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  • Despite what the internet would lead you to believe, body type is not directly correlated to being dominant or submissive. Neither does gender, sexual orientation, clothing or anything else on the surface. The type of person you are sexually, your preferences, your kinks, are only going to come out when you sit down and talk to your partner - or viewers - about it. Otherwise, its just folks making assumptions - and generally forcing standard hetero-normative gender roles into non-standard relationships or people. A big, bulky, tough guy can easily be submissive in bed, just as a soft-spoken, short man can be a cold dom. And the idea of a bottom dom would make some dude’s brains explode. At the end, its about personality, not looks.

    So the answer is, unfortunately, this isn’t something that can be “fixed” because its not a personal problem. Its just people having an uneducated perspective of how sexual relations work.



  • There are already communities for all that kind of content. Creating one more would just increase the bloat. We don’t need to change existing spaces into something else, just concentrate users and have a way of guiding new people into existing communities, to avoid even more duplicates.

    I also don’t see the point on promoting people to mods, or why that would make anyone want to stick around. The average user already doesn’t want the responsibility of uploading content, why add the responsibility of moderating content on top of that? Not only that, but there’s nothing correlating mods to helping a community grow. What matters in that is people interested in contributing.



  • I just don’t think there’s enough active userbase for that, and it really isn’t something you can fix on the fly. The ratio of Like/Upvote > Share > Comment > Post is always an issue for online social spaces, its just that a few website got big enough to make it seem like its easy to get people to contribute.

    The architecture of Lemmy is also a little bothersome at times, especially when it comes to displaying media and making gallery posts.

    Probably one thing I’d like for LemmyNSFW to have is a Admin owned community for people to share communities and talk about merging, managing, sharing, etc. Something like https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities but for our side of the pond, and now just for new but also talking about present communities and what can be done for them.



  • I like to believe it is, I’d like to get crossposts on my communities (if they adhere to the guidelines, of course) and try to put an effort into crossposting for relevant communities that I know. I don’t think its spam as long as you’re not, like, cross posting a single image into 5+ communities every time.

    Not everyone is constantly browsing Local, and even if they do, you might lose something here and there with the sheer volume of contributions. Cross posting to specific communities will highlight it to the people who are subscribed, and also help the administrators.






  • This is a tricky one, RPG and co-op generally don’t mix. Larian games have attempted that a few times, though they’re a deep dive. I’d recommend Original Sin 2 from their selections.

    Then there’s hack&slashes, I played Grim Dawn with co-op once, but that’s more of a damage competition than something you really need to think about to progress.

    Cassette Beasts added co-op recently, but unfortunately I haven’t had time to try

    Then there are games like Borderlands, Dying Light or Dead Island which are far more action-y but do have levelling up and skills to unlock




  • I’m not “willing” to do anything, it is a fact. You may as well argue about the origins of the Swastika or the Iron Cross. Pepe is a hate symbol, and while not everyone using it might be a nazi, they are using nazi imagery. The fact that “many people” aren’t willing to drop it, despite its extensive, well documented use by extremists is a well made point, but not the one you think.

    And there’s no “overestimating” of nazis in the world. We live in a culture of white supremacy. There’s no point in splitting hairs about how offensive or not a cartoon frog is. The easiest solution is to simply not use it.



  • Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying. To be completely honest, this is more of an observation than an interpretation, almost every point I mentioned is part of the text of the game, explicitly related to the main story. Its less of a review or analysis, and just me wanting to get those thoughts off my mind. Although the game doesn’t throw plot points at your face (and I imagine that there are definitely people who didn’t get that there was sexual assault involve since the exchange about locked doors is quite brief) and also moves at a brisk pace, all the subjects I brought up are part of the main plot.

    The only true “interpretation” is about the game being about what women suffer in the world, but I’d also hardly call it that; the only other major point that the game brings up is the company’s imminent bankruptcy and their lack of care for the workers, but if anything that’s just an extra factor that allowed Jimmy to act the way he is, and to Curly to justify his “bigger picture” supervisor mindset.



  • Steam has had, for a long time already, a massive far-right community. Browse its communities and you’ll see the most deranged racist, transphobic, homophobic posters. The entire SweetBaby harassment campaign started - and as far as I know, is still going - thanks to a huge Steam curator, and there are even more “Anti-Woke” groups explicitly dedicated to harassing minorities. Last year, Hogwarts Legacy had a intense campaign and won the Best Game on Steam Deck award due to the brigading of these “anti-woke” fans - and you most likely can still look into its community to witness their efforts - and there are still those on the Tabletop Simulator communities that are outspoken about the devs “bending the knee” by removing global chat from their game in an effort to reduce harassment against queer people.

    Basically, its a cesspool of the worst gaming has to offer, but none of this affects Valve’s bottom line, who continues their usual business practice: Don’t interfere and do the minimum amount of work. Is it illegal? Perhaps not. But their inaction makes it clear that this is a safe spot for hateful conduct.