You are reading waay to much into that title, man. Their claim is it doesn’t make people more misogynistic. There are still tons of reasons to care about how media conducts itself.

Or do you imagine it’s just a neutral thing that the whites-only crowd would make it impossible to be a black actor again?

As long as you’re doing this for fun/function and not because you’re embarrassed, then that’s fine. :p I wrote my own tween library in javascript purely because that just sounded like a great weekend, haha.

I look at my old code all the time.

If you keep things organized and well documented, its poor quality really shouldn’t bother that much.

If you’re making something you like, you can’t really fail. :) That’s the only way to be an artist in the face of criticism.

I love looking at my old work.

There’s just no way to exercise your rights without seeming completely insane.

This guy’s silence is not why he seems creepy. It’s his body language, his mannerisms.

JCS has another video about… I forget. They call him an anti-hero a lot. The anti-hero definitely talks too much, but he exercises his right plenty and mostly just seems like a tragic, lovable doofus.

Ha, I had no idea these existed. If anyone would, he seems like the type to, though.

once something erotic has merit beyond the erotic it often loses its porn classification in the public eye.

This definitely poses a problem. Er… depending on what we think a problem is, I guess. But the stuff I’m thinking of, it would be very hard to do this to.

These are the QTEs that Aphrodite wanted us to have.

people dismiss it for the sexual focus.

I stand by this: porn is a largely untapped medium for insanely stupid comedy.

I know we’ve all seen lemon stealing whores and whatnot, but like, we could have so much more than we do.

Haha, no problem, yo. :p

Why do they care that he’s bisexual? They’re saying they don’t.

Dude, you have got to stop taking all these ricochets. Not everything is a point to tally in the war between mars and venus.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I removed all of the unnecessary detail for you.

Nobody:
_druid for some reason: 😡

Of course, friend. :)

I’m not trying to use him to disgust.

Don’t lie to me, c’mon.

“If you accept that how much art is talked about is a useful metric, then you would have to accept Hitler as an important artist”—don’t pretend you aren’t stirring the pot.

Either, Hitler is talked about quite often, in which case, yeah, he’s more significant than Picasso. Good job Hitler, I guess.

Or, he isn’t, because nobody gives a shit about his stupid castle paintings, in which case I don’t understand why you keep bringing him up.

People talk about him, they don’t talk about his art, so no, we don’t have to contend that he’s an important artist, actually. But fine, you want me to accept through some lense you’ve constructed that Hitler is very important: Sure. He is. Now what?

What is the next part of this argument? Because the self-evidence of this is lost on me.

The Nazis were effective artists.

Their big boob building, which was meant to be the capital of world commerce or whatever, is ugly as all hell. I reject this entirely.

Their beach resort building is a big, flat rectangle.

If the point of these were to be as boring, depressing, lifeless, drab, uninspired, and hostile to people’s mental health as possible, well, they certainly moved that conversation forward.

I don’t think you’d argue that an incompetently made movie is a work of art

You are making a fundamental mistake: that art is venerable by nature. I.e., if it is not venerable, it is not art.

I would insist that an incompetently made movie is a work of art, actually. It’s very interesting to me that you wouldn’t.

then that opens the door to saying that art by Hitler, […] are important.

Fascist art is actually very interesting because there is a perverse artlessness to it.

The nazis were not good artists. They liked big, masculine, square stone blocks. They liked big nipple domes that communicated power through their sheer size and their size alone. They hated degenerate, jewish ornamentation and artistic flavor.

Their depiction in recent Wolfenstein games is notably cool as shit, but also entirely unlike them: the gothic-esque qualities of those pillars and tall buildings would have been seen as degenerate, damaging the masculine austerity they wanted to project.

Their art, their marble statues of strong, muscly soldiers, venerates status and power in a purely aesthetic, unthinking kind of way—you’re not meant to think about it.

Now, why point this out. You keep bringing Hitler up in an obvious attempt to disgust, as if the words “Hitler” and “important” in the same sentence are itself a crime, but “important” doesn’t have to mean “good.” It doesn’t even have to mean “likeable.”

Hitler is a very notable historical figure, I’m sure you can imagine why, and his art, and the art of his fascist contemporaries, is an important reflection of what they were like as people: boring and stupid.

Why should I care if Ringo Starr or Jim Carrey are “important” or not? They don’t deserve to be? Does “importance” come with a trophy or something?

I feel like this really needs to be asked: So?
There were ulterior motives. Okay. And?

This is only tangentially related, but it astonishes me (it doesn’t) how often people defending AI art wield Pollock as a weapon out of jealousy for his relative success and not because they actually like him. Same with the toilet. And the banana.

[edit] I think I might have meant to respond to a different comment of yours, but ah well.

Aww. :p

Well, I know this doesn’t help, but you know you’re never going to get over this without messing up a few times, yeah?

When I learned to sing, I was so overcome with embarrassment that I could barely do it in a big building I knew was empty (I was the closing manager for a while). I only got over that feeling by singing anyway. I would get loud, my voice would crack, I would stop and apologize to the ghosts nearby, and then I’d steel myself and try again. This built a lot of confidence, though. I learned not to fear the embarrassment and eventually stopped feeling it altogether.

If this matters at all: to the right kinds of people, being a little embarrassed is endearing anyway. I would help somebody learn the self-checkout if they didn’t know.