@ifixcoinops this is so interesting and hot at the same time? omg

Pinball machines have a bunch of switches in them and if a single one fails then the game can get way less fun.

Example, hit a particular ramp to get a jackpot during multiball, ramp switch breaks, now there's way less point in getting the multiball, half the game rules go out the window. Very frustrating.

Williams WPC games of the 90's had a feature where they'd keep track of whether a switch changed state over a number of games; if nobody made f'rinstance the ramp shot in several games then it'd try to alert the operator, but it'd try to do so in a subtle way that only the op would notice, rather than a big flashing "PLEASE CALL ATTENDANT AND MEANWHILE DON'T PUT ANY MONEY IN ME" sort of deal. They called this the Credit Dot, which would appear as a full stop after where the game showed the number of credits on its display, for example a properly-working game would say

CREDIT 0
INSERT COINS

but a game that had a complaint for the technician would say

CREDIT 0.
INSERT COINS

The credit dot would show up when games were set to free play too, instead of CREDIT 0. INSERT COINS it'd say FREE PLAY. PRESS START

The credit dot would also appear when a switch that was supposed to be normally open was detected as closed for a while or vice versa, or in some other situation where the machine had been treated so roughly that the computer noticed something was wrong and was asking for care.

If you wanna know why gothic lolita dresses are called that, you need to realize that from the perspective of the fashion designers and subcultures using that term, "Lolita" would be like, a foreign, exotic fable.

They probably aren't unaware of what goes on in the book, but there'd be an emotional distance there that'd allow them to explore some of the complicated feelings towards youthfulness and femininity that's swirling around the culture.

Similar to how western anime fandom take a lot of japanese concepts that have long, chequered histories and boil them down to one archetype.

And y'know we give the japanese fashion industry a lot of guff for using a slightly off-color term for a culture that coined the term "kinderwhore" in the 90s.

also the facehuggers in this game are,,,, distractingly hot. they just look really soft and wet and the way they force themselves down your throat,,,, while grinding their slits into your face,,, 🥵

@h3mmy

What do “wet dreams” count as?

that’s an interesting question! that’s definitely not masturbation by my definition and I don’t think that I would even call it autoerotic behavior because it isn’t really a behavior - it’s something that happens to someone rather than a behavior that they have

I think I would put that in a category of its own, because intent is important to me in defining things like solo sex, autoerotic behavior, or masturbation. even if someone moves in their sleep in a way that stimulates their genitals physically, that still doesn’t fit into any of those categories to me because there’s no conscious intent behind it

@transoptimal @enjarai oohh - that’s amazing! so the idea is that you can have one crow mind associated with a {spell that is stored inside of a block in the world} and then you can tell it “hey, store this box. you’ll want it for later”?

for the tree farm, would that be able to collect saplings from the leaves too? in any case that sounds really cool

what does the box look like when it’s drawn? are you highlighting 1x1x1 areas individually, or is it more like a thin line connecting the box’s corners?

@h3mmy okay I’m more than a little jealous of how you experience art lol. I don’t think that I would want to orgasm from nonsexual art but the level of immersion that you have in those things is incredible. for context I can barely imagine visual things: I can get a vague outline and a vague impression of color and that’s it. and even that doesn’t last very long - it’s often just fleeting glimpses

I know that I keep bringing up hypnosis, and that’s mostly because it was my special interest for a while and it’s also a kink that I have. but I’m curious if you’ve ever tried recreational hypnosis. since you have such a vivid imagination I feel like you might really enjoy it, or to be honest you might just be disappointed by it because it doesn’t give you any experiences that you don’t have through engaging with art instead

Physical version though, you might feel the arousal and climaxes differently. I don’t know how to describe it properly. You know when you’re driving fast over a hill and past the top, you get a moment or two of air time? That feeling of brief weightlessness, like you’re taking off in a plane except without all the ear weirdness. That is stretched out over time, and there’s a little hill and you feel a flushing everywhere head to toe, as blood is just moving to the skin. Face, chest, thighs often feel hot and steaming, etc.

I know exactly the sensation that you’re talking about - this was a fantastic description. I used to have orgasms like that when I was on HRT (sadly I had to stop for Bad Reasons) and they were incredible. probably my favorite bodily sensation. I actually felt it in waves though, that traveled quickly over my body if that makes sense

I definitely struggle a lot with metacognition - especially when it comes to emotional awareness. that’s something that I’m trying to work on because sometimes I am extremely stressed out and the reason that I notice it is because I suddenly scream really loudly lol. but even then it doesn’t feel like it’s coming from me. I definitely want to practice more with feeling bodily sensations that correspond to emotions like that

I suspect that is part of how one could deliberately try to have a physical experience with only mental stimulation.

interesting - so I think what you’re saying is: if I can feel and understand {the feelings that I want to create} deeply enough, then that’s the first step to creating them mentally? especially when it comes to things like, the physical sensations of pleasure (genitals being stimulated or etc.) vs. the more abstract pure pleasure that underlies that, if that makes sense

Since you like hypnosis, you might like Kite Rose Writes. Her stories are more explicitly horny, but I don’t know if she’s been writing much lately.

ooh interesting! I’ll give her stories a look then

@h3mmy

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “situations where you would feel the urge,” Could you explain that?

oop! yeah that was bad wording on my part. it was a really roundabout and confusing way of saying “you don’t often (or maybe never) feel urges that could be described as sexual”

It’s more like when you’re trying to get all the trophies or badges in a video game and you want to be able to say you did all the things.

ooh interesting. I think I’m like that with certain experiences too. for example I’m still pretty interested in the concept of kink without a sexual component, after talking about it with you. and I’m also like that with different types of food lol, and just weird experiences - like I want to experiment with lucid dreams at some point and a part of me is curious about what ego death is like

Except that the game requires a bunch of setup, warm up and focus so interruptions basically trigger a reset.

oof, I’m guessing you’re talking about {masturbation that results in an orgasm} here? I was curious about that because it sounded like you felt pleasure from orgasm and even that it lasted a long time, so I wondered why you wouldn’t want to experience that more simply because it felt good. but if it takes that much effort (and also time) to get there then no wonder you wouldn’t want to

like I could cook a very high-effort and delicious meal for myself but that would take a lot of effort that I don’t want to put into my life all the time. and to be honest I don’t know if I’d ever want to do that because the enjoyment:effort ratio just isn’t high enough

feel free to ignore this question - it is very personal lol - but did the process of approaching orgasm feel good? did the orgasm feel good? I’m pretty curious. it sounds like manual genital stimulation doesn’t usually result in pleasure for you at least

actually, here’s another question: how did you learn the behavior of using manual genital stimulation to help you sleep? that’s especially interesting to me because those two things aren’t connected at all in my mind. if I’m distractingly horny then I might masturbate until I orgasm in order to make those feelings go away so that I can sleep, but it sounds like you don’t actually reach orgasm when doing that. do you think it might be a grounding technique, and the sensations that you’re feeling help you calm down or control your focus?