Pour one out for a real one

It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I always felt like she was kind of shooting fish in a barrel. It used to be really rare for games to have nuanced, good writing and it's still kinda rare. It wasn't that long ago that any depiction of a woman in a game required enormous cleavage and the ability to perv on her. Metal Gear Solid games have modes where you can make a woman do risque poses and take photos of her. There's a Hitman game where you fight against sexy nuns in bondage gear.

    That stuff still exists but I think there are a lot broader depictions of women now. We're living in a simultaneous golden age and dark age for games. It's weird. There have never been so many charming, innovative indie games as right now. There are even games with good politics.

    So I'd like to think at least Sarkeesian was part of that, helping to let people know games didn't have to be about grunting white man looking at tits and shooting a gun.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      How DARE YOU talk shit about MGS when you're absolutely right and the series has a bad track record for treating woman characters.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        no, no, you see she breaths through her skin like a plant. this absolutely is a better explanation than just admitting i was randy while designing the character

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          wojak-nooo nooooo it makes sense in the lore!! you will be ashamed of your words and deeds!!! - kojima

          vs

          gigachad-hd i like looking at pretty girls lol - nier developer

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Drakengard had some pretty gross gender essentialist lowkey misogyny to it, and the sequel was even worse with its waifu-sex-bond magic, though. kombucha-disgust

            • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              yeah, obviously that shit is very bad, BUT the horny fuck is honest about his character design

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        BOMB IN VAGINA BECAUSE THE FEEEMALE SINNED is not a misogynist concept very-intelligent

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I didn't even know that part. And freeze-gamer were that militant about how there was nothing fucked up about the fiction, because something something not condoning it the historical documents in the fiction simply require 15 year olds in lingerie with bombs in their vaginas changing the sacred canon in any way is wokescolding touch grass touch grass very-intelligent

          • neo [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Time to get technically correct in this here comments section about a video game but she was in her 20s. she was presented as, by both the character who introduced her, and by her character's design, as being 16 years old. But being a high school student was her cover as an agent of Cipher.

            NEVERTHELESS, because the game presents her as being 16 years old -- all that lingerie stuff and the date is weird pedo shit.