nerdjon

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by nerdjon 3y ago
> Never mind the destructiveness of wanking itself. I could maybe, maybe! buy that porn has some negative problems. But if you seriously think that self pleasure has any negative problems it invalidates everything you are trying to say t
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by nerdjon 3y ago
We can acknowledge that there are problems with the porn industry, and I agree there very much are, without stigmatizing the entire industry and the people that consume it. Not being excited about "vanilla sex" really isn't a
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by nerdjon 3y ago
I am not dismissing the studies, but we have to look at the studies through the society that they were done in. To ask, is the study saying that there is an inherent problem with porn in an isolated bubble or is the problem with porn in the
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Both of those issues sound less like problems with the porn itself but there being so much stigma around it that we can't openly talk about what is real and what isn't. (Or "Normal", for lack of a better term here. Basic
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by nerdjon 3y ago
The problem with a lot of these studies is they are also done in a society that highly stigmatizes sexuality and porn. Many of these things can also be mitigated by an ability to have open conversations about feelings about what they see. S
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Yeah sadly it does seem to be growing, I have been noticing that in many areas of the US a stigma around sex is getting worse and worse. Sex is natural and fun and we should be able to talk about it. I am thankful that within my group of fr
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by nerdjon 3y ago
100%, it is one of those things that I think feeds into itself. At a young age you may have been told to repress certain desires, or that anything outside of sex to procreation was bad (I mean self pleasure is still seen as a negative even
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> But the status quo is pretty clearly a horrifying outcome. Care to elaborate? This feels like all of the ads that were warning about the "dangers of gay marriage" without ever being able to name an actual danger. Just fear mo
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> Texas cannot enforce a provision requiring porn websites to "display health warnings about the effects of the consumption of pornography." Well at least some common sense prevailed, there is zero reason to have a notice like
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Yeah that was my bad, I meant the play store which is why I linked too that. That is why I brought it up as an example, it is a major app that is ditching the play store on Android just like they have announced they will be doing for iOS.
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> Now there could be an aspect of predatory behavior by Apple in the way they charge developers etc, but that's where I feel the problem should be tackled. Right! Just because I agree with the core part of the App Store doesn't
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Your right, and once again that is the developers choice not the users choice... That isn't the counter you think it is.
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> Sure it has the side effect of restricting the developers, because they can't reach the restricted user without Apple giving them access. But it's only a pretty recent side effect, when Apple decided to pivot their branding o
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Fortnite is not on Android: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fortnite&c=apps That has absolutely nothing to do with their Lawsuit with Apple. They are also not on Steam. That has absolutely nothing to do with
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by nerdjon 3y ago
And Epic made the choice to try to get around the rules of the store that they chose to enter. Epic is not without blame for not being on the App Store. They could have played by the rules and not try to get around this rules.
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by nerdjon 3y ago
I swear y'all really like putting words in my mouth. I am not advocating for the 30%, no where am I saying that. I am saying that as the consumer it is not part of my concern. Just like if I go and buy frozen fries at the grocery store
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by nerdjon 3y ago
What about Epic's lawsuit makes Fortnite invalid? Fortnite also is not on the most popular store on PC so it is not just about their lawsuit. They want to run a store on all platforms and have said they will be launching an Epic game s
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> none of you ever mentioned “I like being restricted” as a reason for their purchase. Here is the thing, I don't feel like I am being restricted. I never said the words I like being restricted. Want to know who is? The developers..
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> I don't know which planet you live on, but that has never been a thing. Your payments aren't all routed through Apple unless you sustain yourself off Genshin Impact draws somehow. I... never claimed it was? I am talking about
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by nerdjon 3y ago
The root cause for DEVELOPERS is Apple. You keep repeating my problem with this and proving my point. My problem is that all of the focus on this is on developers and not the users. The key reason I bought my iPhone as a USER is because of
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by nerdjon 3y ago
The reality is there is no perfect solution. But people, like myself, bought an iPhone knowing about the App Store and the restrictions it has. If I wanted a more open platform I could have gotten an Android phone. Those restrictions do not
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by nerdjon 3y ago
No, I am not. I am advocating for the choice of the User. My first sentence in my original post. To me that is all that matters, I frankly don't care what the developer may or may not be forced to do if it comes at potential harm to th
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by nerdjon 3y ago
And again we are back to the developers and not the users, thank you for proving my initial point here. I am the user that doesn't want to be taken advantage of by developers who choose to engage in dark patterns. I frankly don't
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by nerdjon 3y ago
I wouldn't call it imagined when Fortnite is not available on the Android App Store... There is at least one company that is very much pushing for this exact scenario, and has announced plans for releasing a store on iOS.
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by nerdjon 3y ago
> Neither party is innocent here, they’re both multinational tech giants fighting over our money. That is true, people seem to think that just because in this particular case I prefer the way that Apple is doing this as a user it means t
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by nerdjon 3y ago
It is incredibly condescending that when I try to explain why I chose something that you try to tell me it isn't why I chose it. It is also incredibly hypocritical that here we are complaining about being at the mercy of the choices th
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by nerdjon 3y ago
I would not call dark patterns that many developers take as a "slight inconvenience". I agree with some of the restrictions on what is allowed on the App Store, like porn and browsers. But that is a different topic than having oth
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Epic was the one that made choices that pushed apple to remove Fortnite. Let's not twist history and say that Apple just suddenly chose to remove Fortnite. Epic made certain choices likely knowing what the outcome would be. Epic is the
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by nerdjon 3y ago
Please don't tell me what is and is not the case for myself, I clearly said what is the case for me and maybe instead of trying to explain why I supposedly feel differently you actually ask why those platforms are different. I use my i
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by nerdjon 3y ago
So again this is about giving the developer choice and not users. If a developer chooses to use an alternative store, even if I want to use that app, the choice is made for me to not use it. How exactly is this benefiting users?

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