I haven't really played much Pokemon since I was a kid.. but I guess I always really liked Squirtle and the evolutions.Since this has become a pokémon thread now, my favourite pokémon is Ludicolo
Even though some of the female versions are very dumb, like Wobbuffet and Frillish/JellicentOne thing I appreciate about Pokemon is that the males and females look exactly the same (with a few exceptions).
I muted it on my social media feeds just like when any kind of annoying game culture war thing happens, while still expecting some to get past the filters as usual, and...they just didn't. It was like a few days at most, the second the chuds moved on and stopped boosting it to high heavens I haven't seen a lick of it.Stellar Blade kind of just came and went? Or is it just my imagination? Doesn't seem to be lighting up the charts or anything either.
There's a lot of weird gender stuff with Pokémon, I think it all started in Gen IV and they made it retroactive. Minus obvious stuff like the Nidos in earlier gens.
Yes, it became a thing in Gen 5 and later, some examples like i said there's Frillish and it's evolution Jellicent
There's a lot of weird gender stuff with Pokémon, I think it all started in Gen IV and they made it retroactive. Minus obvious stuff like the Nidos in earlier gens.
Gender Game Mechanics - Serebii.net
Full details and lists on all details about Pokémon Genders and their affects on Pokémonwww.serebii.net
Yeah, I really like some of the subtle ones (again, Eevee), but the new ones tend to be around that level of that one graphic about sexual dimorphism in fantasy player character races.The weird thing is that despite introducing and adding the gender differences to like 20 Pokemon per generation they basically stopped and now only do around 1-3 per gen and the differences are basically in your face
Since we're all on a Pokemon kick...I'll share a piece of artwork that I had commissioned by an artist friend of a Pokemon OC that I wanted made with her pokemon for myself recently.
Female Pikachu have a cute heart shaped tail!
Oh god, I vaguely remember all this now that you mention it. Primarina's gorgeous and didn't deserve that flak.To tangentially bring pokemon to the thread topic, I just always think back to the early reactions of the alola starters first leaking. Primarina was so detested for being too feminine, and dozens of fan made evolutions got made of an alternate male evolution line. Then Brionne got revealed, and the hope was shattered for the people that had to deal with the fact that Primarina was it. Also in reverse to an extent with people making fem evolution designs for Litten because Incineroar can't possibly be female.
I don't mind it, since it adds a bit of character to them, but it would be neat to have a boy Pikachu with a heart-shaped tail. Maybe just make it random regardless of gender, kinda like shinies (but way more common).The gendering of Pikachu and Eevee is something that I did kind of notice in more recent games, but I can't say I've thought much about it besides just seeing it. Now I'm just thinking about how weird and unnecessary it is.
Anyway, I must like Pokemon that are a little spiky and a little cute, because my favourites are Jolteon, Gengar and Typhlosion.
The gendering of Pikachu and Eevee is something that I did kind of notice in more recent games, but I can't say I've thought much about it besides just seeing it. Now I'm just thinking about how weird and unnecessary it is.
Anyway, I must like Pokemon that are a little spiky and a little cute, because my favourites are Jolteon, Gengar and Typhlosion.
Now Azumarril on the otherhand...
I've been watching this thread for a while and now finally feel I have something to contribute....since I haven't seen love for Mega Ampharos yet!
That glorious mane!
Since we've been talking Pikachu here's one of my favourite Pokemon card illustrations of the lil guy (note the heart the light makes between their heads):
Also on female Pikachu (which I think is cute fwiw) the opening of the Pokemon store in Kanazawa also gave away this cute kimono Pikachu card:
Chandelure is an absolute classic. One of the few gen 5 pokemon even genwunners admitted to like.I missed the Pokemon train when I was younger since it felt like an expensive hobby I couldn't ask the parentals for at the time... but I still find some Pokemon really cute from a distance! I like this one:
I'm almost done with the FEAR trilogy, and I've got plenty to say about the series on the topic (I know, I know, what can we expect from a shooter from the mid 00s, but is it too much to ask for a game to treat women like human beings?). In general, the series strikes me as quite misogynistic, and not only because the entire premise is deeply rooted in misogyny (I'll discuss it in the Alma section), but I also think that a few things were done right. There will be mild spoilers, and I'll hide the heavy ones:
- Apparently, only men can join the Delta Force, although that was a bit retconned in the sequel as girls were also involved in the
experiments done by that elementary school. Yay, equality.
- Alice from the first game wasn't quite a damsel in distress, but when she wanted to do things her way, that was portrayed in a negative light.
- The language. A lot of misogynistic language in the first two games. That was very off-putting. Some of it is also directed at actual women, so it's not just a random 'bitch' here and there.
- I liked the characters of Jin and Stokes, and Stokes was easily the highlight of the second game. Mixed feelings on Aristide (due to her being a POS), but it was cool to have an older woman as a major character.
- Alma... Her backstory is that she was put into a coma until she was old enough (15) to bear children, and then she was forced to give birth to two of them. Basically, the entire series hinges on the abuse Alma had to go through on the basis of her sex. It's hard not to sympathize with her, but I'm not sure if they handled her well in the second game. On the one hand, I get the message that she wanted to have on a child on her own terms, but the means to achieve that... were rather extreme. I appreciate the fact that the game acknowledges that what happened to Becket was rape, but I can't shake off the feeling that the scene was done for the sake of titillation as well. I also read somewhere that her forms in the second game were supposed to invoke the trinity of a girl, a woman, and a crone, but I'm not a fond of that analogy as she died in her 20s, and her looking like that is a result of the experiments/abuse. As far as Alma's role as a mother is concerned, I think it was fine in a twisted way. She seems to... care in her own way. Overall, Alma is a tragic character and definitely a product of its (misogynistic) time. I didn't like the direction in which the second and third game went as much more could be done with her character. I'm not saying that men can't write women or something, but some of it could surely be fixed with more involvement/input from women.
- Another point that I want to mention is probably controversial, but it's something that bothers me when it comes to shooters in particular. The third game has cultist enemies that are zombies in all but name, and the thing about them is that all of them are men. I get when soldier enemies etc. are mostly represented by men (although it's also something that needs to be adjusted), but zombies? And they had a bunch of dead women in the game who could technically turn into them. I want to emphasize this because there's definitely been some reluctance to design women as enemies, which probably stems from the whole 'no hitting girls' mindset. It was also evident in Borderlands 1/2, for example, but they added female 'psycho' in the third one, which I welcomed. I don't know, I just believe that enemy representation also matters (in addition to women being main characters)? Maybe it's just me. Obviously, some chuds would want more women as enemies for their misogynistic purposes, and I know that things like that don't exist in a vacuum, but there are situations when having hostile women just makes sense, and they aren't there.
Oh god this post was a lot to read through. Just two things I guess. 1- what the fuck even is this stuff and 2 -what the fuck is that stuff about Alma being put into a coma until 15 so she can have kids????? Like that cannot be any form of any real consent going on there :((((((((. Like not to make everything about my DID but like I know some littles who can consent in certain circumstances due to both being informed about the sex and liking the sex, and each of mine fail at least one of those, and I cannot see Alma in this scenario really fulfilling the first 1. ghoul shit
I'm almost done with the FEAR trilogy, and I've got plenty to say about the series on the topic (I know, I know, what can we expect from a shooter from the mid 00s, but is it too much to ask for a game to treat women like human beings?). In general, the series strikes me as quite misogynistic, and not only because the entire premise is deeply rooted in misogyny (I'll discuss it in the Alma section), but I also think that a few things were done right. There will be mild spoilers, and I'll hide the heavy ones:
- Apparently, only men can join the Delta Force, although that was a bit retconned in the sequel as girls were also involved in the
experiments done by that elementary school. Yay, equality.
- Alice from the first game wasn't quite a damsel in distress, but when she wanted to do things her way, that was portrayed in a negative light.
- The language. A lot of misogynistic language in the first two games. That was very off-putting. Some of it is also directed at actual women, so it's not just a random 'bitch' here and there.
- I liked the characters of Jin and Stokes, and Stokes was easily the highlight of the second game. Mixed feelings on Aristide (due to her being a POS), but it was cool to have an older woman as a major character.
- Alma... Her backstory is that she was put into a coma until she was old enough (15) to bear children, and then she was forced to give birth to two of them. Basically, the entire series hinges on the abuse Alma had to go through on the basis of her sex. It's hard not to sympathize with her, but I'm not sure if they handled her well in the second game. On the one hand, I get the message that she wanted to have on a child on her own terms, but the means to achieve that... were rather extreme. I appreciate the fact that the game acknowledges that what happened to Becket was rape, but I can't shake off the feeling that the scene was done for the sake of titillation as well. I also read somewhere that her forms in the second game were supposed to invoke the trinity of a girl, a woman, and a crone, but I'm not a fond of that analogy as she died in her 20s, and her looking like that is a result of the experiments/abuse. As far as Alma's role as a mother is concerned, I think it was fine in a twisted way. She seems to... care in her own way. Overall, Alma is a tragic character and definitely a product of its (misogynistic) time. I didn't like the direction in which the second and third game went as much more could be done with her character. I'm not saying that men can't write women or something, but some of it could surely be fixed with more involvement/input from women.
- Another point that I want to mention is probably controversial, but it's something that bothers me when it comes to shooters in particular. The third game has cultist enemies that are zombies in all but name, and the thing about them is that all of them are men. I get when soldier enemies etc. are mostly represented by men (although it's also something that needs to be adjusted), but zombies? And they had a bunch of dead women in the game who could technically turn into them. I want to emphasize this because there's definitely been some reluctance to design women as enemies, which probably stems from the whole 'no hitting girls' mindset. It was also evident in Borderlands 1/2, for example, but they added female 'psycho' in the third one, which I welcomed. I don't know, I just believe that enemy representation also matters (in addition to women being main characters)? Maybe it's just me. Obviously, some chuds would want more women as enemies for their misogynistic purposes, and I know that things like that don't exist in a vacuum, but there are situations when having hostile women just makes sense, and they aren't there.