Gloomy
@Gloomy@mander.xyz
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 1 day ago:
Correct.
In addition, illegal immigrants that spend their dollars on the local economy, pay taxes without taking from the social security pots and do low wage jobs locals don’t want to do also make a country great.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 4 days ago:
Before you ask, i downvoted this because you are behaving like a little whiny bitch.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
As somebody who is out of the loop a bit here, how is Morzilla making money through Googhe?
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
I installed Steam during a Lan party back in 2007 (i think to play Left 4 Dead) and remember thinking “Damn, not another bloody useless account”. Little did i know :)
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, fully expecting that to happen. I wish that guy a long and healthy life and there isn’t an ounce of altruism in that statement.
Any containment plans for when Steam joins the club of shit eventually?
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 3 weeks ago:
Could it be AI getting better at solving them, so they need to be more complex? No idea how this works, so just a thought.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 weeks ago:
The Article dosn’t bring up anything the Austraians have done SO FAR to remove LGBTQI+ content from steam. Is there a creditable source for that?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
This is where i sit. I know shit on my own, but i know how to look it up. I managed to do the transfer from Windows Linux Mint and have been able to navigate the bumps in the process via Google and trying to get a halfway decent idea about some very basic concepts. Now i am moving on and am trying to get rid of all Tech Companies that bend their knee to fascism. And that works as well, without being a tech savvy person.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the context. Might have been caught up in the crossfire, but very worrying indeed.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
Shit. Would you provide a source please?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 weeks ago:
That’s a sane take on a matter that is easy to act on blind rage. I agree.
We’ve had some success here with a program called “Don’t become a perpetrator”. Pedosexuals (which is the scientific term for people attracted to minors without acting upon their urges) could enter, as long as they hadn’t committed any crime in regards to children or consuming illegal content. They could get psychological help as well as a chemical castration. Preventive approaches like this should be more common.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 5 weeks ago:
Love the PS2 ones. They almost have a Goth vibe in their aesthetics.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 month ago:
And Fashism!
- Comment on The Elder God 2 months ago:
Edit: added The
Come on, don’t leave us hanging here. What did you add???
- Comment on The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins 2 months ago:
Reals cool read, thanks for sharing.
- Comment on US | Minnesota Democratic lawmaker shot dead, another wounded in 'politically motivated' attacks 2 months ago:
America is moving closer and closer to a civil war by the day.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 months ago:
Thanks. That’s actually one of my own words, but you can use it all you want if you wish to do so.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 months ago:
My steppairents are like this and beeing them, at a meal table and have nobody say anything for 20 Minutes is so fucking wired. I am getting used to it, but it’s still off as fuck.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
So yeah, complex issue. Thanks for your valuable contribution.
On the contrary, I was happy to engage with a position that wasn’t along the lines of “all pedophiles should commit suicide”.
It is, as you say, a complex issue. That complexity and any nuance is usually absent of discussions about the topic on the Internet. Thanks for adding it here.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
Do you have any real-world or professional experience with people suffering from pedophilia?
I have been schooled on pedophilia in a professional context, during my undergrad and in a work-context. Yet I have not worked wotj pedophiles directly, nor have I had any contact to one, that I would be aware of.
Looking at science both of our positions are reflected. As with so many things the answer is not a simple “yes” or “no”.
If you want to take a bit of a deep dive, I recoment this study from 2023.
It looked at both of our positions: FSM (Fantasy Sexual Material) leads to real sexual violence against children vs. FSM reduces the risk of said practice.
Here is their summary of my position (FSM leads to sexual violence against children):
When applying the motivation-facilitation model to the context of FSM use, it can be theorized as to why, for a subset of users, engaging with such material could become problematic and increase the likelihood of committing a child sexual offense (whether that be offline or online), while for others this is not the case. As pedohebephilia is thought to be a motivating factor towards sexual offending in Seto’s model [21], engaging with FSM relating to children could heighten sexual arousal and therefore act as a facilitator to increase offending likelihood. With abstinence from masturbation being self-reported as a risk-management technique by some people who are attracted to children [16], this is a recognized idea by some members of the community. Over time, engaging in CSEM (especially forms such as child-like sex dolls, which offer a more realistic sexual experience) may contribute to the development of offence-supportive beliefs and the adoption of implicit theories about the acceptability of engaging in sexual activity with children (or child-like targets). The combination of enhanced sexual arousal to children (a potential motivator of offending), coupled with the development of permission-giving beliefs (facilitators of offending), may subsequently increase the risk of abuse being committed by somebody with attractions to children.
Here they are summarising your position, as I understand it (FSM helps to prevent sexual child abuse):
Alternatively, FSM use could be seen as beneficial by the motivation-facilitation model and instead reduce the likelihood of offending. Rather than heightening arousal, FSM could act as a safe sexual outlet that allows for a feeling of release and sense of catharsis [84], which could reduce a motivation to seek out real children as a sexual partner. Engaging with FSM also avoids the problematic suppression of sexual interests, with such suppression being linked to increases in self-perceived risks for offending among those with attractions to children [15]. In contrast to Stevens and Wood [16], Houtepen and colleagues reported that engagement in masturbatory fantasies was a common coping mechanism used by some people experiencing attractions to children, avoiding the need to access CSEM due to an alternative outlet being identified [3•].
They conclude that more research is needed:
Given the present lack of understanding of FSM and how they are used, it is important to identify the factors associated with use and whether they are risk-enhancing or risk-reducing (i.e., protective). This knowledge could be beneficial to clinicians in the search for more effective methods to support people who are attracted to children when they are seeking help to manage their sexual interests. Nonetheless, Seto’s motivation-facilitation model provides a theoretical framework for thinking about this topic in a more nuanced way [21].
So, there we are. A long post to say maybe.
I suppose both of our positions might be viable and it can’t be said yet, under what circumstances each one of us might be right.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 2 months ago:
My brain defaults to this if I fell the need to fill silence with sound. It’s like it’s implanted into my Brian as the “default” song.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
Because your not trying to fulfill the wish to murder a person by substituting it to computer character.
At least some mass murderers and school shooters have played violent games in order to fulfill their violent phantasies, couldn’t do so in a long term and murdered real people instead.
Same goes with pedophiles. They want to fuck a child, use fictional characters to fulfill the phanstasy, get used to it and then escalate to pictures of real children and eventually real children.
The “video games cause violence” argument is wrong, because the cast majority of gamers don’t try to use games as a substitute action for violent behaviour.
- Comment on What's yours? 2 months ago:
Nightwalker Gloomy
I think I just died of cringe.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
Fair enoth I guess, it’s not the same.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
I know plenty of women that carry an old school second name because there grandmother’s names are passed down. Like Elisabeth, or Rose or the like.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #15 3 months ago:
Gothic was one of the games of my youth. I am realy looking forward to the remake, thanka for bringing it up.
Recently I have been playing Valheim with my wife again. After a year of more or less non stop caring for the twins we have finally arrived at the point were we can game again together and it makes for even shorter nights but is such a treat to have that back. We used to game and hike a lot together before the children were there. Looking forward to go on long hikes again too, but for now a shared boat ride into the mistlands will do just fine.
- Comment on America is fucked 4 months ago:
It do you know what their mum says about them?
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 months ago:
If you have the time, I heavily recommend Center Place as a great source for Christians and Atheists alike who wish to learn about schoolary views on Christianity.
It’s like a free seminar lecture. Here is one about Plato and Christianity:
