Communicating About Sex And Desire
Well, this looks like fun! Andrea (Curious Cat) on Twitter has announced the release of The Amazing Sex Scene Rewrite, described as “an edularp about TV show writers rewriting a sex scene script by negotiating what elements should be part of it.” It’s available for download on Itch.io:
Unfortunately, Itch.io has placed this edularp behind one of those future-unfriendly “You must be 18+ to view this content” checkbox click-throughs, an effect of which is to entirely prevent the item from being archived by the Wayback Machine. So if you’re interested in this, download it now, while you still can. When the Itch.io link inevitably breaks, as all links eventually do, it will be gone for good. (See also: every adult-content Blogspot/Blogger post since 2015.)
Do I have an entire bellyful of snarky and sarcastic opinions about whether we ought to want to teach “communicating about sex and desire” to people somewhat in advance of them being released into the wild as legal adults? Why yes, thank you for asking, as it happens I do! But we live in the world as it is, and nothing about that is the fault of these edularp/game creators.
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IIRC, flagging your product 18+ on itch.io is entirely voluntary on the creator’s part. If that breaks archiving, though , that’s a point against doing so.
OTOH, I wonder whether straight Wayback Machine archiving of files stored on itch.io is at all possible regardless of the 18+ wall: it’s been designed as a storefront, not a repository, and there are several software “walls” showing up anyways (such as a “pay what you want” pop-up window for most free products, not unreasonably, and of course login screens).
In this case, the templates link to Google Sheets (a growing practice in analog RPGs, driven by the spread of computer-facilitated play over video-chat) — how Internet Archive friendly can that be? >_>
Well, virtually all internet archiving ends up being incomplete or broken in the details. The archive of a storefront doesn’t guarantee an archive of the product, but it’s better than no archive at all. Also, there’s a design question any time an interstitial popup exists, which is “should we allow deep linking to the material behind the popup?” Archive-friendly policies allow deep links unless there’s a pressing need not to.
Once I’d worked out what an Edularp was, and got over feeling old and out of touch, I was very impressed.
But communicating about sex and desire to young people. What an absurd idea! You are such a radical, Bacchus. If we start educating the young, who knows where that will lead.
Educate the young?
About sex?
…and risk encouraging the ability to reproduce?
Are you daft?
Such things should only remain within the domain of the elderly and the infirm!
Healthy youthful persons should only be concerned with learning how to medically tend to the aged.
Indeed!
There will be plenty of time to experiment with things sexual when they can afford an annual supply of boner pills and one’s partner has saggy wrinkled body parts!
The very idea!
I am shocked!
You people should be ashamed…