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It just goes to show you that no matter the capabilities of the medium of the day, people will do anything to expose their genitalia. From Pompeii[1] to LEGO U
by striking 11y ago
It just goes to show you that no matter the capabilities of the medium of the day, people will do anything to expose their genitalia.
From Pompeii[1] to LEGO Universe. Gosh.
Although I have to admit that I've been puzzling about this kind of problem in my spare time because it is a very difficult problem to solve with plain algorithms.
Which makes me ask, why don't they just separate the kids who draw dongs into a separate pile and only let them interact with each other? Or something like that. Something like GTA V's "cheater pool" [2] or HN's hellbanning.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...
[2]: http://www.gta5tv.com/gta-v-cheaters-pool-details/ http://www.gta5tv.com/gta-v-cheaters-pool-details/
- tempestn 11y ago> why don't they just separate the kids who draw dongs into a separate pile and only let them interact with each other? Ha, I can't imagine any issues with that from a PR perspective at all.
- joshuapants 11y agoYeah, in a kids game you'll probably get an awful lot of complaints from parents when they find out that their child is suddenly only capable of entering games with dongs as the primary focus.
- cmdrfred 11y agopoor kid makes a rocket ship ends up in dong world.
- doktrin 11y agoThis may be the most entertaining thread I've ever seen on HN.
- empressplay 11y agoor on the planet Porno...
- caseysoftware 11y agoBecause it would group all the kids who obviously don't have parental supervision into one place where people are already talking about and/or showing fake dongs. And then some sicko comes in and wants to talk about and/or show their own.
- tzs 11y agoSome of the Pompeii erotic art may have had a practical purpose. I saw a documentary about Pompeii that mentioned erotic murals at a public bath. These were not the "normal" kind of erotic scenes you would find in Pompeii or other Roman cities. They were things that would be considered shocking and perverted by even Roman standards. These murals were in an area that was the Roman equivalent of a locker room, where bath attendees would leave their clothes. Archaeologists speculate that the shocking murals were memory aids--a customer could remember where they left their clothes by remembering the shocking perverted scene on the mural above that section. This is plausible. Shocking or unusual things are easier to remember, so this would have been more effective than just numbering or lettering the sections of the storage room. This is also why people around my age (mid 50s) probably have an easier time remembering the resistor color code. The mnemonic I learned 40 years ago is shockingly racist, violent, and sexist--and so impossible to forget. The mnemonics taught to kids nowadays are boring and easy to forget.
- artmageddon 11y ago> This is also why people around my age (mid 50s) probably have an easier time remembering the resistor color code. The mnemonic I learned 40 years ago is shockingly racist, violent, and sexist--and so impossible to forget. The mnemonics taught to kids nowadays are boring and easy to forget. I'm in my early 30's and I still remember the exact mnemonic you speak of. Sorta shamefully, at that.
- jauer 11y agoJust turned 30 and by the time I heard it s/Black/Bad/ happened so it was only violent and sexist. I heard it from a older professor in my early 20's and was quite shocked that it was a thing, but I remembered it.
- artmageddon 11y agoOh, I had only heard "Bad", but goodness, I didn't think it would be worse.