Social media. This doesn't happen without HD short form content. When millennials were growing up, TV and the internet didn't have anywhere close to that subliminal cultural soak.

And I think that's the big difference in the last decade or so of pop culture: we now accumulate stuff rather than replace it.

As if no one read Balzac or Tolstoy after the 19th century? Or Steinbeck after 1940?

I get this guy's point that the digital distribution of TV shows and movies is a recent phenomenon, but so are TV shows themselves. He himself looks old enough to have grown up with the advent of TV.

I've watched many anime, still stand by my statement. I'm not going to say Frieren is the best of the best in that department though, just pretty good.

Haven't watched To Your Eternity yet.

I agree, that's entirely fair. Weakest part is probably the halo of isekai worldbuilding hanging over a non-isekai story. Strongest part is the skillfully crafted thoughtful moments with the characters, which are rare enough these days that it's proclaimed as a masterpiece.

Guy decides to go against his prejudices. Gives a fair review. And now you're complaining?

This could easily apply to video games as well. I'm far from convinced you need 2 hours worth of endgame credits spanning multiple layers of personnel to create Assassins Creed: Five O'Clock Shadow of Tranny.

This could easily apply to video games as well. I'm far from convinced you need 2 hours worth of endgame credits spanning multiple layers of personnel to create Assassins Creed: Five O'Clock Shadow of Tranny.

And that's just the foundational problems of them, each individual one brings its own unique problem at some point because they all seem to be run by goofy guys that eventually fuck something up.

Positions outside the Overton window are more likely to be held by highly volatile individuals.

Over time people begin to sway default-left without even realizing it through sheer repeated exposure. It was actually a very effective and smart tactic, and the left would have been much better off keeping it instead of taking the mask off and pushing away all those normies they previously had eating out of their hands. But they couldn't help themselves, and now reddit is dying.

Jews fed the golems after midnight. Behold the inevitable result

Thanks, I actually agree with that in general and I probably should have been more clear that I was speaking of embracing/rejecting in a de facto, cultural context, not a de jure, legal context.

If you're an illegal married to a citizen the law says you have to return to your homeland to apply for US citizenship, so it could be a blessing in disguise I guess

I see this as tension between substance and exploitation rather than beauty vs. ugliness or strictly conservatism vs. liberalism. Obviously no consensus is going to be achieved on how much skin you can show before you're a whore. But eroticism for its own sake has crept far enough that there are properties that make it the major selling point. At the very least I would like to see a return to stories where attractive characters serve a real purpose, since that usually moderates exploitative tendencies.

Well that's kind of fair given what I said

That's untrue. MLP, an IP for little girls spawned an insurmountable amount of thotplayers just because men like the horse's personalities.

That's a good point, but didn't MLP cater to the adult fans as well?

Also, katara? bitch, please. Look at Ty Lee's and Azula's cosplay

Eh I don't know, besides a couple porn cosplayers on X it didn't seem that bad. The worst thing I saw was a possible tranny, which was disrespectful

Eliminating whoredom is a different subject. This is about whether you should encourage it in your own backyard.

Would those women also love Ryuko Matoi's microskirt or would they be bullying you to stop watching Kill la Kill as well?

Let's face it, culture used to have standards and now those standards are in the basement. If you want it to turn around, some of those standards have to come up as well.

OK, let me game that out. How are you going to bully a girl that wants to make money cosplaying as Ryuko Matoi?

"I love this character with massive underboob and a microskirt but if you dress up like her you're a whore and helping to destroy society"

I thought we were talking about hoe inflation here?

Yes we are - what exactly do you think that means? Everything that gives women mass sexual attention contributes to hoeflation.

That leaves guys a lot more insular so they seek something that they can come to in terms of contact and one of those sadly is simping for these online women who put up an illusion of closeness.

Yes, and the point that I'm making is that the waifu industrial complex feeds into both male and female sides of this mentality. On the male side, it's comfort food that encourages thottery. On the female side, it's potential income that also encourages thottery.

Really the only reason to encourage games like Stellar Blade is to self-medicate, but in doing so aren't you making the problem worse? What do you say to a hot chick who wants to make $$ doing cosplay of Eve? "Don't do it, that outfit is restricted to computers only!"

You're focusing on porn again. The reality is, porn doesn't need to be involved for simping to degrade everything. Pokimane has never done porn.

Yeah but... why shouldn't thots want to dress up like characters who dress like thots themselves?

Is this way out of line or is it in keeping with the spirit of Nier?

That's an interesting point, so let's say you take Onlyfans out of it. You can still be a Twitch thot with subs and a Patreon pulling in $$$ and simps. You're still caustic to your fandom, video games, and everything else you touch.

There are girls out there who just enjoy moonlighting as booth babes for a few bucks, but there are also girls like Jessica Nigri who want to make way more. The porn industry didn't force her to do anything.

Probably so, but now you have people like Amouranth going to your conventions and other fan events, judging contests, and invited for voice roles and community spotlights.

And yet, cosplay hoes are uniquely damaging to anime and video game fandoms and nerd culture in general.

Try reading the paragraph again. I'll bold the relevant part for you.

Another interesting point is that almost every attractive female character has some slutty cosplay out there, regardless of how modestly they present in their story. It is inevitable at a certain level of character popularity that some whore is going to do a boudoir image set on Patreon. However, the tone of the cosplay has a direct relationship to the amount of fanservice in the original property, so for example most Katara cosplay is respectful to her design. There is also a correlation with the level of substance or development in the story.

I would suggest reading this part of the post.

Another interesting point is that almost every attractive female character has some slutty cosplay out there, regardless of how modestly they present in their story. It is inevitable at a certain level of character popularity that some whore is going to do a boudoir image set on Patreon. However, the tone of the cosplay has a direct relationship to the amount of fanservice in the original property, so for example most Katara cosplay is respectful to her design. There is also a correlation with the level of substance or development in the story.