• cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    28 days ago

    I’m sorry, but nothing can replace my beloved Cortana in the 0g Halo 😤

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    44·
    28 days ago

    Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      75·
      28 days ago

      Someone is going to be super triggered about a woman somewhere not liking women being portrayed as sexual objects in games and is going to post about it here

    • Deacon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      27 days ago

      Well just you make sure and save this post to share in the future since it obviously undermines and refutes all of those concerns from those other broads.

    • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
      26·
      28 days ago

      So tired of it being 2025 and these posts making it to Lemmy. Have any of you ever actually played some of the queer games out there? I’ve played lesbian games made by women mostly targeting an audience for women that are so spicy they’d set your skin on fire. It’s not the sexuality that’s an issue, it’s a larger cultural conversation about where these things belong, how they’re viewed by the masses, and the impression it creates on children who this is ostensibly for too, I guess? Teens? Still impressionable.

      Grow up and go play an h-game in your own privacy and don’t make it everyone else’s problem. And stop laundering your opinion with “someone is going to make a post”. You made the post, you brought the trash into the house, and the (current) 9 upvotes shows you’re giving it space to breath and quite frankly, it reeks.

      EDIT: no opinion on post, I don’t care how caked she is. If I were that actress, I’d honestly be proud, too.

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        28 days ago

        I’m genuinely confused as to who or what you’re talking about. I don’t get how this relates to the comment you replied to or the OP…

        • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
          11·
          27 days ago

          Last post and I’m done here, but let me explain the post and my response:

          Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.

          Poster is implying that someone (leftist, feminist, anyone they don’t agree with) will come in here and complain about how sexual this is. Rather than expressing any genuine sentiment or opinion of their own, they assumed one for someone else, a strawman to bat at. It’s a dogwhistle, an attempt to bait out and rehash old Gamergate shit. I mean, I do have to assume because again, I cannot overstate how lazy and insincere it is to make a post like this that does not express your own opinion and implies someone else’s.

          The primary point I was trying to make with the overall post is that it’s not sex or sexuality that is the problem. Didn’t Larian release a mainstream game where you could have sex as a bear? Look, the ORIGINAL Twitter post is the model indicating how proud she is, I think we can very confidently say she does not feel like she’s being treated as a sexual object in this context and most people can see that. OP cannot distinguish the difference between sexuality in videogames and treating women as sexual objects. That’s gross and they need to sit and think on that for a LONG while, preferably before ever talking to a woman again.

          EDIT: Just listen to women. If a woman says, “I feel like I’m being objectified”, you stop. If a woman says, “Damn, I look sexy!” you say, “Hell yeah!”

          • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            27 days ago

            Dude, you do realize that that still has nothing to do with the comment you responded to?

            If you had made it as a top level comment of your own, it would make sense. Maybe that’s what you intended; I know I’ve fucked that up many a time.

            Again, my only issue is that what you said wasn’t connected to the comment above it, but the content of your statements.

            • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
              9·
              27 days ago

              I thought the connection to the initial comment was made very clear. The initial comment said:

              Someone is going to make a long post about how women is being portrayed as sexual objects in games and will absolutely refuse to acknowledge this post.

              audaxreik’s initial reaction basically just berated them for saying this, but in the most recent post audaxreik explained this hostility. Loosely speaking, the initial comment was an unprovoked strawman attack against feminism - and audaxreik wanted to push back against that.

              In any case, I think the discussion here has run its course.

          • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            27 days ago

            Slight quibble: in BG3 you can have sex with a bear (who is the shape shifted form of an absolutely beefcake elf druid).

            Would, and did.

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        28 days ago

        Children, impressionable? How many buts and dolled up women do they see in real life?

        • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
          8·
          28 days ago

          You know, fair enough, you caught me in a “think of the children” argument and I never expected to be the one here. But I stand by my point. And wash my hands of the matter.

          Returning to the queer games I mentioned earlier, those are by and large indie games. And quite adult/NSFW. Not strictly by nature of being queer to be clear, simply having LGBTQ+ representation doesn’t make it adult. Just being in that space, those are the themes they choose to explore. Do you see the nuance here?

          We’re mammals, we stand at the pinnacle of human technology and evolution, man and woman hand-in-hand shouting, “Boobs! Boobs! Boobs! Boobs! Boobs!” (or butt, whatever, I’ve made my stance known). The boobs and butts belong in specific times/places and when that lines up properly, let us exalt them. But can we at least agree that the time/place is at a bare minimum NOT everywhere all the time?

          Bringing up these tired arguments forfeits your place at the table. But even further, these are all mainstream corporate interests regarding Marvel and Disney and property/brand characters. Let it go. Fuck them into a hole in the ground, fill it with cement, and leave the grave unmarked. These arguments exist because we choose to exalt these properties instead, of which there are limited spaces in a roster, dying for “mainstream” representation of everyone’s preferred “thing”. Just go play an indie that suits you. You’ll find weirder ones that hyper focus your own fetishes and fixations to a point where it’s almost terrifying.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      14·
      27 days ago

      And simultaneously refuse to acknowledge how men are portrayed the same way.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    26 days ago

    So…like…did they just scan her ass with lidar and import it into the game? Because that, alone, doesn’t seem like a tremendous asset. Ass libraries must be a dime a dozen. That’s a tradition as old as the copying machine.

    Or did they recycle mocap suit data? That seems much more valuable than a blender rendered rump.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      26 days ago

      Possibly dressed her up similar to the character photo scanned then retopologized, touched up, etc. Could be they just made a basic female model and used it as a foundation.

      Possible she did some mocap as well.

      Big thing is it’s easier to make mocap look natural on a model if the model and mocap actor are the same person. Though for a game this stylized I’m not sure it would matter.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    27 days ago

    wait the rivals invisible woman was actually modeled her after a real human being?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    I don’t personally like that kinda ass, more into the “fits in one hand” kinda booty (like my wife’s), but I gotta admire. That’s not an everyday ass. She worked hard to shape it like that, got what she wanted and is proud of it. Go girl!

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        27 days ago

        It actually is pretty fun. I can see this quickly going sour, but currently it is a much better game than Overwatch. No idea what the future holds, but hopefully NetEase can pull through. I loved Super Mecha Champions (2021-2025 RIP, you were gone too soon- Alborada my beloved), so hopefully they keep things going and don’t end this one like some of their other ones (DBD Mobile, for example).

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        27 days ago

        I do not care at all about any Marvel stuff and don’t know many chars but my friend who does wanted to play. I gotta say… it’s a BLAST. I like that I can be a furry.

      • Jeffool @lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

        It does a good job of onboarding people. The general tutorial is relatively short and sweet, and character specific tutorials are even shorter. It also gives each character a rank (in stars) for how complex that character is to use effectively.

        The game itself is pretty chaotic, so it’s easy to convince yourself that your deaths are incidental, and your victories are a result of you playing well. And as long as you’re having fun you’ll be okay with that. But if at any point you start feeling like someone has your foil, just change characters mid-match and try a new tactic. There’s so many characters you can experiment until you find theirs.

        I’m genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed it.