Month: May 2015

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Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

(Link is arguably NSFW due to “totally not nudity” sexualized design)

The link doesn’t work anymore, so here’s the character’s Wikia page

cryosession submitted:

…is a legitimate nightmare design. How…I can’t formulate words to describe just how…not-good-and-definitely-not-sexy this is.

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This is by far one of the worst cases of sexualized exotification of Kali (again, a major figure in a religion practiced by a billion people) with transparent disclaimers of “well it’s technology not the real Kali” and “well it’s an Indian character”.

The character herself basically an almost white passing ripoff of SiN’s Elexis Sinclair  (the Bianca Beauchamp version) with a Kali “battle form” that makes SMITE’s rendition look sensitive and nuanced.  Oh and she swears like a sailor because “edgy”.

The game is free to play (competitive) with the model of getting people to pay to unlock characters.  According to Steam it has mixed reviews with a lot of the negative reviews focusing on the price to unlock characters and lack of people to compete with.

Basically their game isn’t’ going well so they decided to try to make it more like SMITE, Soul Calibur and SiN.

Then they’ll go home and wonder why people have many negative opinions of video games and mainstream developers.

– wincenworks

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Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

(Link is arguably NSFW due to “totally not nudity” sexualized design)

The link doesn’t work anymore, so here’s the character’s Wikia page

cryosession submitted:

…is a legitimate nightmare design. How…I can’t formulate words to describe just how…not-good-and-definitely-not-sexy this is.

image

This is by far one of the worst cases of sexualized exotification of Kali (again, a major figure in a religion practiced by a billion people) with transparent disclaimers of “well it’s technology not the real Kali” and “well it’s an Indian character”.

The character herself basically an almost white passing ripoff of SiN’s Elexis Sinclair  (the Bianca Beauchamp version) with a Kali “battle form” that makes SMITE’s rendition look sensitive and nuanced.  Oh and she swears like a sailor because “edgy”.

The game is free to play (competitive) with the model of getting people to pay to unlock characters.  According to Steam it has mixed reviews with a lot of the negative reviews focusing on the price to unlock characters and lack of people to compete with.

Basically their game isn’t’ going well so they decided to try to make it more like SMITE, Soul Calibur and SiN.

Then they’ll go home and wonder why people have many negative opinions of video games and mainstream developers.

– wincenworks

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noknightinarmor submitted:

A colouring book of women who participated in the US Civil War I bought at Gettysburg, PA when I visited ages ago. As you can see the women’s uniforms looked like the men’s with the optional addition of a skirt, and Cpt. Tompkins wore her jacket and sash over her dress.

I wanted to add some of these images to this post as well, because the OP is just plain wrong.

Thank you for sharing these.    I had a look into these and it appears Amazon has a few copies for sale – Barnes and Noble too. It looks like Peter F Copeland has done a number of books like this.  Including one which specifies Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution.

Awesome stuff.

– wincenworks

edit: Important note regarding the sixth person presented in this photoset, the soldier credited in the book as “Jennie Hodgers (alias

Albert Cashier)”:

likeironlies

replied:

Albert Cashier was a trans MAN, not a woman. Please don’t erase his existence by claiming he was a woman, not a trans man. He lived his whole life before and after the war as Albert. He was buried with honors as Albert.

Thank you for that clarification, likeironlies!

~Ozzie

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sparklewoods:

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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

Saw Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord on Steam just now, and what the hell…

I wasn’t sure about high heels as we can’t see them, but these boots usually don’t come with flat soles 😛

Also wasn’t sure of the “looks nothing like the male version”, because both are similarly skimpy, but there’s a world’s difference between the two characters in levels of sexualisation and objectification.

What a beautiful example of why equal levels of nudity are not yet equal levels of sexualization. Bolding mine.

~Ozzie

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noknightinarmor submitted:

A bingo card for the drawing on the left. Do crooked bingoes count?

Anyway, I feel that if it were in a real fight it’d go like this:

And some gems from the trailer:
GAH! D:
A sexyfaced evil snake bug, or snug, drawing with breasts and a vagina
I wonder who the other chick is a knock-off of? [*cough*Kagamine RIn*cough*]

Another game developed by people who have a misunderstanding of what “terra” means…

Sometimes I really wonder how the creators of these things envision the people trapped in these terrible outfits move without hurting themselves.

Then, such as in cases like this, I just assume that they didn’t really put that much thought into any of it in their hurry to be super creative.

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– wincenworks