Month: May 2016

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Lords of the Fallen has been criticized for many things, including trying to emulate Dark Souls (without the great female armor… outside of the comics).

However, I feel not enough has been said about Yetka… who not only has midriff boobplate, but for some reason the studio who provided the models felt that her navel was her most noteworthy attribute.  Not so with the other characters they created.

There’s a lot we could say about tropes and bad designs here, but we’ve covered most of it in other posts so I’ll just leave this here:

– wincenworks

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Relevant part starting at 13:52 

The video as a whole is a really great introduction to character posing in animation and why Tracer’s “lookatmubutt” pose needed to be replaced. But the last bit is the most important part for BABD, as Dan brings up how sexualization tends to compromise everything else that is established about a female character instead of being properly used as a character-building tool. Not surprisingly, two heroines we talked about a lot on BABD are brought up as examples.

Regarding Tracer’s pose redo, while I agree the new one is technically more in-character and dynamic, I still think Blizzard did a half-hearted fix job by choosing posing that’s still gratuitously sexualized for the “improved” look.

And for the record, Tracer’s design devoting way too much attention to her butt(crack) has been a problem since Overwatch’s beginnings. If Blizzard has genuine interest in objectifying her less, they could start with making her pants not ride up her colon. 

~Ozzie

h/t: @greybeck

Since Overwatch’s release date is pending, I’ve been seeing a lot of people getting excited about it’s diversity (particularly in comparison to it’s primary rival) and Tracer as a character – and I’ve noticed something.

Pretty much every favorite Tracer moment tends to frame her from the shoulders up for two reasons.  The first is that her facial expressions are magic (hopefully Disney is taking notes) and secondly because most of the top half of her costume seems designed with her personality and role in mind.

The rest of it seems designed with the intent to make sure that there’s no confusion here, the plucky, fun female character is also definitely slim and ha great legs and butt. 

Clearly her appeal is enough they really didn’t need to do that.

– wincenworks

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The video as a whole is a really great introduction to character posing in animation and why Tracer’s “lookatmubutt” pose needed to be replaced. But the last bit is the most important part for BABD, as Dan brings up how sexualization tends to compromise everything else that is established about a female character instead of being properly used as a character-building tool. Not surprisingly, two heroines we talked about a lot on BABD are brought up as examples.

Regarding Tracer’s pose redo, while I agree the new one is technically more in-character and dynamic, I still think Blizzard did a half-hearted fix job by choosing posing that’s still gratuitously sexualized for the “improved” look.

And for the record, Tracer’s design devoting way too much attention to her butt(crack) has been a problem since Overwatch’s beginnings. If Blizzard has genuine interest in objectifying her less, they could start with making her pants not ride up her colon. 

~Ozzie

h/t: @greybeck

Since Overwatch’s release date is pending, I’ve been seeing a lot of people getting excited about it’s diversity (particularly in comparison to it’s primary rival) and Tracer as a character – and I’ve noticed something.

Pretty much every favorite Tracer moment tends to frame her from the shoulders up for two reasons.  The first is that her facial expressions are magic (hopefully Disney is taking notes) and secondly because most of the top half of her costume seems designed with her personality and role in mind.

The rest of it seems designed with the intent to make sure that there’s no confusion here, the plucky, fun female character is also definitely slim and ha great legs and butt. 

Clearly her appeal is enough they really didn’t need to do that.

– wincenworks

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Tidy Up Tuesday #37

We’re happy to add League of Sexism to our related sites. It’s a blog devoted to examination of sexist double standards in League of Legends. A must-read to anyone interested in more detailed criticism of sexism focused entirely on LoL (something we at BABD, as a blog about general media, can not provide).

@danceoffools made a very important mod for female armor in Dragon Age: Origins. Check it out here!  (It fixes medium armors!)

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ht/: @narutobs

Things we addressed before:

– wincenworks & ~ Ozzie

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Tidy Up Tuesday #37

We’re happy to add League of Sexism to our related sites. It’s a blog devoted to examination of sexist double standards in League of Legends. A must-read to anyone interested in more detailed criticism of sexism focused entirely on LoL (something we at BABD, as a blog about general media, can not provide).

@danceoffools made a very important mod for female armor in Dragon Age: Origins. Check it out here!  (It fixes medium armors!)

image

ht/: @narutobs

Things we addressed before:

– wincenworks & ~ Ozzie

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Okay, so for those not aware Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotion the industry does where they give out free comic books (hence the name) in the hopes of getting people interested in comics.  Generally a large part of it is to try to show the parts of comics that people might not expect to find in comics, and thus gain the custom of people who didn’t realize their were comics for them.

Apparently someone this year feels there may be people out there who don’t think comics are full of not-quite-Japanese ninja women in skimpy costumes with stiletto heels and decided to lead with that.

– wincenworks