The Octonaut

Can we not do the “boys should be grateful” thing please? It’s one step away from “Niiiice” and two away from “An erection is consent”. It’s not particularly helpful yo reduce a transmasc to “a person with a vagina” either.

You have to actively turn it on by renaming game files.

But even then, we’re talking cartoon nipples not hard-core tentacle hentai.

HoniePop is a fun little time-based matching game and the content is sometimes funny while never quite veering into actual porn.

Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?

It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.

Do you not consider Russians human?

You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.

www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?

You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️

Explained is not the same as justified.

I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.

I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.

And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.

Arf arf arf

No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.

The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.

“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.

It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

So is the shutter system. Blocking contacts unless a third is pushed in is great safety, particularly with kids.

If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.

We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it

abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology

sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor

sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food

“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”

“Antisemitism” isn’t rising anywhere. The same people that have always been antisemetic are still antisemetic. What you’re seeing is anti-Israel sentiment, which is increasing because a country you have benefited from and therefore have responsibility to fix is committing an actual genocide and its soldiers - your soldiers, if you’re calling yourself Israeli, and quite likely your comrades unless the American part means you ran away to the US to avoid military service - are committing war crimes with smiles on Tiktok.

Shirking your responsibility because of the bad vibes you get from being murderer-adjacent will not make you friends anywhere.

Sorry that you’re apparently just now learning that your country’s whites-only immigration policies in living memory made it the most desired destination for the perpetrators of apartheid. Feel free to stop cosplaying a brit and just swear at me like an actual Australian though.

Well, that’s a real pity. Can’t see many of those countries welcoming you ‘back’ for some reason.

How about you repay some of the privilege given to you by both regimes theft of less worthy people’s resources and actually contribue to changing your homes for the better.

People used to be refugees from persecution, not from responsibility.

Anyway, you might be welcome in Hungary and probably India. Perth in Australia would work but you’d have to be white-passing to fit in with all the white South African post-apartheid refugees.

It sounds like you have a teaching degree which is a very country-specific qualification that is almost useless in other countries beyond maybe teaching English to American-occupied countries like Korea and Thailand.

Do you have any other skills with which to apply from abroad or do you expect to show up to a country and just be handed a visa and job? Which European countries did your grandparents colonise Palestine from? If you can get passports for those, you will at least have a right to be there.