(09-01-2013, 02:51 PM)Myxie Tryxle Wrote: Wow, I didn't expect this discussion to be resurrected after a month of obscurity. For those of you who read the title and not the full discussion, this is not about ERP or perversion. I would suggest reading through the full discussion before jumping to conclusions about the scope of this thread, as that horse has already been beaten around page five and six.
Yeah, a thin veneer of inherently flawed conjecture doesn't really save the discussion built around it. I mean, I've said this before in this thread, but your conclusion outright ignores a ton of variables that are kind of inconvenient to professing just how swell inbreeding is (nevermind that species that exclusively inbreed don't make it past that 20-generation gateway on their own, let's just assume they do), like...I don't know, the myriad of health problems in pedigree dogs.
They even have us looking out for the health of their genetic stock, and pugs still can't breathe too well.
Anyway, the point of this particular post is definitely to say "Odd", but sincerely, it's nothing that doesn't happen any time a roleplaying community mentions sex. Frankly, your average internet-person's reaction to sex is worth it's own study. Sex gets spoken of in the same reverent, mystical, obsessive terms as it did when we were all 14, had no idea what it was, and were still convinced that it was the absolute, end-all, be-all to everything ever.
I mean, at least back then, we had the excuse of being underdeveloped (physically, psychologically, emotionally), and generally pretty fucking stupid. Now, I don't know. I don't know how we justify this.
(09-01-2013, 02:51 PM)Myxie Tryxle Wrote: Roughly fifteen reputation boosts for the original post, a handful of very appreciative PMs, three friends requests, and eight pages of generally constructive discussion indicate that this thread was useful and informative to quite a few people.
Ok, you like to wear the science-hat, so I'm gonna speak to you like a scientist.
There's overlap in that data, so these aren't all unique occurrences, and that's a really, really small sampling of the group you're addressing. This doesn't allow you to reach any kind of conclusion, and is pretty much entirely irrelevant.
(09-01-2013, 02:51 PM)Myxie Tryxle Wrote: All I can say for this is creeps will be creeps. Part of my goal in writing this thread was to encourage intellectual discussion to make the discussion deeper than just "oh he's a nunh, so he must be a creep." The creeps who are playing nunh to creep on girls would find another means to creep on girls even if the nunh category didn't exist, because that's part of their personality. I would be one of the first people to rebuff them for this behavior and blacklist if necessary, as I find it disturbing, disrespectful, and unwarranted. This thread was partly to encourage people who wanted to play nunh but in a respectful and informed manner.
Yeah, but you give them a super easy route to take, and they're gonna take it. The "Nunh" position is the easiest fucking route. You type a title in the last name field, and bam. Now you're roleplaying! IT'S NOT CREEPY YOU GUYS, IT'S JUST MY CHARACTER!
And then you fed them an entire thread worth of (again, heavily flawed) conjecture that tells them that inbreeding is super great. It isn't, not in the long term, not in the short term, it's just not as catastrophic as five-eyed babies coming from your second cousin.
(09-01-2013, 03:15 PM)Raccoon Wrote: It may just be me but I don't see how that was hostile in any way, merely stating that only a rare few actually feel the way that you do, while many found it to actually be a rather interesting take on things.
If you're this easily offended, I kinda wish I'd gone ahead with my Lalafell Scholar that travels Eorzea collecting interracial "fiction". Not for anything pervy so much as that I like pushing peoples' buttons at times. Yours seem particularly easy to push.
It's not a "rare" few. Her sample size is absolutely fucking tiny, and doesn't account for overlap. We have no concrete data on just how many people find this particular notion favorable or unfavorable. We don't even have a reliable way to gauge it.
Don't start talking about numbers if you don't have the numbers.
