Englishgrinn

@Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are wimps. (Dog guy gets partial points though, people are psychotic about their dogs). Here’s an actual hot take:

  Sex drive, while a strong biological impulse in most people, is nowhere NEAR as powerful or persuasive as we are conditioned to believe. Its almost entirely cultural and formed from Movies, Porn, Advertising and just about every other media artificially elevating it.

  Everything, from lighter fare like niche fetish communities, to dark shit like rape, sexual violence and, in some cases misogynistic violence aimed just at women in general, is escalated and enabled by a mass permission structure where we all are just told, and to some extent believe, that Sex is SO powerful. Men become easily manipulated puppets to demonic seductresses. Sexuality can damage reasoning ability. Without sexual release men inevitably become violent brutes. A million other stupid, widely believed things. They have a kernel of truth obviously but they are exaggerated in the extreme, usually to excuse poor behavior by men who are trained from a young age that they not only can, but should turn into a drooling gorilla at the sight of tits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless Ben and the Blatant Corruption - Protest the courts. The Police. The Corporate HQ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Too stupid to be intimidated, I’d say.

  Its only admirable because the people he is in opposition of are even more shady and incompetent. A good lesson in choosing the right enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget the title but there was a Superman game on original Xbox that gave Metropolis a health bar, Not Superman.

  Beating up bad guys, stopping disasters and completing missions helped the city survive. Getting hit meant a few seconds where you were inactive and the city might take more damage.

  It was a pretty inspired idea honestly. I don’t think the game was excellent but good design choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you’re right, but it makes sense in context in both cases because the plot, or maybe better to say the driving motivation for action by the characters, isn’t the real story.

  TLOU isn’t the story of two survivors trying to reach a goal- thats set dressing. It’s the story of a man who lost his daughter being given a chance to confront his grief and grow close with another young woman who would be the same age. The relationship growing, their mutual guilt and relief and joy in finding that familial connection in a dying world IS the story. And the climax isn’t Joel shooting 50 more people, it’s when he chooses her over the whole world. Even when thats obviously the wrong choice.

  From a plot view, nothing has changed. What actually “happened” was entirely between Ellie and Joel. But lots of stories are like that. If you released a movie where a grieving man connected with his adopted, formerly abused or neglected, daughter- that could be a good movie and you wouldn’t say “nothing happened” because it would be honest and upfront with its stakes. But fewer people would play that as a game so they have to obfuscate their actual story with apocalypse and zombie trappings.