Free porn game for Chinese to avoid virus

[GreenJesus]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/mirror/giveaway-china?amp

Game developer is offering a free porn game to chinese pc gamers so that they will stay inside. Possible the best vaccination method I have ever seen. Although, they were probably staying inside anyway.

Mod Edit: This thread is closed.

[Mistame]

Let's be honest, was there really a risk of those who play these types of games actually going outside?

[Vorkreist]

I bet the japanese will have a very limited exposure to the virus.

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how sad do you have to be to play a porn game?

As sad as an alt account made an hour ago.

[GreenJesus]

how sad do you have to be to play a porn game?

How sad do you have to be to judge people on a world of warcraft fan forum?

[shadowmouse]

The truly primative emoji available here drive me nuts! This is one that needs my WeChat sticker collection to be available so I can better express my feelings.

[Mister Cheese]

how sad do you have to be to play a porn game?

If you say you don't look at porn you're full of shit.

[Mistame]

The truly primative emoji available here drive me nuts!

Found your problem.

[shadowmouse]

Found your problem.

It is an environmental hazard. Most of my WeChat involves chatting in a high context environment, with ESL/EFL students, in a casual format.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Hahahaha WELL!

At least they are being creative.

[shadowmouse]

what is high context environment?

It is one way to describe *common* characteristics of cultures. Today, it is something that gets talked about in the context of international business. I've emphasized common, because there are plenty of individual quirks within those broader groups.

How people communicate with one another varies wildly from culture to culture. In our fully globalized times, it is more important than ever to understand these differences and where they come from. One way to reach such an understanding is through the high and low context culture framework, developed by anthropologist Edward T. Hall.

In 1976, Hall proposed that cultures can be divided into two categories—high context and low context. The concept has been a popular frame of reference since its introduction 40 years ago, and is used as a training tool to this day.

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES?

The differentiation between high and low context cultures is meant to highlight differences in how cultures communicate. High-context cultures will use communication that focuses on underlying context, meaning, and tone in the message, and not just the words themselves.

Countries that fall into this categorization are Japan, China, France, Spain, Brazil, and more.

On the flipside, low-context cultures expect communications to be explicitly stated so that there’s no risk of confusion, and if a message isn’t clear enough, it will slow down the process of communication. In the most extreme cases, leaving any sort of wiggle room for interpretation can be disastrous.

Some of the cultures that fall into low-context communication are Western cultures like the UK, Australia and the United States.

HIGH CONTEXT VS. LOW CONTEXT CULTURE CHARACTERISTICS

Cultures typically can’t be organized strictly into either high or low context. Most cultures fall between the extremes on the spectrum and can share characteristics of both high and low context traits to varying degrees.

Source: https://unitedlanguagegroup.com/blog...text-cultures/

Notice tone in the bolded part. Between themselves, my Chinese friends can rely on a shared set of symbols and implications, but my Chinese is about good enough for me to usually find the correct washroom and they're not native speakers of English. That's where WeChat stickers come in. Whipping messages back and forth, even between themselves, the Chinese often find signals for mood and tone helpful. There are times that much of an exchange ends up flipping stickers back and forth. Right now, with the virus there isn't much to say, so two of my quasi-adoptive daughters and several of my best friends, just send stickers to show we're hanging in there.

Here's another link that mentions some other ways to compare culture: http://changingminds.org/explanation...ll_culture.htm

[shadowmouse]

where would estonian and scandinavian culture fall on that?

The image for the chart I'm trying to link may or may not display for you. If it does, ignore the link below the image, they're the same. If it doesn't, try the direct link. I used the Bing search link for the image because those usually display.



https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...s_tbl1_4781353

Edit: Short answer, Sweden is usually scored fairly far out on low context. For Estonia, you'll need to look at charts and find the most comparable culture.

[Cosmic Janitor]

The truly primative emoji available here drive me nuts! This is one that needs my WeChat sticker collection to be available so I can better express my feelings.

https://media.tenor.com/images/9c661...d50e/tenor.gif

When I was young we just used to type "rofl" and if it was extremely funny suffix a "mao".

[Mistame]

When I was young we just used to type "rofl" and if it was extremely funny suffix a "mao".

I guess words are hard so some people need pictures.

[shadowmouse]

I guess words are hard so some people need pictures.

Now, think about this one very carefully ... how is Chinese written?

Here's a general article on a related point:

Still, scientists have been surprised at how deeply culture—the language we speak, the values we absorb—shapes the brain, and are rethinking findings derived from studies of Westerners. To take one recent example, a region behind the forehead called the medial prefrontal cortex supposedly represents the self: it is active when we ("we" being the Americans in the study) think of our own identity and traits. But with Chinese volunteers, the results were strikingly different. The "me" circuit hummed not only when they thought whether a particular adjective described themselves, but also when they considered whether it described their mother. The Westerners showed no such overlap between self and mom. Depending whether one lives in a culture that views the self as autonomous and unique or as connected to and part of a larger whole, this neural circuit takes on quite different functions.

"Cultural neuroscience," as this new field is called, is about discovering such differences. Some of the findings, as with the "me/mom" circuit, buttress longstanding notions of cultural differences. For instance, it is a cultural cliché that Westerners focus on individual objects while East Asians pay attention to context and background (another manifestation of the individualism-collectivism split). Sure enough, when shown complex, busy scenes, Asian-Americans and non-Asian--Americans recruited different brain regions. The Asians showed more activity in areas that process figure-ground relations—holistic context—while the Americans showed more activity in regions that recognize objects.

Psychologist Nalini Ambady of Tufts found something similar when she and colleagues showed drawings of people in a submissive pose (head down, shoulders hunched) or a dominant one (arms crossed, face forward) to Japanese and Americans. The brain's dopamine-fueled reward circuit became most active at the sight of the stance—dominant for Americans, submissive for Japanese—that each volunteer's culture most values, they reported in 2009. This raises an obvious chicken-and-egg question, but the smart money is on culture shaping the brain, not vice versa.

Cultural neuroscience wouldn't be making waves if it found neurobiological bases only for well-known cultural differences. It is also uncovering the unexpected. For instance, a 2006 study found that native Chinese speakers use a different region of the brain to do simple arithmetic (3 + 4) or decide which number is larger than native English speakers do, even though both use Arabic numerals. The Chinese use the circuits that process visual and spatial information and plan movements (the latter may be related to the use of the abacus). But English speakers use language circuits. It is as if the West conceives numbers as just words, but the East imbues them with symbolic, spatial freight. (Insert cliché about Asian math geniuses.) "One would think that neural processes involving basic mathematical computations are universal," says Ambady, but they "seem to be culture-specific."

Not to be the skunk at this party, but I think it's important to ask whether neuroscience reveals anything more than we already know from, say, anthropology. For instance, it's well known that East Asian cultures prize the collective over the individual, and that Americans do the opposite. Does identifying brain correlates of those values offer any extra insight? After all, it's not as if anyone thought those values are the result of something in the liver.

Ambady thinks cultural neuro-science does advance understanding. Take the me/mom finding, which, she argues, "attests to the strength of the overlap between self and [people close to you] in collectivistic cultures and the separation in individualistic cultures. It is important to push the analysis to the level of the brain." Especially when it shows how fundamental cultural differences are—so fundamental, perhaps, that "universal" notions such as human rights, democracy, and the like may be no such thing.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/how-differe...pe-brain-75289

And here's something more technical:

Behavioral and eye-tracking studies on cultural differences have found that while Westerners have a bias for analytic processing and attend more to face features, East Asians are more holistic and attend more to contextual scenes. In this neuroimaging study, we hypothesized that these culturally different visual processing styles would be associated with cultural differences in the selective activity of the fusiform regions for faces, and the parahippocampal and lingual regions for contextual stimuli. East Asians and Westerners passively viewed face and house stimuli during an functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment. As expected, we observed more selectivity for faces in Westerners in the left fusiform face area (FFA) reflecting a more analytic processing style. Additionally, Westerners showed bilateral activity to faces in the FFA whereas East Asians showed more right lateralization. In contrast, no cultural differences were detected in the parahippocampal place area (PPA), although there was a trend for East Asians to show greater house selectivity than Westerners in the lingual landmark area, consistent with more holistic processing in East Asians. These findings demonstrate group biases in Westerners and East Asians that operate on perceptual processing in the brain and are consistent with previous eye-tracking data that show cultural biases to faces.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894673/

Now, think about those things in the context of international business or international politics. Take this as a starting point:

Game theory was once hailed as a revolutionary interdisciplinary phenomenon bringing together psychology, mathematics, philosophy and an extensive mix of other academic areas. Some 20 game theorists have been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to the discipline; but beyond the academic level, is game theory actually applicable in today's world?

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/ans...y-business.asp

Look at those first two, think about how game theory is being used, and ask yourself ... how does the idea of a win/win solution work when those who are trying to achieve it aren't seeing things through the same filters, to the point it is reflected in brain activity? That's the point loosely referenced in the bolded portion of the first article and you'll see signs of how that might work in some of the disputes between our low context and high context posters. There are times that views get dismissed as the poster simply not getting it, and since these forums are primarily low context it is usually the high context poster who is said to not be getting it; however, I see little sign of anyone being aware that this is something that goes right down to the neural level.

Now, think about that in the context of international politics and people who have nukes.

When I was young we just used to type "rofl" and if it was extremely funny suffix a "mao".

You young fellows, zooming around in your roflcopters. In my day, if I wanted to shitpost, I had to go to a computer center and fire up PLATO. Up hill, both ways, in the snow!

[Ashleyxoxo]

It’s probably censored, better to get pr0n from other places.

[Aurrora]

I bet the japanese will have a very limited exposure to the virus.

I mean you say that, but they're the second most infected country now...

[Mistame]

Now, think about this one very carefully ... how is Chinese written?

Think about this carefully: We're typing in English. Not sure why you felt the need to go into another "education" rant about high-context language/culture in a conversation that is neither in or about high-context language/culture. I poked fun at your complaining about emojis because they're stupid and unnecessary when using the English language.

[shadowmouse]

Not sure why you felt the need to go into another "education" rant about high-context language/culture in a conversation that is neither in or about high-context language/culture.

Probably because somebody asked about it.

You, I know that you're comfortably entrenched in your narrow vision of the world. We're typing in English, but we're on a site that specifically has emoji, primative emoji but they're there. If we're writing for business or academia there is no need for emoji, but they specifically grew out of communications problems on forums ... English language forums. Today we say emoji because the Japanese fancied them up, but they used to be emoticons and they're American.

They were first used as a way of communicating emotions online in 1982. When it became difficult for people to tell the difference between jokes and serious posts on a Carnegie Mellon University digital message board, faculty member Scott Fahlman came up with a solution: Add the symbol :-) to denote humorous posts, and add the symbol :-( to serious ones. In his announcement about this proposal, he even specified readers to “read it sideways.”

Actually, the earliest versions go back to the late 1800s, to Puck magazine, an early American humor magazine that was in English. So, they are not only something that started out in English, they've also been around as an idea for more than a hundred years.

This forum is "in English" but it is international; the brains behind the eyes that are reading those English words aren't necessarily even firing the same connections, so "we're writing in English" is just poor communication. Hell, even among the native English speakers there are differences in perception, humor, and dialect. If people would bother to use emoji, there would be less miscommunication about things like sarcasm and irony. But then, that's why they were introduced.

As far as relevance to the thread? OP closed with You followed and also used I'm stuck in the middle of the virus outbreak that is the target for this game, and I think it is hilarious -- the doesn't really cut it, the Tuzki sticker makes it obvious. I had to go find something to do the job, because we have such a basic set that even my email (American) does it better. Given that this is an international forum, the awkwardness was enough for me to comment on.

[Mistame]

Probably because somebody asked about it.

Well most of it followed you quoting me, hence my comment.

As far as relevance to the thread? OP closed with You followed and also used I'm stuck in the middle of the virus outbreak that is the target for this game, and I think it is hilarious -- the doesn't really cut it, the Tuzki sticker makes it obvious. I had to go find something to do the job, because we have such a basic set that even my email (American) does it better. Given that this is an international forum, the awkwardness was enough for me to comment on.

Sure, in written format it can be difficult to know the tone or, in some cases, context of a given comment without some sort of clarification, but that's why we have words. A "/sarcasm" looks better than or something. And yes, I used a ":" followed by a "p" to note that I was being ornery. I don't have a problem with basic, text-based emoticons. The forum converting it to an image just means the forum is evil. Oh well. At least they're a little better than "memes".

[Freighter]

Why would anyone play a porn game in the first place?