IED(EDS) sufferer and spectrum surfer. You probably won’t like what I have to say.
The concept of Gacha predates lootboxes and started as physical real-world vending machines with surprise balls containing little toys or stickers, mainly aimed at kids
They noticed that the mystery drove sales and pretty much overwhelmed ‘normal’ toy vending machines in a few short years
While the concepts are similar, they had different origins.
These gacha companies pay ridiculous amounts of money for psych profile info specifically to target vulnerable individuals, yet individuals don’t have that same kind of access or understanding
This is NOT a both sides thing.
Yeah American is a victim blaming culture
Almost as if capitalism was specifically designed to shuffle all wealth from the bottom to the top in a neverending ratchet of human degradation and exploitation
If you only understood statistics…
no, abusers flock to all kinds of power. The common theme is that they are abusers, not that they are religious or political or rich or well connected, abusers will seek ways to be shielded for abuse
if you look at every reasonable metric the BY FAR source of power in child sexual abuse is parental or familial.
You just want to pretend this isn’t the case because it deflates a favorite scapegoat of yours.
It doesn’t matter what language or form is taken to justify the abuse, it is all abhorrent. You take special exception to religion because you are weak minded
The incidence of abuse among pastors, while abhorrent, is lower than the general population.
Yes it is a horrible crime that pastors abuse their authority to harm children
Statistically, they are still safer with pastors than their own uncles and aunts.
But everyone on lemmy hates religion.
You know this was a big problem in my day, ‘Stranger danger’.
The VAST majority of abuse cases are by someone the child knows and is related to, but so much time and effort was put in to make the public freak out about a vast army of anonymous pedophiles all plotting to kidnap their children that so many domestic cases were swept under the rug for more salacious public targets (that mostly turned out to be innocent and had their lives ruined anyway by people like you)
But please keep up with the memes because you like to shit on religion so much
Its not religions fault you had shitty parents
When you and your ilk classify being raised in a religious household as child abuse, your every other argument loses power due to its absurdity
There is no reasonable discussion with such as you
You people are insane
You know, when reddit first started, no one minded long replies, in fact they were considered a mark of excellence and understanding. Long, accurate replies were almost always the top comment in non-meme subs.
Then smart phones became popular and every idiot gained access to the web
Suddenly, around 2012, you started seeing comments disparaging long replies as being ‘nerdy’ or ‘tryhard’. On FUCKING reddit, the HOME of the nerds!
It was a real emotional whiplash to me for a place that once welcomed detailed discussion to start mocking users for creating quality reply content
That’s when I realized the internet was fucked because of people like you.
lol no, I’ve been a victim of both and getting hit in the head with a belt buckle was a lot worse than having to sit through an hour of church a week
You do realize nfts were capable of so much more than pictures but because that was the lowest effort use case that’s what the scammers started with, right?
Of course not, you just like shitting on things other people designate as safe to shit on
If it didn’t cause cancer, asbestos is a fucking miracle material, there are people TODAY who are hugely pro-asbestos
Sure we all agree but the dumbshits making the rules 1) Have no idea about technology older than color television and 2) Are really only interested in preserving corporate profitability
Yeah well when the copyright courts agreed to Namco’s patent on loading screen minigames it kind of freaked everyone out back then and people patented every dumbshit thing. For a short time Amazon tried to patent the single click purchase
So fucking tired of people like you, this isn’t AI
You’re just like those maga assholes that harass non-traditionally attractive women as being trans
Get the fuck off of my internet
you know this is just so terrible I’m blocking your whole instance
I have spent thousands in gacha, though I’m more a ‘dolphin’ than a whale
Was #1 on server 10 and 11 in Memento Mori for a while, ran the top guilds there (NORTH and TRUE NORTH). It was really fun till one of our shift guild leaders usurped the guild and kicked half of the team on the night of our biggest Mass Combat push, losing us most of our territory. So I quit and got very, VERY bitter
That was 2 years ago and the only gacha I’ve played since is Pokemon Pocket tho as f2p this time (it is very generous)
If you want to know anything about dolphin/whale action in Memento Mori, Blue Archive or Reverse 1999 I’ll answer any questions