Are we absolutely sure that the Soul Calibur prophecy was not fulfilled yet?

…and that there is a piece of fabric between her buttcheeks?
Maybe I’ll just leave a question mark on “Thong”, to be safe.

~Ozzie

After seeing her attire, I can’t say I’m surprised that Whiptail fell for one of the classic evil villainess blunders – bringing a whip to fight someone with a big, sharp sword.

This is seriously one of the worst attempts I’ve seen to combine horror and sexy… and I was into pulp fantasy all through the grimdark 90s.

– wincenworks

(edit: Due to an issue with my template I use, somehow high heels were left off the original)

While this costume does score fairly low on the bingo, mostly due to lack of attempt to make it even look protective, I wanted to bingo it because it highlights another example of exotification.

We recently promoted a petition taking a stance against extofication in roleplaying games, and there have been important developments since

When Resident Evil 5 was first released everyone  from games reviewers to the British Rating Board rushed to assure us it was officially “not racist” – however when the game creates a “tribal” outfit like this for the elite counter-terrorist operative who happens to be a woman in “Africa” (rather than a specific country on the continent, thus eliminating any sort of expectation of accuracy/research).

There are numerous cultural groups spread across the many nations of Africa who have different styles and standards of dress – the only ones that would have this are westernized elite who are essentially parodying the traditional residents.  That’s not a good image to promote.

(Before anyone… I see you, rushes to tell me how this shouldn’t count because it’s an “extra” please consider that this costume is not nearly as offensive as one of the main groups of antagonists in RE5)

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– wincenworks

Let’s take a closer look at Sylvanas Windrunner, Queen of the Forsaken, as revealed in official Heroes of the Storm art. First though, to address one issue: 

mitulita​​ replied to your photo: “For the people who rushed to tell us we should never doubt Blizzard’s…”:

The Sylvanas design is not new, though. It has been exactly like this in World of Warcraft for years. They are just repeating an old mistake there…

Which still totally proves our point that Blizzard is NOT trying to improve. They had a perfect opportunity to update the design and did basically nothing.

While her official model for some reason wears a thong over nice pants, lots of popular Sylvanas fanart depicts her as pantless and Blizzard seem to be pretty okay with that.

~Ozzie

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