Yep, maybe it would benefit from more advertisement but I decided to not recommend it until I experience it for some time. It took me a week or two to realize that I don't like moderation at lemmy-world for example, I would definitely recommend choosing other instances, and then, it takes time to figure out which ones are worth recommending. Some are extremist far-left/far-right, some are at risk of shutting down if admin gets bored and decides to stop paying for hosting from his personal money.

It's the most popular instance with questionable politics and moderation and this move pushes people to other instances before they even discover deeper issues there. Most instances have zero issues with VPNs, and it doesn't even matter what is the parent instance of community you're posting to. Which means you can post the same stuff into the same place from almost any other instance using VPN.

Finished Mawaru Penguindrum - this one was a wild ride! I enjoyed most of it, but the way it jumps between genres and the plot and character development in the second half of the show are quite extreme and sometimes questionable. Some things were hard to follow for me, but core ideas are very inspiring and leave room for thinking even outside of anime context.

Silent Hill (Duckstation) - classic survival horror game

• great atmosphere, strong sense of mystery and dread
• oldschool approach to mystery/horror where everything doesn't have to be explained or logical
• some outstanding puzzles
• combat is kinda annoying, but when you play with emulator you at least have saves everywhere

The Elder Scrolls: ...

Now ask about tiktok vs games and about gacha mmos vs other games 😅

Today I started my day with two really nice ambient / noise / experimental podcasts:

• https://soundcloud.com/drift-radio/franciska-drift-radio-08-08-24
• https://soundcloud.com/radiosygma/expired-06-santebela

At the moment listening to Groove Salad at Soma FM.

Finished Pseudoregalia yesterday. Really a special platformer with iconic goat-bunny-cat lady mc, a lot of gradually unlocked trick moves, parkour puzzles, and zero hand-holding in freely traversable non-linear interconnected game world. It's only like 10h of gameplay in average, but it's perfect size for its format really. Not too small to feel really small and not too big for wandering around to become annoying.

Not much you can do other than researching the current consensus. And for the latter you can try to search discussions about its safety. Good query to start with is "is programname malware/spyware".

To be fair, they were smart enough to get some exposure even without accepting the deal. This is not the first place I see this discussion and some people are definitely going to check their stuff now out of curiosity.

I'm pretty much happy with conversations I see here. Plenty of quality discussion threads in AskLemmy, Gaming and Technology and Anime. Would be nice to see even more ofc, but Lemmy's not that big yet I guess. Questions is something that often starts interesting discussions.

By the way, imagine how Piper Perry would look if she was drawn as anime character. Would you consider that extreme lolicon? She's almost 30 y/o and that is absolutely legal even in real porn.

Had a relevant conversation nearby recently: https://ani.social/post/5729640/6253450

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

Doesn’t change my opinion on fictional characters that are made to look like children when making them look older has absolutely no effect on the story.

In anime people also care about visuals, not only the story. Making certain characters have youthful looks is done to appeal to people who have preference for youthful looks, sometimes including sexual preference, and you also seem to agree it's absolutely legitimate preference to have in case it's limited to actual adults. The visual difference between "looking like children" and "having youthful looks" can be quite a subjective one, and that's where everyone draws the line for themselves.

Is it ok to have preference for blondes or redheads or tall or slim? I think most people will agree it's ok. Now, do you consider it ok to have preference (including sexual attraction) for youthful looks, in case it's limited to people who are actually adult?

and act like a child

I don't really remember any examples of hundreds year old loli vampires that actually act like kids. Shinobu certainly isn't one. I didn't include anything like this because OP specifically asks for adult appearances though.

supposed to be hundreds or even thousands of years old and that somehow magically makes it not weird or creepy to view this character sexually

And what do you think about irl people who are in their late 20s or 30s and look like teenagers?

I really like the artstyle in WoW and often use it as reference.

Have you tried actually comparing game assets from different versions side-by-side?

https://ibb.co/HgKkyRn

Big movie industry seems to be one of the most rigid forms of media. Every time I notice the same cinematic/presentational tricks used again and again to invoke the same feelings/emotions in viewer. This is visible in movies themselves but in teasers/trailers it's done in some kind of heavyweight refined form. Minecraft deserves better than those overused formulas.