The cool thing about having real principles is that you can stand proudly by them even if people who you generally consider to the opposite of yourself might happen to nominally agree with them. If you're contrarian for the sake of being contrarian with your opposition, that's just being reactionary

Freedom of the arts is one of the few things in the world where "all or nothing" truly applies

Cause once you establish "certain types of art shouldn't be made", that list will always expand until only the lowest common denominator remains

Like quite literally, the whole "exploitation of children" nonsense that got Horses banned from Steam started with Valve being insane about Japanese games. These two things are as directly connected as it gets!

Actually my mistake I guess it's not technically over but there are about 6 hours left as of this posting so it's mostly over

if I ever have any children they will only be adopted children who are already gamers because I do not really want to put in any effort to indoctrinate children into gaming

my only prior familiarity with Mr. Bogus was looking for sources for the Wikipedia article "Narrative of video games" and deciding to cite his very shallow piece on the topic so as to prove the notability of the subject and then today I was like "oh that guy. he's still on about that? Really? damn"

I was telling Ophelia about all this nonsense earlier but as I do not know how to actually say this guy's name and did not respect him enough to give a shit I took to calling him "Ian Bogus"

yeah y'know what that's right Angel's Egg IS a documentary

to me, this includes minors, b/c even if younger people may skew more towards saying certain stupid things, they are still people who generally deserve respect and attention if they should ask for it, and I will choose whether or not I want to oblige them based on how they express their desire

I don't target people, not to invite nor to exclude. people should be able to figure out whether or not they like me, whether or not they want me, and whether or not they want to make themselves known to me, based on what I say and the preferences I genuinely express without my needing to fly flags.

this is why I just don't put any DNIs at all and generally only block people who are clearly acting in bad faith or spamming or whatever. I feel like doing anything else is essentially giving people reasons to talk shit about you and/or asking for fights.

they still won't ever remaster dead souls