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[-] Angel@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago

So, do straight men always want everything they enjoy to satisfy their dick in one way or another? I couldn't imagine being like this.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

So, do straight men always want everything they enjoy to satisfy their dick in one way or another? I couldn't imagine being like this.

Token cishet white guy, there's a time and a place for getting titillated into whacking off and a video game exploring the complex web of a man's guilt and psycho-sexual hangups is NOT the place.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Gamergate and its consequences have been a disaster on top of something that was already a disaster

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I think these guys are a new extreme of misogynistic sexualization. There's always been awooga guys but i think this specific kind came from a combination of culture war, hyperalienation, amd readily available cjatgpt image makers.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The hedonic treadmill is a thing and so many treat defenders are in complete fucking denial about it.

Sure, watch porn. Oh yeah, that person on the screen is sexy, agreed. For fuck's sake, gooning all day and expecting just about every incoming experience to contribute to that gooning streak and expecting everyone else to just go with that and conform to one specific gooner's magical realm of exhaustive self-indulgence until they get bored and desensitized with their gooning material and need harder/more violent slop is toxic as fuck.

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[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

That hyper booba waifufied body and clothing combined with the blank traumatized stare is unnerving.

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Like, shit, none of that is attractive or exciting. What is this person even arguing?!

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

SV victims being portrayed in horny ways during and after the SV is Gambo-brained shit.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

Isn't silent hill exactly wrong type of game to experience anything remotely close to arousal? (i know its plotline only through cultural osmosis)

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

There's a lot of horny imagery even in the baseline original games, and the association between sexuality and regret/fear was intentional.

That said, this "hire fans" shit is tacky and sad.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It sort of plays with arousal a little in the design of the nurses, but that serves the story and is also creepy, you're not supposed to be aroused by the faceless bloody-bandaged booba enemies, at least not 'cleanly'. They and Pyramid Head are the warped expressions of James' desires.

I don't know if their inclusion was intended to become a rorsarch test of the players themselves, but that's sure what happened. Now that I think about it, their design is great for that, it says "Here is some prominent cleavage and about 36 indicators that something is terribly wrong and dangerous, if you can ignore all of them and get horny for the cleavage then you are very close to being the worst version of James."

And it's one thing to sexualize the sex monster. But to then insist on sexualizing a human character with a personality who is in great pain from a lifetime of objectification and really wants to not be sexualized, to then petulantly stamp your foot and insist on the righteousness of your crusade to morph her into something you can whack off to... It seems like it's more about the power at that point, the power to take away someone's ability to refuse to be consumed as a treat.

Just for the sake of the people around them, I'm glad these guys will never have a relationship.

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

no it has the sexy nurse demons who represent being horny and making gamer wee-wee hard

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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

being generous, there is probably some link with fear and arousal. like after a scary movie has concluded or stopped, when feeling safe maybe or as an act of life affirmation? I dunno. I played Silent Hill and it didn't put me in the mood to get down. it just gave me the creeps. but I've had dates before where there was a spooky movie and it later lead to some honking.

more broadly, I do not get the need to make everything eroticized. I don't want to be prudish, but it seems like far too much already is or at least trying to provoke me into feeling "turned on" to sell me a beer or a burger or a Chevy or a watch. of course, I'm an old now, so I'm not the walking hardon I was when I was 19 anymore either. I just tend to assume stuff I don't get is meant for a different demographic anymore.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

These people don't play video games (besides FIFA and COD), they just pretend to care about it so they can attack minorities. They probably don't even know what the game is about, these people out of nowhere become experts in anime, sports, games, series and movies so they can attack minorities. When playing games wasn't so mainstream, these would be the same people who mocked people who played games as a hobby and were invested in some fictious world, now that being a gamer is more mainstream, they have to pretend they care about games, so they can grift to 14 year olds who hate women.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

No, they do play video games but are incapable of seeing beyond the blue curtains

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[-] RosaNox@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

"95% of us who buy video games are heterosexual men"

What planet does this person live on wtf

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Even the horniest game from the 90s or 2000s wasn't this horny

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's some stiff competition from back then, such as the "Dead or Alive" series and the start of its "fuck it, not even a fighting game anymore, now it's beach volleyball with gooner characteristics" trend.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Yes but even those games weren't this horny. They were very softcore, whereas this looks like it's out of a Silent Hill porn animation

Source: I've played most DOA games sans the volleyball spinoffs

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Assmon said nick Fuentes is a mildly right leaning political commentator" so of course hes a genocidal maniac and likely gooner

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

enjoy this dumb gooner shit while it lasts. the mold is taking a massive turn towards anti-Palestinian nazism right now.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

yep, Asmon who is one of the vanguard of the "keep the ugly women and gays out of muh video games" crowd has recently been focusing more and more of his stream on Israel-Palestine and cheering on genocide. He said essentially 'you expect me to feel sorry for when the barbaric genocidal people get genocided? They would be doing it too if they had superior technology and more weapons. They're just sore losers'

That's the new line we will be hearing a lot of these chuds

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

well right now he's onto "that's an inferior culture" and soypoint-1 "what do you mean you don't believe in inferior cultures?"

it's like three-mile island for hitler-detector

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

He said essentially 'you expect me to feel sorry for when the barbaric genocidal people get genocided? They would be doing it too if they had superior technology and more weapons. They're just sore losers'

It's especially rich coming from the filth-dwelling Anglo, living on stolen land his people brutally and barbarically genocided of native inhabitants. No one will be crying if and when he and his get theirs

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

"Game theory" nazi ideology, courtesy of freeze-gamer

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

I'm pan, can confirm I wouldn't touch SH2 with a ten foot pole if Angela looked like that. Porn addicted coomer gamers are a subset of a subset of gamers, and think they are the majority pronouns

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

There's a reason all the porn games are only found in the nastiest, stankiest corners of itch.io and steam. If they were actually what people wanted, they would be front and centre best selling games.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Nah, cus oorn addiction, isn't real. Mormons made that up. This is just out and iut misogyny.

lol corn corn-man-khrush

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think it may be real, but needs to be studied by non religious people and actually peer reviewed.

It does feel like some guys like jerking off way too much that there has to be something. Misogyny plays a role.

On another note, a guy I knew that worked on the Bernie campaign who suddenly announced on Facebook that he had a Porn Addiction but has cured it by converting to the Armenian Apostolic Church (he isn't even Armenian). I had to cut him off because he's basically a nazi now.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

one day we're going to go beyond the model of addiction which unfortunately has been poisoned by both religion and the entire addiction-industrial complex (what i call Forever Recovery)

it's going to end up being far more complex and rooted in material conditions then most mainstream realize

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

This so much. Addiction needs to be studied and addressed from a non-religious standpoint. I'm an alcoholic and have some issues around porn addiction and it's real but not in the sense of it being a moral failing but due to my own internalized sexism I've encountered over the years and in my formative ones and also like you said material conditions. Mental health plays a huge role too.

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm talking completely out of my ass here, but I feel like excessive masturbation — whatever we might define "excess" to be in practice — is often related to alienation and just terminal boredom. Which is to say, if you feel like you have no control over your own life, and no impact on anything around yourself, then you still have control over your own body, and your own impact on yourself, right? You crave stimulation, and you can give that to yourself — lo, how independent you are!

The pathology would then arise when, essentially, the signifier is conflated for the signified: when the frequent masturbation being a result of lack of control over one's own life, is reinterpreted as frequent masturbation being in itself lack of control over one's own life. This, I'd reckon, would generally occur when someone on some level does not wish to acknowledge that thon lacks control over sy own life, and therefore chooses to hate whatever represents that lack of control rather than confront the fact head-on. Alternatively, someone could've just internalized those ridiculous ideas of any amount of masturbation being harmful. In many cases, well, both.

In any case, when you believe yourself to not be in control of your own masturbation, and masturbation happens to be your coping mechanism for your lack of life control, then these will obviously only feed into each other in a very unproductive way. Badabing badaboom, you have a "porn addiction".

Now as I'm saying, I'm just talking out of my ass here, but I do feel like this would explain the general leanings of supposed "porn addiction" with regard to gender and political ideology. Because if you're the gender who's raised to feel like you're owed the world, that you should be on top and in control, then you're more likely to have a pathological reaction to not being that; and if you're the type who would project your hatred of the contradictions of capitalism onto its pool of imported labor, then you're more likely to project your hatred of your life being kinda shit, onto your own genitals. Yet the actual mechanism of "porn addiction" would be, strictly speaking, neutral in terms of gender and ideology — it would find itself anywhere profound boredom would cross paths with a lack of life control that a person for any reason just could not face...

...Except, what about ideas like supernormality and the hedonic treadmill? Why do some people meet their "porn addiction" with shame while others "embrace it"? I can't account for any of that, so I don't think I have all the answers.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

In so far as I understand it has been studied, or rather attempts have been made to study it, and they have uniformly failed because the phenomena as described by masturbation-fearers does not exist in any meaningful way. It really is just mormons, catholics, and other weird little freaks trying to pathologize normal sexual behavior. It has legs because so many people have absolutely no concept of what normal sexual behavior is, and because everyone's so damn isolated and porn is stimulating enough to consistent help cope with the social and cultural wasteland of 21st century life. People think they're jerking it too much because they've been conditioned to feel intense shame for jerking it at all, and they think they're addicted because they think about sex a normal amount of the time. There's a pretty strict physical limit on "jerking it too much" because no matter what you use for lube chafing will make itself known eventually.

Depression, anxiety, and malaise also factor in - Masturbation is a very basic form of self-soothing available to almost everyone. People who are already in bad headspace and beset by religious brainworms masturbate because it makes them feel better, then once the anxiety and self loathing comes back htey ascribe it to masturbation and decide they're weak, pathetic, sinners, addicted, whatever bullshit because otherwise they wouldn't masturbate to feel better or distract themselves from the depression. And then they go a step further saying that masturbation and thinking about sex is a source of depression.

It's really just weird Christians convinced that if you eat enough bran flakes you won't think about sex, updated for the 21st century.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What do you make of chanlords and "energy retention" NoFappers that watch porn but then (claim) to not masturbate to it (or at least, not to climax), to "increase their power level" and for "motivation?"

That shit's bizarre, but I've heard it offline from such Silicon Valley woo claimants as well as online among up-yours-woke-moralists enjoyers.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Just like how it's nearly impossible to criticize Disney Star Wars movies without being associated with "PURPLE HAIR FEEEMALE BAD" pronouns shit, it's hard to talk about habit-forming behaviors (or addictions but Reddit pedantics would split hairs about that word) without being associated with NoFap cultists or religious dogma.

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[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I probably watch too much porn but that doesn't mean I need hyper-sexualization in every piece of media, why would I? if I want that I can just, ya know, watch porn

PS as a non-gamer I have no idea what the context here is, is that an actual screenshot from a video game?

edit: nvm figured out it's the Silent Hill 2 remake and presumably some ridiculous mod or fan-art

[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

This is one of those keep it yourself kind of things.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The reason why I suddenly remember to close my blinds.

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[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Was this meant to reply to a different post?

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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Aside from the absolute horny brainrot going on here, where would you even find a sweater made like that? This outfit is totally insane. Which it saying something when the rest of the game is about fighting anthropomorphic condoms.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Kind of scary that these murder fuck "alpha males" live alongside us. Then they wonder why women generally feel unsafe, GEE WHAT A MYSTERY

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

I’m not certain it’s porn addiction, but an attitude towards women in media that is just wrong and needs correcting.

I’m not a prude, I enjoy sexual content in media, but only where it’s relevant to plot and character development. I don’t want to play a non sexual game like an fps eg Overwatch and have my screen covered in wifu characters with unlikely proportions, it’s deeply odd to me, why is it there? Am I meant to be jerking it? Is it just meant to make it more awkward for a female audience to see their gender sexualised? (Tbh I don’t want to play overwatch ever, but that’s besides the point) And I don’t want well rounded characters being turned into 2d wank fodder. It just makes the medium worse, less interesting and more offputting. Though I do wonder how much the offputting-ness is the point for these losers that want to gatekeep gaming.

yells-at-cloud Back in my day if you played creepy sexual video games you got heavily bullied, and I think that was correct and good actually. I think that creepy nerds being empowered to be gross online and call for this kind of sexualisation is a failure of society. If I was publicly posting that I thought the new needed more scantily clad big tittys, I’d really hope my family, my friends and my high school bullies would all separately put me in my place. Doesn’t just have be by shoving these losers in a locker either, it can be other things such as teaching empathy and that women aren’t just eyecandy, but also shock actual people.

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Photoshop. The background is distorted. How are you malding over fvcking photoshopped pics. Even if it wasn't the fuck does that have to do with anything? Shes voice acting

[-] buh@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

these same people will misgender and disrespect trans people because "I don't want to play into your fetish" (which of course it isn't even)

[-] jolliver_bromwell@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

volcel police please find this man he is a danger to himself and everyone around him

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

95% of us who buy video games are heterosexual men

Source: his ass.

It depends on the poll you're looking at, but men make up a little over half of US gamers, heterosexual men obviously even less so. Why do they think they can get away with lying about shit that can be easily verified?

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[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Sometimes I think I'm toooo horny or something. What can I say sex is fun and people are pretty... I sometimes worry that I am ungodly horny due to this.

Then I remember people like this exist. That the mere possible existence of an attractive person (always a women to these types of course) necessitates hyper sexualization. Like dude what if I don't wanna wank it while dealing with psychological trauma? What if I just want to talk to this man or woman and not fuck them immediately? Imagine if the you went to the grocery store and the cashier was just wearing a g string while ringing up some asparagus... It's innane. You can not be horny sometimes. Not so for gamers.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

I worry that we're ending up with two poles of neo-piritanism that are both built on misunderstandings of sexuality. The base line for day to day horny is i yhink much higher than tje internet would like. And sonce everyone is depressed, anxious, and alienated many people may nlt even know what their normal ks when they feel safe, secure, and thst they're in a safe environment where they cna play and explore.

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