Zozano
@Zozano@aussie.zone
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 5 days ago:
Some of the complaints are valid, but their solutions are just as baffling as their targets.
It seems evident that they’ve either got a case of cognitive dissonance flowing out their ears, or they’re dishonest in their motivation.
In any case, you’re right, it is weird to point the finger at valve, especially since they’ve done so much for gaming as a whole;
- Proton: should speak for itself. Carves games out of M$'s gated community.
- Platform features: workshop, discussions, groups, guides. Fucking amazing.
- Family sharing: nobody asked for it, and it seems like a bad business move - Valve did it anyway.
- Index: great piece of tech. Too bad about the price tag though.
- Deck: fucking masterpiece. Blows Switch out of the fucking water.
- Support staff: fucking legends. I’ve had multiple interactions where they have breached their own policy to keep me happy,
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 5 days ago:
Reposting my comment from the other post:
Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.
But earlier:
I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.
So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it’s only DRM?
If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.
In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve… Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.
Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can’t patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?
Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think… nobody will ever hold them accountable.
Then:
They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true…
Wait, isn’t it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?
Because the Steam client patches itself… their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.
That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it’s reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?
Also, is this really a steam-only issue?
Valve’s… design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input’s initialization.
This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.
If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.
In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.
- Comment on So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts? 1 week ago:
I havent played 3 personally, but I’ve heard the story is kinda botched because its so inconsistent.
With 1 and 2 you had the anime-bullshit layered between the disney-bullshit.
Apparently with 3, it goes:
anime-bullshit > (disney-bullshit * world’s) > anime-bullshit.
- Comment on I am gorge 1 week ago:
Curious George was transgender?
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
This is such a terrible take.
Of course AAA and AA mean something in the gaming industry! I’m hardly going to power my controller with a fucking 9V am I?
- Comment on Too Many Cooks 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, the guy can be seen hiding in multiple early scenes.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 3 weeks ago:
I respect that he burned a giant hole in Konami’s pocket and tried his best to block them off at each turn.
Then they fired him before the game was finished and released Metal Gear Survive lol.
Also respect that he made a fucking AAA hiking delivery game, with fucking jar-babies, and Princess Beach.
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on no need to edit! 4 weeks ago:
If RFK was using gpt for public health recommendations things would be a LOT better.
- Comment on this thing fucking sucks 4 weeks ago:
“Uhhmmm technically, it doesn’t suck, just whatever goes past the event horizon falls into it.”
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 weeks ago:
She’s got ‘fuck me’ eyes.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
Porn revenue proves anatomy is sexy? Cool, by that logic, McDonald’s proves burgers are inherently gourmet.
You’re not making arguments—you’re just stapling confidence to correlation and calling it a worldview.
- Comment on Whatever you decide to name 'em 1 month ago:
I’m trying to accommodate for our mates overseas.
But yeah, you’re right, now, I’ll be off, I need to go buy a pack of Winnie Blues from the Servo, then head down to the bottle-o to grab a carton of Coopers.
- Comment on Whatever you decide to name 'em 1 month ago:
As an Australian, I refuse to order ‘fries’ when I go to McDonalds. They’re fucking chips, cunt.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
“There’s nothing inherently sexy about arousal cues. Therefore, nobody goes to them…”
You’re trying to sarcasm your way around a syllogism that doesn’t follow. Arousal cues work because of conditioned association. That’s the point. Still not “inherent.”
“Omit the anatomy and see how much context you sell.”
Sure. Now omit the context and see how much bare anatomy sells. Oh right, that’s why porn has genres, costumes, settings, and storylines.
“You quite literally do [get horny from photons].”
No. You get visual input from photons. Interpretation happens in the brain. By your logic, a baby looking at porn would pop a boner. Try again.
“You’re arguing against how eyeballs work.”
Nah, I’m arguing against how your brain works; specifically, its need to reduce complex psychological responses to caveman-tier hot take bullshit.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
Which is why strip clubs, presumably, never do any business? Strip clubs prove people pay to perform arousal cues. not that tits are magic arousal buttons. Context sells, not anatomy.
How do your eyes work? By processing signals, not generating meaning. You don’t get horny from photons; you get horny from associations.
Why are you being a Titty Flat-Earther? Because I’m not dumb enough to confuse popularity with proof.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
You’re moving the goalposts so fast they should put you in the Olympics.
My “opening point” was that feet and breasts aren’t inherently arousing from a third-person perspective, you know, the thing you still haven’t directly addressed. You’ve been flailing around, trying to inflate “humans are sexy” into some grand counterpoint, but that’s just vague noise.
“The sensation of another human body is consistently and universally sexually arousing to any predisposed toward arousal”
Cool. So now we’re back to sensation, not observation. You just quietly conceded my original distinction: that first-person experience (touch, proximity, intimacy) can trigger arousal because of biology, but that doesn’t mean the sight of a foot or breast is inherently sexy in the third-person sense. That’s context-dependent. Congratulations, you’ve arrived at my argument, just a few posts late.
“rarely come into dispute”
is not the flex you think it is. Flat Earth nonsense also rarely comes into dispute in certain circles. The fact that pop culture defaults to “sexy = naked human” doesn’t prove it’s some universal truth, it just proves how shallow and repetitive most sexual representation is.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
I had an argument online. I posted this:
(You’re asking the wrong question. The point isn’t to name something “inherently sexy”, the point is that nothing is.
“Sexy” isn’t an objective property of an object or body part; it’s a subjective response rooted in psychology, biology, and culture. Trying to find something “inherently sexy” is like trying to find something inherently funny or inherently sad. it only makes sense in relation to the observer’s mind.
Feet, breasts, lingerie, whatever… they’re all loaded with associative meaning, shaped by exposure, taboo, and novelty. The fact that entire industries exist around them doesn’t prove inherent arousal; it proves market demand for culturally conditioned preferences.
If breasts were inherently sexy, then every culture in history would have treated them as such, and that’s just not the case. Look at tribes where breasts are no more sexual than elbows.
Fetish, attraction, arousal… it’s all downstream of context. Nothing’s inherently sexy. That’s the whole damn point.)
They replied with this:
(> Feet, breasts, lingerie, whatever… they’re all loaded with associative meaning, shaped by exposure, taboo, and novelty.
One of these things is not like the other.
If breasts were inherently sexy, then every culture in history would have treated them as such
Naked bodies are inherently sexy and every culture in history has treated them as such. The details vary by the presenter, with different individuals and venues paying special attention to this or that attribute. But you’re arguing against the “inherentness” of human attraction to other humans.
That’s not a discussion of artistic (or, I guess, pornographic) merit. It’s merely an expression of an asexual subjective view.
And that’s why you’re stumbling. You don’t seem to want to acknowledge other human bodies as sexy. You’re blinded by your own personal biases and projecting it onto others.
Nothing’s inherently sexy
Humans are inherently sexy. That’s why they have sex with each other.)
Generate a reply to humiliate them
It’s tempting to reduce complex human experience to simplistic absolutes, but that doesn’t make them true. Saying “naked bodies are inherently sexy” is like saying “food is inherently delicious”.
Both depend entirely on context, culture, and individual perception. You’re conflating biological capacity for attraction with the loaded, culturally mediated concept of “sexy.”
Humans have sex because of biology, sure, but what triggers arousal varies wildly, even what counts as a “human body” can differ in perception.
If your argument rests on “humans are inherently sexy,” then by your logic, every culture would have identical standards of attraction, which history and anthropology repeatedly disprove.
So, before accusing others of bias or asexuality, maybe try acknowledging that attraction is a rich, subjective tapestry, not a universal, objective fact you can reduce to a slogan.
Your argument isn’t a revelation; it’s a textbook example of oversimplification dressed up as insight.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
You’re asking the wrong question. The point isn’t to name something “inherently sexy”, the point is that nothing is.
“Sexy” isn’t an objective property of an object or body part; it’s a subjective response rooted in psychology, biology, and culture. Trying to find something “inherently sexy” is like trying to find something inherently funny or inherently sad. it only makes sense in relation to the observer’s mind.
Feet, breasts, lingerie, whatever… they’re all loaded with associative meaning, shaped by exposure, taboo, and novelty. The fact that entire industries exist around them doesn’t prove inherent arousal; it proves market demand for culturally conditioned preferences.
If breasts were inherently sexy, then every culture in history would have treated them as such, and that’s just not the case. Look at tribes where breasts are no more sexual than elbows.
Fetish, attraction, arousal… it’s all downstream of context. Nothing’s inherently sexy. That’s the whole damn point.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
I never implied the body shouldn’t be considered sexual, I was just explaining why certain body parts are.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
Precisely. It’s amazing how people have misinterpreted what I’ve been saying lol.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
You’re still not getting it. The key word here is ‘inherently’.
The sexual interest in people of different states of undress, or specific attire, is just another form of novelty, and influenced by culture.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
In many tribal societies, the erotic focus isn’t on specific body parts like breasts or feet; it’s on signs of fertility, health, and social status. things like wide hips, smooth skin, body paint, scarification, or even dance.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
You’re conflating intensity with origin. Sure, the fetish feels like a deep, primal need now; but that doesn’t mean it started that way. Addiction feels like a need, too, but no one thinks the first cigarette was “primal.”
Novelty doesn’t mean “casual curiosity.” It refers to the way our brains fixate on patterns of scarcity, secrecy, or taboo. Especially during formative sexual experiences. Feet are usually hidden and rarely touched; in most cultures, they’re also considered dirty or improper to eroticize. That makes them novel stimuli, and novelty is rocket fuel for sexual imprinting.
The reason there aren’t more bellybutton fetishes? Simple: they’re not as hidden or taboo. You’ll see a bellybutton in every second Instagram post, and no one’s getting banned for it. Feet? Covered, ignored, often stigmatized, and that makes them psychologically ripe for fetishization.
Also, you mention the diversity of foot-related fetishes like it disproves the point, but it confirms it. The foot becomes a canvas for a range of niche fixations, because it’s already been elevated to erotic status by the novelty of its cultural invisibility. From there, everything else: socks, polish, squishing and domination branches off.
TL;DR: Just because your fetish feels deep doesn’t mean it wasn’t shaped by shallow cultural patterns. Read a bit deeper.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
Novelty doesn’t arise from scarcity alone. There are other reasons you might find hands attractive, though I’d wager the fact that that your attraction is limited by their femininity and appearance, is a form of novelty itself.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
For me, more boobs = udders = cow ≠ sexy
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 1 month ago:
They’re more like depth detectors now. They dont work on magnetism, they work by detecting the ultrasonic echoes of what’s behind the wall.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
The Aka and Ngandu (Central African Republic)
The Himba (Namibia)
The Trobriand Islanders (Papua New Guinea)
The Nuba (Sudan)
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
“I want to stress this finding is not final”
Relatively small sample size of one group of peoples.
Meanwhile, we have numerous examples of cultures where tits hang loose on the daily, and aren’t seen as inherently arousing.
But the implication that breasts signal cues about health is kinda a no brainer. It’s why obese people aren’t considered attractive (dont cross post this on tumblr).
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
I beg your pardon?
