Wow I finally know what Gooning is and I hate it
I was just having a dumb comvo with the wife while she was playing arkham city about why goons would work for supervillains at all, and if we were gonna goon which villians would be best. Among the villians of that game it seems they'll all kill you for no reason so she picked poison ivy to be an eco-terrorist and i picked joker because of all the arts and crafts id get to do behind the scenes. I think he's got the most panache and creativity. With all the sets he needs built and face-painting and such there must be room for a non batman-facing art department gig
It is funny to think about the actual labor that goes into this stuff. Like do you think bruce wayne spent a month hanging off the bridge support painting his symbol in some kind of water-resistant flammable chemical? No, it must have been his invisible art department.
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I thought that was henching, we really need to sort out these terms
No henching is some real perv shit that hasn't broken into Internet consciousness yet
No fap and the whole new age mystical sex retention nonsense is a cancer on society.
I've heard it turns you blind, makes your palms hairy and causes insanity and moral degradation
I think with anything sexual there's a tendency for many people to either overstate or understate the effects, and to some extent reverse cause and effect — that because of the taboo around sex that people can't think about sex with a cool head. Like I listen to HealthyGamer's concerns about gooning, and to me it doesn't really seem like there is much of anything fundamentally new or inherently bad about it, that the main problem with gooning is really just the context it exists within of this whole patriarchal masculinity in service of capitalism. Take that context away and all you're really left with in gooning is a specific way of getting yourself off, which might cause harm under certain conditions or when done in excess, but like, you can say the same about most things.
Something that stood out to me about HealthyGamer's concerns was how he was talking about, like, if you get your sexual needs met by yourself you'll be disincentivized from getting your sexual needs met from other people — that bit struck me as kind of "allonormative" is maybe the word I'm looking for. Not that I think most gooners are a-spec or anything like that, but I still feel like the way HealthyGamer was talking, kind of implied or reinforced this idea that it is somehow necessary for people to be sexually and romantically attracted to others, and that being able to fulfill your sexual needs entirely by yourself is somehow unnatural or necessarily bad.
Awww fuck what the hell is “gooning”
Shit fuck this is another internet thing that I don’t get. I’m getting old, can’t deny it any longer
I tried to ask copilot this question just to see what it would say and it started actually answering it correctly but once it was about a sentence and a half in, it immediately replaced all the text with "let’s try a different topic"
if you really want to know (from what I know)
it's basically edging for an extended period, sometimes for multiple hours)
Great! Presumably used in the context of pron and another thing destroying brains that we’ve collectively turned into a meme along with microplastics
Death to western society as always
The serious gooners will have "goon caves" where they have like a 180 degree radius of screens around them with different videos playing.
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