It's half-past 1 AM here, but based on what I read, I think Deathworks was attempting an abstract overview of the arguments presented in halfhearted protest to the idea of incorporating feces into the game:
Secondly, like it or not, we are influenced by our everyday experiences, and fecal humor is about the lowest, cheapest humor I know of presented for immature boys in its own subgenre in manga and basically nowhere else except some extreme erotic material or maybe an occasional bit of hospital criticism. All the other extreme subjects we encounter in Dwarf Fortress and the discussions here either have no common image at all ("magma" is not a regular in average popular media) or have a wider or even positive application in popular culture ("violence" and "evilness" are common feature in most of our average entertainment as well, and also a hallmark of things like anti-war media, which therefore give the concepts the potential for a positive reading). That is the difference I see between it and any other aspects we have.
From what I understood, here he says that fecal humor is for the immature and presented only in some manga and 2girls1cup-esque porn... and that the other "extreme" subjects -- I'm assuming gore, for I can think of little else -- have no "common image", or occur that frequently (?), or occur
very frequently and even positively in popular culture before listing "violence and "evilness" as examples in common entertainment or crude cudgels used by anti-war activists to depict troops.
I imagine. Which "make for positive reading" (I'm assuming this is said to contrast feces, which does
not make for positive reading, coalescing with the final sentence regarding their differences).
Third, yes, the internet is large. Thanks to governments using child pornography as a means to get their censorship legislation into place instead of making agreements to internationally persecute child molestors and in doing so shut down the offending sites, it is also probably full of child pornography. Do you want nearly every thread to contain at least one person showing off some photos of a real life child getting raped? Yes, it is out there, but do we want to have it here? And even if you don't want to go for such illegal things, I am sure that among the tons of pornography/erotic on the internet, there are things that will make you sick as well. They are there, but do you want to see them in unrelated threads here on the forums, just because someone considers them a cool "meme"?
Here he takes a different road on the internet's baser content and apparently accuses governments for using that content (i.e. child porn) as a scapegoat for passing censorship legislation to sites instead of micromanaging each case of such content on these sites -- and I'm presuming the sites on hand here are torrent sites or boards like 4chan -- internationally (a thing, frankly, impossible for a number of reasons). He then goes on to question the reader if the cost of allowing these sites to
be (thereby, allowing said bad content to exist because he's already defined it as an inevitability of these sites) is worth it, which is puzzling, because he first bids the reader sympathy for a medium polluted by a few bad apples resulting in strict government enaction to suppress it completely before justifying that harsh and unreasonable means-to-an-end, after all. He finishes this paragraph with embellishing the potential for bad content and whether or not you want it in an unrelated forum thread simply because it exists for someone to find it a "cool meme" and eventually bring it up. Quite frankly, though, were the two even this comparable I would find a reference to poop much more tolerable than, say, a fun picture of a child being raped here and again.
And the problem with feces is that they are likely to be as flexible as magma, so that "Apply poo!" probably would work as well and as versatile as "Apply magma!". Therefore, it is likely that it will be spread around just like blood and other contaminants are spread around in the game, until you have everything covered in it.
Finally, he takes a more direct approach by pointing out that feces could be as useful or "flexible" as magma and, because of this, it's likely that it will spread around like blood or vomit (?). Last I checked, however, my dwarves nor rooms happen to be coated in blood or vomit (not that it even applies to feces if they occupy a single tile, such as under a toilet, as opposed to spilling haphazardly when elicited by a given action -- a steel sword gutting a dwarf in the case of blood; a dwarf seeing daylight for the first time in the case of vomit), but when there happens to be a bit of it somewhere, my dwarves usually clean it up.
Was I in the ballpark at all? And if so, proceed.
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