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DoctorWhat
Nov 18, 2011

A little privacy, please?
I hhad always assumed that pedoshit in anime was designed to create a desperate, locked-in market of semi-manufactured pedophiles whose only source of Content was the anime industry. Like Big Tobacco but for pedophilia.

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hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014



Solitair posted:

That wouldn't surprise me. Is there a book or article or something that gives more details?

I’d love to remember the specifics, but I saw it several months ago and it was taken from an autobiographical manga by one of the guys who did this. As you can imagine, I don’t really want to google it so I can track down a known loli artist’s work.

Solitair
Feb 18, 2014

TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!

hopeandjoy posted:

I’d love to remember the specifics, but I saw it several months ago and it was taken from an autobiographical manga by one of the guys who did this. As you can imagine, I don’t really want to google it so I can track down a known loli artist’s work.

Fair enough.

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC
https://twitter.com/Digibrah/status/978378651191431168


It's getting

B E T T E R

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Anime was a mistake

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Holy gently caress

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



Lol, it didn't take long for him to go into that direction.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

hopeandjoy posted:

Just so that you know that all nerds are awful everywhere, part of the reason for the proliferation of loli porn was as a gently caress you to all the women buying and making the equivalent of slash fic at Japanese conventions.

God, Hell is too good for some people.

It was actually because of pedophiles thanks

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Darth Walrus posted:

Huh? I thought pretty much everyone agreed with you.

When I talked about it in the past some people would come in with "oh playing elin doesn't mean anything elins are cool cause you're tiny and use big weapons" or something like that.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



Leal posted:

When I talked about it in the past some people would come in with "oh playing elin doesn't mean anything elins are cool cause you're tiny and use big weapons" or something like that.

From what I heard, aren't they like super OP and you can't actually complete high end content without using one because they started balancing the game around them being really broken?

Linear Zoetrope
Nov 28, 2011

A hero must cook
JFC, okay glad I never clicked on his vids.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
With all this stuff coming out against CA, I am almost afraid to ask if anything happened to Justin Carmical during his time there.

Max Wilco
Jan 23, 2012

I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...
Hey, does anyone remember 2064: Read Only Memories? It was visual novel/adventure game thing that came out a year or so ago. I've only played the demo (part of the demo, at least; it crashed partway through), but I grabbed the game for cheap a while back.

Well...

GamesIndustry.biz | MidBoss CEO accused of exploitative practices, sexual harassment posted:

MidBoss has positioned itself as an inclusive company, but the organizer of the GaymerX queer gaming convention and developer of 2064: Read Only Memories has been the subject of a variety of allegations that paint a different picture.

The issue surfaced during the Game Developers Conference last week, when musician liquidcrystal posted a thread on Twitter about the studio and its CEO, Matt Conn, saying they "severely mistreat their workers and have a streak of taking advantage of young queer people in tough situations in order to underpay them." She went on to say that Conn undervalues women, and has been accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior in the work place.

:wtc:


Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 27, 2018

Babysitter Super Sleuth
Apr 26, 2012

my posts are as bad the Current Releases review of Gone Girl

Linear Zoetrope posted:

JFC, okay glad I never clicked on his vids.

Its kind of a shame actually, when it comes to nuts and bolts narrative structure and series design stuff Digibro is probably up there with Super Eyepatch Wolf as being one of the few anime youtubers who have their poo poo together and aren't just regurgitating Tvtropes excerpts with minimal examination, like, say, gigguk or Mothers Basement. Him melting the gently caress down on the hill of defending child porn means that there's now a whole wealth of genuinely informative content that's permanently tainted by association.

FoldableHuman
Mar 26, 2017

lornekates posted:

I just spent time looking through all available emojis, and there isn't one that can accurately convey the stomach-stabbing WTF those three words bring.

I, and this isn't a hyperbole, still get nigh-PTSD whenever Blockbuster Buster is mentioned, all from that one ONE video of his I watched. Nearly 10 minutes of (I don't have sarcastic enough airquotes, forgive me) "humor sketch" before the review actually started. And that included THREE distinct "the episode is starting"-type edits/fades. And this isn't because I didn't know the characters or whatever. I've watched LOTS of storyline stuff from other critics-- heck episodes of TV shows in their fourth season I've never seen-- and can still piece together more or less what's going on.

This was five minutes straight of a conference call where people in costumes yelled and talked over each other, while one of them made two dolls make out. It was anti-humor on a level I've never seen before. No, anti-humor isn't the right term, because anti-humor is carefully crafted to be funny while not being funny. This was just-- um-- okay, you've all heard of Dark Matter, right? Mysterious, unseen matter that exists because calculations show our universe should mass more than it does, based on visible / known matter. No one can find it, define it, or make any sense of it. Well, there's also this concept of ANTI-dark matter. Just like matter has it's anti-counterparts, there is theoretical anti-dark matter. So it's a theoretical inversion of a theoretical mass made up of particles no one understands.

THAT'S the level of anti-humor on display.

And the actual film criticism was worse.

And no, this isn't "oh you stumbled onto an early episode, everyone's early episodes suck". This was 2015-- 5 years into his career.

Go ahead. Watch it. Try, I dare you. Tell me how far you get before you shut it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VISzxfvWg5M

I made it about 20 seconds before his letterboxed-video-over-background-image really sank in.

There's just so much happening in this frame.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I made it 8 seconds before I realized he was doing the HBO intro to Band of Brothers reference and I stopped.

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

Max Wilco posted:

Hey, does anyone remember 2064: Read Only Memories? It was visual novel/adventure game thing that came out a year or so ago. I've only played the demo (part of the demo, at least; it crashed partway through), but I grabbed the game for cheap a while back.

Well...


:wtc:



That's a real shame. 2064 is totally comfy and inclusive. Things like that shouldn't have dark exploitative stuff going on behind the scenes.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

He protected his tweets. What fresh hell was this one?

Max Wilco
Jan 23, 2012

I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...

FoldableHuman posted:

I made it about 20 seconds before his letterboxed-video-over-background-image really sank in.

There's just so much happening in this frame.



Um, I'm pretty sure that's it's a re-host, not the video that he himself uploaded.

Also, I've seen that thing where people stick the video in the corner with a background image before. I think it' a method to get around copyright ID.

Linear Zoetrope
Nov 28, 2011

A hero must cook

Neddy Seagoon posted:

He protected his tweets. What fresh hell was this one?

Kosume Shezaki
Feb 23, 2006

Neddy Seagoon posted:

He protected his tweets. What fresh hell was this one?

I believe it was the one when he said he found the alt left

Puppy Time
Mar 1, 2005


TBH I can believe that there IS some kind of far left culty group, if only because being completely loving insane knows no political boundaries.

I just doubt that it's as extensive or influential as the alt-right.

That particular tweet sounds like an attempt at making a joke around "Wow, these guys are weird," but it doesn't really land well because it's hard to make politics references without looking like a huge rear end in a top hat, much less make those references funny.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Well, the difference is the alt-left tends to get discredited or murdered by the FBI and the CIA.

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

Leal posted:

When I talked about it in the past some people would come in with "oh playing elin doesn't mean anything elins are cool cause you're tiny and use big weapons" or something like that.

It remains true, them and the squat dog people were the best :colbert:

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

DoubleCakes posted:

That's a real shame. 2064 is totally comfy and inclusive. Things like that shouldn't have dark exploitative stuff going on behind the scenes.

When I played it back then I could tell something like this would definitely come out sooner or later. Something about the way the game's written.

EndOfTheWorld
Jul 22, 2004

I'm an excellent critic! I automatically know when someone's done a bad job. Before you ask, yes it's a mixed blessing.
Cybernetic Crumb
^^^ I felt something similar while playing it, but I did the first three chapters a few months ago and I'm only just now getting around to Chapter 5 and the endgame. It's certainly going to color how I read the rest of it.

Max Wilco posted:

Hey, does anyone remember 2064: Read Only Memories? It was visual novel/adventure game thing that came out a year or so ago. I've only played the demo (part of the demo, at least; it crashed partway through), but I grabbed the game for cheap a while back.

Oh wow, I'm just now getting around to finishing that game. I liked a lot about the presentation even if it felt a little too precious at times. It's also got this whole "People turning themselves into catgirls is totally a metaphor for being trans" subplot that doesn't do it any favors.

That said, wouldn't be the first time some guy who positioned himself as an A1 Super Ally turned out to be a piece of poo poo

Linear Zoetrope
Nov 28, 2011

A hero must cook
Please remember that the work on 2064 is primarily done by said exploited queer people. Feel free to not support it because of the money going to Midboss, but also remember that most of the game contains the heart and soul of a bunch of people who wanted to tell a story, exploited or not. It does them no good to minimize their art, efforts, and talents just because they were exploited and harassed in the process.

Kim Justice
Jan 29, 2007

Puppy Time posted:

TBH I can believe that there IS some kind of far left culty group, if only because being completely loving insane knows no political boundaries.

I just doubt that it's as extensive or influential as the alt-right.

That particular tweet sounds like an attempt at making a joke around "Wow, these guys are weird," but it doesn't really land well because it's hard to make politics references without looking like a huge rear end in a top hat, much less make those references funny.

Well you get the tankies on Twitter, they're pretty bad. And various others.

I'm not sure I agree with Digibruh on people not liking creepy drawings of children being quite such a partisan issue though

*insert thoughtful Doug pic*

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

business hammocks posted:

It was such a petty cruelty to inflict on his coworkers, just dumping disdain out of nowhere on people who presumably thought of him as a friend, all for the sake of a badly planned joke.

I have a buddy who quit his job because his family was well off and he hit it fairly lucky in a new field and all. He decided to have some fun and quit by putting one of those big inflatable protest rats in his boss' office because he was kinda a dick and it was a funny harmless way to say 'haha I'm fuckin out dude' that can be over in like five seconds when someone pulls the plug and it inconvenienced nobody except mildly annoying his boss.

It seems really weird to do a walk out that involves more taunting your ex-coworkers than your boss. Like that feels like an incredibly telling mindset thing.

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

Oh.

So yeah, some of the responses to Digibro were actually pretty poo poo, not gonna lie.

:nws::nws:

The top picture's a gay man being thrown to their death by ISIS, surely this is the humorous material I should include for telling an idiot to shut up. Twitter is trash.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

EndOfTheWorld posted:

^^^ I felt something similar while playing it, but I did the first three chapters a few months ago and I'm only just now getting around to Chapter 5 and the endgame. It's certainly going to color how I read the rest of it.


Oh wow, I'm just now getting around to finishing that game. I liked a lot about the presentation even if it felt a little too precious at times. It's also got this whole "People turning themselves into catgirls is totally a metaphor for being trans" subplot that doesn't do it any favors.

That said, wouldn't be the first time some guy who positioned himself as an A1 Super Ally turned out to be a piece of poo poo

It's the product of someone who has never faced any adversity because of immense privilege, but who has been nevertheless constantly been praised for Being Brave. The insane catgirl character is a perfect example of this.

Her background is a bafflingly contrived series of events that only serves to make the transgender analogy confusing. Plus she's awful and racist.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
I'm sure there were plenty of people who cared a great deal about making the game but I feel their voices are not heard when you play it.

Puppy Time
Mar 1, 2005


Kim Justice posted:

Well you get the tankies on Twitter, they're pretty bad. And various others.

I'm not sure I agree with Digibruh on people not liking creepy drawings of children being quite such a partisan issue though

*insert thoughtful Doug pic*

Wait, was that meant to be in response to anti-loli poo poo callouts?

I mean TBH I've seen plenty of pepe types who crusade against pedophilia (or at least perceived pedophilia), as well as people on the left. Being horrified at attraction to children is a pretty common thing in humans, it turns out.

ungulateman
Apr 18, 2012

pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is
[reads first tweet]

okay so this is the wrong hill to die on, least of all because patreon is a private organisation that isn't beholden to freedom of expression, but maybe it's just a principled stand on the issu-

[reads second tweet]

oh come on

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

Puppy Time posted:

Wait, was that meant to be in response to anti-loli poo poo callouts?

I mean TBH I've seen plenty of pepe types who crusade against pedophilia (or at least perceived pedophilia), as well as people on the left. Being horrified at attraction to children is a pretty common thing in humans, it turns out.

Though generally from experience the Pepe crowd throw out the accusation while also veminently defending loli-poo poo and the like. Just picture the "It's not pedophillia it's ebophillia" copypasta stretching out unto infinity.

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

The chuds only care in that they get a new person to harass basically.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



Tbh, using the term 'tankie' is pretty much on the same level as using 'alt-left'.

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

ACES CURE PLANES posted:

Tbh, using the term 'tankie' is pretty much on the same level as using 'alt-left'.

Not really, tankies are actually A Thing and really insufferable a lot of the time, they're generally Stalin apologists.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



They're both reductive terms used to disenfranchise any movement that swings anywhere further left than 'american liberal', which is to say, still conservative but maybe pays lip service to human rights now and again.

Remember that campaigns for universal basic income, raising the minimum wage, and universal health care are classified as tankie movements by Dems.

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SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC
Tankies aren't really that big a thing either. Pretty much any Leftist circle worth their salt mocks and excludes them, if the Tankies don't already get themselves thrown out for threatening to gulag you at the slightest provocation.

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