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I knooow. It's just so disappointing that this is the Zeitgeist. I wish we could just find a way to create a paradigm shift to allow for more of this kind of content to exist. I think that whenever it does, it's really special.
Anyone remember Traysia? Just name-dropping that to see if anyone does. That was an odd JRPG.
Anyway, I think I've said all I can about this. I really understand where you're coming from, though. It's just that I'm in a position where I feel like an outlier in wishing that it didn't have to be this way. Rather, I'm just wondering why it is.
I mean, yeah. A fantasy game with airships, friendly dragons,
and difficult questions about the nature of life as we know it is exactly what I want. At the same time, it's a hard sell. I just don't understand why people fight being challenged in this format instead of just giving it a chance.
This is where I feel really autistic.
I don't understand people.
Edit: I'm going to say something entirely weird. As is my wont.
I feel like it's porn.
I mean, porn has a place. I like porn, but there needs to be this acceptance of porn. I feel that power fantasies really indemnify that desire people have that's met by porn. I think this is why we're seeing an increasing amount of objectification creeping into this.
It's as if a specific kind of porn is becoming mainstream. I don't think I want that. I'll be as up front as I can and say I'm probably furry. I mean, I don't know how that works since I'm not entirely into the fandom but it's probably a truth so let's roll with that. The thing people say about furries is that they're very sexually charged. Sure! Probably!
What I don't see is the contents of E621 on television.
The contents of Rule34, however...
I think that's what bothers me about power fantasies is that they really are just porn. It's kind of a juvenile appeal to our more primal side. Which is fine! But that's meant for porn sites and should be labelled as such. I look at something like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and I think that this is the kind of stuff you'd see on a site like Rule34, and I wonder why it's in a video game.
And then I realise that, as I said, a certain kind of porn is becoming increasingly more accepted within the mainstream. And yet furry porn is despised even when it's hidden away from sight where no one can actually see it. This is... odd. It's odd in a way that seems incredibly human, though.
I think if we could just accept that this stuff is basically porn? That'd be a good step forward. I generally think that male power fantasies and porn are inseparable due to the nature of both. So, effectively, I see Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as porn.
Nothing wrong with that! Like I said, I'm furry. It's just that it should be considered porn and it shouldn't be what's plastered all over the mainstream. I think the mainstream should be more preoccupied with things that aren't porn. Inclusive games, films, and books which cover a wide variety of topics and do challenge people.
I just don't understand the desire to make one particular kind of porn mainstream, which I feel is the push of people who 'just want to have fun.' Let's either make
all forms of porn mainstream (oh god), or have a proper separation between what is and isn't porn.
I think that's what makes so many of us uncomfortable with XBC2, though. And why those who own it feel they can't play it in public. There's a subconscious knowing that it is, indeed, porn.
Most fantasy is porn. Weird.
Does fantasy need to be synonymous with porn? Mmm. I don't think so! It's the concept of another world, right? So it could be just about anything. Fantasy can be whatever it wants to be. That's the point. But it's fair to say what each particular kind of fantasy is.
