BurningDoom wrote:
The laws in most civilized countries are pretty clear about the way most people feel about showing nudity to underage people. I don't think linking to nudity on a video game forum is at all necessary. And it's pretty ridiculous to try and put the Naked News on the same level as a nude painting or something, quit kidding yourself.
But it's not my website to run here, just sharing my opinion on it.
The point of posting it was to show just how absurd the media can get; whether it's some weird fetishism thing or just a ploy to get more ratings (that was the same one as the Russian one I actually had in mind).
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BurningDoom wrote:Yeah, but this is a video game site, which is likely to attract underage people.
Not that I don't agree with you about exposing
children to gratuitous nude imagery , but there was a 36 page long
"Video game girls - no porn - yet NSFW!" thread that contained some particularly lewd comments + pictures/ links on Racketboy. I'd like to think that our members would be mature enough to handle the site of a natural woman engaging supposedly non-sexual behavior. By children I hope you mean people that have not passed puberty yet. I'm not sure of the site statistics, but i think most of our membership is going to be 17+ due to the nature of retro-gaming to begin with. I certainly would not post something I thought inappropriate to the intended audience.
Getting back to the news. Its probably very important to be a smart consumer of media. Viewers should always question the information and look at it from several different sources. Everyone seems to have a grasp that most, if not all of the news is biased. It's interesting to see a story spun from different party perspectives and even different cultures / countries. Sometimes that helps get to the "truth" if there is even such a thing.
OP:
It's so silly, so shallow, so obviously manipulative about everything and anything, so banal, so forced and so cliché at the same time that every word just cuts my soul and makes me want to puke. It doesn't even matter what they are saying, it's just how they say it, how obvious sexual objects of people are used in every background, how terrible and false it is.
The people who swear by media and all that information probably have the same complaint about video games. Who is to say what we do isn't shallow and cliché? Think of all the mediocre games you've played. Think of all the stereotypes and biased opinions we already have in our own hobby.
