Careful, this guy got banned for calling attention to that.
Sure...
...Because you're living in a bubble. And the implicit "I didn't see it, therefore it never happened, la la la la" definitely makes you ignorant.
Yeah I mean it's awkward for me to be on the same side as the weird pro-snuff film dude but also: They're all, like, 17 and could easily pass as 20-year olds, and I don't even think they're dressed that skimpy. I have seen real 17-year olds dress in public like they do in this game.
That's not really what I said. You're making it bigger than it was.
The entire "censorship" debate is just a proxy in a larger culture war. If companies forced artists to make their characters sexier and wear less clothes they wouldn't give a shit because it's not about "artistic freedom" or whatever they claim they're defending. It's about them wanting to continue having underage characters in bikinis and striking out at those who don't want that.
That's "I didn't see it so it didn't happen/doesn't matter". Which tells me you literally haven't been paying attention.
"they could pass for adults" doesn't hold water when they could just be written as adults and all of this could have been avoided from the inception of the project very, very easily. But no-- the fact that they are 17 is meant to be part of the appeal.
1) These characters also aren't real and thus can't consent on basis of how, like, fiction itself works, so there's that.
"She looks 20 so it's fine" is literally the excuse adults use to chase after real fucking 17 year olds (and younger!!!!). It's not fucking acceptable in real life so why should it be acceptable here?
Yeah, but, as I said, these characters don't actually exist and as such their age is 100% arbitrary.
i'm amazed at your ability to be so uninvested and invested at the same time
Okay ignore what I said and instead focus on nitpicking that cool
tell us more about age of consent laws
sure thing mr. "age is arbitrary"
More like "Canonical age is an arbitrary concept in fiction and a skimpy costume for someone who is canonically 17 in a game and costume for someone who is canonically 18 is not more pedophilic than the other because none of these characters exist and it is an anime-style game where ages are not particularly distinct"
I dunno man I didn't play the fucking game, but I guess a lot of people enter the idol industry that age so that's probably why.
And why is that? (Appeal, the answer is appeal) The game does not do any sort of commentary with this, it glamorizes it.
Look my point was not "This game handles its themes well" it's "Don't baselessly call people pedophiles and also most of the changes are prudish and look fucking stupid"
Just as a brief aside here, the dress gets called a 'wedding dress' as obviously an ornate white dress is going to have that comparison, but the theme of the song is a typical pop one of taking flight as an analogy for gaining confidence/growing up/freedom etc. A visual from the animation is her looking up at birds as a little girl, and the feathers and wings she's wearing are a reference to that. So 'swan lake' perhaps isn't so far from what they were aiming at there (although considering that the conflation of swan-maidens and weddings in Swan Lake is pretty much endless tragedy maybe that's not quite such a good thing) :-)
How would it be baseless? If it "doesn't handle its themes well" then it's not a theme it's just a portrayal meant to jerk off to lol
Yep yep, it's totally fine. "age is 100% arbitrary" -- Error 52, 2019. Nothing wrong here. Definitely shouldn't examine these attitudes towards the culture we consume.
Age is 100% arbitrary in this one specific context relating to fiction
Except it's not because it's the exact same attitude creeps have towards real girls but apparently reality doesn't matter when you're off living in a fantasy world
which, of course, means you get to drop your pants to anything
but there's a reason people write it
It's a shame the people who need to read it won't, because yeah, seconded, it's a really good post
I'm starting to think "age is arbitrary" should absolutely be your avatar quote.
Now I remember why I avoided TMS threads. Gross gross gross.
"the only thing that matters is My Erect Dick" -- men online
You are blatantly ignoring some factors here.
I don't know what I expected when I noticed this thread jumping multiple pages.
Look, I might not be explaining myself super well here but what I'm trying to say is that the characters aren't exactly lolibait, and their canonical age being a bit iffy doesn't change that.
The game is fun though
