looking forward to the meanwhileongrad screencap

I think you can kind of do that in Fear and Hunger, but that game is, uh, not conducive to opposing creeps. I think you can struggle against it as a cosmic force in Lisa, but I don’t think you get much of a decisive victory over it.

I think because they find it culturally threatening for there to be prominent, popular, critically-appreciated video games that don’t reinforce and endlessly recapitulate their misogynistic worldview via the contorted and objectified depiction of women. That means there will be more gamers who maybe don’t like it or think it’s weird, and suddenly their boys’ club has been disrupted, and maybe it’ll get undermined further if it spreads . . . So there’s nothing to do but howl at the moon and send death and r— threats to hold the line.

No, it’s a Hasan prophecy

It’s ridiculous because the US killed a ton of animals, especially monkeys, in their space program. I think the USSR eventually apologized about Laika, too.

Or the chilling effect that excessive slop has on being a human, not that I would know anything about either.

amirite

a舞Mairite

(like Mai Shiranui)

True, though if he was born in a peasant family, he probably would have not had hemphilia, let alone a case this severe.

I mean, it’s surely part of his enduring bad health, but he was already a frail old man who got wiped out by a single glass of apple cider like a decade ago, and currently he supposedly only eats meat and who knows what else. There’s a torrent of shit that he has undermining his health and the overlap seems to only be partial, though it still makes sense that it would be existentially sickening

More than just one series, it’s basically a small subgenre and also a character archetype that shows up a lot in fighting games (Baiken, Narmaya, Yuzihara, and this isn’t counting gooner kunoichi). I’m not really sure why this specifically is so popular, unless it’s just katana + booba waifu being the most concentrated way to appeal to weebs.

The average used to be way smaller due to malnutrition, but it would be highly unlikely for a swordswoman to dress in that manner regardless, because it’s seriously impractical (and literally painful) for zero benefit, even if we assume it’s totally indifferent culturally. SFS is overstating his claim by suggesting it’s completely necessary that those are implants, but it’s 100% true that this is gooner fantasy shit regardless.

Her breasts were weighed 7 years after her death?

Jesus fucking Christ

I hope you posted this to emotes, though it might require being cut into Kaya and Has separately.

Is there no tape? In the picture it looks like tape. Hopefully it’s clear that I’m being completely sincere in this, since you can see I spent an unhealthy amount of time in this thread arguing against the “Kaya was shocked” interpretation of events.

The nodes in both examples are sticking out way more than what would potentially be under the tape. Lets say it’s possible there exists a vibrating version of the electric collar, which is packaged in the same case, and because of some quirk of the injection molding there is a small depression or raised part where the prongs would be if it was the shock version. I still don’t get the tape.

Yeah, idk, my assumption is that the inner face got messed up. I don’t really understand what you said before about why that wouldn’t happen.

I’m not saying that it is the same model, but now I’m curious where you see that it definitely isn’t. They look identical to me.

They are definitely very similar, but the thing that looks like an LCD display on the side looks like it has different dimensions beyond the camera angle difference, and there’s some other stuff going on with Kaya’s collar where I just can’t make out what’s going on. Is there also a side band of tape? They might be the same though.

I’m not convinced that he shocked her, or shocked her on purpose in that clip and I never said he did.

I’ve noted you repeating this and you might notice that I didn’t accuse you of saying that in my previous comment, because I saw you repeating this and accept it.

You are right, I was being too small-minded. I think the Ikko-Ikki uprising could also be cool, though it presents too much opportunity to lib out, and also they just did Japan.

Some “Maoists” are really distant from anything recognizable as Marxism, e.g. Gonzalo was a “Maoist” and is closely associated with the label, though other groups are more like you describe, like Naxalites. It a western context, they are sometimes pretty bad wreckers, most infamously the Austin Red Guard or, if you’re being really uncharitable, Black Hammer called itself that too.

The term “Maoist” doesn’t just mean “fan of Mao” though. It’s kind of a difficult label to discuss because many groups use it in very different ways, most infamously the “Maoists” of the Shining Path, otherwise referred to as Gonzalites. I really think the most accurate thing to call them, based on the timelines involved and explicit statements like what we saw above, was that they were primarily their own adaptation/interpretation of Marxism-Leninism who were big fans of the guy they saw as the greatest global pioneer of nonwhite Marxism-Leninism, Chairman Mao (and the Cleaver text especially supports the characterization, imo). We can’t especially tie them to the Red Guards (despite common influence) or Gonzalites (thank God) or other “Maoist” movements.

I think the “Maoist” label is inaccurate, and again would repeat that Mao himself rejected such a term. It’s an ideological muddying akin to saying the BPP was Juche because they also spoke very highly of Kim Il-Sung as a foundational figure in the development of nonwhite socialism (see Cleaver). I think the resident Dune fan’s correction was fair enough and your “correction” of the OOP was not justified.

When I was casually looking it up for comparison I pretty quickly saw a vibration collar that uses nodes: https://www.petpawsabilities.com/cdn/shop/products/DC680Vnew.jpg?v=1605896488&width=823

That’s obviously not the model on Kaya, but neither is your comparison picture (not that you were saying it was, of course). By coincidence, this collar is also pretty bulky, though I’d say not as bulky as the reference. This is just the first one that I saw, the 17th entry for “vibration collar” on my google image search (though I think such things are tailored to the user, so you might get it in a different spot). The 20th entry also appears to have nodes. These are specifically only vibration, there are others with longer prongs that do both vibration and shocks.

Mechanically, I’m not sure why they’d have them being nodes. My guess is energy efficiency, since they need to move less mass, and more acute stimuli are usually going to work better anyway, plus it’s in a fixed position, so it’s not like a phone or something that gets jostled around and could never have just a little node or two. I’m just speculating from an uneducated standpoint, though.

I agree that he should have done more wrt to showing the exact specifications of the collar, even if I think body language analysis is a bit pointless.