bikiniarmorbattledamage:

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lowpolyhighfun:

A friend’s request for a bodily comparison of the gods and goddesses of Smite.

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I’m having a flashback to this Overwatch silhouette comparison (pre-Zarya, the token exception, that is):

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Eyup. Typical. Men tend to be all shapes and sizes, while women are just slight variations of the same “shapely” figure.

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~Ozzie

With a very few exceptions, pretty much every time I see a game brag about diverse body shapes – I wonder if they hired the same “expert” consultant that Levi’s did:

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– wincenworks

more on double standards | more on character design | more on SMITE | more on Overwatch

Since everyone can predict us talking again about Overwatch in the near future, this week’s throwback is the video game industry’s bafflingly narrow definition of what “diversity” among female characters looks like.

~Ozzie