You know pictures of models and women, including and especially real-life ones, are frequently and usually photoshopped?
Yes I know that is the model and the character is based on the model. I also suspect that particular image has some photoshop, and we should always suspect manipulation of images and information when used in this kind of internet/gamr "discourse. Especially as this embracing of Stellar Blade by the chuds is part of this whole "Gamergate 2" campaign to demand that all women in games look like Eve.
That's a goalpost shift. Nobody claimed there was no photoshop. You're dealing with a videogame character, photoshop is the least of your worries with terms of edited appearances. She's literally a digital representation of the scanned body, not a carbon copy. The point is that the char is based on a real woman and not conjured up from some sort of totally imaginary plane of sexist immaturity or what have you. That it's mainly based in reality and that it's valid and not any way less-than compared to any other char design.
There's no demand that all chars look like Eve, just that they not be ugly as all hell. There's a difference between the two. You can make a ton of differently beautiful chars. And at the same time, there's no actual benefit or merit if someone's ugly instead of being beautiful, either.
The issue is this pathological status being given to depictions of ugliness because they supposedly contradict something that nobody actually agrees is evil but people pretend as if we agreed that it is. And in so doing games forget their primary purpose as art and entertainment and get reduced to being political tools for social change. You don't need to be some kinda right wing voter to be able to notice that that's not for the best of gaming.
And I never even knew that there's a gamergate 2 going on. Who did Zoe Quinn sleep with this time?
It's a play on the N word, where ending with a soft a is usually reclaimed, at least by Black people and usually fine in certain contexts, and ending it with a hard R sound, which usually means some racist shit is going down.
Failing Hard Rock Cafe signs are funny because they are accidentally referring to something naughty. It's one of those jokes that can really only be made by accident, like other accidentally naughty signs
You know, this brings a question in mind. Did black people just reclaim the soft r one intentionally, or is it just that that's how they pronounced the hard R in their vernacular, meaning that actually the one reclaimed was the hard R said with a black accent to it, which eventually grew into a separate word. This is not official Cambridge english at this point but there must be some kinda linguist who knows one way or the other.
The boondocks shoulda done an episode about this.
