Comments on: Wednesday Nibbles: The Daily Show on Safewords, Porn X Factor, Sex Trafficking Sham, Dilbert Really Sucks http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2011/03/wednesday-nibbles-the-daily-show-on-safewords-porn-x-factor-sex-traffick-sham-dilbert-really-sucks.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BBallQT http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2011/03/wednesday-nibbles-the-daily-show-on-safewords-porn-x-factor-sex-traffick-sham-dilbert-really-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12505 BBallQT Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:18:16 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=9090#comment-12505 Tumblr promply deleted Audacia Ray. That site is notorious for unilateral censorship, well not even censoring, they just delete you completely. Tumblr promply deleted Audacia Ray. That site is notorious for unilateral censorship, well not even censoring, they just delete you completely.

]]> By: Mike http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2011/03/wednesday-nibbles-the-daily-show-on-safewords-porn-x-factor-sex-traffick-sham-dilbert-really-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12494 Mike Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:55:10 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=9090#comment-12494 I'll ask you the same question I asked Tom Tomorrow - how do you keep up with all this shit without wanting to drop someone off a cliff? Some of this is just so outright stupid, petty and evil that I can't believe people think it's defensible. As if being straight (and I AM a straight male) means you can take offense that others aren't and that some people dare to treat that as ok. Or as if publishing a pretty funny strip (I do like Dilbert) means that your babbling is intelligent just because it's from you. I'm thankful you give us all the good links, but I fear for your sanity. I’ll ask you the same question I asked Tom Tomorrow – how do you keep up with all this shit without wanting to drop someone off a cliff? Some of this is just so outright stupid, petty and evil that I can’t believe people think it’s defensible. As if being straight (and I AM a straight male) means you can take offense that others aren’t and that some people dare to treat that as ok. Or as if publishing a pretty funny strip (I do like Dilbert) means that your babbling is intelligent just because it’s from you.
I’m thankful you give us all the good links, but I fear for your sanity.

]]> By: Digital Succubus http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2011/03/wednesday-nibbles-the-daily-show-on-safewords-porn-x-factor-sex-traffick-sham-dilbert-really-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12488 Digital Succubus Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:15:07 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=9090#comment-12488 That's a great piece from the Bioware guy. It's interesting the different response that's occurred by them having proactive, rather than purely reactive, relationship events in their game. They've addressed homosexual relationships in other games before, but all the relationships were instigated under the control of the player. Now they have characters in their game who make the first move, and suddenly it's a big deal (there's more than one thread on the subject on the Bioware forums). Interesting to see how a relatively male dominated pastime such as video gaming can have a useful impact here. Much of Bioware's success with their roleplaying games has come *because* they've had deep and involving personal relationship aspects to their plotlines. It means that people who might not necessarily have thought about such issues might address them in (for most) a non-threatening 'game' environment, which might help them react in a more mature manner in real life; exceptions such as this 'straight male gamer' notwithstanding! That’s a great piece from the Bioware guy. It’s interesting the different response that’s occurred by them having proactive, rather than purely reactive, relationship events in their game. They’ve addressed homosexual relationships in other games before, but all the relationships were instigated under the control of the player. Now they have characters in their game who make the first move, and suddenly it’s a big deal (there’s more than one thread on the subject on the Bioware forums).

Interesting to see how a relatively male dominated pastime such as video gaming can have a useful impact here. Much of Bioware’s success with their roleplaying games has come *because* they’ve had deep and involving personal relationship aspects to their plotlines. It means that people who might not necessarily have thought about such issues might address them in (for most) a non-threatening ‘game’ environment, which might help them react in a more mature manner in real life; exceptions such as this ‘straight male gamer’ notwithstanding!

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