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by herpessimplex10 11mo ago

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petesergeant 11mo ago
> an anime cat-girl > an animated cock and balls You don't see a difference between these things?
- GaryBluto 11mo ago
  While it's a bit of an extreme comparison, they're both weird, unprofessional imagery associated with things you wouldn't wan to associate with a software project.
  - lakecresva 11mo ago
    If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).
    - squigz 11mo ago
      Because it's really about the type of people (they think) watch anime, and their inability to separate this preconception from reality.
  - petesergeant 11mo ago
    I guess I'm not seeing the special category that an anime cat girl sits in. Is there some kind of sex implication I'm just not aware of? Linux has a penguin, FreeBSD has a devil(!), OpenBSD has a blowfish, Go has the weird Gopher thing, Gnome has a foot... Wikipedia suggests that there's an association with queer and trans youth, is that what's meant to make the cock-and-balls comparison work? But it also says it has a history back to 17th century Japan...
spinf97 11mo ago
I don't, actually. Why is it weird?
mariusor 11mo ago
Mister simplex, having a preference for small internet to crumble under the shit LLM companies are piling upon it to being exposed once in a while to an inoffensive image of an anime character would make for a very worrisome direction of my priorities if I were you.
viraptor 11mo ago
If those 2 are in any way close in your mind... maybe think about why a cartoon character and explicit sexual image seem related? There's nothing weird about an anime cat girl for me, but also I don't see any relation to anything sexualised in it.
tomhow 11mo ago
Your comments are almost all of the kind that the guidelines ask us to avoid – i.e., combative and escalatory, rather than curious and kind. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe the if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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petesergeant 11mo ago

> an anime cat-girl > an animated cock and balls You don't see a difference between these things?

GaryBluto 11mo ago
While it's a bit of an extreme comparison, they're both weird, unprofessional imagery associated with things you wouldn't wan to associate with a software project.
- lakecresva 11mo ago
  If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).
  - squigz 11mo ago
    Because it's really about the type of people (they think) watch anime, and their inability to separate this preconception from reality.
- petesergeant 11mo ago
  I guess I'm not seeing the special category that an anime cat girl sits in. Is there some kind of sex implication I'm just not aware of? Linux has a penguin, FreeBSD has a devil(!), OpenBSD has a blowfish, Go has the weird Gopher thing, Gnome has a foot... Wikipedia suggests that there's an association with queer and trans youth, is that what's meant to make the cock-and-balls comparison work? But it also says it has a history back to 17th century Japan...

spinf97 11mo ago

I don't, actually. Why is it weird?

mariusor 11mo ago

Mister simplex, having a preference for small internet to crumble under the shit LLM companies are piling upon it to being exposed once in a while to an inoffensive image of an anime character would make for a very worrisome direction of my priorities if I were you.

viraptor 11mo ago

If those 2 are in any way close in your mind... maybe think about why a cartoon character and explicit sexual image seem related? There's nothing weird about an anime cat girl for me, but also I don't see any relation to anything sexualised in it.

tomhow 11mo ago

Your comments are almost all of the kind that the guidelines ask us to avoid – i.e., combative and escalatory, rather than curious and kind. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe the if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html