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Though to be fair, the 00's "no homo" cop out in this scene is they've body swapped and that's a woman inside the alien at this point. It does lead to this line though:

This show has something really weird going about race. Cast is very white, but we constantly get lines like this:

trying to imagine someone explaining to a producer why the charges from a sex shop were work related and how buying the weirdest nipple clamps they could find was necessary for the art

The level of quality and number of bugs depends a lot on the era you're talking about, as well as the platform. As a PC gamer from the 90s, much of my technical literacy came about from trying to coax games to work. My experience with console gaming was usually much more hassle free, though I have far less experience with it and don't have a modern point of comparison (last console I even used, not even owned, was the PS3).

My real point of "it was better in the old days", is the industry learning to exploit addiction. It's everywhere, and it's not just gambling. The longer you play the more likely you are to pay so even without loot boxes and the like, games are taking as much out of casino playbooks as possible. It's fucking revolting and should be criminal.

As someone who has had problems with addiction of various kinds in the past, it's so blatant to me. I can feel it playing into my vulnerabilities and it makes my blood boil. I avoid most gaming these days because I know if I let it become a habit, the next time life knocks me down I'll fall victim to this.

Episode aired Aug 18, 2000

I honestly didn't realize the term was in pop-cultural usage that far back, god damn

Sorry was slow on dropping a comment, it's Farscape. A show where a cornfed american boyscout gets lost in a kinky australian polycule and gets increasing more deranged

I had forgotten just how weird the queerness was in Farscape. In my mind it was subtle, but no. A few episodes earlier we had another male actor stroking another's crotch while pinning him against the wall.

It's bringing up memories of how strange the vibe was in the 00's I'd just kind of memory holed too. Some of this is admittedly Farscape weirdness, but it's channeling a genuine element of gay repression and expression of the time.

EDIT: Everyone in this episode is bi as hell. Right after the character in the OP screenshot starts making out with a woman, then later that woman is making out with another woman. I loved this show as a kid, I am starting to think this show was a lot more formative for me than I gave it credit for lol.

Oh shit, I thought the color grading looked wrong last time I watched it (like ten years ago now lol) but just assumed I was misremembering how it looked the first time I saw it.

god it's so fucking funny

Ah damn, if I had waited two episodes before posting I'd have something to add. We've got some uncomfortable jokes about gender presentation and a very mild gay joke.

I don't think it's particularly egregious, especially given what was typical at this time, but we're presented with a character that is assumed to be a man as she looks just like a human male. There is a joke earlier on where the character undresses and the crew jokes about a certain lack down stairs.

At the end of the episode it's revealed that this is actually what women of her species look like and she professes her love for a male member of the crew, which is played as a joke. Another crew member who witnesses this then shortly after jokingly asks while flirting with a woman if she is really a female of her species. He is relieved when she says she is.

oh hey 12 episodes in and we get gay sex, for some reason i thought this was one of those shows that never went beyond subtext

it's not a literal sex scene, it's a horny alien mind meld, but they do straight up call it sex in dialogue

no attention is given to it being gay or it being weird, it just happens

i personally think it's all the actual fetish gear they use as costumes and props

So far I haven't noticed anything that ages it worse than other genre shows of that era. That's not to say there is nothing - it's kind of Whedon-y in a lot of ways, including strong "feminist" depictions of women clearly just being a fetish. Though honestly, the show is so horny I'm not sure they're trying to pretend it is anything else.