Stellar Blade (April 26th, PS5)

Rajaah said:

Are they still really doing that? I haven't seen anything in a bit. Though I'm not looking either. All I've seen lately have been good review scores for it and was under the impression that the people trying to shit on the game had backed down.



I...I noticed this. Having played every Pokemon game, the female leads in the last couple games (well, Scarlet/Violet mainly) are basically androgynous compared to the extremely feminine female leads of earlier Pokemon games. One does not need to be a pedo (or more accurately a heeb) to notice the outfits female Pokemon leads tended to prance around in. Part of me thinks they went to superdeformed POP figure chibi style for the Pokemon Diamond remakes just to avoid having to have a modern rendition of Dawn. Who is a sweet piece of ass and may or may not have helped me get through my younger days. Leave me alone.



Talking about the chick in the Star Wars game? I don't really see any problem with her, she looks like a normal rough-around-the-edges Han Solo type bounty hunter, like someone you'd run into in a bar while driving down Route 66. If she's "ugly" it's mostly because of the engine.

Here's a novel concept: If game devs want to make a rough-around-the-edges, or "regular person" character, that's okay. If they want to make a mouth-watering human lolipop like Eve, that's okay too. People could save a lot of energy not getting angry about everything. Problem is that in the media one "isn't okay" and the other is championed, which puts people on the defensive and generates the opposing reaction, creating this cycle of negativity.



I don't need to use or hear that word personally, it's a pretty shitty word. Not being able to use it is a very "woe is me" thing for anyone besides a free-speech absolutist (which I'm very close to being myself). We don't really need the ability to use one of the ugliest words ever, and debate over that word (not here necessarily but anywhere) detracts from better free speech arguments. Like I don't think anybody should be censored for going against news narratives and that it's a super-slippery slope. Censorious people come back with "you free speech people just want to use racial slurs! monsters!" and it's like... no, man. Least not most of us. We just want to retain the ability to tell the truth in the face of overwhelming media suppression.



TBH at this point I think the noose is more likely to be around Pepe. Thing is, Pepe's nationalist/traditionalist side might be stronger, tougher, much better-armed, better-trained in terms of knowing how to actually use an arm, have stronger convictions and moral frameworks, have more to fight for (marriages and children), and might even be more numerous (silent majority). By all accounts Pepe's side should easily win any cultural conflict. However, pink hair lady's side is better-organized, more willing to destroy, has less tying them down (marriages and children), isn't afraid of consequences, better-organized, has deep-throated support of media (except when they go up against one particular subject), isn't being demonized 24/7 by the TV, better-organized, and has the full approval of their own conscience to rid the world of evil. They'll have the noose around Pepe while he's still trying to figure out what's going on, via incremental divide-and-conquer.

TY for coming to my TED talk

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Mist said:

I just don't think titties-or-no-titties is some kind of meaningful, society-shifting political ponderance, especially from an Asian game.

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Mist said:

Video games have publishers? Weird.

And yes, I think editorial control by publishers is bad, but it is also not new.

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Mist said:

Video games have publishers? Weird.

And yes, I think editorial control by publishers is bad, but it is also not new.

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