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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • The one reason this weirds me out (without having seen these dolls tbf) is that it was decided something sex-related is too childlike and that somehow makes it illegal apparently? Like, what legal basis is there for it? I have never heard about any law prohibiting ‘too childlike’ appearance, let alone seen it applied.

    I mean, have these people seen what’s going on in some (not to say many) anime? There are characters being explicitly sexualized, while being canonically underage. How is one thing okay and the other isn’t?




  • I think it was translated from German and I have no idea how well that worked out. I feel like many jokes are really tied to the language, and they also had banger voice actors for the German edition.

    Generally I think the series gets better with every game, which is kinda the opposite you would expect these days. The first was kinda short, rather tame, not great not terrible… The fourth is probably one of the longest Point&Clicks in history and completely unhinged.









  • I am really bothered by the fact that claims like this are echoed by media outlets unchecked, while making them seem like journalism by appending ‘according to [directly involved party] sources’, maybe even ‘can’t be independently verified’.

    I mean, Reuters has confirmed that this strike happened and that the video material is credible. Okay, so far so good. That’s bad, and you can report on it and raise questions based off of it. You have something to investigate, you can generate tons of content by discussing adjacent topics, but no, media decides to go for round 2 and report some unverified death toll.

    Whether there are 2 or 200 dead children, the story is the same. Why give inherently unreliable sources a stage and credibility by echoing their claim? It’s so frustrating that the wider media landscape is based on grabbing peoples attention, rather than good journalism.