The reason is that the MPAA is a private industry org created to prevent movies from being regulated in the US in such a way that they’d have to create an informative content system.

If your views on fascism aren’t black and white you’re a fucking fascist. You just maybe don’t know it yet.

Yes there’s fascists and then there’s people opposed to fascists. And anyone willing to support Fascism is not a human anything like me.

Because they’re right. And now we all know which side you choose.

People don’t lose their personhood by being, acting or shown in a sexual context but many do absolutely not view it that way.

Then you shame the prudes for their prudery and exclude them from society. You don’t cave to them and stop showing sex as being a part of normal life.

It is very obvious that it caters to people objectifying the protagonists and therefore its not that easy to blatantly approve of it.

That’s only a problem for you if you’re still clinging to those Bronze Age goat herders and their fucked up view of sex created to make it easier to justify treating women as property. Literally every idea about sex that treats it as some special area of human activity that is magical and different from everything else is descended from that one line of bullshit.

The goat fucking child sellers who invented purity culture are laughing through time at you still internalizing their bullshit 5000 years later.

Because they’re not wrong. A lot of the push against anything remotely adult is powered by an Australian group called Collective Shout that cloaks their conservative Christian prudishness in a feminist guise.

There’s also been (I think justifiable) backlash against adult stuff because kids now are big users of the internet

Anyone seeking to ban a vice for adults under the guise of protecting children is a fascist. They have no interest whatsoever in protecting kids, they want to control adults. Fuck that “think of the children” bullshit. The backlash isn’t justifiable, it’s a justification.

sexualizing (and thus degrading)

That core attitude is a big part why I can’t respect this new secular Mormonism. There’s nothing degrading about sexualization. The very idea of it is tied to the idea that a woman’s worth is tied up in her virginity, which is a concept born from the patriarchal ownership of women. Sexualization is only degrading to property because it reduces the value of the property. Anyone who claims they don’t see women as property but that sexualization does degrade women is incredibly confused.

their dopamine-receptors were completely captured by pornhub, that it was a polite way to bop them on the nose for being a gross gooner in completely non-sexual contexts.

Even if true, I stand by what I said.

Anyone not radically sex-positive has the same effect on society as a whole as the most vehement anti-porn crusader, because puritanism is the cultural default anywhere the spiritual descendants of those bronze age goat fucking child sellers have been able to rule (almost everywhere now).

It’s really all our faults. The first time someone used the phrase “horny jail” unironically and wasn’t slapped into the following week, we invited this. The first time someone complained about a sex scene in a movie and wasn’t shunned from their entire social circle and relegated to hanging out with the Boomer ladies at the local church, we began building the world we’re trapped in.

And the people in here defending this new secular Puritan paradigm all sound fucking insufferable. It doesn’t matter if you’re an upright prude because your gullible enough to think sex makes God angry or if you’re an upright prude because you think it’s a feminist position. Either way you’re still a jackass who’s clinging to a sexual morality invented by bronze age goat herders to maximize the prices they could get for selling their teenage daughters to their middle aged friends.

Bad news: we lock people up without trials all the time, for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with homelessness.

The Arkham series was already an exercise in great story hiding behind bad gameplay. But I don’t even know if that held true for Arkham Knight, because 3 minutes into the thing you get put in a driving mini game that has absolutely shitty controls and is required to progress into the actual story. Since that proved impossible for me, I just wasted the price of the game and now I’ve gone from disdain for Rockstar as a studio to outright hate. Making the combat system in a Batman game into Dance Dance Revolution was stupid enough, but unskippable cross-genre skill gates are unforgivable.

Related, but slightly more forgiveable bcs it isn’t required to progress the main story, The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3 has a section where the designers suddenly felt like Fallout had an a engine capable of being a 3D Platformer, and that people who’d already spent 30+ hours in Fallout 3 would enjoy having to do precision platform jumps to get to the good loot.

Basically, if you suddenly have a mini game or section that belongs to an entirely different genre, don’t force people to engage with that, some of us hate driving games, some of us hate platformers, and I’m pretty sure nobody at all wanted a driving minigame in their Batman Rhythm-Soulslike.

Sure. But that’s not what this post is about, is it?

And water is only great if you have great water. Most of the developed world settles for “won’t make you sick” but leaves their water tasting horrible when it comes out of the pipes.

Diet Soda is essentially just flavored seltzer water with more flavor than the drinks actually labelled as flavored seltzer.

A lot of people in this thread don’t seem to understand that.

Most of the people touring horrible health risks have conflated diet sodas with sugary sodas, some have misunderstood some genuine studies on diet soda. The reason diet sodas correlate strongly with certain health conditions is primarily selection bias. Many diet soda drinkers also eat high-fat, high-sodium, US-style fast food diet, which is actually pretty hard in your body. Also Diet Soda’s sweet taste can trigger heightened insulin production, because your body expects it to be full of sugar, and that heightened insulin can cause sugar cravings, and some people then consume more sugar satisfying that craving that would have been in a regular soda anyway.

Diet Soda is not a diuretic, it hydrates you just as well as tea, seltzer, or even a slightly smaller glass of plain ol water. There’s some unanswered questions about the artificial sweeteners and their long term effects, but any of the really bad stuff they’ve found in actual studies has been at far higher concentration that a person would consume even if Diet Soda was their only fluid intake.