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This is less about wanting perfect queer representation, and more about feeling like the game isn't actually communicating clearly or intentionally.

There's a pretty serious element of ludonarrative dissonance here, given that, well, it's a game where one of the primary selling points is fucking.

So I think I've figured out what's bothering me about LKiaB. It makes a lot of superficial nods towards consent, and a lot of people have praised the game for it. However, the structure of the game is *fundamentally about manipulation*, and the little elements of verbal check-in that it offers don't make up for it. I feel like the paper-over attempt feels worse than directly acknowledging that a lot of the characters actions Aren't Okay.

fuck I wish I could just shake people on twitter and say "stop fucking quote-RTing assholes, nobody wants to see that."

I'm very strongly of the opinion that fiction (both interactive and otherwise) that contains problematic or unethical behavior can have substantial value. I'm also very strongly of the opinion that such fiction should be engaged with mindfully.

Okay so Ladykiller in a Bind is good and charming and fun but it does get dark and manipulation-y in a lot of places, and the content warnings for the scenes near the end are serious business.

It felt pretty clear to me that the writing was aware of the gross/coercive elements, and recognized that they weren't okay. I recommend this game, but caution when playing is warranted.

I want to ask people who think qualia aren't real if they've ever been to a good live music show.

So, I know the phrase is a boring cliche, but I genuinely am beginning to think that sex, drugs, and music are deeply and fundamentally connected.

It's starting to feel like... like they're all different manifestations of the same fundamental Thing?

Does anyone else feel like the process of waking up is a process of collapsing your mind-state from a whole bunch of multiple distinct instances into one singular operating instance?

@Soreth Hi!!! Good to see you on here!!

A real interesting time I had once: repeatedly hitting "refresh" on inspirobot while tripping on mushrooms.

Does anyone have recommended readings on understanding my having a furry identity that clearly runs a lot deeper than it feeling like a costume or surface affectation?

Update: "funny" has been updated to "made me laugh so hard I had to go lie down for a minute".

Oh my gosh this game is adorable and funny and good.

Looks like Ladykiller in a Bind is the first of your game recommendations I'll be playing! It was already on my list, and I guess I'm finally in the mood for something porn-y.

People tend to think that something being "metaphorical" (like furry/kin identity, or mysticism stuff, or lots of other things) makes it less real.

That's kind of deeply missing the point. Our brains are *entirely* metaphorical. Our perception of the world passes through billions of years of evolutionary processing and filtering, and is only tenuously connected to a deeper fundamental truth. Approximations are all we have.

(this thread brought to you by: I bought Shadow of Mordor for like five bucks but that game is frustrating and it turns out eviscerating orcs makes me feel kinda gross right now)