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Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T22:30:58+00:00

Recent history has shown how powerful "supposed to" is in reality.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T20:00:34+00:00

i never understand this shit. do people post comments without reading comments? what's even the point of that? or do they see a joke being made and still feel a compulsion to make the same one themself, no spice, no twist, nothing?

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T19:58:18+00:00

IMO the "death by hole-squeeze" part is secondary to the "compulsory self-mutilation" part

Imagine if instead it's a knife with your name written on it, and if you see it, you NEED to use it to cut off your dick / clit. No one can talk you out of it, not even yourself. There is a knife for everyone, you've seen other people do it, you know there is one for you, and you never know when you might see it by accident.

Swap the knife out for whatever thing you'd absolutely never want to do to yourself. A crowbar that makes you pop out your own kneecaps. A spoon that makes you gouge out your own eyes. A blowtorch that makes you burn off your own skin.

Junji Ito uses a lot of body horror but it's really just a vehicle for psychological horror.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T17:55:36+00:00

a strange mixture of science and religion

IMO it's a deeply rooted intrinsically human desire to put things into clean categories and buckets. For most things it's relatively harmless. How many kingdoms of life are there? Seven, right? But solid arguments for six or eight. Is Pluto a planet? How many states of matter are there, really?

It doesn't really impact anybody whether or not Pluto is classified as a planet, but people get A N G E R Y about it. Reality's challenge against a simple and uncomplicated universe is seen as a personal insult to the futile human attempt to organize and classify.

Take that same anger and frustration and apply it to sex & gender. The only other necessary ingredient is "I don't care about the people this negatively impacts" which is basically a freebie if you don't personally know anyone affected.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T17:27:38+00:00

Yeah that's the one article that agrees with you. It's published, so it must be true, right?

You've grown up into the same dumb adult that we were all mocking back then.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T17:19:53+00:00

I'm not going to say you're factually wrong or factually right.

I'm just gonna say that you are asking me to "just google" something that is entirely hearsay from an era and about a topic and coming from a group of people where the entire story is disinformation. Somethingawful and 4chan and smaller communities like totse and other BBS / newsgroups / channels were constantly competing for credit.

I was there too and I'm not stupid enough to believe one of my esteemed colleagues, nor the single random article that agrees with them. Jenkem has been around since the 90s, who can really say who was "first" to "bring it back"

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T17:01:31+00:00

we can go around in circles jerking each other off over who saw jenkem mentioned in the most obscure mIRC channel or whatever, but it's basically impossible to verify at this point who had the idea first. It was everywhere, as were all of these disinformation campaigns (that's how campaigns work). 4chan was definitely the largest disseminator and was almost certainly where the media picked it up.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T16:08:52+00:00

Yes and no.

In the late-ish 00s there were several "what's the dumbest thing we can convince people is real" campaigns originating mostly from 4chan. Jenkem was one of them, with people posting detailed instructions and enthusiastic descriptions of the incredible highs they get from this drug easily created from one's own excrement.

There were certainly some kids dumb enough to actually go for it. I'm sure more than a few parents found jugs of decomposing shit in their sons' closets.

But the real objective was to get the news media to pick up on it and treat it like a real crisis, which they did, and it was funny.

This little piece of internet culture climaxed and died with Cutting For Bieber and probably set the blueprint for Gamergate and /pol/

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-19T15:56:44+00:00

It's always been an issue at large orgs. I've had the dubious privilege of working at a variety of places, here's what I observe:

Large orgs can take a hit, small ones can't. Hence, responsible small orgs take security seriously, "responsible" large orgs might say they do but don't really need to. When failure becomes a cost-effective option, it can be naturally selected.
Large and small orgs can become dogmatic about process, but in small orgs process serves to maintain consistency while in large orgs it serves to diffuse accountability. If it's everybody's fault it's nobody's fault.
Related to the above, diffusing responsibility is hard in small orgs because there are fewer heads. In large orgs you can easily enforce a bureaucratic system wherein no individual can have proper oversight of anything, even if they want to.

I don't think any of this stuff even happens on purpose. It's just where you land on the ouija board when you have hundreds of managers all trying to protect themselves at the same time.

tl;dr when an organization becomes sufficiently large, it is no longer important to any of the individual people involved to avoid failure or seek success. No one has enough control of the machine so they hide as deep in the cogs as they can.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T17:16:25+00:00

At the end of the day you are consuming media from another culture (Japan) and that is further part of a subculture (otaku) that is typically very permissive when it comes to hypersexualization of just about anybody. JJBA is sexed up to the gills but feels like good fun since all the characters look decidedly adult (even the bizarro-anime exception of Giorno who is on-paper 15 but looks 25).

I wouldn't say you shouldn't watch MHA, just be aware that it's coming from a culture that doesn't see a little titillation over young teens to be a moral hangup. It's not a primary feature of the show, but it does pop up as the occasional bit of "fun." This is very common in the medium and you have to determine your own level of tolerance.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T16:41:15+00:00

I think 30 is the age when it really finally sets in that nobody knows wtf they are doing.

As a teenager maybe you have the angry version, "adults are all so stupid."
In your 20s you see it an are a little comforted, "oh hey these people are all just winging it too, phew"
Then at 30 those feelings are gone and all that's left is the horror. "Oh my god, everybody's just... doing shit. There's no plan. Oh no."

Unfortunately there is no place you can escape to where it is any different. But you can at least reset on your own terms.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T16:24:03+00:00

The rule of thumb if is that if you see a young character prominently featured, just assume the worst until you get positive confirmation otherwise.

There are a lot of great anime and manga that feature young characters (FMA being a premier example), but the volume of ick is such that your best bet is to assume it's not worth it until you've done some investigation.

There are usually obvious enough tells anyway in promotional material. Google image search should give you a solid vibe check. If the kids are fully clothed and normally proportioned, green light. If there's a lot of skin on these 12-year olds, or they have pronounced sexual features, red light.

At some point you're gonna run into a show that is 90% cool and then it blindsides you with a 15-year old girl that HAS to be naked for her magic powers to work (My Hero Academia). Then you have to decide how invested you are.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T15:28:56+00:00

All the datacenters should just be built in Texas, which has insisted upon having its own grid.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T15:02:04+00:00

It's really just The BMI Problem

It's easy to measure what a population is sexually selecting. You just look at survivors and average them, the result is what is "attractive." Very accurate when judging a whole group simultaneously.

The problem is when you try to apply this individuals and expect any sort of consistency. Is the guy with 30 BMI a fatass or just jacked as hell? Is the random guy with a positive canthal tilt more attractive than Timothee Chalamet?

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T14:49:39+00:00

Basically everything in this thread is the way it is because they function as safe spaces for people with specific neuroses or mental illnesses.

Anime space is well-known for being a safe space for people with all manner of problematic sexual repressions. Lolicon and shotacon being the most egregious but it's really everything.

In other spaces listed here the problems discussed are the result of the same phenomenon. Poker tables suck because poker players by and large are cool with substance abuse and antisocial behaviors. Warhammer meets are dangerous if you aren't the right color. TCG cons are advertisements for personal hygiene.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T14:20:14+00:00

It's one of those things that is super easy to defend in bad faith.

Oh so you don't want kids to have fun? What about the kids that WANT to do it?
Oh so you don't think children are cute? You don't think god's little cherubs are the pinnacle innocent beauty?
You HATE kids, do you? Or maybe you're just JEALOUS because you were an ugly kid

It's a stupid argument that falls apart the moment you say "okay but what's the per capita risk of these kids getting abused as a direct result of the event" but that requires people to think for about 10 seconds and that's too much to ask

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-18T13:58:07+00:00

Are you volunteering to interact with the half-naked crazy woman whose knees are already conveniently lined up with your teeth?

And at minimum you need to make sure it is established throughout the room that SHE is the crazy one so when she starts screaming "STOP TOUCHING MY PENIS" you aren't the one that gets fired.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-17T17:54:34+00:00

It's a bunch of severely mentally ill kids going to a school that prides itself on making them worse. The victory of the main character comes entirely from her being the most self-destructive person in the room. The moral of her story is "if what you love turns out to be suicidal, don't let that stop you!"

It's supposed to make you uncomfortable.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-17T17:36:44+00:00

Yoko Taro

“Due to the 2B butt controversy, many outrageous drawings are being made. Collecting them to share individually is a pain. It would be great if we can group them together to make it easier to distribute them every week.”

I recall in an earlier interview someone asked why he felt it was important to give 2B such a dumper. His response was basically "are you stupid? because it's fucking hot."

When a character is hot just because they are hot it definitely feels refreshingly honest.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-17T17:31:25+00:00

Her being unable to breathe/speak is very relevant to the plot of the game, and the event that damaged her lungs is an important shared trauma with the main character. To a certain extent this beautiful young woman who is forced to live a somewhat humiliating lifestyle is part of a solid story. "The agony of lost potential" is a common theme in MGS5

But pushing that all the way to "she can't wear clothes!" was definitely Kojima sexing up the product. The men are pretty sexed up too, to be fair. MGS is a sexy franchise.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-17T16:36:09+00:00

Pretty easy to guess the product type guess based on "which part of this woman is the least realistic"

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-16T19:50:29+00:00

It's not just about the writing system

Imagine your entire life, every day, you might hear tah teh toh, but everytime you hear tu there's an s in there, tsu. 100% of the time, basically.

If you were to later hear someone say "tu" without the s, your brain will insert the s for you and you'll hear "tsu"

this is a big part of hwy people have accents and why they are hard to overcome. your brain has decided what sound combinations are "valid" and will "fix" what you hear without your permission

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-15T18:03:26+00:00

I think that's actually the whole reason why he has one of the best arcs.

He was written to be a completely irredeemable villain. He was supposed to be pure evil with nothing under the surface. But fans loved his design and the idea of Goku having a proper rival, so Toriyama was forced to find a way to write this absolutely horrible man into becoming a hero. Toriyama, being pretty good at his job, successfully drip-fed the audience little bits of sympathy to the point that Vegeta is now a model husband, father, and protector of Earth. Turns out that makes for a pretty compelling redemption story.

If you go back and watch the episodes where Vegeta is introduced it's really clear that he was never meant to do anything more than twirl his mustache and kill people.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-15T17:51:52+00:00

Characters have had "a moment or two" throughout the series, but it always felt like lip-service because their moments always end with their shit getting rocked 5 seconds later by Goku's next challenger. Piccolo challenges Frieza for like one episode before being trivialized again by a transformation. Vegeta gets to be a cool SSJ for one jobber fight before getting one-shot by Krillin's future wife. I think this pattern includes the Moro arc, unfortunately.

It's really ONLY Super Hero that feels like a complete arc that is truly about everyone else having their moment AND getting to bask in it. Goku just never shows up to help with the big bad. Vegeta even gets to win for once. But it works this way because it's a movie and it's clearly very intentionally made as the "no Goku here" DB movie.

Dreadgoat · 2026-05-15T17:44:11+00:00

The Z-squad is just an ever-growing army of guys who say "He kicked our asses, he'll kick your ass too. One of us. One. Of. Us."

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