This feels like me.

Lots and lots of phone notifications to participate in things other people would like to be seen for. No responses to my own requests and desires.

The only way I can see the industry of intellectual property - and hence all large-budget commercial games - surviving is if laws change to regard the efforts of AI analysis as breaching some of the established DMCA laws.

I’m sure we often regard those laws as horrendous, though I sometimes wonder if people would agree if they saw Epic Games publish “Meincraft” 3 days after Minecraft gets its first major news article, and leave Notch in the dust.

I wonder if they were waiting until Maid Cafe Simulator came out on Steam, so they wouldn’t be competing with that release window.

https://youtu.be/sI0vtqxoG1k?t=95

Me not caring about Minecraft (and imitators) is being savagely weighed against my desire to support any dev that makes Linux builds.

Please do not move forward in your life assuming that women are subtly signaling to people that they are welcoming being objectified and sexualized.

Okay, I’m through with this. I in no way said, or implied, this statement, even going so far as to make the opposite stance, and I’m done trying to express that here.

A woman knows that:

Obviously, peering at someone’s ass can lean towards creepy or voyeuristic.

(The part of the quote you snipped out). Bending over is easier, but many women change to squatting, a trickier action, specifically because of how they’re viewed when doing so.

So, if a woman is in the vicinity of a guy, and chooses to bend over, she’s communicating that she at least trusts that person enough not to ogle or objectify her. Guys don’t experience a lot of trust from women in the modern day (generally for understandable reasons) so it’s touching for them to know when people feel safe around them.

I’m sorry that wasn’t communicated well; but I appreciate you asking for clarification.

All of that is true, and doesn’t contradict what I was saying at all.

I wasn’t interpreting anything as an “open invitation”.

That’s not really what I meant; just that passed-down wisdom often leads women to caution each other it’s a common (albeit undeserved) consequence.

I wrote “Not anticipating his objectification” rather than “Not looking” because it’s often difficult to specifically make sure someone is fully outside your field of vision the moment they reach for something on the ground.

I’ve felt the same way about women bending over.

Obviously, peering at someone’s ass can lean towards creepy or voyeuristic. Any woman knows this - many changed over to squatting to pick things up even when alone. So, if she’s okay with a full bend, even if the guy barely even looks, it’s a separate “trust kink” - that she knows he’s there and doesn’t anticipate his mind objectifying her that way.

It could be an “empowerment” issue.

Dresses and fancy preparation are empowering. They show that this person manages their life well and is successful. That of course all sounds positive. Only problem is, to someone struggling with that issue, it can be intimidating.

I struggle to find a good way to express this, but guys like myself since school have grappled with a perception that women “have more social power than them”. Even if the guy isn’t a total loser with a rented home that consists of a TV and a pillow, girls are viewed as a pedestal-standing respected social icon by comparison. That’s definitely not universally actually true, but under young hormones it seems that way.

Hence why pajamas, glasses, or to extend further: VTuber streamers that joke about failing basic life skills, or not showering that week, are often a successful endeavor. They show someone more humanized, disempowered and flawed. Question is whether a woman is okay with accepting a bit of that debasement to put someone at ease.

Ask Anthropic! I hear they worked out a solution.

Next for release: Master Chief vs Acme Corporation

I enjoyed a decent chunk of this game, but suffered a save corruption issue that destroyed about 8 hours of progress. I thought over how nothing of my cycle had changed by rewinding and decided to shut it off.

But, even if they’re derided, there are often flashes of brilliance in each Ubisoft game. I’ve mentioned how I like Legion’s gameplay commentary on violence escalation; where force is met with force, for both the fascists and Dedsec.

Sounds like there’s more I’d want to see clarified. What lead him to imply the state was directly working with an advertiser? If an ad was posted on the side of a building owned by a property company, then I’m not sure I see the government relation.

That’s the fucking horrendous thing about censorship. It gets us to think the horrible thing is the ‘word’.

We’re not fucking distressed about the fucking “RAY” sound followed by the “APE” sound, we’re distressed to hear that a man involuntarily pushed his dick into a woman - in the year 2026.

This kind of thing can even distance victims, making it harder for a woman to seek solace by announcing to a limited group online “My name is X, and I was a victim of rape”. Or, in a similar case, a black guy telling a group “You think racism doesn’t exist? A cop pulled me over last week, and I swear I heard him call me a n^^^^r over the radio.” Imagine the level of societal disgust/action that just doesn’t happen because people are taught they can’t talk about these things. They’re distressing? Of course they are!!

On the last note, I’ll only say that I choose to censor the N word because I’m white, and I don’t like designing “valid scenarios” for racists and trolls to get to say it, which they always want to.

You’re not alone in never finishing RE1, and I’ve played pretty much every other RE game.

If you’re starved for survival horror, Steam has an expansive indie scene with some really good entries on the subject. I could recommend Crow Country and Tormented Souls 1+2 if you haven’t heard of those.

A feature pretty close to this is built into Trails in the Sky (remake and original). You can set the default launch option to “Resume latest save”. When you do, hitting play on the game skips all startup logos and the main menu, just giving a quick loading screen then putting you right where you saved.

It won’t restore you to the middle of combat or a cutscene/conversation, but it makes resuming pretty flexible. It would be nice to see other games give attention to this functionality, or at least start to fight supporting technologies on the subject of launch logos.

Nice to find those on basic search results, but I’d be a little worried about them being too bare-bones. One of them is listed as being a one-dev effort.

I know of a few painting tools for fun in VR, but what I’d really like is animation.

I spent a lot of time animating keyframes in Garry’s Mod, though it’s sometimes a struggle to translate positions and rotations into mouse movements, as well as think about a wealth of tools that can only take up so much space on the monitor.

If there’s a way to create character animations using VR hands, that might really interest me.