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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: humping turkeys over at the escapist |
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_171/5354-Humping-the-Invisible-Turkey
naming your virtual porno-surrealist 2nd life thingy "soma-" anything is very early neal stephensony, perhaps even william gibsonish. (yes yes i know soma means body but still)
anyway, the effect extends far beyond pornography, though porn is the most dramatic (or at least salacious) example of the body being completely hypnotized by an unreal image. hello kitty comes to mind as well, invoking a very strong, ingrained sense of "cuteness" yet no more real than any other manipulative effect.
/strokes chin
does this mean games are like a pornography...for the soul?
/fixes beret _________________
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Malloc .
Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 37 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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So what does that make porno games? |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1210 Location: Ottawa, ON
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Mostly terrible. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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a secondary layer of abstraction?
a testament to the invasive and pervasive hypnotism of male sexual energy?
dessicated rubber duckies in the bucket of maya? _________________
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glitch .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 37
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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holism? |
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Dracko .
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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every hole is a goal? _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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you know, i've heard that and i must disagree. ears are not really worth the effort. _________________
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glitch .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 37
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:02 am Post subject: |
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trying hard not to imagine what a hentai golf game would look like itt. |
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kirkjerk .
Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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amazing and hypnotic in its restraint: (no not that kind of restraint)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAokUZS4ISM&NR=1
Didn't researchers also come up with some kind of fake fish that was sexier to male fish of the same type than any real fish could, be isolating the very few characteristics the male fish were actually looking for? I always want to find a reference to that. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
==/\/ >_ kirkjerk.com |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:44 am Post subject: |
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you have to imagine my raising an angry ham fist at the sky and screaming "animeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!" when i see stuff like that.
one unifying theme of a lot of animal research is that male sex drives in higher animals are rather single-minded, especially if you monkey with early imprinting. (i.e. the old goose and tennis ball routine) _________________
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Worm .
Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 142
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Has that author even jerked off to a pair of viritual tits?
I mean how do you write a 3 page article which amounts to what everyone already knew "we're still animals". _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Like that's a bad thing. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | you have to imagine my raising an angry ham fist at the sky and screaming "animeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!" when i see stuff like that.
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nsfw _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Worm .
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Dracko wrote: | Like that's a bad thing. |
It was a trick question, he has and refuses to admit it even though it would improve the quality of his article. Any one with a bit of brains and a lack of shame can realize that there is very little difference to your average jerker between Jenna Haze and Lara Croft. Though these guys get paid per word, and the escapist needs to have other content on it, otherwise Yhatzee might realize he can get t-shirt sales ALL ON HIS OWN. _________________
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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i wonder what the american market ratio of live performer vs. virtual/cartoon pornography is.
or for the world, for that matter. _________________
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | i wonder what the american market ratio of live performer vs. virtual/cartoon pornography is.
or for the world, for that matter. |
Aren't the live performers acting as virtual/cartoons? _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: |
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in one sense, yeah. or at the very least they are "representations of unreality."
on the other hand, flesh is flesh and though we're dealing with at least two layers of mediation (camera -- the put on) and perhaps three if you want to count the tv/vcr/dvd/internet connection, there's yet another layer of abstraction when it comes to the truly unreal rather than the somewhat unreal.
of course what this makes a strip club in the porny version of second life mentioned in the article is up for some of our media studies stalwarts to dissect, i suppose. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Worm wrote: | Dracko wrote: | Like that's a bad thing. |
It was a trick question, he has and refuses to admit it even though it would improve the quality of his article. Any one with a bit of brains and a lack of shame can realize that there is very little difference to your average jerker between Jenna Haze and Lara Croft. Though these guys get paid per word, and the escapist needs to have other content on it, otherwise Yhatzee might realize he can get t-shirt sales ALL ON HIS OWN. |
Shitm if it weren't for Yahtzee, that place wouldn't have an audience. Now though, they can get away with writing bullshit because fanboys will agree with them no matter what.
Business as usual. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: |
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on the other hand it's the only major outlet that writes things like this (or "major" if you prefer) even if it tends to be rather lukewarm and flat in execution. partially because they're adopting a newsweek style generalist approach that tends to play around in the gee whizz sandbox.
also the seemingly dozens of "how can i make my girlfriend like what i like?" articles are fucking creepy. _________________
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purplechair .
Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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But how can you make your girlfriend like cutting off strips of her own flesh to roast and eat? |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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i would think you'd have to make her really fat first, no?
so the answer is complex carbohydrates. and video games. _________________
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Worm .
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Dracko wrote: | Business as usual. |
*channeling zed* I HATE USUAL _________________
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | in one sense, yeah. or at the very least they are "representations of unreality."
on the other hand, flesh is flesh and though we're dealing with at least two layers of mediation (camera -- the put on) and perhaps three if you want to count the tv/vcr/dvd/internet connection, there's yet another layer of abstraction when it comes to the truly unreal rather than the somewhat unreal.
of course what this makes a strip club in the porny version of second life mentioned in the article is up for some of our media studies stalwarts to dissect, i suppose. |
Videodrome
they always bring that up _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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they should, as videodrome is pretty awesome. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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It would make for one Hell of a game too. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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silent hill 2? _________________
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D-A-I-S .
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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glitch wrote: | trying hard not to imagine what a hentai golf game would look like itt. |
A little while back, I found an OfflineList (basically a database of known ROM dumps, complete with screenshot download function) dat file for the PC-98 (which, for those who haven't heard, was basically the dominant computer platform in Japan during the late 80s and early 90s). I downloaded the screens, but reluctantly, because the PC-98 was where the entire hentai game genre took off.
The very first game in the list, 101 Kaime no Approach Shot, is a hentai golf game (insofar as you apparently get to see hentai for playing golf).
(naturally, the second game listed seems to involve chasing a woman and having sex with her afterwards, although the sex seems to be enjoyable for her whether it's forced or consensual) |
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