He had to stop playing the first one after a month because his dick was getting callouses.
He required hospital care when he got ahold of the japanese version of the third one, thanks to that goddamn debug mode.
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He had to stop playing the first one after a month because his dick was getting callouses.
He required hospital care when he got ahold of the japanese version of the third one, thanks to that goddamn debug mode.
Why do you have to be so mean? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
(And seriously, you've never actually read TNL if you think that.)
I always feel like you take offense when I ask about gender dysphoria, but please don't think me close-minded. I am just curious. But since we can't assume any obvious biological mixups to cause someone to feel species dysphoria, why do we assume that gender dysphoria is caused by a biological mixup, instead of the same factors that causes species dysphoria? Because it's the only answer that seems to make sense? As someone who does not identify as either, and admittedly hasn't done much research into the matter, it is hard for my brain to draw clear differences behind the causes when they're all "identity issues" to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
No no, your podcast is fine the posturing and professor posts make me hate life.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
The podcast was good; IP is just the reason we can't have nice things.
I haven't said anything that others on this same board haven't said.
This is a really good point, actually. There may exist examples of both gender dysphoria caused by biological factors as well as mental health issues. The issue is that due to our imperfect reproduction and actual cases of hermaphroditism actual biological reasons are at least a possible cause for one and not the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunlap
Unless you count a genetic predisposition to be a crazy, nasty furry.
I think the same part of the brain that makes people want plastic surgery is the same part that makes people into furies.
For whatever reason, they think being a dog wolf dragon man will make them happier than a new pair of silicone breasts.
No one really needs either, but something has conditioned them to think that it would make their life better.
I think wanting to shape up your sad pancake tits is a little different from dressing up as a wolf and sucking a dragon's dick.
I don't think we've ever talked about the topic—certainly not one on one! I mean, that statement kind of baffles me, because I honestly don't remember us ever discussing the issue together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunlap
To be fair, the exact causes still aren't known, but some studies seem to show detectable differences in the brain between somebody who is trans and somebody who isn't. (Some of which can't be run until post-mortum.) Is that known for a fact as the cause? No. And yes, the argument that both types of dysphoria might come from the same place is something that probably can't be 100% disproven at this point.Quote:
But since we can't assume any obvious biological mixups to cause someone to feel species dysphoria, why do we assume that gender dysphoria is caused by a biological mixup, instead of the same factors that causes species dysphoria? Because it's the only answer that seems to make sense? As someone who does not identify as either, and admittedly hasn't done much research into the matter, it is hard for my brain to draw clear differences behind the causes when they're all "identity issues" to me.
I think, though, from what we know, that the most logical guess to make at this point is that something gets wired incorrectly in development in regards to gender identity. It that case, it would be a question of "this switch was supposed to be flipped, but it wasn't", and vise versa. It order to get to a point where somebody is born but feel like they're supposed to be a difference species, that has to be a far more complex situation. Biologically you cannot be born the wrong species, so that difference in identity simply cannot come from the fact that you were supposed to have been born as X, but you were born human instead. You have to have some sort of mental "defect" that screws up your self-identification, something totally separate from being born the wrong way.
So, I guess, at that point, you have to ask where you think the whole transgender thing comes from. Is it just another case of identity dysphoria, just with a different result? And, to put it another way, if you have somebody saying "I was born white, but I was totally supposed to have been born Japanese", would we compare that to being trans as well? That's another situation where somebody might identify with something that they aren't, but a situation that simply can't be due to a biological screw-up.
I also wonder how identity issues work in terms of exposure. For example, you have children too young to be able to really understand gender identity who have shown that they identify as the gender opposite of their physical sex. Would you have kids that young identifying as an animal—outside of typical childhood play, that is. Or does somebody only identify as being furry after being exposed to what furry is? Sure, there's some level of "exposure makes you understand", but really, I cannot imagine having a child telling his parents that he's supposed to have slanty eyes and eat with chopsticks instead of a fork before being exposed to Japanese culture and finding a reason to connect to it.
So yes, on some level, I may be making assumptions that are or aren't convenient for me. Even so, I still cannot believe that what causes a person to identify as the opposite sex and what causes someone to identify as furry come from the same place.