Month: December 2015

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These images are taken from a novelty trading card set that was printed in 1902, imagining how women of the future might look in the roles that were exclusive to men at the time.

Now, it bears noting that there was no serious artistic intent behind these – they were not an exploration of the (then) future so much as they were a novel excuse to have photos of cute girls in costumes.

Yet somehow they remain far more convincing and charismatic than so, so many modern products that want us to take the notion of their “empowered” warrior women seriously.

– wincenworks

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And so I saw another EOS Echo of Soul ad and it compelled me to bingo it.

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For a moment there I confused this game for ELOA (bingo’ed last week), another very original MMO that keeps throwing browser ads at me.
Clearly that’s the mistake on my part. Those anime-sque MMOs that market themselves with double standard armor and have abbreviated titles starting with E are SO CREATIVELY DISTINCT!

Also what is wrong with how her legs are drawn? No matter which one is supposed to be attached to that knee in the front, something must be really broken in there!

~Ozzie

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sparklewoods:

Started playing Gems of War, and its female outfit situation is pretty dreary.

My “favourites” are the Ice Witch’s floating boob cups and the armour-clad green hippo (Sunweaver) with the random boob window. Though the balloon-boobed snow leopard (Shadow-Hunter) looks pretty ridiculous too.

(The compliation images are all the female cards and armours in the game atm.)

It is kind of amazing to see the combination of cutesy text/markup, horrifying monsters and painfully generic sex-sells outfits that this product has apparently chosen to use.

It’s almost like their whole strategy is “copy a bunch of stuff popular people are doing and hope it sells”.

– wincenworks

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sparklewoods:

Started playing Gems of War, and its female outfit situation is pretty dreary.

My “favourites” are the Ice Witch’s floating boob cups and the armour-clad green hippo (Sunweaver) with the random boob window. Though the balloon-boobed snow leopard (Shadow-Hunter) looks pretty ridiculous too.

(The compliation images are all the female cards and armours in the game atm.)

It is kind of amazing to see the combination of cutesy text/markup, horrifying monsters and painfully generic sex-sells outfits that this product has apparently chosen to use.

It’s almost like their whole strategy is “copy a bunch of stuff popular people are doing and hope it sells”.

– wincenworks