Guaranteed the word “woke” will be thrown around left and right

  • Lauchmelder@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    The thing is though, they don’t care about women in video games, they just care about “ugly” women in video games. as long as they can look at an hourglass shaped woman with massive curves in a skinsuit they don’t mind.

    don’t go down the rabbit hole of “fixing female characters”…

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        9 days ago

        yes I really liked it. Even the analysis/hypothesis that it really is the moment of „not getting pandered to“ that enrages that demographic. Any moment they do not feel like the target audience they take grave offense.

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      8 days ago

      The thing is though, they don’t care about women in video games, they just care about “ugly” women in video games.

      Welcome to 2024, where preferring art to not be that is not ugly is despicable behavior.

      I know most left leaning people aren’t this extreme, but this really gives them a bad image and puts off a lot of people. Especially when the non extreme people jump to the defense out of the feeling that opposing extremes is the same as promoting the right.

      EDIT: Change wording for clarity.

      • Lauchmelder@feddit.org
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        8 days ago

        You conveniently ignored the quotes around “ugly” to go on your little rant there. These people already flip their shit when the woman is a mere mortal normal looking woman and not the perfectly shaped ridiculously curvy imperfection-free woman that incels think is the gold standard of attractiveness. Point in case: Star Wars Outlaws bad, Stellar Blade good

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          8 days ago

          So they like their art to not be average looking, big deal. Different people have different preferences. If you prefer more average looking women, than say so and leave it at that. No need to belittle other peoples preferences or push your preferences onto others.

          • Lauchmelder@feddit.org
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            8 days ago

            Yeah I guess we should just let people keep over analyzing the women in video games, pointing out every single imperfection, every pimple, every asymetry because thats what incels do. I’m sure the women in the real world love that behaviour 🤠 maybe you try talking to a women and see how she likes the portrayal of women in video games, and the coomers consuming said games

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              Yeah I guess we should just let people keep over analyzing the women in video games, pointing out every single imperfection, every pimple, every asymetry

              Yes, you should let other people analyze whatever they feel like analyzing.

              because thats what incels do. I’m sure the women in the real world love that behaviour 🤠

              What does that have to do with you? If they want to stay incels, that is their problem.

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                8 days ago

                I’m not gonna keep arguing because you’re clearly not interested in thinking about how the portrayal of women in media affects societies perception of women in real life. I urge you to take my advice and talk to women 🤠

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                  you’re clearly not interested in thinking about how the portrayal of women in media affects societies perception of women in real life.

                  About as much as seeing violence in games is causing real life violence? Sane people can distinguish a game from reality.

                  I urge you to take my advice and talk to women 🤠

                  Shock and horror, they don’t bring this topic up. Those that talk about political topics with me have real issues they care about.

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                    8 days ago

                    Clearly only one bad thing exists, sorry my bad.

                    One last try of getting you to understand this: when you go around and point out every single flaw in a female characters design you are setting a beauty standard for what a woman should look like (one that is most likely completely unrealistic anyways). letting people keep bullying game studios into designing their characters that way just reinforces that image. you’re essentially saying “a woman isn’t worth being in my art unless she adheres to these unrealistic standards”. women have imperfection, news flash.

                    it makes even less sense because male characters usually aren’t held to the same standards. it’s because gamers (mostly men themselves) don’t care about male characters because they’re not trying to satisfy their sexual frustration through them.

                    and it makes even less sense when the female character in question is living in a literal wasteland or on a dangerous quest. Senua has better things to do than perfecting her outfit, makeup and getting a plastic surgery to appease some lonely men in front of the screens.

                    the “art” as you call it is just gooning material for lonely men

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        8 days ago

        Dude, a lot of the most highly praised art in this world is weird and usually “ugly.” Art has nothing to do with being something you can masturbate to.

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          8 days ago

          And this kind of shit is what I was talking about in the first place. Now it can’t even be art because it looks too lewd to you. Art is subjective, if you prefer

          weird and usually “ugly.”

          art, that is perfectly fine. But you don’t get to dictate what art other people like or what other people consider art.

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            What? It can be lewd too. Wtf? Art can be anything. You are the one that implied it has to be “beautiful.” Hell no. You don’t get to both act like you’re the dictator of art and that other people are actually being too strict with art. Art is whatever the creator wants it to be. You don’t get to decide that just because you can’t masturbate to the character that it isn’t art.

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              What? It can be lewd too. Wtf? Art can be anything. You are the one that implied it has to be “beautiful.”

              I did not intend to imply anything of the sorts.

              I intended to say it is perfectly fine to like and dislike any art you want. And it is your right to voice criticism of the art you dislike.

              I kind of see how it could be interpreted that way and will edit the comment.

              Art has nothing to do with being something you can masturbate to.

              I also misunderstood this to mean something you masturbate to can’t be art. :(

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                8 days ago

                Yeah, that’s correct. You can like or dislike any art. The people arguing it must only have sexy women or it’s bad are in the wrong. You can like sexy women, but that’s not a requirement and has a totally different set of goals to The Witcher 4 presumably.

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                  7 days ago

                  Yeah, that’s correct. You can like or dislike any art. The people arguing it must only have sexy women or it’s bad are in the wrong.

                  Yes, you are correct. But that is a small minority of trolls.

                  What most people protest against is that publishers like Sony force censorship on developers and that self proclaimed “DEI consultancy” firms, “game journalists”, and other people lobby, pressure and extort developers to make characters uglier.

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                    7 days ago

                    I highly doubt it. You’re pulling shit out of your ass, or listening to other people pulling shit out of their ass.