There was pandering shit like "ninja high school girls" and all that in the 90s and before, but yeah, it generally had to come up with contrivances to make hikkikomori and otaku watch while getting off to it.
The product's been refined, cut, processed, and concentrated the way that honey gave way to sugarcane gave way to refined sugar gave way to corn syrup gave way to HFCS.
It went from "wow this cartoon has naked ladies" to increasingly pandering and hedonic treadmill accelerating wish fulfillment power fantasies. "Oops, that ego insert fell into a video game world where metagame manipulation makes him a captain of industry and a god among NPCs that receives infinite slave sex and is praised for it!" :pathetic:
There's something deeply fucked up and fascistic about the power fantasy itself even in its sexual indulgences: at no point do the modern fantasies even want a woman to consciously fall in love with a man. They want a less-than-human easily manipulable "NPC" that superficially "loves" them but without even the benefit of being as conscious or self-determined as the ego-insert protagonist. It's bleak and empty as a fantasy, even within the context of a fantasy, seemingly intentionally, and they're fine with it. :kombucha-disgust:
There was pandering shit like "ninja high school girls" and all that in the 90s and before, but yeah, it generally had to come up with contrivances to make hikkikomori and otaku watch while getting off to it.
The product's been refined, cut, processed, and concentrated the way that honey gave way to sugarcane gave way to refined sugar gave way to corn syrup gave way to HFCS.
It went from "wow this cartoon has naked ladies" to increasingly pandering and hedonic treadmill accelerating wish fulfillment power fantasies. "Oops, that ego insert fell into a video game world where metagame manipulation makes him a captain of industry and a god among NPCs that receives infinite slave sex and is praised for it!" :pathetic:
There's something deeply fucked up and fascistic about the power fantasy itself even in its sexual indulgences: at no point do the modern fantasies even want a woman to consciously fall in love with a man. They want a less-than-human easily manipulable "NPC" that superficially "loves" them but without even the benefit of being as conscious or self-determined as the ego-insert protagonist. It's bleak and empty as a fantasy, even within the context of a fantasy, seemingly intentionally, and they're fine with it. :kombucha-disgust: