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Why women criticise sexualised character designs |OT2| I have no pants and I must scream (READ OP)
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I didn't notice this until now...oh no...I already have a crippling Factorio addiction...RIP me
I know, but I'm not super keen on going back through the videos to see which character it was. LOL
Yes! It got really funny fast because the Let's Player had her in the party, and he stopped and made a comment about the physics.
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...Chole and Nadine...I ship it...
This thread is great at reminding me to stay away from XB2. :D
Aw yiss Lady Maria.
It's not in the store yet, is it? I can only find the 2018 one.
Edit: Never mind, got it from the dedicated thread.
Sony's International Women's Day dynamic theme for the PS4
Aw yiss Lady Maria.
It's not in the store yet, is it? I can only find the 2018 one.
Edit: Never mind, got it from the dedicated thread.
Seems to only been in the Australian store at the moment.
I swear cassie looks straight out of ME:Andromeda lolContinuing the MK11 redesigns
MKX Cassie
MK11 Cassie
Thank you for posting this. I think I'll try to check out the animes listed that actually had positive representation.
Who's the woman on the left? She looks familiar...Sony's International Women's Day dynamic theme for the PS4
Huh? Could have sworn I saw her on a box cover. Thank you.
She's part of The Old Hunters DLC. They actually made her the keyart for it
Every moment i see Kat hasn't been forgotten puts a smile on my faveSony's International Women's Day dynamic theme for the PS4
Borrow one, then. You don't have any friends who own one?
You know, Platy, you really are the last of us to figure that out. :V
I know we weren't bringing up anime, but what does everyone think of Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous? The gems are all genderless and sexless, and it's basically as elegant and striking as something like Revolutionary Girl Utena (including the characters, my goodness), and I think the text practically begs for a feminist reading. That said, there is arguably light 'fanservice', and the gems are arguably coded female, at least in the anime, in virtue of having female VOs. But really my ulterior motive for bringing it up is to possibly convince some people that it might be an exception, because as a whole I think it's brilliant and I can't stop thinking about it. I just also thought that it has a pretty distinctive feminine sensibility that may be of interest. Though probably more so in the case of the manga overall.
But it's pretty sad, so be forewarned. But to speak to its potency, Cinnabar's story emotionally wrecked me in the first episode.
But it's pretty sad, so be forewarned. But to speak to its potency, Cinnabar's story emotionally wrecked me in the first episode.
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Freya's cheating lolSony's International Women's Day dynamic theme for the PS4
This is so cool. Where can I get it??Sony's International Women's Day dynamic theme for the PS4
Land of the Lustrous is great, it's been talked about extensively. The dub is also awesome. In some ways I think it's better because vagaries in the Japanese are made much clearer.
I actually find this is the case with a lot of anime dubs, and I can't tell if this is because of a language gap or if it's because the language has to be more straightforward in order to match-up with the VO work.
I don't think Land of the Lustrous is as good as Utena, but I'd say it's got potential to be a classic. As a 3D anime, it's definitely a classic, and visually it's stunning and so much more unique than anything else released in recent memory.
As far as boob plates go I'd say those are pretty reasonable. Great updates overall.Jacqui Bridges currently is probably the most suspect Mortal Kombat character...which given how it used to be is quite the statement
Like, boob plates and all but it's still a lot better than most of the MK cast in previous games.
Ellie smiling is the opposite of a cursed image. Also poor dreams bear got the axe, lol.
Nintendo needs to do some official art like this.
The dub does seem good. From watching the first episode, the only performance I wasn't that crazy about was Kongo's, but that's a role so subtle it borders on being flat. I might not be fully sold on Diamond, either, but they're sort of my fav (side character) so I'm probably just being persnickety lol. I hadn't noticed much difference between the subs and dubs in terms of syntax or semantics, though. Or rather, I think the dub made some things seem clearer or more impactful, and others less.
I don't think it's as good as Utena, or rather, Utena is this extremely bold thing, like some kind of weird and striking post-modernist feminist fairytale. But I think LotL has quite a bit of that graceful 90s shoujo look, and while Utena has a lot of existentialist themes, LotL through a lot of analogy or symbolism in the physiology of the gems, what Kongo's real deal is, etc, somehow makes those same questions feel new, and thus have a renewed sense of importance. But there's also some surprising similarities between Phos and Utena and Cinnabar and Anthy. Both of the latter are in a state of stasis that is almost like a living death, that they have to remain in in order to protect themselves, and the both of the former are the heroic archetype, risking personal corruption and death to save them. But they're obviously really different, too. Phos is ship of Theseus-ing themselves to the point that it's much more a tragedy than a fairytale...
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I haven't seen a single episode of this, but a friend once told me about it and how the mix of cgi and 2d is awesome and when I tryed to know more ....google showed me a clip of the gems all breaking which sounded a little too much "this is for people who liked the girls suffering in madoka..." and ... Steven Universe laughs at how every gem has the EXACT same body type
It's not really like Madoka at all imo, having seen both. The characters in Land of the Lustrous have really human relationships and motivations. In Madoka in comparison it's bad stuff happening to them repeatedly imo. In LotL even the majority of the many side characters that you see briefly seem to either have personal struggles or something special about them. And those very things you mention actually fit into the feminist reading that I think it elicits, particularly why the gems are fighting for their lives. And since it doesn't seem like you want to watch it anyways, I could post spoilers:
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Kongo is responsible for them having to defend themselves from the Lunarians, Phos the main character is essentially forced to turn against him, but it's also way more complicated than that and at this point unresolved. Kongo is textually both a savior figure and a paternalistic figure all at once and it really seems like this is done consciously and intelligently on the part of the author. We also learn that Kongo shapes the gems after they're born, chips off their imperfections to make them all the same. One character says that he's kind to do so, but Phos, the main character, says "I'm not so sure..." Mirroring the paternalistic thing, the gems are all pretty innocent, but later on one of the gems (who aren't sexual) is apparently being groomed, and it's supposed to be about how creepy and bad that kind of power imbalance is, which apparently the author has written about before. The feminism is right there in the text imo.
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More details, who is who here and is one of them Native American?Gears 4 man:
I often feel like I'm the only person in this forum that appreciates what this game tried to do.
Bear in mind that the gems are largely flippant about breaking because they can be put together again with little adverse effects as long as there's no huge chunks missing. The main character, Phosphophyllite, is a gem with low hardness rating. They break quite a lot in the early chapters and the general reactions were "oh, not again."
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This, too. I also just never thought that the dramatic use of it ever felt voyeuristic or sadistic.
I meant his armor looks pretty slim on the outside, you can't be much more than skin and bones if you want to wear it.
I failed at making a bad joke!
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