Icelandic Hitman wrote:Sorry Fell of the planet again..... back to my role as DA
which I love you for.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Those Nintendo ads, we are talking about the company that made the OOT ads with "Will you save the girl" / "Or fight like one" right?
Yes... on the other hand OoT came out in like 1492. I expect better in 20X3.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Sexy is defined as somebody that is appealing in a away or level to cause a heightened state leading to arousal. This can be a girl in skin tight clothing striking a pose. A Victoria secrets model walking through a room with total confidence and 1kg of lace about her person. Or Audrey Hepburn dressed head to toe in a chic black dress, stockings with a big hat smoking and batting her eye lashes.
Sexual is defined as a somebody presented, or in a state of sexual arousal, in the female case, lips slightly apart to indicate that she is out of breath/panting, full red lips, reddened cheeks, thick eyelashes, glossy eyes, high amounts of facial symmetry. (AKA everything thing Mabaline convince you, you should look like )
This is more akin to my personal interpretation - markers which point toward socially-defined gender adherence. It seems like "sexy" has taken on yet another level of social cachet to which I'm not privy, and I'm always trying to play catchup to how everyone else uses it, hence my original question.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Homer, Allllllll Bundy, American Dad et al. The point was not be a stupid girl and put up with your dopey useless husband the point is girls the grass is no greener for the rest of you, they ARE ALL stupid and useless, so love the one your with because the neighbours are in the same boat as you, and all your going to do is trade one lame horse for another. Behind every good man is a better woman, the same is true for bad men too.
Pow, right between the eyes, good form. Though I contend that both points are true: that the grass is no greener, and that the women are still the butt of the joke.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Chell the peal off - totally pointless, but yes the tunnels would be cold, until you run full pelt through them for 20hrs, jump climb, hold and fire a gun that has enough energy to make black holes and fall in and endless loop till you reach terminal velocity, at which point the air friction will get warm... but totally pointless change, with zero added value to it. Unless if was for something like So your telling me we have the Same graphics, same logos, same rooms, same gun, same player .... we'll what can we talk about... we need something for news... oh wait Chells got a new look.... FIRST PAGE its like the Malibu Cindy doll gets a new hat
Well - physical activity does warm you up, but on the other hand, she's like a million miles underground, and at her terminal velocity she's getting colder, not warmer, because of convection. She'll never reach a speed whereby heat gain from friction overcomes that heat loss.
I know they wanted to do something to alter the character design. That's a common practice for sequels. And I know their options were limited given the game environment. But seriously? Shave her damn head. Don't strip her. Cheese and crackers.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Side note why are homicidal computers always girls..... Glados, SHODAN, VICKI ( iRobot), Helena Botham Carter ( Terminator 4 ), Red Queen ( Resident Evil 1 - Movie )... okay HAL was male.
Yeah - why are homicidal computers gendered at all? Unless gender is an inextricable component in homicide. Hmm. >.>
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Ok....
You make a Game where a Guy kills a whole bunch of Guys ( <insert 5 million games here > ) totally cool, world doesn't care
You make a Game where a Girl kills a whole bunch of Guys ( <insert 0.5 million games here > ) totally cool, world doesn't care
You make a Game where A Girl kills a whole bunch of Girls ( 0? games here> ) not sure...... I think think No One Lives Forever had some female fodder.
You make a Game where a Guy kills a whole bunch of Girls ( 0? games here ) Oh nooo.... no no no no no no no no no just nooo you can't do that...... that promotes domestic violence.... little kids will play games.... the boys need to learn you can't hit girls.... that's promoting violence against women... oh no that is BANNED. In Medievil on Playstation in the Sleepy Village level you "knock out" Mrs Mad and Minni Mad because the US wouldn't publish it if you killed them. Not going to wheat belt America with that in the game. Set maleish creatures in Stiletto heels on fire - A- OK, kill a possessed lady wielding a rolling pin with spirally eyes NO DICE Yeah we were all WTF tooo.
When Mortal Kombat came out, people( by people I mean wheat belt Americans ) wanted Sonya removed from the game... it promoted violence against a woman. Now GTA is the poster child for it and Take-2 got slammed for it, they also publish Borderlands and would be keen to avoid facing it again before the army of haters fire at them again. And this is the sad tale of why the "cannon fodder" are men.
But - at the risk of quoting a movie I've never seen - we need to go deeper.
You can't just say that in a world of Equality!,
everyone would be getting killed in equal proportion, that for every Ahnold on screen with a chaingun there should also be a
Staceyann Chin. That ignores the fact that there
does not exist institutional and constructive sexism against men, and it separately and equally ignores that there
does exist such structures against women. You can't just wallpaper over the enormous hole in the wall and say that it's okay now, it's all Equal!.
Why were people so outraged about Sonya? Why is it that nutso violence is considered more acceptable when the perpetrators and victims are men? Because violence is gendered.
Why is violence gendered? Because patriarchy works to gender violence as a means of oppression.
So the issue is not about whether violence should be wallpapered, but rather why we're fighting over who gets to take part in a tool of oppression.
(Further, I'd love to get into a discussion about non-Americans bitching about and stereotyping Americans and American culture, but that's another thread.
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Icelandic Hitman wrote:Faith in Mirrors Edge is a interesting case. The main point is she is designed for Western Tastes by the Swedish company ( Irony - most of Europe and the US see Sweden as being famous for large breasted blonde women called Olga ) which this post points out is against the Eastern preference
http://kotaku.com/5062933/faith-from-mi ... ian-tastes , but Faith is basically Konoko from Oni with less guns. Whom is basically Motoko from Ghost in the Shell.
Okay, that's Kotaku looking at a fan image where they a) inflated Faith's boobs and b) widened her eyes (in the process removing her iconic tattoo). :/
Now I don't know Konoko, but I am pretty well-read and well-viewed when it comes to GitS, and (unfortunately) I'm familiar with Shirow's other work. Kusanagi is a combination of Sasha Vavoom and Skully McCracken, with some broken-woman-emotion stereotypes thrown in. The only thing that almost saves her as a character is her military competence. She doesn't match up to Faith at all, save that they're both acrobatic.
And for the record, I think that stereotype about Sweden plays rather thin here in the States. As a general rule, Americans are not Homer Simpson or Al Bundy.
Icelandic Hitman wrote:Gold Star award to Sonic and All Stars racing transformed. While it does have Ulala in a stupidly small and cutesy egg shaped 50s space tec car, and Amy in the cute pink car. It also has Danica Patrick in a Tyrell P34 dressed in her Fireproofs.
Seriously, now I have to play this.
