tomhow a day ago

Your comments are almost all of the kind that the guidelines ask us to avoid – i.e., combative and escalatory, rather than curious and kind. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe the if you want to participate here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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viraptor 2 days ago

If those 2 are in any way close in your mind... maybe think about why a cartoon character and explicit sexual image seem related? There's nothing weird about an anime cat girl for me, but also I don't see any relation to anything sexualised in it.

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mariusor 2 days ago

Mister simplex, having a preference for small internet to crumble under the shit LLM companies are piling upon it to being exposed once in a while to an inoffensive image of an anime character would make for a very worrisome direction of my priorities if I were you.

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petesergeant 2 days ago

> an anime cat-girl

> an animated cock and balls

You don't see a difference between these things?

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  • GaryBluto 2 days ago

    While it's a bit of an extreme comparison, they're both weird, unprofessional imagery associated with things you wouldn't wan to associate with a software project.

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    • lakecresva 2 days ago

      If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).

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      • squigz 2 days ago

        Because it's really about the type of people (they think) watch anime, and their inability to separate this preconception from reality.

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    • petesergeant 2 days ago

      I guess I'm not seeing the special category that an anime cat girl sits in. Is there some kind of sex implication I'm just not aware of? Linux has a penguin, FreeBSD has a devil(!), OpenBSD has a blowfish, Go has the weird Gopher thing, Gnome has a foot...

      Wikipedia suggests that there's an association with queer and trans youth, is that what's meant to make the cock-and-balls comparison work? But it also says it has a history back to 17th century Japan...

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