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[Shifty]

No boobalities in mk11 then.

Tell me more about this boobality you speak of.

For purely scientific purposes, of course.

 

[Moneal]

Remember when MK used to be the game that caused and even embraced the outrage.

 

[Dice]

Video games are on the corporate world's shitlist ever since Gamergate, because we don't "play the game" we're made to suffer.

I mean, maybe? It seems like the narrative is pretty twisted because I know it's not just the men who like attractive designs for female characters. There are women you can find all over conventions of all sorts, on social media, or just playing and enjoying games. They may not all make video arguments like Liana here or Vara when this sort of change from past games happens, but they enjoy traditional design concepts of beauty and sexuality when games have them. Given an extensive character creator, they make their ladies attractive.

So these moves clearly aren't pandering to all women, just a certain subset, yet the narrative is always trying to pull things around to the topic of men's expectations and trying to put a negative spin on it, like it is championing the idea of depriving entitled manbabies, pairing this with an outright assertion that women universally find the prior designs demeaning. That just isn't what I see in women's attitudes and unprompted thoughts and chosen characters across the broader scene of videogames, be it with fighters or shooters or MMOs.

 

[Saber]

Remember when MK used to be the game that caused and even embraced the outrage.

That was MK signature.

Now is all about people spamming "its porn" and they answer "yup, we gonna change by demand because respect".

I' m just waiting until a guy/gal says that the game should remove violence because it makes their partner nervous.

 

[Cunth]

Remember when MK used to be the game that caused and even embraced the outrage.

Gonna go from blood code to skin code

 

[lock2k]

Gonna go from blood code to skin code

abacaxxx lmao

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Gonna go from blood code to skin code

And in Mortal Kombat 12 in 2021, we'll get blood like this:

 

[Virex]

I bet the female fatalities in MK11 will be an hour long lecture about Womens Right, LGBT Rights, Sexism, fighting the patriarchy and why communism and socialism is good for the world and how much the female characters hate straight white men. Reason why it will be fatalities is that after listening to the female character. Your character will want to kill himself.

 

[llien]

...modern... ...undoing whatever good things they had before.

Surely you didn't say they had only good things, but can't help pitch to: which wave does this person belong to, chuckle?

Born April 15, 1931 (age 87). One of the major founders of Gender Studies.