Recent content by Smeatza

I never doubted it was humorous, what I do doubt is that the humor is comes from where you say it does. They are not poking fun at how much they look like humans, if anything they are poking fun at the idea that they look like humans. In actual fact the humor comes from drunk people saying...

Yeah I don't think so, if that was what they were trying to do then they failed miserably and should employ somebody else to do all of their "poking fun." Even if we did that doesn't mean we would be right to do so. So when you said "the reason," you meant "a reason." It makes quite the...

That's debateable. They carry children and have breasts but does that make them female? Do merely human concepts of gender even apply to a one gender species? I don't think so. In fact I remember a sequence in the first game where it's speculated that Asari make themselves appear visually...

Ahhh I see. Well I imagine there probably is a minority who are resistant to such character designs entirely. But I think most people who say such things are probably just being a bit reactionary and taking things to the worst possible conclusion, there's a lot of reasons why such...

I don't get this thread. Could? As if you've never seen professional outfits, on women, in video games? Or are we talking about the specific outfits listed here? I'm confused.

Like I say I haven't played a Metroid game in a long time, but going by the visual design that's what it looks like. To me at least. I never implied she scavenged her equipment from anywhere. She has a ship doesn't she? Wouldn't that probably have standardised emergency equipment? Both...

They look to me like they'll function the same way Chell's Advanced Knee Replacements work in the Portal games and don't look any less practical. Their ugliness contributes to the standardised emergency equipment feel I mentioned. Does it make less sense? When I played Metroid it was the...

When me and my friends used to play Tekken we used to remark on how badass it was that Nina could do all those crazy kicks in high heels. We didn't find it sexy or trivialising, we found it impressive and cool. Samus' high heels don't look very sexy, there's nothing sleek or attractive about...

Like others have said, rap is the spoken word to a beat. People tend to think hip hop and gangsta' rap when they hear "rap" but they forget that rap is everywhere. From Linkin Park to Ke$ha. Rap can be the music of outcasts, but I don't think it's THE music of outcasts. Music in general is...

Haha, dude had to take all the screenshots of the Reddit because the people who were in them were complaining. Looks like the blood came rushing back to their heads.

Well surely we shouldn't be trying to apply these highly generalised concepts to individual cases then. Surely that makes any comment like "this game is a male power fantasy," "this game is a female sexual fantasy" or "that's not what a male power fantasy/female sexual fantasy is" to be...

This blog. http://turnsoutmywifeisgay.com/ It's the blog of a married man who's wife has come out of the closet. Some of it makes for truly heartbreaking reading. So often it's thought of as this funny thing that only happens in sitcoms, but in reality it can be an incredibly painful thing...

I hate all of this "male power fantasy" and "female sexual fantasy" bullshit. It requires that I make great generalisations of the tastes and motivations of entire genders. And I'm not comfortable doing that, especially when I myself know people who are exceptions to both these "rules."

Bullshit, you should never, EVER work for free unless you KNOW that goodwill is going to be cashed in somewhere down the line. There's a difference between refusing to do anything that doesn't show up on your job description and allowing yourself to be treated as a doormat and be payed less...

What you say of women's wrestling is certainly true for the WWE, I can't really speak for anywhere else. Although I did see some clips from a relatively new Scottish wrestling league and the women there seemed to be badass. But I was just drawing a little parallel. People often say "how would...