• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    1 month ago

    Unless you’ve got great blackout curtains, you can only ride that thang until the dawn. So… still pretty good!

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        3 days ago

        Those are crazy! Like garage doors for your doors! I have never seen those before (Midwest USA haha), but I would love some.

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            I live in a building of 140 flats and nobody has shutters. Next door building, even taller, is the same. The flat I lived in before this one also had no shutters. My parents’ single-family house doesn’t either. I was always fascinated by shutters on windows when I stayed at a friend’s house as a kid. Come to think of it, I’ve never had shutters on any windows on any building I’ve ever lived in. My in-laws’ house does have shutters so there’s that.

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              Wow, that’s weird. I genuinely believe nearly every (German) home/apartment/room I’ve ever visited had shutters.

              In my apartment complex with ~30 (?) flats I don’t know whether everyone has shutters - but I do know all flats on the other side of the street have them (because I actually look at them in the evening) and my nearest neighbors considering I can clearly hear multiple one’s going down in the evening/up in the morning.

              Maybe it’s a regional thing? I live in the South and shutters are everywhere.

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                1 month ago

                Just so you know, feddit.org is a German instance, so your interlocutor is probably German as well.

                And the shutters are certainly not common outside of Germany. I’ve not had them at any place I’ve lived in Australia, Korea, or Vietnam. Same with that famous German double-opening window. It’s fantastic, and the rest of the world should adopt them, but should does not mean has.

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                  Technically feddit.org is a German speaking instance - it’s operated/owned/managed in Austria.

                  I wouldn’t have been too surprised if having rolling shutters was only uncommon in other countries. But the fact they aren’t ubiquitous in Germany was a genuine surprise. It’s as if there were regions without those windows you mentioned - which do exist apparently in the North according to Wikipedia.

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        Canadian, never seen those except for commercial storefronts. Not once have I seen those on residential buildings.

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        I’ve seen these covering store fronts in some cities. However, they’re only on the first floor and are usually covered in graffiti. Everywhere else? Maybe, maybe in some beach-front properties, but that’s it.

        The vast majority of homes and apartments I’ve lived around (northeastern US) do not have rolling shutters. If there are any shutters at all, they are the kind that goes alongside windows, and are likely to be purely decorative. Older properties may have shutters that were originally designed to close, but most people treat those decoratively too.

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          Over here - at least in Southern Germany - rolling shutters are the norm. The main reason I imagine is improving energy efficiency because heating is expensive. This is basically what your average multi-story apartment building looks like:

          Basically all windows have rolling shutters. The same applies to your average single family home. You might have to zoom in to see the rolling shutters in their opened position:

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            The main reason I imagine is improving energy efficiency because heating is expensive.

            Do you still luften?

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            I think it is more sun protection in the summer, plus they are quite useful for, well, blocking out lights and noise at night. Modern windows are pretty damn energy efficient, and old shutters were drafty as hell.

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        Not me. Where I live it’s more common to have window blinds, which are okay, but still let a pretty good amount of light in when fully closed

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          Well, how much light does it take to kill a vampire? A single photon? And what kind of vampire is it, bc for example Bram Stoker’s Dracula was ok with being outside in daylight.

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            I couldn’t tell you how much light it takes to kill a vampire, but the amount of light coming through my blinds would probably do it

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    I mean, if we are going with that, than you’re still gonna run into, at some point, the problem of maintaining uh… well, adequate bloodflow/pressure to the disco stick.

    So… sure, sure, you can keep going, assuming you can handle them augmenting their blood flow with your own.

    At that point this begins to remind me of the mouse with the electrode hooked up to the pleasure center of its brain, just keeps pushing the button until it starves to death.

    Sooo… should you just fully donate your own entire blood supply…well, what are vampire rules on the consentability of corpses?

    Can they enter a room or home with no specific owner?

    … I think they can.

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      Can they enter a room or home with no specific owner?

      I assume the permission you gave them to get them into that scenario to begin with doesn’t get revoked once you die. Or does it? Vsauce theme Does the permission pass to your heirs? Can your child or spouse just show up and evict the vampire using that logic? What if the vampire doesn’t just kill you but turns you?

      More important question though we’re all missing here: can vampires even cum? You assumed in your comment that they can maintain bloodflow by using the blood of their victims/consenting partners/wtv. but that logic wouldn’t extend to sperm production. Unless they sucked a ton of cock beforehand and absorbed that as well.

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        So… ok, being serious, there are no … 100% detailed and fully agreed upon definition of what a vampire is, what rules they play by.

        They’re a trope, a legendary class of creatures.

        That being said, my general understanding is that a Vamp can go into a public space, an abandoned house, basically anything that does not explicitly have a private owner, is not a private place, a domicile… and very often the body is treated essentially as a thing that your “soul” possesses, via very similar logic… but this varies across time, space, and culture.


        As to specifically, technically how this works in more complex scenarios… we are now talking something like supernatural vampiric legal theory.

        Fucking, I dunno lol.

        The original Dracula has a whole lot more going on with basically blood purity, a whole bunch more of the plot revolves around basically the nobility / whiteness of the blood of other characters.

        So you could maybe make a canonical argument that vampires are basically all eugenecists / scientific racists, something like that, and that would affect their uh, legal theory, to figure out exactly how primogeniture works.


        As to the vampiric capacity to bust a milky nut:

        I… don’t see why they would not be basically normal humans in that regard.

        Granted, I am less familiar with more modern YA vampire romance type stuff… but I would be willing to bet someone has written an extensive fan fic that is basically twilight + 50 shades of gray, apparently mythical beast smut, err, I mean, “romantasy” is a very popular genre these days, but I haven’t read much of it myself.

        But uh:

        You can keep riding an engorged, post nut cock, if the guy can maintain the erection, has done his kegels, has strongly developed pelvic floor muscles, is in good shape, has a healthy heart and good blood flow, can keep it up through the refractory period, etc… you can induce priapism via too much viagra or other means… hell, you might be able to induce it via targetted electric shocks…

        Presumably, if a vampire has … either via normal human anatomical methods, or supernatural strength/control, to grant them the ability to withstand edging and control the nut release, then all they have to anatomically worry about is the ability to maintain erection.

        Sure they wouldn’t be able to just endlessly pump ropes unless we also say that sperm follows similar rules as blood absorbtion, but the idea I am trying to go for is that they can just contain their demon seed untill the reciever literally kills themself / allows themself to die, at which point the vampire has a meganut, literally getting off on knowing that their partner/victim is unable to experience it, due to being dead.

        Who’s really edging who, kind of thing.