Quote from: CRKrueger;913160Japanese Anime in general has pedophilic and misogynist tendencies (yeah I went there),

Hentai is just a darker side of that.

Horror Hentai an even darker side.

1: Except you are totally wrong.

2: Wrong again. Hentai material in anime/manga means just adult material. That could be as simple as lots of nudity, to lots of sex. That could be romantic, comedy, or not. The term covers a fair range and like all terms gets miss-used or crosses the border between just raunchy and flat out freaky.

3: Finally got one right.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;913165Just sign up with a new and fake account and report everything. It'd crash their whole report/review system (ie create too much work for them) and they'd bin it or introduce "no reporting things you've never bought" controls.

Thought you couldnt report something you didnt buy anyhoo? But a glance over at OBS seems thats not the case?

So any fruitcake with an agenda can have at it.

Quote from: IskandarKebab;913168Societies changing and the power you get from being from the dominant group is lessening, tough shit.

The dominant group is doing just fine. They're called "the very rich".

Their power has only grown, never lessened, with much thanks to the SJW bullshit.

BLM vs ALM? Safe spaces? Goodspeak? Trans potties? All laughable distractions for the proles.

Quote from: Spike;912974Of course, since I pride myself on my wordsmithy

You have an entire room devoted to selective word choice? Wow.

If you don't have a devoted room, then the term that most of us wordsmiths use for the process of being a wordsmith is wordsmithing.

I played in a campaign of DFRPG with the paranet papers. We stopped that child porn ring and found an alternative to the childrens' suffering. Not pretty, but not a scenario where you can't win at all, well perhaps in the hands of a bad gamemaster, but then everything sucks in the hands of a bad gamemaster.

As for the topic at hand. Basically everything with vampires is a thinly veiled rape fantasy and imho just as "offensive" as the tournament of rapists. And that is my problem with all of this. The content matter is important, but also, the skill of the people involved handling said content.
For example, Vampire the Masquerade and Requiem both are very poor in regards to handling the vampirism is rape or worse thing, mostly they gloss over it or verbosely ramble on about it, without giving it any heft in play. Monsterhearts on the other hand handles it fairly well, by giving the whole thing gravitas.

I haven't read tournament of rapists and can't attest to whether it handles the matter well or not. However if they start banning stuff based on content and execution for real, then there are a lot of products they need to axe.

Quote from: CRKrueger;913160Japanese Anime in general has pedophilic and misogynist tendencies (yeah I went there)

I've been watching a great deal of anime over the last year or so - getting back into it after quite a few years of only casual perusal - and I don't believe this to be correct.

Quote from: Alzrius;913207I've been watching a great deal of anime over the last year or so - getting back into it after quite a few years of only casual perusal - and I don't believe this to be correct.

Then you need to spend some time in Japan and get a real grip on the cultural motivations behind a lot of that shit. Just not recognizing or understanding where something is really coming from doesn't mean it's not there.

Quote from: Kellri;913209Then you need to spend some time in Japan and get a real grip on the cultural motivations behind a lot of that shit.

The irony here is that I've lived in Japan before, and studied the culture professionally, and so I feel quite comfortable in saying that I have a "real grip" on the cultural motivations involved. To whit, the idea that anime "in general" is misogynistic or pedophilic is not only untrue, but ridiculous.

QuoteJust not recognizing or understanding where something is really coming from doesn't mean it's not there.

You do realize that you've just perfectly summarized your own take on the issue, right?

I'm in a thread where someone said we needed to "maximize the agency" of FICTIONAL F*ING CHARACTERS.

Fictional characters have NO AGENCY because they don't exist. Someone else—author, player, GM—makes ALL of the decisions as to what they are depicted as thinking, feeling, doing, wearing, appearing as, and so forth ON THEIR BEHALF. THEY HAVE NO EXISTENCE OUTSIDE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S DECISIONS, and thus no agency.

This is utterly true, and anyone who thinks differently is functionally insane.

Quote from: Bren;913186You have an entire room devoted to selective word choice? Wow.

If you don't have a devoted room, then the term that most of us wordsmiths use for the process of being a wordsmith is wordsmithing.

 Of COURSE I do.  Its where I keep my banhammer, where I forge my neologisms!

Quote from: Spike;913244...forge my neologisms!

I thinking that should be an RPG pun, but I just can't make it work out or relate it back to Edwards.

I do like the phrase forging neoglogisms though.

Quote from: Efaun;913189As for the topic at hand. Basically everything with vampires is a thinly veiled rape fantasy and imho just as "offensive" as the tournament of rapists.

Uh. Since when was having your blood sucked out by a leech "rape"?

Quote from: Omega;913251Uh. Since when was having your blood sucked out by a leech "rape"?

Since Victorian times or 1991.

Quote from: Omega;913251Uh. Since when was having your blood sucked out by a leech "rape"?

Since everything vampire became about sex rather than "repulsive monsters stealing your life's blood in a hideous perversion of the Sacrament and Communion".

Vamp's drinking blood = sex now. Forcible drinking of blood by vamps thus = rape, because today's interpretations of monsters are the ONLY interpretations of monsters, and the past never happened.

Quote from: Daddy Warpig;913256Since everything vampire became about sex.

Those damn Victorians.