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That's Decoy Love Interest.
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Revelation34 posted...

I'll remove all mentions of Gamefaqs.

That would actually place you in a worse legal/ethical position, not a better one.



wydrah posted...

They are copyrighted by the writers. Receiving permission to publish from thousands of FAQ writers seems impractical

The individual writers retain ownership and merely give permission to GameFAQs to host. GameFAQs itself cannot transfer that permission, and you'd technically be obligated to seek permission from every single FAQ writer to host them anywhere else. That's what makes it a difficult proposition.

Granted, you could just rehost everything without permission, but that opens you up to any of those FAQ writers coming after you for it if they wanted to.

This sort of thing mostly came up in the old days, when FAQs were actually popular and upstart sites would just steal FAQs from GameFAQs and rehost them on their own sites without credit or permission. A lot of sites got in trouble for it. By this point it's possible no one would care, but it's still a risk.
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Revelation34 posted...

They would probably give us an announcement if that is going to happen. We could download the faqs or something.

Technically you wouldn't be able to rehost them. A lot of older FAQs have disclaimers like "This was written for GameFAQs, don't post elsewhere." And even for ones that don't have that, you'd be legally obligated to ask the writers for permission. If you just grabbed everything (or even just some stuff) and tossed it somewhere else, you'd open yourself up to potential issues.

There's also the problem that if you just rehost stuff somewhere on a random site, people wouldn't necessarily be able to find them easily (or at least not as easily as they can here).
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wwinterj25 posted...

People recall the first fondly because they were kids when they watched it.

I remember the first one fondly, and I was 19 at the time. A fair number of people in my age group felt the same about it.

I have no opinion on the second one, though, because I have no interest in seeing it.
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adjl posted...

And what happens to people that insist on driving in an unnecessarily risky manner?

On top of which, in most places you can be ticketed/fined for not wearing a seat belt, in spite of the fact that most people would argue that is blatantly a personal behavior that doesn't affect anyone else.

You can theoretically have your driver's license taken away entirely if you get tickets for it and refuse to pay them on the grounds of objecting to the law. The state doesn't give a shit what you think, and the ability to drive at all is considered a privilege rather than a right (no matter how necessary it might be in some places).

We implicitly accept as a society that there are all sorts of "personal" behaviors that actually affect society as a whole, and which society in turn has the right to arbitrate.
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Yes.

Dark City



Nade Duck posted...

a serbian film

I was literally thinking of that exact film shortly before you posted it.

Stop reading my mind, damn it.
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wydrah posted...

top 10 disney movies according to soundtrack. go

1-9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPF7CXUgcus
10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJaypC51Dds
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adjl posted...

Why amp up your breaker when you could just connect directly to the power line?

http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp_50eb0b2699cde4.81586206/Back-To-The-Future-Mole-Richardson-Electrical-Connector-5.jpg
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http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150520133751/muppet/images/5/51/Lew_Zealand_blue.png











The sad thing is, I remember posting this in a "Everybody post a picture!" topic back in like 2005-6 that everyone was actually taking seriously. Moments like this put into perspective just how much of my life I've wasted on this site.
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The only way to alleviate this pain is to share it. I have carried this burden since the 80s. Now you know it's sting.
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Mead posted...

Ok sorry but everything posted so far I either dont really dig or dont think it suits the mood Im looking for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4NsQYlmvZM
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Terror.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGtf9QfITQw
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wydrah posted...

Did you ever see First Knight? lmao

Ugh. ~vomit~







Though, since you're apparently a fan of Excalibur, I'm gonna hit you with... this:

http://youtu.be/n89R6rQll0w?t=130
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PunishedOni posted...

please stop aiming at my weak point

When you say "weak point", do you mean the flashing-red giant enemy crab massive damage type?

Or the type they talk about in my Japanese doujinshis?
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I prefer when Playstation Access did it (and called their run "Metal Gear Stupid" because of how terrible they were at it).

It helps that I like the Playstation Access crew and don't really like anyone from Kinda Funny other than Tim Gettys.
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Holy shit, how young are you?
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We can throw a lemon party with all the money we make from selling them!
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BEERandWEED posted...

That's why my dating advice is always be yourself.

That only helps when "yourself" is not an asshole or a creep, though.
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jiffdiff posted...

Being a shithead is a prerequisite for being an executive or relevant shareholder in a large company, so unfortunately your options are give money to shitheads or buy everything indie/local. It's easier just not to worry about it and live your life.

Sadly, I agree.

Worse, because it is so endemic, it can make the people who do take a stand on certain issues come across as being either ignorant or hypocritical - ie, someone who is willing to boycott Chick-fil-A over the conservatism of its management but who is still willing to use an iPhone in spite of multiple and repeated stories about how they're essentially made in Asian sweat shops are essentially making the statement "I only take moral stances when it's convenient" or "I only take moral stances that directly affect me or people I care about, and ignore the rest."

It's very hard to exist in the modern world without being complicit in all kinds of shady shit. Even people who consider themselves very moral and willing to avoid doing business with ethically questionable businesses are still likely supporting a number of businesses that are doing terrible things of one sort or another.



Mead posted...

Yeah you arent wrong

I could certainly be criticized for my decision

I wouldn't criticize you for your decision. Most people have developed at least a bit of "separate the art from the artist" or "separate the product from the producer" mentality as part of modern life, mostly as a self-defense against the sheer amount of terrible shit in the world... and it's part of who we are as a species (it's pretty much hardwired into humans that on some level, we have a much harder time caring about issues in the abstract or people as a whole - we have a limited amount of "giving a shit" about people available to our brainpower).

I'm mostly just pointing out that, if you feel like you shouldn't support a specific company because of how horrible they are, that specific justification really isn't much of a defense. You're not really helping the victims at all in any way, and are just helping to pay the salaries of the people responsible. If you really care, don't support the company period, at least until there is clear evidence that the problem has been well and truly dealt with.

A lot of people online would recommend pirating at this point, but I honestly don't support that either, because it comes across feeling like an incredibly entitled mentality to have ("I don't want you to have money for this game because you're bad, but I still demand to be able to play it because I'm selfish"). Much better to just not play the game. It's not as if there's a shortage of other distractions in the modern world.
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Until I double-checked what this was, I thought it was a sequel to Get Jiro! that I'd never heard of.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13227480-get-jiro
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25241699-get-jiro

Side-Note - in the process of double-checking, I found out that Anthony Bourdain hung himself a few years ago. I somehow missed that at the time.
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Mead posted...

I preordered D2R already. Im gonna play it and enjoy it but I dont feel great about it. Im gonna try to keep in mind that a lot of people worked on the game and chances are the majority of them arent shitheads.

The shitheads are the ones who are going to get all the money from you buying it, though. The non-shitheads already got paid for their time and effort whether you buy it or not.

And preorders can be cancelled...
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Nice.

Sweet.

Fantastic.

Big ship on de ocean, that a big titanic.
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Blighboy posted...

They originated over a fairly wide span of time and not even exclusively from the British isles (I believe Lancelot was basically french fanfic).

The historical Arthur, if he existed, is typically considered to have been a Celtic or Roman (probably mixed race at that point) warlord from around ~500 who fought a war against invading Anglo-Saxons (German tribes) who later became the English ruling class (or part of the English ruling class, later mixed with Danish and Normans and all those other fun groups).

The King Arthur "bible" was written around 1000 years later as The Death of King Arthur, compiling all the popular stories that had originated in the previous millenium.

To add to this, a lot of the stories started as Welsh and Cornish folklore (because that's where the Romano-Britons got driven to when the Angles and the Saxons pushed into England), some of which managed to cross the channel back to Brittany via other British expatriots (hence the name), which in turn led to the growth of French infatuation with Arthur and which resulted in characters like Lancelot getting added in later.

Arthur tended to go in and out of fashion in England, and whenever there was a surge of interest the story would usually get reinterpreted into modern ideals (which is how full plate armor and chivalry found its way into stories that originated long before either of those two things existed). The Normans in particular loved the crap out of Arthur, and are probably the main reason why so much of the narrative has survived and been perpetuated all the way to the present day (and why his story is known as "The Matter of Britain" in the same way that Charlemagne and Roland and fighting the Moors are "The Matter of France".
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wydrah posted...

So what Hollywood tries to do instead, often, is turn Arthur himself into an action hero. He's not, really. He's a king. He rules while his knights go out and fight for him.

Ehhhh...

The problem is, Arthur does kind of fight. For years. Not just as a "general" but as a warrior (because that's how combat was generally handled in that setting/era).

But most of the stories go "Here's Arthur's origin story, boom - sword, crown, table. He and his allies fought for years to unite the land, but we're going to skip over every one of those fights and timeskip forward to the point where he's uncontested king and his knights were going out and having adventures." So you're mostly skipping over the entirety of his "action hero" years.

Then you have the amorphous period of time where tons of adventures are being had, where they're mostly told as self-contained stories or anecdotes without any clear timeline - which is what happens when you're trying to assemble folklore and fairy tales after the fact and hammering them into a narrative framework (imagine if the Brothers Grimm collected all their various unrelated fairy tales, but then wrote a framing story to link them all and wrote in occasional crossovers between characters... you'd basically have something like medieval Kingdom Hearts). But because they're not really interconnected, most media either picks one or two and adapts the crap out of them, or they ignore them entirely in favor of skipping ahead to the ending.

And then the myth cycle sort of jams the whole "Oh, and then Arthur fucked his sister, Mordred's here now, Grail, oops Guinevere's cucked him, Lancelot's gone, Saxons, Battle of Badon Hill, Avalon" storyline in at the end to cap the whole thing off. So that's a ton of crazy crap happening all at once at the end.

And then you get Merlin and his related shenanigans woven into the overarching story to tie it to together.

So you've basically got a multi-part structure, but the tone of each part is very different from the others, and there's too much content in some of those parts to cram into a single movie, let alone cramming the entire story into a single movie. You wind up leaving waaay too much out.

If anyone ever did a Game of Thrones-esque TV series set in Arthurian lore, what you'd kind of need to do is maybe make the first couple episodes the really idealistic origin story, then the rest of the first season would be Arthur actively fighting for the throne, probably winning it for the season finale. Then season two skips ahead a bit, Arthur's settled in (and maybe already had or is just getting the round table), and then you have episodic (or two-part) stories where each knight gets his own stand-alone adventure, so Gawain and the Green Knight, Pellinore and the Questing Beast, etc. Jut build up how awesome each knight is, and get the audience to like them. Maybe cap off the season by having Galahad show up and sit in the Siege Perilous, because shit just got real.

Then have your third season be the Grail Quest as a season-long story, where most of the knights we learned to like in the previous season utterly fail, some die, and Camelot generally suffers for it, as the good knights are whittled away and the less than noble ones remain.

And then season four is when everything gets really bleak. Mordred shows up, the Cuckening gets outed, Lancelot kills Gawain's brothers and war breaks out, the Saxons show up, etc etc. Then the final scenes of the final episode are Arthur dying, Bedivere throwing the sword back into the lake, and Arthur getting carried off to Avalon.

And then if you get renewed for season five, you can have Arthur come back in the future and do a Camelot 3000 riff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_3000
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honkzilla posted...

What in the fuck is this even supposed to mean lol

Generally, "style over substance", especially in a "pretending to be more sophisticated then you actually are" sort of way.



wydrah posted...

Gawain the greatest knight of all? What about my boy Percy?!

Pssht, bitch came in third place out of three when it came to Grail finding, and he wasn't even good enough to get a reference in Monty Python and the Holy Grail..

Also, he was a back-woods hillbilly and his dad got punked out by Gawain and his brothers.



wydrah posted...

Excalibur is pretty good!

Anail nathrak, uthvass bethud, dochiel dienve...
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hypnox posted...

I don't understand the world today...

Well, you know what they say, making your way in the world today takes everything you got.
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Revelation34 posted...

I don't need some asshole yelling for 15 minutes straight when it would take literally 30 seconds to show the location of a treasure chest.

Spending 15 minutes to scroll through multiple FAQs that don't really answer your question or show you what you need to know, or that poorly describe locations verbally so you have a hard time finding what you need really isn't a better alternative either.

I almost never use FAQs anymore, and on the few occasions I try they're almost always useless. Even aside from YouTube playthroughs (and there are plenty where you either don't have to listen to the person talking or where you can just mute the audio and watch the visuals), there are tons of game-specific wikis or walkthroughs on sites like IGN that explicitly walk you through whatever you need to know and show you exact pictures of where you need to be looking.

And the game boards themselves are generally useless because if there's anyone there at all (which is rare for older games), most of the people there either won't answer your question, will answer in ways that are completely useless, or they'll abuse you for asking it in the first place.

Younger people who've basically grown up with social media see zero reason for a site like this one to exist. It's a large part of why this site doesn't actually attract new users, and why most new accounts are just old troll users making new ones whenever they get banned.
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rjsilverthorn posted...

Except you'd spend more than 10k for that and the IVF later.

But you're getting 10k per year for the rest of your life, and IVF tends to fall somewhere between 10-20k (give or take).

So you'd only really need to sacrifice a few years worth of your payout while still getting 10k every year the rest of the time. If anything, the real cash sink would be that kids tend to dramatically up expenditures, so 10k per year to a single or childless couple will go a lot farther than 10k for a family with multiple kids.

That being said, the other thing people are completely overlooking is that it's entirely possible to adopt kids.
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Clench281 posted...

but the direction was overly pretentious and seems purposefully hard to understand

This is my problem with it. The trailer could be giving a false impression, but it makes it look like it's that sort of "faux artsy" style that people use when they're trying to convince people they're deep. Or like music video-style visuals without the music.

But I might just be biased because I loved this movie growing up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJMV8qj9g8
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Basically, LoD integrates itself into Diablo II. So it effectively becomes Diablo II+. LoD isn't a stand-alone that can be launched separately.
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Zeus posted...

Evolution truly is a mystery...

It's full of change that no one sees.
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Entity13 posted...

Sailor Bacon still heads the site, but answers to a subsidiary of CBS - CNET. Which, of course, CNET hardly gives a damn.

This isn't actually true - CBS sold C|Net alnd all its associated crap (including us) to Red Ventures last year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ventures



wydrah posted...

... Is that a fuckin critical role joke lmao

wydrah posted...

Dagger dagger dagger.
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I'm failing to see any negative whatsoever.
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BEERandWEED posted...

Are the mods given secret code names based on the days of the week? Like in manga/anime? That would be cool.

"The Mod Who Was Thursday"

BONUS LITERARY REFERENCE!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday
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wwinterj25 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

You got to make sure it tastes good.

That's what she said.....

That's why you need to eat pineapple.

Just not on your pizza.

Never on your pizza.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

not as good as the original, still better than cyber.

but that's not a very high bar

I'd agree with all this.

Vegas CSI was trying to be a mystery show disguised as a modern procedural, Miami took that ball and ran with it as more of an action show, and then New York kind of went oddball procedural.

Back in the day I watched pretty much every episode of Vegas and Miami, and probably about half of New York, though I sort of went off all three shows around the time Ted Danson came in to Vegas.
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He'd just headbutt the shit out of everyone.
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What an amazing shock that a site populated almost entirely by children of the 1990s would vote for the 1990s. Truly, this is an astounding and unexpected result.
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Car and action porn has to escalate, so you can keep getting the rock-hard boners.
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zebatov posted...

Whenever I see someone supporting Tesla, or the GND in general online, I always make sure to ask them how many kids they have. Very few say zero.

The other thing a lot of people forget is the sheer size of the US, and how absolutely shit mass transit is in most places. Cars are pretty much a necessity here in ways that they aren't in other countries. So we're pretty much going to generate far more waste in that respect than most other places, regardless of whether we're using combustion engines or electric.

It's also worth remembering that electric cars aren't necessarily carbon-neutral or "green", either, because that electricity still needs to come from somewhere, and unless you're getting it from fully hydroelectric/geothermal/wind-powered/solar-powered sources, there's still a carbon cost. Along with the environmental impact of batteries, plastics, and other manufacturing elements.

And most of this ultimately doesn't matter if you focus most of your attention on the individual level rather than the corporate level. Outlawing plastic bags at supermarkets or pushing people to buy electric cars doesn't really help if companies are still dumping tons of waste into the environment and there's tons of fuel being used on airplanes and trucks for cargo transport. It's a scenario where we need to change from the top down more than from the ground up.

(And THAT'S not even getting into the impact of raising animals and farming crops with modern fertilizing methods, which in many places can be hard to roll back without outright culling the population - humans have grown far beyond the planet's ability to sustain us at the most basic "natural" level.)

Things are far more complex than the "Why don't we just do X?" solutions the average person comes up with.


...which is not to say that we should just shrug and give up, either, because we're pretty much fucked as a species in the next century or so.
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I'm not a fan of Krispy Kreme at all. And I don't really have any brand loyalty to the Xbone. So that's a no.
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ReturnOfFa posted...

Can't you move out and leave the lease to them?

He could if they were real and this wasn't copypasta.
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wydrah posted...

lol i'm an alt now

I think you're secretly Ail.

What better disguise to wear than the face of her enemy?
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wydrah posted...

Literally the only people left here must be old timers and people who just hate social media.

You're not wrong.



wydrah posted...

Sooooo...make the boards less like what kept the userbase around?

Gotta try to get the Fortnite demo somehow, amirite?
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wpot posted...

Well I understand he regrets the shows went past the books in interviews. That said, it sounds like he also signed a deal with HBO to do prequels, so

He already wrote those books, though. They're the books he'd write when he didn't feel like writing the books that people actually wanted him to write.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Dunk_and_Egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%26_Blood_(book)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sons_of_the_Dragon
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Entity13 posted...

I have long enjoyed the idea of there being porn made to actually inform people about proper care, consent, arousal, basic positions, etc., while actually showing the acts rather than the diagrams we got in Sex Ed in school. Do it right and make it available so that even those unfortunate teens in hyper-religious backgrounds will have a better understanding of how things do or don't work going into adulthood. This includes topics on STDs, LGBT+ awareness, and so on.

Don't target kids outright, nor bar what things look like just because kids might see it (because they certainly will thanks to the Internet), but encourage some proper education with some level of practicality. "This is what a condom is, what it does, and how to use it. No, really, we are showing you its use. Enjoy the show."

I will say the other problem (if I'm being serious rather than sarcastic) is that we kind of have to pinpoint the best time to teach a class like that, and unfortunately that may not be a universal window even for kids of the same age group.

I know that when I was in school, they did the stereotypical "separate all the boys and girls into different rooms and talk about their bodies" thing for me twice - in 4th or 5th grade we got the purely "clinical" lectures, and in 10th grade we got the "Okay, we're talking about sex now" class. But the problem is that most of us simply didn't care or process the information in any meaningful way in elementary school, and by high school most of us had already gotten our sex ed from other kids, porn, or some other source and mostly ignored everything they were trying to teach because "yeah, I already know all this" (I mean, if you're teaching this stuff when kids are 16 but they already know a girl who's a single mother at 14, you've kind of missed your opportunity).

So we basically need to maximize the point where the kids will be receptive to the material, but also not already blas about it. And we have to figure out a way to teach it that doesn't come across as either so clinical or so cringe that they immediately tune it all out. AND we have to be aware that at least some kids are going to be ready for that lecture earlier and some aren't going to get anything out of it until later.

And then it gets even messier when you start taking into account socioeconomic divisions and culture (if statistics on teen pregnancy are younger in urban areas or "ethnic" communities, does that mean we should teach those things earlier there, or would there be too much pushback against that for being racist?).

It might be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to come up with a single universal curriculum that would work for all students.


(The sad part is, the dream of sci-fi nerds and introverts everywhere that we'd eventually evolve towards a fully personalized education model where students interact solely with computers that teach at their own pace and at their own level of comprehension could potentially help here... but if the last year or so is any indication, fully isolated/targeted education without direct instruction or interaction with a teacher in person might be detrimental for a lot of kids - the last year or so of distance learning has resulted in a lot of problems. That COULD be because we weren't ready for it, and the infrastructure and planning in place was sorely lacking, or it could reflect a fundamental disconnect with how humans actually learn that will always be an issue. Not to mention socialization issues in general.)
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Zeus posted...

Although the problem is still that once people start watching the vanilla stuff, they eventually move onto the other areas.

Hence my usual joke about having seen so much porn on the Internet, that I can now no longer get off unless I'm watching a video of a midget fisting a nun.

Though I've been making that joke for like 15 years now, so at this point probably even that wouldn't get me off unless the nun was a trap, the midget was a furry, and both of them are related.
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adjl posted...

I've seen people advocate for showing kids porn in sex ed, under the rationale that it provides an opportunity to examine it critically and understand what is and isn't realistic so they develop mroe reasonable expectations around sex. Naturally, the reaction was about on par with what this lady got, but I think there's some merit to the idea.

The real problem is that showing kids porn wouldn't help anyway, because it isn't really the PORN that's the sticking point.

For people who accept the premise that porn can desensitize people and impede the formation of healthy relationships and psychosexual patterns of behavior, the problem is more the social side of the equation rather than the physical one, and the idea of idealizing the partner into a sex object rather than seeing them as a person. Pretty much any sort of porn is potentially going to exacerbate that problem - even in purely softcore or straight missionary porn, you're effectively fetishizing the object of lust and leading to a disconnect.

If anything, what we should probably have instead of sex ed is a relationship ed class. And I don't mean those BS health classes where they randomly pair kids up and give them an egg or a bag of flower or a robot doll to take care of as parents, I mean a class that actually gets into the more psychological aspects of social interaction, and explores the emotional and interpersonal elements of relationships to encourage people to see each other more as actual people and not just sex objects - that's more what leads to porn addiction, desensitization, and the downward spiral that leads people to see out more and more taboo and transgressive sexual fantasies to get off on.

The real problem is that most of the classes we should be teaching in schools (stuff like this, organizational and long-term planning, life skills that will actually come in handy after you graduate, etc) would require a massive and near-complete overhaul of our educational system from the ground up (and half the population would probably object to it anyway), and that's way too much work. Easier to just teaching the same curriculum that people came up with years ago even if it doesn't really have practical applications anymore and wait for it to become someone else's problem later.
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ComradeSeraphim posted...

Why? Can't we just wait for George R.R. Martin to finish the series?

Ha, good one!
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