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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

After discussing the disturbing attitude towards female protagonists in video game industry Jimquisition once again tackles the topic of gender in games by commenting on controversy around Dragon’s Crown female character designs.

Sorry to post again about not-exactly-warrior-outfits, but it’s a very relevant case concerning strictly related areas (character design, women in popular culture).

Bringing the case of Dragon’s Crown’s female character design problems as a reminder that just because lady hero’s “sexyness” is exaggerated deliberately doesn’t automatically make it okay. Especially not when she’s not that different looking from any other generic sexy warrior we already have too much of in media.

~Ozzie

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So it appears that advertising giant Unilever has, after two years of research, realized that it is indeed a myth that sex sells and that campaigns depicting women as sex objects for presumed cishet male audiences alienate women.

Of course, they could have saved themselves those two years by looking at literally any marketing research done since 1960s.

Now if only we can convince some of the advertising companies that deal in comics and video games of this reality.

– wincenworks

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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

In a video that covers a few game mechanics, over-commercialization, verbal abuse in gameplay and the general state of games… what is the hot topic in the comments?

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Seems familiar. Anyone ever notice how the whole “If you don’t like it just shut up and make your own!” thing only ever applies to people who want progress… like why aren’t the people who want terrible stuff obligated to just shut up and make their own?

– wincenworks

This seemed a good post to bring back in the wake of E3 and bizarre combinations of people insisting that developers need to make parts of x games how they want, but better not adjust y parts of games for anyone else.

If your big concern in games is that feminism will ruin your games by making the female armor look more like armor or that critic blogs will be the ones making creative decisions – you’re probably not actually worried about video games but something much more personal.

– wincenworks

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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

In a video that covers a few game mechanics, over-commercialization, verbal abuse in gameplay and the general state of games… what is the hot topic in the comments?

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Seems familiar. Anyone ever notice how the whole “If you don’t like it just shut up and make your own!” thing only ever applies to people who want progress… like why aren’t the people who want terrible stuff obligated to just shut up and make their own?

– wincenworks

This seemed a good post to bring back in the wake of E3 and bizarre combinations of people insisting that developers need to make parts of x games how they want, but better not adjust y parts of games for anyone else.

If your big concern in games is that feminism will ruin your games by making the female armor look more like armor or that critic blogs will be the ones making creative decisions – you’re probably not actually worried about video games but something much more personal.

– wincenworks

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If there’s something more pathetic than refusal to finally have a female protagonist in a well-established game franchise (especially when there’s clearly demand for it!), it’s the attempts to justify why only a guy main character is a possible option.

Jim points out what amazingly absurd rhetoric Nintendo employed lately to explain why neither female Link nor playable Zelda are viable option for the next Legend of Zelda game. The arguments are downright nonsensical.

At this point @LewieP’s joke explanation* sounds more cohesive than anything Nintento representatives had said:

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[props to jimquisition commenter who found this]

~Ozzie

see fan imaginings of Zelda-led game: @annalandin‘s elemental-powered armors |

タバコ’s Hyrule Valkyrja | @dresdencodak‘s Clockwork Empire

*edit: Sadly, the joke, unlike Jim’s video isn’t trans-inclusive.

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larplyyyyyyf:

Made a quick video of how I put armour on by myself, with the help of my trusty coat-hanger, Squire. There’s no crappy talking, just me making a lot of dumb faces. I got halfway through filming before I realised I left my bracers in my car, whoops. Hope you guys like it. Feel free to ask me question.

It’s silly, but I had fun making it, and the music fits strangely well. 

@bikiniarmorbattledamage a more comprehensive video for ya’ll 😉

An awesome display of the process of putting over a basic set of plate armor without the assistance of a squire (which is how most people wearing it would have had to have put it on).

While traditionally we see illustrations showing plate armor being put on with an assistant, it’s worth remembering that we usually only see illustrations of knights who had already had squires and so put them to good use.  Men-at-arms without squires had to do things themselves.

That and throughout various periods in history people have designed clothes that can’t be put on without assistance purely to demonstrate that they were wealthy enough to a personal servant.

– wincenworks

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