Yes; you're positing something that makes no material difference if it is true or false, making your outrage at people who think diversity is a good thing more a stalking horse out of spite than an actually legitimate position.
Nobody has said that male protagonists are a bad thing.And please nobody says it´s bad to make female MCs but you on the othe rhand say it´s totally bad to make male MCs...
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
having breast doesn't make something Sexualized though, something like alexstra or old sylvanas was sexualized something like a female dwarf look at say moria or a female cow look at that magatha was not portrayed in the same way.
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they are not forced by any one they change it because they want to rather that be because they feel they don't like it or that it will give them bad publicity doesn't change the fact that they change it because they want to.
This thread reminds me of EXACTLY what I said in the "is the "offended situation" growing out of control?" thread.
40 friggin pages about ONE person with her own opinion going to visit a random Video Game studio. 40 friggin pages of people arguing about stupid shit like "Femnazis", "Snowflakes", ect... all because ONE person visited a gaming studio!?
This is why there's an absolute false narative about "Triggered/Offended people growing out of control" - because people like the OP create stupid threads about some obscure doink he doesn't like going to visit somewhere, and now we have 40 pages of people losing their shit creating and casting ridiculous giant net-social beliefs based on ONE PERSON IN A VIDEO VISITING BIOWARE!
/sigh! >_<
I mean the whole concept is racism on the part of the people trying to change things. Look at Black Panther. People claiming that with BP black people finally have someone to relate to are inherently racist saying they can't somehow relate to a white character simply on the color of their skin.
Yes, you're so right - the complaining about the leader of the free world who's blatantly corrupt, who's most likely going to be imprisoned for several crimes, who is completely destroying our entire democratic process and infrastructure which will take decades to fix is exactly the same comparison to some random youtube doink visiting Bioware. =/
That's not what they're saying. In practical terms, minorities have always been able to relate to white male protagonists because we don't really have much of a choice most of the time, the idea is that movies like Black Panther are telling the rest of us that our demands as consumers matter, and we have the clout and the influence to be worth being catered to, and aren't just a peripheral demographic.
This is primarily a gaming forum, and to many gamers Sakeesian is the anti-christ. She is not just one person, she is the figure head for a noisy group of people who want to restrict artists and programmers freedoms when creating games. Whether you agree with her opinions or not, that is what she is doing. She is a red flag to a bull wherever she goes, so why anyone let alone a struggling game studio would want her anywhere near them is mystifying.
I'm still salty as fuck about Andromeda, and exceptionally nervous about the next DA game, this just makes things worse. Her game was a dud, her video series are cancer, she's an exceptionally decisive individual, and her insights are fueled by both ignorance and bigotry. She's not someone you want anywhere near your sinking AAA publisher.
I don't if I find frothing rants like this more sad or amusing. All Anita made was a few videos pointing out tropes she feels are overused in video games. I've watched/read dozens if not hundreds of similar things all across the internet. Often they cherry-pick or miss out on some of the nuance of their arguments but usually they point out interesting trends in the way creators put stories or other forms of art together. Often they're done with an air of "wouldn't it be nice if we did something more original or interesting instead?"
It's just plain sad that some people have a massive problem if a person dares to do something similar from a feminist perspective, especially if they say something critical about video games.
If you want to see real professional victims you want to look at the "anti-SJW" folks who are milking those as easily outraged as yourself with narratives about how the evil women are going to take your video games away (the highlight of this was probably The Sarkeesian Effect wheeling out Jack fucking Thompson.)She is just a professional victim. Professional victims are abhorrent because they parasite on others and detract both those who are being duped into the fake baseless outrage and those who aren't being duped into it but have to respond, from solving actual problems that matter. Anita and people like her are doing a huge disservice to everyone.
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A problem why exactly?
Compare the different sizes and shapes of male player characters to the different sizes and shapes of female player characters. Notice how there is far more diversity among the male characters. If you've ever payed attention to WoW's Beta developments you'd also notice that trolls and worgen had their ugliness/ferocity toned down to make a prettier model.
On the other hand Blizz have generally done a good job with female forms. The playable races show a pretty good range of body-types that are close to what you might see in the real world than the fantastic (and occasionally ludicrous) male forms.