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It's not their fault. They don't know what women are actually like, because they've never gotten within taser range of one.
I mean, on top of just never knowing what regular women look like: it's Fable.
She's at least an 9 on that scale.
She's at least an 9 on that scale.
Also, again being Fable, you typically start out as just some regular shmuck from a farm, not Mr. or Mrs. Awesome McSexyPants.
Yeah, but even the old farm schmuck's gotta be a hottie, amirite? I mean, randy farmhands and busty milkmaids and all that. What's the point of a computer game if you can't wank off to the characters?
In my day we made do with mentally putting tits on Qbert. Imagination's what's missing these days.
Age restricted video in case I maybe have a heart attack?
Absolutely, and I mean it's not like we just had Street Fighter 6 release, right?
And that's the pathetic thing; most videogame characters are still designed for nerds to wack off to, it's just not 100% of them anymore. Now for every 10 Chun-li's, Cammy's, Jill Valentine's, or Ashley Graham's, there's one or two Abby's or whoever this girl in the Fable trailer is. Or Aloy now too, who is also considered ugly on purpose cuz... puddle gate, I guess.
Puddlegate 2.0
Oh No, The PS5’s Spider-Man 2 Game Has A Silly ‘Puddlegate’ Controversy (kotaku.com.au)
Also, you guys arent taking into account that wanking develops wrist strength which is important to button mashing on Streetfighter
If I remember rightly, even the Starcraft 1 medic had a load of flirty lines, just in case people needed a bit of alternative, uh, "stimulation" to killing zerg.
My charitable reading goes something like this.
Many boys are unintentionally taught from a very young age that social motivation is optional. While girls are constantly pushed towards being sociable and defining themselves through their friendships and relationships, boys are allowed and in some cases encouraged to define themselves in terms of interests like sports or games. The general pattern of male friendships tends to assume that boys will bond over these shared interests and thus don't need to develop social motivation outside of them.
But the result of this is that boys have to go through a bit of tonal whiplash during adolescence when they suddenly realize they want to interact with girls but don't have the social skills to do so. Some boys are able to get over this and quickly develop those social skills, or find that they are attractive enough that girls will do most of the work for them, but others never quite manage to grow out of being focused on interests rather than people.
There is generally nothing wrong with these people. If they just had a bit more confidence and threw themselves into more social situations, they would eventually learn the social skills they needed, but instead the message they get is that there is something just fundamentally wrong with them and their interests. After all, they can't get over the idea that socialization is purely a matter of shared interests, so it never crosses their mind that someone might like them or enjoy spending time with them without also liking the same movies or video games or sports (and yes, this does happen with sports too.. sports nerds are still nerds).
I think there's a lot of other stuff involved. I think you're absolutely right in that there is a tendency for extremely mediocre boys to sometimes get the impression they're really smart and deep and interesting and to have a very warped sense of what they deserve. But fundamentally, I think boys aren't pushed hard enough to develop social motivation, and by the time they realize they need it a lot of them will have already internalized (incorrectly) that they're just bad at it.
I was a massive nerd in school, and also very obviously neurodiverse, but I never found myself in that weird culture of social pessimism a lot of nerds seem to fall into, and I credit that to the fact that I wasn't particularly homosocial.
Basically, I feel like a lot of young men learn the lesson of "girls don't like me because of my hobbies" rather than "(most) girls aren't interested in my hobbies and I don't know how to talk about anything else".
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Later as young adults they start calling it 'introversion' and think of socializing as a chore.
While anecdotal (personal experience and Reddit threads), I find people are quick to resort to believing very optimistic things about social relationships ("just be yourself" or "get better friends", for example) and that can leave somebody jaded if it doesn't work out at all.
Pussies
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Has little to do with "gamers". Gamers seem to be willing to buy and play games like Forbidden West just fine and will likely buy Fable as well. There is not a single game out there that has tanked specifically for having a female protagonist.
It is those same kind of stupid culture warriors descending on every other kind of pop culture as well, no matter whether they actually use it or not.
Look, I'm not necessarily disagreeing but I would assume that most of the people whinging about female protagonists wouldnt actually buy the game. I know people who complained about Captain Janeway and have never watched Star Trek again. So I could imagine they do what they say....
It's just not that big of a group
The reaction to the new Fable game would be a case of a funny event in anti woke world. I didn't think there was much controversial to see but apparently far righters got a panic attack regarding the main character. They're convinced that wokeness has infiltrated fable and they went out of their way to make the new main character hidieous. This despite the main character....not being ugly. She's quite cute actually but then you get some alt right youtuber frothing at the mouth and going on a long rand about how woke devs ''just can't help themselves putting ideological messages in their games''
I mean....I guess the main character is a little plain but hardly some hideous troll. In fact she's more plan in a sort of cute outdoors kind of gall sort of way.
I mean....I guess the main character is a little plain but hardly some hideous troll. In fact she's more plan in a sort of cute outdoors kind of gall sort of way.