Women in videogames and why we need them

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You can find sources for the articles down in the description.
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Mentioned videos about Elsagate etc:
How the Internet Destroyed Generation Alpha (Visual Venture):
• How the Internet Destr...
The Return of ElsaGate | It’s Worse Than I Thought (Mii N U 2):
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The DISGUSTING Return of ElsaGate (Raymundo):
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Kphoria: The Original Elsagate (Raymundo):
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Mentioned cases and sources:
Black Pill ideology:
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Eliot Rodgers:
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Eliott Rodgers quote:
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École Polytechnique case:
www.cbc.ca/mon...
Florida Yoga Studio ER follower:
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George Sodini:
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Guide to online pills:
www.adl.org/re...
Misogynistic mass violence is on the rise:
reporter.anu.e...
Rape Pill:
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Rape posts every half an hour:
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SA of Hughie in The Boys:
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Stalker who worshipped incel killer:
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Toronto Van Shooting:
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Virginia Tech Shooting:
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Used clips belong to channels:
AFGuidesHD
Animi
BeardBear
Boss Fight Database
Brunoborne
GameSpot
Gamer's Little Playground
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IGN
KnightWalkthroughHD
Likzy
OzCo's Gaming
PlayStation
Pool of Jello
Ruba
Shirrako
Sirloin
Something Witty Entertainment
SourceSpy91
The Gaming Library
TheMascatul
ThirstyCorners
umbra
WolfTooth
Xbox
Xgamer 744
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[@daneyal7162]

I admire well written female protagonists as much as I admire well written male protagonists. If I find them worthy, they have my admiration.

[@SirJacobFlames]

Overall a pretty good video! 😊 Now I’ll proceed to leave a long comment to help with the algorithm. You say here at 36:18 that these characters are modelled after real people which is true however a few examples you used here like Aloy and Mary Jane were made to look attractively worse then in their first games. Aloy makes sense given the context of the story, like you say she’s a tribal woman who’s been climbing mountains and fighting robots for a year between games. But Mary Jane in Spiderman 2 looks and acts like a completely different person in only 4 in-universe months with an uncanny resemblance to one of the game's writers despite using the same mocap actress. Stella Blade on the other hand uses a real model and thankfully doesn’t go out of their way to make her unnecessarily ugly. I do agree with you that they went over the top with some costumes though. I like hot women too, don't get me wrong but hyper sexualization like that in any media takes away from the overall experience of it unless the context of the scene is meant to be sexual. I plan to finally play the game later this year so I’ll likely get back to you on that then. But yeah it’s mostly like I said the other day in discord about how the woke DEI bullshit nowadays has changed people's perception of media involving anything other than non white men as “WOKE” even if it’s not woke. Sometimes it is like Spiderman 2 and other times it’s not like Final Fantasy 16 (Which BTW the dogs at Sony and Insomniac removed any WOKE aspects in the middle eastern release whereas Square Enix didn’t even release FF16 there because they refused to alter their games vision). Remains to be seen if Ghost of Yotei is actually woke or not but knowing it’s a Sony game I don’t hold much faith. I’ll know for sure by next year when I see more than only the lead character's gender. PS. Loved the usage of the clip at 7:40 absolutely goated reference. 🤣

[@RelativelyNormalGameshow]

Thank you both for watching and some words to it ^^ sorry if I miss something because MY GOD, I would slap you until you learn what segments are xD its bit tricky to read. I agree that it makes sense to make changes for Aloy. I think her new looks fit her very much! I don't know what happened with MJ, considering it should be the same model. I read something about just leap between graphics, since 2018 was on PS4 and S-M2 being only on PS5. I think the OP mentioned something about focusing on different textures and trying to go for more realistic face, which resulted in her looking different. But don't quote me on that, I doubt I'd be able to find it again. When it comes to Stellar Blade, they actually didn't use real model for the face. They did scan Shin Jae-eun as her BODY model, but Eve's face is crafted by the devs. It isn't a real face. Pretty easy to double check it if in doubt haha. When it comes to her costumes, there for sure are games that managed sexy look without breaking the immersion. Even 2Bs gothic lolita dress fits better to the setting than whatever Eve is wearing. It really just comes to right place at right time. Im not saying all her sets are ugly, just that vast majority would probably fit in a game like Dead or Alive instead of postapo soulslike. And yes, get back to me once you get to play it! Hopefully I do too until then. It might be just me, but if they were so quick to remove anything "woke", how serious were they about it. As mentioned, me and Arak work on some stories and you bet my ass I am not changing anything about characters I wrote, be it their ethnicity or sexuality. It does smell like DEI they did solely for the purpose of being woke, not representing because they would want to, but because they thought they had to. Diversity and inclusivity is beautiful thing, it's common for people to travel and settle down anywhere, ffs it's 2024, its normal to meet same sex or biracial couples. Some people are just crybabies about it. This REAAAALLY does depend on how the characters are portrayed and written. Not everything inclusive it woke, but it definitely can be. There's extremely thin line. For Ghost of Yotei, I read that the setting was era flourishing with different female warriors, also being one where women lost many rights. I hope they work well with whatever they decided to use. Ghost of Tsushima already had some LGBT representation which wasnt too much on the nose (one random questline + questline of Lady Masako and Mai), so I believe Sucker Punch can handle these topics well enough. And yes, SAO Abridged is the best xD

[@clay_bunny_]

I agree with everything, what I honestly hate is people forgetting that person looks based on what they do and what their genetic condition is. I want my assassin's to be agile and lean, while I want my tanks to be big and rough, it makes honest sense. It's easy to claim "it's not what people want" and then get pissed that fantasy race has different beauty standards than humans do, sorry that I don't like all fantasy races look like "this dude is big muscular with a dad bod, big noses and teeth and women look like "they green" (yes I did talk about orcs) Heck, even thru history beauty standards change, when you ask normal people what they want everyone is gonna say something else. Show 100 men 100 women and everyone is gonna choose something different, I could never choose based on looks but I genuinely find hot when women wear David's star necklace, I am not Jewish, it's just what gets the kick out of me. People are different, I also don't go around internet complaining that "women don't wear Jewish signs on their necks" because if the character isn't Jewish, why would they have that?

[@RelativelyNormalGameshow]

@@clay_bunny_ perfectly said

[@daneyal7162]

We need well written characters, not woke ones, who are intentionally uglyfying what is ment to look beautiful.

[@RelativelyNormalGameshow]

it really depends which are "uglyfied" and which are just normal looking. Context matters obviously

[@Gamesoftsre]

Your microphone quality is poor, there’s too much Yapping, and unnecessary editing throughout.

[@RelativelyNormalGameshow]

I already got a new mic, just need help setting it up! When it comes to yapping, that wont change. We both talk a lot, so if that bothers you, maybe we are not the right channel for you. Not everything is meant to be :)