with one set of ideas and ideals. When they look to porn to try and understand what men like they're getting input largely from the most fucked up and degenerate members of society, who dominate that space, instead of the type of men who actually seek romantic relationships, which are next to non-existent in the production of porn.
I'm reminded of a reddit post I saw a while ago asking why gamers set anime girls as their profile pictures, and the best reply was "because I like it and I don't care what you think." If these guys had gone the same rout I'd fully agree with them, but instead they have to wrap themselves up in lies to try and justify something that doesn't even need justification.
Huh, I took that line entirely differently than what it apparently means. I assumed it was something like: If you cut down a tree to build a home you're 'stealing' it from the birds that nested in it, the bugs that lived in it, etc...
I have trouble understanding the whole "self insert" thing. I get that different people experience media in their own ways, and there's nothing wrong with that, but the "self insert" thing gets pushed as though it's expected to be the norm for everyone. It's weird.
It's about optimizing their formula to provide the absolute minimum amount possible for each individual to maximize profits per capita, and one element is getting people used to the idea of accepting decisions which negatively impact them. Because the entire global economy is run upon the fundamental concept that profits trump absolutely everything else. The "climate emergency" would be easy to solve if we were willing to sacrifice profits as a society.
How can you not start to hate women after seeing all the blatant misandry thats on social media and everywhere else nowadays?
By recognizing that shitty people have always existed, and that good people still exist also. By recognizing that the Internet gives you a perspective on the world that is out of line with the actual reality of the world.
The problem is that you need real world experience to inspire stories, but as society becomes more and more digital, these people have less and less real world experience and therefore are less and less capable of creating interesting stories. It's basically the exact same problem with AI learning from it's own output, because society actually functions in the very same manner that AI does.
Men are more visual while women are more emotional, so fanservice which focuses on something like abs is actually more geared towards gay men. Take a look at Shoujo/Josei and you'll see completely different art styles, for a reason.
I saw a video where a feminist literally fucking said the anime free! (which features shot of boys abs constantly and is blatantly pandering to women) is just "using the male gaze on other men".
That's actually fairly accurate from what I understand. The error you've made is equating the "female gaze" with being more sophisticated. While it's true that women do tend to be more responsive to emotional stimulation, smut written for women is every bit as objectifying as erotica for men. "Romance junkie" is a common term for women who overly indulge in such material.
although it could also be Kotaku's bullshit interpretation of whatever was said and done
That's my thought. Sounds like he was promoting a colleague's work? As long as he keeps producing good manga idgaf what else he does in the rest of his life.
AI will never actually be capable of replacing people. It will look like it's possible at first, but it will only be once the people have been removed that it becomes clear how many non-quantifiable traits they were contributing to the organization.
And more than that, too many people just rolled over and accepted their redefinition, and stopped using it themselves without anyone even asking them too.