foldablehuman – Bikini Armor Battle Damage

April 28, 2018February 19, 2022

For those not aware, film creator and media critic Dan Olson (aka Foldable Human) has been on a quest to find games that are “so bad they’re good” in the same way some classic movies such as Plan 9 From Outer Space and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.

Viking: Battle for Asgard is kind of amazing in that not only does have the promise of this – but if the steam page is to be believed the developers are still, to this day, convinced this is a great adaption of Norse myth and history.

Unsurprisingly, the studio decided this was probably not the direction they wanted to go long term and went back to making their regular games… until they got a license for an certain other totally creative property.

– wincenworks

February 2, 2016

Pocket Masters

So, remember that time we proclaimed Pokemon isn’t legible franchise to talk about on BABD?

Someone who seems totally unafraid of Nintendo’s legal team decided to change it with “Pocket Masters”, a game that totally isn’t infringing on anyone’s intellectual property.

@foldablehuman directed us at this shameless attempt at passing Pokemon gijinka as a base for a completely new, definitely creative and not illegal game. Behold the glory od Sandrew and Golbart (original characters, do not steal!):

~Ozzie

Yeah… oh and in case you were wondering why someone would do this:

– wincenworks

February 2, 2016

Pocket Masters

So, remember that time we proclaimed Pokemon isn’t legible franchise to talk about on BABD?

Someone who seems totally unafraid of Nintendo’s legal team decided to change it with “Pocket Masters”, a game that totally isn’t infringing on anyone’s intellectual property.

~Ozzie

Yeah… oh and in case you were wondering why someone would do this:

– wincenworks

September 19, 2015April 23, 2018

Brought to our attention by superheroineworld (thank you so much for linking it in a reblog!)

This video sums up pretty damn well why any sort of “makes sense in context” justification for absurd and creepy things in fiction (like, say, bikini armors) is invalid by default.

Quotes worth highlighting:

Writers routinely alter the rules to suit their interests and the needs of their story. So, in the world outside of the diegesis, in our world, only the implications and impact of that fiction actually matter.

It’s basically a circular argument to expect that the fictional rules created specifically for the narrative will shield the narrative from being criticized on the meta level.

Criticism of a creative work is, ultimately, criticism of the decisions that people made when they were putting it together.

Which is also why “you’re slut-shaming that character" is a fail at responding to criticism. Characters are fictional constructs with no agency and the “choices” they make can be blamed solely on their creators.

You guys might have noticed, but around half of the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo is made from Thermian arguments. That’s how popular this circular logic is among skimpy armor defenders. And I’m glad we now have this video to explain why it doesn’t work.

~Ozzie

more about rhetoric on BABD

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

September 19, 2015