Recent content by busterbeam

The reason there aren't many women criticizing the game in this thread is that said women don't post on communities like this. The girl with the pony avatar and the Tumblr links was clearly part of a very large subculture of Internet feminists that actually ARE mostly female, but as of now she's...

Yeah people who say the things you do in the same way are a growing group of people that will eventually become very well known on nerdy communities like this. It's up to you whether you'll be known as a force of good or just get an "oh, it's one of THOSE people" reaction every time you speak...

For god's sake "LilithSlave" please stop and question the things you're saying and doing. You certainly have the right idea but you're getting the execution ass-backwards; dogpiling people for liking normal people things is simply not the way to further your (frankly logical and important, at...

So women don't like muscles? Not every woman shares your taste in wispy kawaii yaoi bishies and you know it. Come on, there's a big difference between Kratos from God of War and the Gears of War guys (obviously designed solely so guys would find them cool), and the characters that guy posted...

It's because she realized she's just as much of a pervert as the icky breast fetishists when she remembered her gay anime porn. Hell we all are. The thing is that even that sort of sexiness has its place, especially in a silly game like Skullgirls. Should there be more characters like The...

They weren't out to make a dead serious point as 'gamer activists', they were out to make a game full of stuff that THEY liked. I asked Kinuko on Twitter about the sexualization in this game and she specifically corrected me when I said it's "fanservice" or "designed to be sexy to the player"...

So why the "STOP IT WITH THE TITTIES GUYS SERIOUSLY STOP IT" complaints? Your very first post in this thread is JUST THAT. The problem isn't the breast "fetishism" itself, it's the lack of female-targeted alternatives. And yet you still gang up on games like Skullgirls made by sincere, cool...

So don't complain about the male gaze, complain about the LACK OF FEMALE GAZE. Holy crap man, it's that simple! Don't insult people who like women for liking natural, normal things that people who like women are attracted to, complain that people who are attracted to guys aren't given the...

Reminder that oh8 himself has said that the characters are meant to be sexy and the team of this game are people that normally draw stuff like this http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/086/6/c/Oh_Mai_by_oh8.jpg and this http://visublog.mechafetus.com/img/src/1248933188209.jpg And...

I can't tell if you're joking or not. I'll assume that you are and address your other arguments as I normally would. I knew this would come up. Copy+pasting a rant I wrote on the Extra Credits forums because I think it applies here very well: See, this is another problem I have with...

Okay, looking back at it I guess you're right with the first point - most of the girls ARE drawn to look sexy, it's not really as equal as I had thought. But then, I don't think it's fine to vilify the team of Skullgirls for making the game they wanted to make and I was wrong in using the...

But Parasoul is clearly drawn to look sexy. You're not going to pretend that tiny skirt isn't there for that purpose are you?

not every character in Skullgirls has jiggle physics. there are sexy characters and non-sexy characters. most guys like breasts, some women like breasts, lots of people like breasts. in a self-indulgent, willfully silly game like Skullgirls it's not out of place as long as there's still...

That's clearly a hat, not her head. Filia and Parasoul are also clearly drawn to look sexy, that's hard to deny. But that's still not sexism.

I saw that Kinuko (lead animator of Skullgirls) had a short Twitter discussion with one of the Kotaku writers that's been writing a LOT about 'sexism in games' and I found that interesting because the aforementioned artist is someone who draws boatloads of fetish porn involving huge-breasted...