Gallery of the Day - Pixelated Boobs

[go-10]

I am neither insulted nor aroused by this gallery, but all the people crying and moaning have made this thread one of the best

I never knew so many people felt disgusted at the side of boobs XD maybe I'm immune to the evil of boobs since I grew up and live in a beach town but still really funny. How 2 beautiful things became the most offensive and horrible things on the planet is beyond me but I still like the reaction they create XD

 

[Godhead]

And this is why I want the "feminists" to win, so I can enjoy drinking your tears.

This is sad.

You could have had me as an ally.

T'was merely in jest. Also why would I cry if the feminists won? We're still not at true equality between sexes/races etc. I just found the reaction to this article hilarious.

Edit: Damn bro, you need to take a chill pill.

 

[major_chaos]

As to what you said about "guys seldom are made uncomfortable by shirtless men", I'd just like to help make your point for you.

Remember the Watchmen movie? Of course you do, even if you didn't see it the ads were everywhere. Well remember Dr. Manhatten and his full male nudity? I remember when that movie was in theaters men LEFT THE THEATER because seeing another man's dick on screen made them uncomfortable. I know some men who have not seen the movie all the way through because they refuse to have to look at another man's penis.

I said shirtless. I know most guys have some negative reaction to penis.

And yet if *I* walked out of a movie theater or hell, even this thread, because it made me uncomfortable that the only thing these female characters were being noted for was their breasts, I'm an uptight feminist who's butthurt and raging and crying.

And that is exactly why this thread disgusts me. People just generally being vile and cackling about "mad feminists" that only exist in their own minds.

Ha ha ha ah aha hahahaa

Just about everybody here came to this site because of Zero Punctuation.

The Escapist isn't some highbrow super classy site. Stop trying to pretend that it's something that it's not trying to be.

I seem to remember the site's tagline used to be something along the lines of "last bastion of intelligence on the net".

 

[Godhead]

And this is why I want the "feminists" to win, so I can enjoy drinking your tears.

This is sad.

You could have had me as an ally.

T'was merely in jest. Also why would I cry if the feminists won? We're still not at true equality between sexes/races etc. I just found the reaction to this article hilarious.

Well I will chalk that up to "tone is damned hard to read in text"

According to some "if the feminists win" all us males will sit castrated playing the only available video game. A "Sims" like game where you can only play as a woman, and you have to balance being sensibly beautiful with having a career and/or being the wisest best damn parent/parental consultant on the planet. And the only TV channels will be Hallmark, Lifetime, Oxygen, and Opra's "O".

I guess you can still call me an ally, because I still don't want ^

Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way. Feminism is a good thing, it's just that sometimes people on either side can take it a bit too far.

 

[Godhead]

-snip-

The very first thing I noticed about that .gif was that her hair clips through her left arm.

 

[mjc0961]

To be fair, Juliet runs around killing zombies in a cheerleader outfit because she's a fucking cheerleader. A cheerleader who was on her way to school, where girls commonly wear their cheerleader outfits (at least they did when I went to school), when the zombies showed up.

It's also just as "sexist" to its male characters as it is to its female characters, and it's all pretty tongue and cheek throughout, but hey, what do I know, I only played the game. Guess I'll shut up now and let the internet get back to unfairly bashing it without playing it because of the box art now.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

First thoughts upon seeing the headline: "Man, the forums are going to go ballistic over this!"
Glad to see that they did not disappoint!

Funny to think that there was a day when this was all perfectly fine:

 

[barbzilla]

Ok I found this and cant sit on it any longer.
It seems pretty funny to boot, so it will probably miss the shock factor I was going for.

Here goes (hopefully not my account)

Edit: my apologies in advance for any actual nudity that manages to slip past in the 1/100th of a second that it was exposed.

Edit#2: this may become my new avatar. hypnotizing isn't it?

Strangely.... yes.... it is hypnotic... *slaps face*

Sorry, I honestly don't understand why people get the knickers in a twist over titillation tactics, but at the same time, I can understand wanting to be represented in your hobby. It seems like many games/devs miss this point. You can have both. You can have the sexy woman in a game, and still manage to give a relatable female character to our female audience without causing some kind of strange temporal implosion.

Just like with every other art form in the world, someone will find a way to abuse the sexual side for fun and profit. The problem is gaming is currently exploiting it too much. If we can find some way to give gaming culture its own little skinemax corner of the market, and then manage to have some actual titles aimed at women that don't include the words Sim, Dress-up, model, or Barbie, we could push the culture further than what it already is.

OT: Honestly I could care less about the gallery. If you were going for subtlety in your wit, congratulations you overshot subtle and made it to nearly non-existent. I can see where you attempted to make subtle jokes to the point of making this an ironic post, but I can also see where you may have just been *trying* to spark meaningful debate (note: if you want to spark meaningful debate, try actually initiating the topic itself). The end result was blah.

My first reaction when seeing the gallery was, okay, but what is the point of this? That is mainly because I personally think that games that utilize the human form for titillation are okay, provided A: they don't make up 80% of the market as they do now, and B: there are games designed to titillate both men and women. The images where not all that sultry, so I doubt it excited very many of the people on the side of YAY BOOBIES, yet it was offensive enough to irritate the people who are just flat out fed up with it. So, I ask again what was the point? This was literally a lose lose situation here for everyone except those that revel in seeing other's emotional outbreaks.

 

[barbzilla]

Ok I found this and cant sit on it any longer.
It seems pretty funny to boot, so it will probably miss the shock factor I was going for.

Here goes (hopefully not my account)

Edit: my apologies in advance for any actual nudity that manages to slip past in the 1/100th of a second that it was exposed.

Edit#2: this may become my new avatar. hypnotizing isn't it?

Strangely.... yes.... it is hypnotic... *slaps face*

Sorry, I honestly don't understand why people get the knickers in a twist over titillation tactics, but at the same time, I can understand wanting to be represented in your hobby. It seems like many games/devs miss this point. You can have both. You can have the sexy woman in a game, and still manage to give a relatable female character to our female audience without causing some kind of strange temporal implosion.

Just like with every other art form in the world, someone will find a way to abuse the sexual side for fun and profit. The problem is gaming is currently exploiting it too much. If we can find some way to give gaming culture its own little skinemax corner of the market, and then manage to have some actual titles aimed at women that don't include the words Sim, Dress-up, model, or Barbie, we could push the culture further than what it already is.

OT: Honestly I could care less about the gallery. If you were going for subtlety in your wit, congratulations you overshot subtle and made it to nearly non-existent. I can see where you attempted to make subtle jokes to the point of making this an ironic post, but I can also see where you may have just been *trying* to spark meaningful debate (note: if you want to spark meaningful debate, try actually initiating the topic itself). The end result was blah.

My first reaction when seeing the gallery was, okay, but what is the point of this? That is mainly because I personally think that games that utilize the human form for titillation are okay, provided A: they don't make up 80% of the market as they do now, and B: there are games designed to titillate both men and women. The images where not all that sultry, so I doubt it excited very many of the people on the side of YAY BOOBIES, yet it was offensive enough to irritate the people who are just flat out fed up with it. So, I ask again what was the point? This was literally a lose lose situation here for everyone except those that revel in seeing other's emotional outbreaks.

I was hoping to stir things up with this post but I'll take a response that mirrors many of feelings instead.

For me this debate isn't about banning this or regulating that but more about ratios of different interests and seeing diversity that at least tries to cater to a wider player base/demographic.

And, we've seen significant strides in that direction, so hurray for that.

Did the gallery affect me in any deep emotional way? The strongest feeling I think I felt was annoyance because I didn't feel like I needed a message that was like "Just in case you forgot... BOOBIES!" even if you added a "j/k lol" on the end. But, it's no biggie, I am still here and I am going to try to stir up some controversy conversation, and try to enjoy it. I am not going to tell anyone that they cant have their boobies, lest I hurt their feels, and because maybe someday I'll get to see more floppy things of a kind that I like.

I guess I'm a strange guy personally. While I am straight (not sexually attracted to men), I am able to enjoy the nude male form (though I am much pickier about which men I find physically attractive than I am women). So, to me adding in equal opportunity sexually gratifying scenes and images wouldn't cause me to bat an eyelash. I would, however, like to find some more games aimed at actually allowing you to play different roles. I'm tired of always being one of the tried and true heroes/heroines. I always seem to be either the Unstoppable war machine, the emo guy who is misunderstood but tries to do good anyway, or the sexy badass woman who can out maneuver and destroy any potential threat destroying any form of drama that could possibly be had from such a character.

Not to create any misunderstandings, mind you, I do think we have progressed and I've gotten to play some truly interesting characters over the past few years, but I would really like that trend to expand on its current path. I think the developers have some misunderstandings about why games sell the way they do. They make assumptions about the players based off of the games that have sold in the past, and seem to think that a combination of the formulas that work will always yield a successful game. Well the truth is, we liked most of those games at the start because they were something new.

When Call of Duty 4 first hit, we didn't have many realistic(ish) AAA shooters that managed any form of coherent storyline. We had shooters with good story lines, and we had shooters that were realistic. This game put that combo together and set it up with tight controls and streamlined mechanics, and it was good. Now it seems like 4/5 shooters that release are stylized off of CoD (even games that had a good amount of success prior to, have started copying CoD's formula (though I have to admit I loved BFBC2).

The same thing can be said of the Indie crowd as well. The Indie crowd is now moving towards the AAA concept of stealing whatever idea works. Just look at Minecraft and the countless block based building games out there. It borders on the ridiculous, especially since many of these same Indie devs are telling us that they are out to create something new and fresh.

The point here is, most AAA devs (and some Indie devs) see that sex seems to not only sell, but also creates free press for the game in the form of controversy. Since these devs don't take the female vote seriously, they don't think it is all that bad if the women feel upset or left out. I mean how many of them can there be anyway... (just illustrating their views, not mine). So since they can get free press, have games with an added proven feature that sells, and (in their eyes) they don't lose much in the way of sales since few females were likely to play the game anyway.

Thankfully that is slowly shifting, but we have to keep awareness alive for it to actually work. The problem (in my opinion) is that many female game activists are working counter to their goals. By over reacting and making mountains of molehills (please note that I don't mean to say that all of the issues are small, some of them are quite large and deserve a major response, just not all of them), they seem to be overreacting to the point that the big Devs and Publishers don't take them seriously. The same can be said of all gamers when something they don't like is added to their game, so don't think I only fault women for this, because it isn't purely a female issue.

These devs and publishers hear so much negativity and anger over small things on a regular basis that they no longer have any actual fear response to said complaints. They already know that their game will sell, no matter the complaint. This is an issue plaguing all gaming in general. If we cry wolf at every puppy that walks by, nobody will take us seriously when the actual wolf comes.

 

[RaNDM G]

The ones of Ivy and Tifa are hand drawn. This gallery is null and void.

Seriously though, there's better examples than what you have here. Keep trying Escapist.

[sub][sub]I'm not taking this seriously. If you are, that's your own fault.[/sub][/sub]

I guess I'm a strange guy personally. While I am straight (not sexually attracted to men), I am able to enjoy the nude male form (though I am much pickier about which men I find physically attractive than I am women). So, to me adding in equal opportunity sexually gratifying scenes and images wouldn't cause me to bat an eyelash. I would, however, like to find some more games aimed at actually allowing you to play different roles. I'm tired of always being one of the tried and true heroes/heroines. I always seem to be either the Unstoppable war machine, the emo guy who is misunderstood but tries to do good anyway, or the sexy badass woman who can out maneuver and destroy any potential threat destroying any form of drama that could possibly be had from such a character.

I'd say you would enjoy Fire Emblem. The main characters in that series are all one of those archetypes, but the supporting characters you pick up for your army usually have different and legitimate motivations behind them.

Spec Ops: The Line I would recommend. The leading character is a soldier, not a hero or unstoppable badass. His actions in the game cause more harm than good to himself and the world around him, and you get the feeling something's not quite right by the middle of the game. I won't say more, but if you're looking for something different, try that.

The Thousand Year Door and Super Paper Mario have great portrayals of villains that defy the "For the Evulz" archetype. These games have some dark, near terrifying moments, especially Super Paper Mario. Check them out if you haven't.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Classy. Good to see the Escapist doing its best to give people like Anita that much more ground to stand on. Just when I was starting to think that the people calling gaming culture a sex obsessed, testosterone poisoned, boys only club were overreacting.

Ah yes, always nice to be reminded that being sexually attracted to women, and particular parts of female anatomy, makes me a misogynist. Classy.

A hundred times this.

I'm a woman who likes looking at boobs. Does that make me part of the "sex obsessed, testosterone poisoned, boys only club"?

Women have boobs. Most men (and many women) find boobs appealing to look at. There is nothing wrong with this.

I like penis as much as you like boobs (maybe more), and yet I don't want to see a penis everywhere and/or where it doesn't make sense. But I guess that makes me a sexually repressed prude that wants to ruin everyone else's porn fun.

Speaking of porn, that's were most of us "prudes" go to get our rocks off. It seems to work well without having to rub everyone else's nose in our sexual gratification.

I thought the general point of titling an article "Pixelated Boobs" was that anyone who isn't in the mood to look at boobs won't click it.

 

[Geisterkarle]

I thought the general point of titling an article "Pixelated Boobs" was that anyone who isn't in the mood to look at boobs won't click it.

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