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Without the great imports from Japan, how can one become cultured to begin with?
Australia blocks import of Japanese Adult Content
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Without the great imports from Japan, how can one become cultured to begin with?
I mean, there's probably a multitude of reasons, but the big ones are:
1) A lot of video games are produced in the US, one of the major console manufacturers is HQed here, and all three major console manufacturers as well as several major publishers and online retailers are domiciled in the US. Ditto for TV production.
2) Pornography has been heavily litigated in the US in the latter 20th century with several major decisions allowing for heavily regulated production and publication.
3) Most legislators are skittish about actually supporting laws that curtail anything that could be regarded as free speech (though grand standing on those issues, flag burning most commonly, remains a common campaign tactic), due to a combination of risk of backlash as well as the fact that the industries are not exactly small players economically. Between corporate lobbying (MS is big enough it can have lobbyists representing whole divisions of the company), consumer groups, and the fact that nowadays the party that most would complain about it (the Republicans*) both don't have a collective interest in legislating generally, are currently on a forever campaign claiming social media is censoring conservative speech (despite conservatives dominating many platforms), and tends to favor fewer regulations on business generally, the environment isn't really conducive to creating those kinds of restrictions.
* It should be noted that in the 1990s, there was a real threat of curtailing content in video games as an outgrowth of a "violent media" campaign pushed by multiple interest groups from both parties. While very little substantive legislation came about from this, several industry programs, such as the "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" sticker for music and the ESRB ratings board came out of it. While games with sexual content had existed on prior generation consoles (notably Atari consoles), the domination of Nintendo and Sega following the infamous crash of the late 80s and their internal policies to not license games with certain content (both "adult" and other somewhat more bizarre content such as overt real-life religious references), and later Microsoft and Sony's internal licensing policies to not approve any game with an AO rating, meant that, for the most part, most sexually explicit video games were inaccessible to most gaming audiences until Steam started allowing more sexually explicit content only a few years ago.
Someone did a YouTube documentary a long time ago about cartoon episodes or shows banned in America. Man, it was interesting but I can't find it. Usually it was from another country and it was generally homo/sexual in natute
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I was going to make a joke about how Aussies couldn't get less cultured and then I remembered that their country has a very high HDI score (in fact, higher than my own country). So glass houses and stones and all of that.
Can't have the gays in children's cartoons. They have to be technically sexless alien rocks.
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Honestly, what might make or break it is how old all the characters are perceived to be. Which is gonna be a hard sell since all you have is the same bizarre facial expression and maybe an article of clothing.
And even if it was legal there’s a good chance it’ll run afoul of some kind of public decency or displaying of pornography law.
Transform it enough and you can quietly dodge those. For example the album cover of Slow, Deep and Hard by Type O Negative is a closeup of the penetration from a pornographic photo, with a bit of noise and a color filter applied. Is displaying the album cover displaying pornography (hint: it was never challenged as this)? Shouldn't it be closer than a shirt covered in ahegao?
I honestly couldn't tell you, I'd never heard of the album or the band. If there's so much noise and distortion that the image is basically unidentifiable then there's a damn good chance it passed unmentioned. For what its worth I'm pretty sure the album cover for Nirvana's album Nevermind was released as was here, just with the sticker Cobain agreed to have on it at point of sale. But then again, that isn't porn, merely nudity which may be assessed completely differently by ACMA.
Considering a good percentage of the faces on that shirt are covered in spunk - porn's famous money shot - you would have to distort the images to the point of meaningless to make it not porn, and no, I don't think an argument of 'Its yogurt' or something equally paper thin would work either.
But, hey, by all means once COVID clears up, wear one through airport security in Australia and see what happens.
I don't know, but it should be banned in the name of good taste.
Or that's just evidence that culture doesn't contribute much to HDI.
And to get one as allegedly high as it is makes me feel some severe number fudging has occurred with regards to the living conditions of Indigenous Australians. Because last I checked, that shit was a national shame that we hadn't worked for and with Indigenous peoples to meaningfully resolve.
The band is a gothic metal band from Brooklyn with an oft comedic bent that put out 7 albums before lead singer Peter Steele's death in 2010. Ironically, the final album was titled "Dead Again", in reference to rumors he had died between it and the previous album (in reality he kind of disappeared for a while due to a combination of rehab and working on the new album).
This crowd would probably more recognize that they did some music for Descent 2, Blood (and the bonus disc that came with Blood actually had a music video for Love You to Death on it among other stuff) and the Darkness 2 (Black No 1 plays in the MP lobby), with GTA4 using a sample from the start of I Don't Wanna Be Me (one of their more amusing videos for one of their more accessible songs) on one of the radio stations. They also appeared in a number of movie soundtracks, mostly horror (Bride of Chucky, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs Jason, Faust: Love of the Damned, Mortal Kombat, the Blair Witch Project).
Each release the distortion is a bit different, both by region and print run. For example:
...which probably covers my quota for posting sexual penetration on this forum for the day. It started as an image straight out of a porn mag, with a green filter and the noise from the crappy mid-90s scanner left as is. If you go hunting with Google, there's even someone who tracked down the original image after some effort. The remaster just repeated the process with newer hardware.
Maybe they were depopulated into a sufficiently small proportion of the population over the years that they don't drag the averages down too much.
To be fair, I've been to Melbourne and there's plenty going on. I'm not sure Australia's so hot on "high" culture that the global elites put a premium on, so the idea it's uncultured is I suspect partly snobbery. After that, I don't know whether a lot of its less highbrow, popular output has much global appeal or is at the forefront of fashion, which again doesn't look so good. But Australians are going out and making and doing stuff, and that's what culture is. Mind you, I've also been to Perth, and that was the epitome of wealthy blandness, but that seems to me a characteristic of oil money anywhere in the world.
Ah man, I always thought that was some wombat with his dick hanging outThe band is a gothic metal band from Brooklyn with an oft comedic bent that put out 7 albums before lead singer Peter Steele's death in 2010. Ironically, the final album was titled "Dead Again", in reference to rumors he had died between it and the previous album (in reality he kind of disappeared for a while due to a combination of rehab and working on the new album).
This crowd would probably more recognize that they did some music for Descent 2, Blood (and the bonus disc that came with Blood actually had a music video for Love You to Death on it among other stuff) and the Darkness 2 (Black No 1 plays in the MP lobby), with GTA4 using a sample from the start of I Don't Wanna Be Me (one of their more amusing videos for one of their more accessible songs) on one of the radio stations. They also appeared in a number of movie soundtracks, mostly horror (Bride of Chucky, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs Jason, Faust: Love of the Damned, Mortal Kombat, the Blair Witch Project).
Each release the distortion is a bit different, both by region and print run. For example:
...which probably covers my quota for posting sexual penetration on this forum for the day. It started as an image straight out of a porn mag, with a green filter and the noise from the crappy mid-90s scanner left as is. If you go hunting with Google, there's even someone who tracked down the original image after some effort. The remaster just repeated the process with newer hardware.
Yes Melbourne sure does have 'character.'
Mind you, I'm from Brisbane, a country town pretending to be a city
My feeling about Australia is that I see why a lot of British people like the idea of moving there. Better weather, spacious, cleaner I think, huge prawns. These days it's also richer, and probably happier, too. Although in terms of richer, I don't know how cost of living factors in, as I imagine a lot of stuff is more expensive in Aus than it is in the UK.
Perth is a nice enough town, but there’s more items of interest to be found in nearby Fremantle.