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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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Like doing a web search like "neogaf inurl:resetera" to find shit to troll over. To be clear I can't say that's why anyone wouldn't use the name but it's one possible explanation people refer to it obliquely. As for me the forum doesn't occupy a waking moment in my head except when people bringing it up to laugh over like here
Discussing, ever by name, of GAF was frowned upon early on after the move to avoid needless cross forum drama and create a fresh/clean start for Era. So people just started to use things like "old place" and the like to refer to it when it was referenced to honor that and skirt around it.
There was a push at Era's launch to distance it as much as possible from GAF, and part of that was trying to use distancing language. Some people reverted to calling it GAF, other people not.
Well way back when Era first opened, saying/discussing GAF was really frowned upon, so a lot of people got into the habit of just using kitschy nicknames like "The old place", "The Old County", etc. It just sort of caught on. I thin preferring to use a nickname for someone/something deplorable can be cathartic and necessary for people (see Trump)
On a related note, I remember posting some kind of snide comment about what's-his-face (see what I did there, that's what I'm talking about) and surprisingly haven't been banned yet. I figured I'd just keep my account in case is ever needed (looking for an old post, getting a message to someone for whatever reason, etc)
Now watch as someone sees this post and gets me banned over there.
Yeah and you have their target audience giving them the thumbs up so there's this feedback loop where essentially "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
So Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is pretty good but yeah many of the female cast are pretty sexualize whether it an outfit from the comics of developer input.
Here the few I feel aren't sexualize or at least not so extreme.
I find the Wasp to be the worst offender since it a very conforming outfit and certain parts are emphasize.
In terms of agency it pretty even between the cast without positioning any disempowerment.
Here the few I feel aren't sexualize or at least not so extreme.
I find the Wasp to be the worst offender since it a very conforming outfit and certain parts are emphasize.
In terms of agency it pretty even between the cast without positioning any disempowerment.
I have fond memories of reading The Dark Id's LP of that game and his baffled reaction to that character designwas watching a streaming of Dirge of Cerberus and suddenly everyone started laughing when a person IN THE RAIN wearing a coat that when the camera turns she is wearing ...
was watching a streaming of Dirge of Cerberus and suddenly everyone started laughing when a person IN THE RAIN wearing a coat that when the camera turns she is wearing ...
I remember seeing, many, many, many years ago, someone, in a discussion that was largely criticism of Tetsuya Nomura's character designs, earnestly try and argue that this is a perfectly normal outfit that someone might wear in a lab.
Yeah, I'm liking the more painterly aesthetic seen in some of the new art too.
I just... I just want to get good enough to paint like this.
I've never played any of the Sly Cooper games, so I did a quick search...
Carmelita is a problem
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHITHey I still have an old account on the old forum...I wonder what it's like now afte---
was watching a streaming of Dirge of Cerberus and suddenly everyone started laughing when a person IN THE RAIN wearing a coat that when the camera turns she is wearing ...
I'm trying to wrap my head around this and I just can't.
So I made a thread about himbos and I had a patrol of folks doing the 'lets do a bimbo thread since this is okay' and im so tired...
why people have to be like this
why people have to be like this
This is my first time seeing a fuller gif and the attacker would have likely ended up on the woodchipper along with the victim, considering they lunged.
They just keep trying, again and again.
I dont get the closing message on that. People ignore the staff message and they close the thread rather than deal with the people?
The fact that thread got locked because of those whiny little man-babies is so stupid.
It's not even the same type of characters. Kiryu might be kinda dumb in some substories, but he is charming and seen in a positive way.
But in bimbo the dumb part is always negative or saying things a Stacy Malibu would say.
I love his character designs.
Its either ' trendy as fuck " or " what the fuck " And that's deffo the latter one of his worse ones
Oh wow I didn't know they were so blantant now huh.Hey I still have an old account on the old forum...I wonder what it's like now afte---
was watching a streaming of Dirge of Cerberus and suddenly everyone started laughing when a person IN THE RAIN wearing a coat that when the camera turns she is wearing ...
It's weird that this design would be "better" (not by much) if they got rid of the stupid ass triangle bit barely attached at the bottom. It takes what's otherwise a clubbing outfit (it's certainly not scientist outfit) to fashion diaster and I hate it.
Oh same with Russo's nonsense "spiked hair" that makes no sense
I used to love Nomura. But he's out of ideas and out of practice as he fulfills other roles at the company.
Weird way the himbo thread went. I really liked it. Do we need a "Discussing Himbos and Bimbos in Gaming. A Thread without Pictures."-Thread? I have no better idea. :(
That is a ps2 game ... that was before he fullfilled other roles =P
or at least fullfilled much less roles
I think his partnerships with actual fashion designers have paid off in FFXV and VII Remake (excepting Cindy and Aranea, though I dunno if they came before or after the change), and Kingdom Hearts' newer outfit and character designs have been an improvement IMO.
Nomura designing the basic face and hair of characters while other people design the clothes seems like a good balance
Holy shit, they don't even care anymore. So glad we spun off from that shit show.Hey I still have an old account on the old forum...I wonder what it's like now afte---
It's weird that this design would be "better" (not by much) if they got rid of the stupid ass triangle bit barely attached at the bottom. It takes what's otherwise a clubbing outfit (it's certainly not scientist outfit) to fashion diaster and I hate it.
Oh same with Russo's nonsense "spiked hair" that makes no sense
I used to love Nomura. But he's out of ideas and out of practice as he fulfills other roles at the company.
Did nobody tell Nomura about the dangers of putting spiky stuff near bare skin
Nomura is pretty much a talentless hack, but he's noisy and that's why he's now one of the heads of the company. And it's gotten worse over the years.
If you like trope-y garbage though, it's definitely a fit (everyone needs it from time-to-time). Regardless, the designs are and always have been amateurish in comparison to his peers (and belts - need more belts).
If you like trope-y garbage though, it's definitely a fit (everyone needs it from time-to-time). Regardless, the designs are and always have been amateurish in comparison to his peers (and belts - need more belts).
Kingdom Hearts fan questions answered in interview with Tetsuya Nomura
We had the rare chance to interview Kingdom Hearts' Tetsuya Nomura at the Disney expo
www.mirror.co.uk
You guys brought this upon yourselves.
Lol. Nomura is far from a talentless hack or an amateur. He's done some shitty, nonsensical designs (though if I'm not wrong there may be some that are commonly attributed to him that are actually designed by other people) but he can unarguably draw well and has done other good work at SQEX, character design & otherwise. Yeah, he has a somewhat more generic style (though still fairly distinguishable) than someone like Amano, but that doesn't mean he can't draw or that he's a talentless hack, that's just silly hyperbole with no basis in reality.
And how is he noisy? Design-wise? He has range. Some of his designs are noisy but a lot of them are fairly simple. Personality-wise? That couldn't be further from the truth. He doesn't like the spotlight, he's a hard worker and he likes to give everyone in his teams a chance to contribute in meaningful ways & actively encourages everyone to pitch in. Read any of his interviews and he always comes off as a humble person.
Hey I still have an old account on the old forum...I wonder what it's like now afte---
Holy fucking shit. :D EviLore happily boasting about it afterwards too, would be so fucking surreal to 3 year ago me. I guess that's one way to cope with being exposed as a predator; might as well shed the sheep skin and embrace it for full cred points with fellow predators and assorted fascists.
Edit: Wait, they have a thread exclusively to spy and shit on ResetEra? That might be the saddest thing I've seen all week.
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I think we read his personality differently. That said, as for his designs, I don't see the simplicity in his work as something that distinguishes it nearly so much as it shows a lack of interest in exploring something that isn't stereotypical.
Yes, his lunge carried enough momentum to get himself in there regardless.
The longer gif is even funnier. At first I thought is was a scene of some weirdo randomly running into the wood chipper, but it being a botched assault is even funnier and more appropriate for the usage here.
The movie that's from is about a bunch of college students trying to murder two people vacationing in the woods who they think are slasher movie villains.
It's from Tucker & Dale vs Evil, a great horror comedy that I highly recommend.
What is this convincing me of, exactly?
(Not going to deny that I'm a bad person; I know that well enough.)
THAT'S what you want to defend Nomura with? O_o Umm okay...
Get over yourself.
Man I would've loved to hear what the meeting for this abomination was like
Nomura: So there's this demon guy right? And you think he's the final boss but he's just a part in this huge chain of people, they're like Espers or something. And you just fight you way up to the top where you fight angelic Kefka, so it's like starting in Hell and moving up to Heaven. Also let's throw in a couple of half naked ladies... and a TIGER!
Disclaimer: I LOVE FF6, it's my favorite of the main series, but you know, it's a weird and out there final boss.
It's imaginative and cool and in trying to make it sound ridiculous you just described how cool it is.
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There are also many girls i know that don't mind sexualized characters designs.
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