Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Except hundreds of people are willing to buy hundreds of copies of penis enlargement, breast enlargement, grow taller, weight loss, etc.  That kind of tells me that physical change subs aren't exactly going to be a non-starter.  

The issue is a combination of people can't see how it could work, so they don't think it will, and it doesn't have to do with sex or money, so it's not interesting.

I think you can't go wrong with money, sex and beauty/physical attractiveness related subs

Agreed.

I started a thread in the title suggestions section regarding sex-related subs. Anybody that has ideas, please post. Let's help Shannon get those creative juices flowing, help the business, and hopefully help his emotional state.

The key with sex related subs is that most of what I would like to do, I can't for one reason or another.  Not that I don't have the knowledge of how to do it. 

Consider this scenario.  Let's say I create a current gen aphrodisiac designed to generate massive sexual arousal, but not to point it at anyone in particular.  It needs an age limiter.  What happens if someone pirates it?  You know that's 330,835,640% likely.  So now I have the issue that I can focus on AP code, or I can focus on getting the results.  It is a very delicate balance to do both.  

Let's say some 11 year old kid gets his hands on it and plays it at his school.  The age limiter works for everyone except one girl, who resists it because "don't tell ME what to do!".  She gets turned on, one thing leads to another and they fuck.  She gets pregnant, and then blame starts falling out of the sky.  

Is he going to say, "Why yes, I pirated this program and played it in school, it's all my fault!  I take full responsibility for all of my actions, choices and the results thereof."?  Hell no.  He's going to try to blame me, because I made this evil subliminal that tempted him to do all these things.  Because why should he have to be responsible for his own actions and choices?  He's a kid, and everyone (at least in the United States, where I live) automatically assumes kids are 100% innocent these days.  Personal responsibility?  What's that?

That's likely to end up with news media coverage, because it's so unusual and sensational.  And then we have a negative light on subliminals in general, and we have the "news media" reporting how awful I am because I didn't take the time to prevent this from happening (you may have noticed that the news media is more than slightly divorced from facts and reality these days, so it doesn't matter if what they say is true or not, it just matters if they get the clicks and views they want, and to hell with whomever they hurt in the process).  

From there we have some SJW group or groups decide this opportunity for attention and pushing their agenda is too good to pass up, and all of a sudden we have one or more SJW movements in the news taking negatively about subliminals, IML and me, demanding new laws to protect the world from evil subliminals and the irresponsible, evil people who make them.  

This of course also makes the news, nationwide and internationally, and now the entire industry looks even worse.  Furthermore, we would then have legislators who know nothing about subliminals passing laws without consulting anyone who really knows what the hell they're talking about concerning subliminals (because really, it doesn't matter if you have a degree [even a PhD!] in psychology in most cases, it matters what experience you have with scripting and creating them and how much you have studied the effects and results they produce).  Then we have regulations that either severely cripple or kill the entire industry.

All because the world can't take any personal responsibility, and has gone mad this last decade or more.  

That's the sort of thing that worries me about making things like sex subs these days.

DAMN! Sounds like an industrial-strength amount of "Type 18 Resistance: Slippery Slope Thinking" based off your resistance FAQ thread there, sir. LOL...

Seriously, I hope the work on 5.75.5G will go smoothly today onward. Really looking forward to OF V2, it'll be so good to run while DMSI is being prepared!

You really think that my example is slippery slope thinking?  I think that for it to be slippery slope thinking, the probability of it actually happening has to be extremely low.  When it gets above the extremely low mark, what you're dealing with is not slippery slope thinking, it's cogent risk management.  What part of my example cannot happen?  What part is "extremely unlikely"?  Taken together I would say that the whole scenario has a chance of happening that would be high enough to attract gamblers.  Not extremely likely, but likely enough to be a serious threat, which I am at best very hesitant to take.  If you were in my shoes and you were not taking things like that seriously, I would call you a fool.  In today's day and age, nothing is impossible or safe anymore.  It's not slippery slope thinking, it's looking ahead to the worst case scenario to weigh what is a reasonable and safe path forward.  All of what I said is possible, 100% of it, and 80% of it is already true.  

Maybe things haven't gotten this bad in Canada, but the United States is currently going through a period of insanity the likes of which has never been seen before in our entire history of the nation, and in some specific cases, the history of the planet.  Normally, you'd be right, the scenario I espoused above would be slippery slope thinking. After all, it's sheer madness.  But at this point, I would be 0% surprised if such a thing actually happened.  In fact I would estimate that the actual probability of it happening would be somewhere between 1 and 15% likely right now.  Many of the things people are doing, choosing and believing right now - and I'm only talking about in the United States - are absolutely insane.  Granted, 1 to 15% isn't super likely, but I'm not going to have the consequences that follow to deal with because you and people like you didn't believe me.  

So until I can develop limiters that work so well that the probability of such an issue drops below 0.25%, or the insanity starts to fade out enough to do the same, I'm going to avoid putting myself at serious risk like that.