How we built the Waifu Vending Machine

Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by meruru on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:06PM (#20511863)

It really is just fun. I don't know why people insist in assuming malice.

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by Techonomicon on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:26PM (#20511951)

Doesn't have to have been made with any malice to still be creepy.

Because yea, it's creepy.

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by derefr on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:32PM (#20512201)

Or, to think of that another way, something doesn't have to be inherently creepy for someone to be creeped out by that thing. Sometimes disgust is a fact about the person who's disgusted, rather than a fact about the world.

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by visarga on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:03AM (#20512485)

Would it still have been creepy if it was called "Generative Portraits of Anime Girls" instead of "Waifu"? I bet people react just to the name.

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by meruru on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:32PM (#20511976)

Stop discrimination against creepy people!

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by XaoDaoCaoCao on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:49PM (#20512044)

Why don't you be more specific? If you get down to the guts of everything... It's all "creepy".

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Re:How we built the Waifu Vending Machine by claudiawerner on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:12AM (#20513975)

Many things appear "creepy" but that isn't any reason to think they're bad. In fact, creepiness can be good. Would you say a horror movie has done a good job if it failed to creep you out?

Are you sure that you aren't just using "creepy" to shut down non-traditional forms of private sexuality?

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