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Re: Females in Games? Thread
« Reply #345 on: December 17, 2014, 09:57:29 am »

But what I mean is if we strive for equality than one female character can't represent the whole of the spectrum.  Its a broad brush, and preventing progress.
  In many games, equality would mean that both men and women are equally represented in death and mental sickness.  They'd have to be villains, and they'd have to be casualties, and they'd even have to be shoehorned or plot devices.
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Re: Females in Games? Thread
« Reply #346 on: December 17, 2014, 09:58:58 am »

It would be a lot simpler if Werty were to say that himself.
Yeah but then it becomes your words and not just the words of some random bob on utub

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« Reply #347 on: December 17, 2014, 10:01:48 am »

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If the feminists were so scary that fear of their backlash has caused so many people across so many different types of media to avoid writing good female characters, we wouldn't be getting characters like these either.
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« Reply #348 on: December 17, 2014, 10:07:14 am »

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If the feminists were so scary that fear of their backlash has caused so many people across so many different types of media to avoid writing good female characters, we wouldn't be getting characters like these either.

The female barbarians head looks tiny compared to the rest of her body. Just observing that the poportion seems wierd. She's also leaning back a bit, which adds to the skewing.
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« Reply #349 on: December 17, 2014, 10:09:30 am »

also who the fuck screenshotted a tweet with a screenshot of a youtube comment instead of just saving the original image of the youtube comment
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« Reply #350 on: December 17, 2014, 10:12:23 am »

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If the feminists were so scary that fear of their backlash has caused so many people across so many different types of media to avoid writing good female characters, we wouldn't be getting characters like these either.
The female barbarians head looks tiny compared to the rest of her body. Just observing that the poportion seems wierd. She's also leaning back a bit, which adds to the skewing.
Dragon's crown has a rather, unique , artstyle.
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« Reply #351 on: December 17, 2014, 10:15:21 am »

also who the fuck screenshotted a tweet with a screenshot of a youtube comment instead of just saving the original image of the youtube comment
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« Reply #352 on: December 17, 2014, 10:18:04 am »

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« Reply #353 on: December 17, 2014, 10:32:48 am »

also who the fuck screenshotted a tweet with a screenshot of a youtube comment instead of just saving the original image of the youtube comment

As I understand it, the more people favourite and retweet your content, the more right it is. Just like upvoting in reddit! If somebody disagrees with you, you can just point out how many random internet people thought it was good.
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« Reply #354 on: December 17, 2014, 10:42:09 am »

It would be a lot simpler if Werty were to say that himself.
It's what I think about the issue. If I wrote that out people would accuse me of stealing my words,so the source.

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Re: Females in Games? Thread
« Reply #355 on: December 17, 2014, 10:53:26 am »

As I understand it, the more people favourite and retweet your content, the more right it is. Just like upvoting in reddit! If somebody disagrees with you, you can just point out how many random internet people thought it was good.
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But what I mean is if we strive for equality than one female character can't represent the whole of the spectrum.  Its a broad brush, and preventing progress.
  In many games, equality would mean that both men and women are equally represented in death and mental sickness.  They'd have to be villains, and they'd have to be casualties, and they'd even have to be shoehorned or plot devices.
So all in agreement with this sentiment here?

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« Reply #356 on: December 17, 2014, 10:58:52 am »

This whole debate will probably be irrelevant in a few years when VR becomes the norm. Entirely scripted choose-your-own-adventure style  story protagonists is a design style that's unlikely to survive very well into the next decade. I doubt we'll be choosing between character option A or B then watching scripted cutscenes in third person in VR.

That also bodes well for all the people unhappy about gender and body issues in general. How many people here have played other-gender characters in games? Other species, even? I have. I suspect most of us have. So what does it do for society when large numbers of people have experience with fully immersive first person experiences as a variety of body, gender and species types?

Potentially a lot of the problems people are complaining about go away.

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« Reply #357 on: December 17, 2014, 11:02:52 am »

VR works surprisely well in third person.
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Re: Females in Games? Thread
« Reply #358 on: December 17, 2014, 11:06:12 am »

This whole debate will probably be irrelevant in a few years when VR becomes the norm. Entirely scripted choose-your-own-adventure style  story protagonists is a design style that's unlikely to survive very well into the next decade. I doubt we'll be choosing between character option A or B then watching scripted cutscenes in third person in VR.
Mark my words, people will still be buying Call of Duty in 2024. It will not have improved measurably.
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Re: Females in Games? Thread
« Reply #359 on: December 17, 2014, 11:08:52 am »

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