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‘Lucky Me’

[TBD] [WEB] [VIDEO, TRAILER] [2019]

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Lucky Me is a Puzzle Shooter where talentless hacks copy your every move. Sometimes you have to use their stupidity against them to survive

Inspired by Eminem’s music video, Lucky You, with Joyner Lucas with features Inspired by other videos by Logic, Boogie, Chris D'Elia, and Squintz

Dear Todd Nickerson,

Over at Salon a few days ago, you wrote an article provocatively entitled “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster.” Presumably, a lot of people are now asking questions such as “Is pedophilia natural?” or “Can pedophilia be cured?” But I’m not going to attempt to answer those particular questions. Rather, I’d like to further this discourse by filling in some major holes in your article.

Let’s start with this missing piece: the vast majority of pedophiles are men. And the majority of children victimized by those pedophiles who do choose to act on their sexual desires are girls. This is a rather major detail to withhold from your audience, wouldn’t you say? Unfortunately, as pervasive and overt as patriarchy is, it is usually the last detail mentioned in conversations of this nature — if it is mentioned at all.

That said, pedophilia may seem taboo and despised by the masses, but an honest appraisal of our culture at large reveals otherwise. I propose that pedophilia is actually rewarded and celebrated, and that our entire culture and understanding of sexuality is constructed around what seem to be pedophilic desires. I call this “pedophile culture.”

In pedophile culture, women are expected to maintain a near-impossible level of thinness, prepubescent in their almost-androgynous lack of curvature and body fat. Due to this pressure, eating disorders abound in young girls, and women in particular are targeted throughout their lives by a multi-billion dollar weight loss industry.

In pedophile culture, the top Pornhub category is “Teen.” “Barely legal” “girls” in schoolgirl outfits play out everything from “virgin manipulations,” daddy-daughter incest fantasies, teacher-student make believe… you name it, there’s porn for it, and it’s been whacked-off to millions and millions and millions of times. It’s fair to wonder whether the only thing keeping some of these viewers from watching straight-up child porn is age of consent laws.

Influenced by the porn industry, labiaplasty, a surgery that carves the labia minora down to porn-sized slivers, is rapidly gaining popularity. So are other procedures, like hymenoplasty, which restores virgin-like tightness to women’s vaginas.

In pedophile culture, women are outright pressured to regularly shave or wax their nether regions and underarms. The cosmetics industry — again, targeted at women — peddles “anti-aging” creams and lotions that will make our skin “baby soft!”

In pedophile culture, we casually refer to grown women as “girls.” We have a word specifically for attractive female teenagers: jailbait. Women are sexualized as chicks, kittens, and babes.

In pedophile culture, I often catch men in public checking me out with eyes full of lust, until they see the hair on my legs — at which point, they resort to a theatrical display of disgust. I’ve eavesdropped on groups of college-age guys talking about how they won’t perform oral sex on a woman if her labia are too prominent. One man who had been pursuing sex with me for three years, suddenly changed his mind when I revealed that I do not, and will not, shave off my pubic hair. In other words, many men stop being attracted to me when reminded that I am a woman, and not a young girl.

Surely all of these men, who have a “preference” for the aforementioned qualities in women, aren’t pedophiles by the strict definition of the word. But it seems that a high number of men, likely as a result of deep cultural conditioning, find many of the same things attractive in a woman that a pedophile would find attractive in a girlchild. Small labia, tight vaginas, intact hymens, baby-soft skin, hairless limbs and vulvas, eternal youthfulness, tiny frail bodies… As tumblr user reddressalert wrote, “how do we not recognize that this is essentially a description of a baby or a toddler?”

Back to my original point:

I need you, and your sympathetic readers, to understand this grave truth: pedophilia is not nearly as taboo, or shameful, or repulsive to society, as you claim it is. I wish it was. Much to the detriment of females the world over, your desires are reflected back to you infinitely, mass-produced on a global scale to meet an ever-growing demand. This male-supremacist world welcomes you with open arms, and your every wish is its command. I dare say you are safer to be yourself, than girls are.

You say “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster,” and I wholeheartedly agree with you. You’re not a monster — you’re a man. A rather common man. A microcosmic representation of patriarchy’s most prevalent perversions. You are not special, you are not anomalous, and you are not alone. Not even close. Your “sexual orientation” is just another manifestation of the collective desire of males to subjugate females in a crusade to uphold male supremacy at all costs.

So if being “understanding and supportive” of your pedophilia entails grooming males to eroticize childlike features in women, and teaching women to maintain eternal youth as not to aggravate male insecurities, then you are not asking for our support — you are asking for our submission. And just as you say “there is no ethical way we can fully actualize our sexual longings,” there is no ethical way to request cooperation from those of us actively trying to dismantle the patriarchal system that your “orientation” represents.

New Post has been published on https://ges-sa.com/anamorphine-review/

Anamorphine Review

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This title seems to have come across as more of an art experience than a gaming experience.

  PREMISE

One of the few games that tackle Mental Health head on; Anamorphine is about depression and playing it through the eyes of Tyler, someone who gets through pain by reliving past memories. This environmental story telling title will have you immersed in the seriousness of depression and getting you emotionally involved in the characters. The ambient sound and soft background music of the Cello (Which has a part in the story just bee tee dubs, great addition) gives you a calm and understanding environment to tackle the games “levels” one by one. Something I noted, this is the first game that ive seen that gives you a prompt explaining the sensitive nature of the subjects the title tackles. This story will keep you playing at a slow paced, enjoying it, and keep on coming back for more.

  GAMEPLAY

In fairness, this section isn’t going to be long because of the simplicity of the games style, but the delivery of this was stronger than you would expect. Being a game that delves into emotion, they kept it smooth and clean, with the interaction with object being as simple as looking at things, there are no zombies or antagonists in this title, just you and how you interpret the message that the developers are putting across.

  VISUALS

IMAGINE THIS, all the emotion you feel, take that and reimagine it as paint; ok? Now every time you feel an emotion, you splatter that colour all around you, vibrant and beautiful. This game, is so beautifully made, it may not be the best and cleanest game ever made, but these developers sure knew how to use colours and contrast to invoke emotions, I would rate this as one of the most beautiful games I have ever seen, even after Final Fantasy. The graphics quality isn’t the best, but its forgiven based on how they used it.

  AUDIO

The audio in Anamorphine is top level and story driven, tying into the theme and moments. The story comes through really well in the music and the quality of this.

  OVERALL

The game has a few bugs that I noticed and a few elements that make the game feel incomplete. However, the experience trumps this and if these can be fixed and some more effort put into this game, it will easily be worth the money you would usually pay for it. The 2 hours of gameplay and story make for one of the most amazing artistic experiences you’ll ever have on the console and I cannot wait to dive into it once the PSVR version is out.

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Additional Information

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Reviewed on: PlayStation 4  Available on: PlayStation 4,(PSVR coming soon), Microsoft Windows (Flat, Oculus, and HTC Vive)

Genre: Indie, Adventure Age Rating: Teen (Extreme Subject Matter Warning) Publisher/Developer: Artifact 5 inc, Artifact 5 Estimated RRP: R130 (PC), R329 (PS4) Release Date: 31 July 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Likes

Immersion

In-Depth Emotional Subject Matter (Story)

Dislikes

Graphical Quality

No Replay-ability

New Post has been published on https://ges-sa.com/anamorphine-review/

Anamorphine Review

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This title seems to have come across as more of an art experience than a gaming experience.

  PREMISE

One of the few games that tackle Mental Health head on; Anamorphine is about depression and playing it through the eyes of Tyler, someone who gets through pain by reliving past memories. This environmental story telling title will have you immersed in the seriousness of depression and getting you emotionally involved in the characters. The ambient sound and soft background music of the Cello (Which has a part in the story just bee tee dubs, great addition) gives you a calm and understanding environment to tackle the games “levels” one by one. Something I noted, this is the first game that ive seen that gives you a prompt explaining the sensitive nature of the subjects the title tackles. This story will keep you playing at a slow paced, enjoying it, and keep on coming back for more.

  GAMEPLAY

In fairness, this section isn’t going to be long because of the simplicity of the games style, but the delivery of this was stronger than you would expect. Being a game that delves into emotion, they kept it smooth and clean, with the interaction with object being as simple as looking at things, there are no zombies or antagonists in this title, just you and how you interpret the message that the developers are putting across.

  VISUALS

IMAGINE THIS, all the emotion you feel, take that and reimagine it as paint; ok? Now every time you feel an emotion, you splatter that colour all around you, vibrant and beautiful. This game, is so beautifully made, it may not be the best and cleanest game ever made, but these developers sure knew how to use colours and contrast to invoke emotions, I would rate this as one of the most beautiful games I have ever seen, even after Final Fantasy. The graphics quality isn’t the best, but its forgiven based on how they used it.

  AUDIO

The audio in Anamorphine is top level and story driven, tying into the theme and moments. The story comes through really well in the music and the quality of this.

  OVERALL

The game has a few bugs that I noticed and a few elements that make the game feel incomplete. However, the experience trumps this and if these can be fixed and some more effort put into this game, it will easily be worth the money you would usually pay for it. The 2 hours of gameplay and story make for one of the most amazing artistic experiences you’ll ever have on the console and I cannot wait to dive into it once the PSVR version is out.

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Additional Information

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Reviewed on: PlayStation 4  Available on: PlayStation 4,(PSVR coming soon), Microsoft Windows (Flat, Oculus, and HTC Vive)

Genre: Indie, Adventure Age Rating: Teen (Extreme Subject Matter Warning) Publisher/Developer: Artifact 5 inc, Artifact 5 Estimated RRP: R130 (PC), R329 (PS4) Release Date: 31 July 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Likes

Immersion

In-Depth Emotional Subject Matter (Story)

Dislikes

Graphical Quality

No Replay-ability

by Amr (@siegarettes)

If Shape of the World was an, open chill out session, then Anamorphine is its tonal complement. Taking place in a series of intimate, even claustrophobic spaces, it explores the emotional world of Tyler and Elena, a couple dealing with trauma and depression.

Anamorphine makes clear from the go it takes its subject matter very seriously. It opens with a content warning, giving players not only the option to skip the most upsetting scene, but also the option for a more detailed content warning containing spoilers for it. It's an admirable approach that seems almost obvious in hindsight, and allows people to engage with the game on their own terms.

Which is good, since Anamorphine is a confident study in using space to communicate emotional states. There’s not a single spoken word in its entire run time. Instead it mixes the familiar with abstract, distorting otherwise everyday spaces into reflections of the characters’ mental worlds.