Nethlem's discussions

Yay love me some more news on Natural Selection 2 and UWE! Read more

The current hostess culture is the remainant of the former geisha profession. Read more

Valve going open source on business policies, i like it! Read more

Sorry about the use of "morale" but in it's basic structure of meaing it is exactly the same like "moral", even more so in german. Read more

This! (Why can't i approve? -_-) Read more

"When the US puts out a game about how awesome it is to be a prostitute you'd have point. " Read more

You realize that this thing you call an "dialog" is not an dialog but an argument? And the only result of this public and shallow argument is even more public attention for the issue at hand, which in turns to it being even more "socialy accepted" because "everybody is aware of it". Read more

"Just because we have increasing sexualization of children in the US doesn't mean that we can excuse the same behavior in Japan. " Read more

"There have been hostesses before, but this is direct marketing of the job and lifestyle to children. And legality does not necessarily dictate the social desirability of something. Just because it's "legal" doesn't mean that we want it out there: "Toddlers and Tiaras" is a great example. Perfectly legal, morally… Read more

In "this" country? Read more

"It hits too close to home for too many people to imagine a girl or young woman in their life thinking that hostess life is fun and entertaining thanks to a game." Read more

From my understanding it's not really considered an "sexualized adult" thing, because most people realize that it's just about paying for company and attention. So it is considered something for "grown ups" but not because of an sexual theme. Read more

So i guess this shit is "more healthy" for small children?

It only "costs less to buy from them" because they treat environmental and other health hazards for their labor forces as "non issues". Read more

Damn that sounds interesting and reminds me of a lot of things i've always thought about gaming and life. Read more

Exploiting a system he obviously doesn't understand makes him simply stupid. Read more

One of these days somebody is gonna patent "breathing" and sue the shit out of all living beings... Read more

But the difference is that an static tube system around the world would be exposed to a lot of weather, climate and other random conditions. One defect along the tube would collapse the whole line and the passengers would be screwed along the whole tube. Read more

Yeah that's the same vibe i get from him, the funny part is that his crazy ideas sound so radical and good that they might actually work. Or would at least be an interesting experiment to see happen. Read more

Indeed, these kinds of things always freak me out about US politics. Read more