Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Caurcas]

I imagine breasts are considered sexual because the majority of people admiring them do so for sexual reasons. I rather suspect the people going 'MOMMY MILKERS' every time a busty female character shows up on screen are not doing so because they're tastefully admiring the female form. I also think the alleged double standard of men exposing their bare chests is balanced out by pretty much every game - even many of those rated for adults - refusing to depict authentic male anatomy. Just look at how few games have an option for a tasteful bulge or body hair but will spend a lot of time making sure that the female models look near perfect and appealing from every possible angle.

Well, there are going to be more of the latter rather than the former consuming such media. Best to look for speciality/niche content for the former.

[Kolsykol]

In the end of the day the main overall point is that I think it's really tiresome and immature to see a woman who's well-endowed and shows cleavage to have very extreme reactions against it and act like she's naked or like it's some great sinful travesty.
When they can't even exist without some kind of controversy I think there is an actual problem and maybe people need to rethink and grow up a little.
I also don't believe that breasts should be like this one sole body part on the human body ( execpt for genitals ) that are just totally '' verboten '' lol.
It's also the same for spamming '' booba '' and acting like a pervert about it, I view them as two extremes on opposite ends.

Sexuality is for the most part in the eyes of the beholder, one thing might be more commonly considered appealing to people but I don't believe that it's as overwhelming as many think Padudu is ofc right that it's taught.
Even today in different countries it's different.
I mean generally speaking we consider people in their 20-30's to be at their '' peak '' so to speak, and yet '' mature '' is one of the most popular porn searches based on what I can see with a quick google ( above large breasts btw ).
While I do think that people being horny so to speak about large breasts openly might be more loud, I also don't think that it tells the whole truth.

I mean uh, I see quite a lot of people who fetishize modesty too...
I actually think that's one of the reasons why some are so aggressively against women showing skin too, some will even outright come out and say it too that they think it's sexier when women are covered.
And yet in the same breath they'll complain that a woman showing skin is too sexualized and not see the irony.

I guess the most would be the pose.

Yeah the pose emphasizes it, the same way a pose might emphasize a man a different way which wouldn't be if he had a different build.
Ultimately I think that yes it's sexy, but it often seems like what people get upset about isn't the sexiness itself but the breasts.
Like as if sexy is alright and not a bad thing, but when you add breasts into it then suddenly some people get genuinely furious about it.
It's just weird to me.

But yeah I don't think any of us disagree overall not to some great degree at least.



Edit: On another note, I made a Malkavian in Vampire Bloodlines.
I never played one and I heard their dialogue was pretty funny.

I am already spooked about the hotel part and I haven't even gotten there yet lol.
It's pretty cool tho how different Malkavian and Nosferatu are and how much effort the devs put into making them so different.
If you play Nosferatu you can't even be in public because it's so obvious you're a Vampire it totally changes how you must approach the game.

[Kolsykol]

I forgot how much horror there was in Bloodlines, it's not rly scary mainly because of how outdated the graphics are but the overall theme and presentation is.
The first side-quest I did lead me down the basement of a crazy prosthetics doctor with arms and legs hanging all over the place and creepy medical pictures.
Then I find two people locked up one is missing both arms and legs and the doctor comes running at me from behind as a boss fight wielding a chopped off arm lol.

Then there's stuff like the hotel and some body horror, the Grout mansion with the mannequins that move on their own when you're not looking and phone calls too.
And the Vampire at the creepy abandoned hospital who eats flesh that's probably the creepiest one imo.

I forgot how funny the writing is too everyone has so much character the dialogue is well-written.
I really wish more games would have seduction as part of the persuasion too.
Often times in games I feel like persuasion just boils down to appeals to basic logic, threats or lying/ tricking someone and the NPC being an idiot.
It has a tendency to feel like your character doesn't have a lot of room for actual roleplay outside of a very limited type of character.
The options in Bloodlines just feel more vivid.

It was one thing that disappointed me too with V in Cyberpunk 2077, ultimately V is an established character with a decided identity and personality.
I never felt like V was my character and the dialogue very rarely felt like it had actual options for that it was mostly just '' progress story or ask questions ''.
I really wish V had been more of a blank slate it's part of why I am not a fan of voiced protagonists in RPG's either.
It never rly feels like I am playing my character then the voice normally doesn't match at all and it tends to end in less dialogue options.

[Larirawiel]

I like it, that with the patch so many players play the game again. The cities are full.


Cheers

[Kolsykol]

I like it, that with the patch so many players play the game again. The cities are full.


Cheers

Yeah, I didn't see too many when I did the EW MSG since I leveled multiple Jobs alongside and kept them around the same lvl.
I think I had 4 Jobs at 90 when I finished the MSQ or something, so I completed it a bit later.

Yesterday tho I could barely click the quest givers xD.

[Larirawiel]

Yesterday tho I could barely click the quest givers xD.

You can use the numpad 0 button to set the quest npcs as your target.


Cheers

[VirusOnline]

Been trying to eat more healthy for the last several months. I'm quite average I'd say and needing to shed a few pounds, but my diet and eating habits are horrid and I recognized it the moment I tried to attempt getting back into running.
For insight, I used to not eat breakfast and tend to skip a few days of eating, but when I do eat I eat like an entire bag of oreos and a few microwaveable burritos.

Starting to eat more regularly and be more proactive about what foods I actually buy and holy hell - eating non junk/toxic food is expensive. ie aspartame is considered highly toxic but the healthy alternatives like allulose can be as much as 5x or more. Foods marketed at healthy, but then you read the labels and they're just not ... The foods that are truly good are again so expensive.
I'm really curious now if weight issues, particularly in America, are more to do with politics than personal choice if anything (outside the realm of eating disorders). It's really depressing and sad and eye opening. It's constant vigilance Dx

[Padudu]

here y'all go to make up for my sillies, my two boys this morning who (not so politely) asked for sticks

[Kolsykol]

here y'all go to make up for my sillies, my two boys this morning who (not so politely) asked for sticks

What animals are those?
At first I thought they were rats but they look different to me?
They're cute regardless, I never understood why so many people are scared of rats either.

[Padudu]

What animals are those?
At first I thought they were rats but they look different to me?
They're cute regardless, I never understood why so many people are scared of rats either.

Chinchillas! Big mountainous rodents.

I'm not scared of rats perse, but I'm more afraid of losing them if I took them out of the cage lol. Much harder to do that with a chinnie with how floofy/chonk they tend to be