The #1 thing a western adaptation of a japanese property will do is make the male look more masculine. That's in effect "peak westernization". People will get mad at race swapping, or making the girl less feminine, but masculinization of the male is expected, demanded!
much of the discourse around "touching grass" is both correct about the rancidity of life online and wildly in denial about the rancidity of life offline. i go outside plenty but i have learned to avoid social contact. the median american is a violent hylic
The right will never largely protect freedom of expression, because that expression will invariably include gay or trans etc material. The left won't either because of "hate speech" etc. You won't ever win.
Fiction can affect reality but the way in which it affects reality, if it is allowed to, is entirely due to the agency of its interpreters. Fiction is not some passive force that washes over us, and we are not passive consumers. We have agency in our interpretation and our action
What I hate about when people bring propaganda up as an argument against this is that propagandizing isnβt simply the production of messaging, but the creation and management of a media ecosystem where propaganda prevails. There is a negative aspect to propagandizing.
Rosa+Juliet physical copy pre-orders will go up later this month. They'll come with a DRM-free copy of the game, artwork, a booklet, and the game assets both in 4k and RPGMaker-ready resolutions + a license to use them, for free in any project of your own, including commercial.
I was planning on writing on this for my masterβs qualifying paper but itβs as though pornographic logic has been appropriated from pornography and applied to general logics of socialization and mediatization. Pornography has been desexualized