I didn't watch the second series but I've seen a few people mention this. The thing is though that Maeve wasn't bisexual in the comics, she was straight. Her sexuality was changed for the TV show, presumably to improve representation. The showrunners are guilty of the issue they're supposedly mocking.
At best, this was a handful of leftists who had an extreme reaction to TLOU 2's haters using the Ghost of Tsushima to bash it. And to be clear, I don't believe that nonsense about Ghost either.
There are plenty of movies that signaled wokeness heavily and were rejected by both sides of the isle. Signaling politics in and of itself does not mean something would be accepted.
This complaint has struck me as unfounded. Max Lord was the only male character Alex showed interest in and it wasn't exactly a popular relationship (nor was Lord himself particularly compelling being seen as nothing more than a Lex Luthor stand in.) As for Alex's sexuality, this isn't any different from how plenty of gay people are in heterosexual relationships before realizing their orientation. The only reason to complain about Alex being gay instead of bisexual seems to be that people specifically want her to be attracted to men.
Seems pretty par for the course for superheroes. At least the ones on the CW.
Your own comment about Supergirl disproves this. It seems you're looking for hypocrisy and narrow mindedness where non exist.
Your argument was that games were being "uglified" not being made more realistic. People only complained about the realistic proportions because they thought the fanservice was being erased entirely. It wasn't.
This isnt even a fraction of the badass women that exist in fiction. The narrative of women always being just prizes is just incredibly false.
"I don't know why the feminists are so upset. I think that women are perfectly represented in media, and of course I'd know better than they do."
Judging by how ignorant they tend to be when presenting an argument about video games specifically...yes i do know better.
And there's your problem, you don't you don't get to make that claim and speak for all women. Most women don't appreciate it and there are plenty of men that don't appreciate it either. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. And boyo, you have been doing plenty of wrecking yourself.
You really don't know dick. Well it's not as bad as it was before back then, it's still crops up from time to time. It might be an unfortunate implication, but it is still there. There are plenty of stories and novels, and movies back from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and '70s where women were damsels in distress or needed to be saved. It's a trope older than dirt. Yes, there were subtle changes in each decade, but it was still a problem. Sigourney Weaver did an excellent job in Aliens, but she didn't say everything. But she definitely did change the face of how women are portrayed in sci-fi, so I give credit to to where credit is due. That said, issues have and still exist when it comes to representation. We've already discussed this a thousand times already. You having the quote unquote "final word" don't mean shit. No one put you in charge. When I last check, you sure as hell don't work for Hollywood, nor the AAA Gaming Industry. Nor are you on top of the system.
Adding more diversity. Which is not the same thing as tokenism, which is what the show was parodying and what you were (wrongly) accusing them of.
Nonsense, this is propaganda and nothing more.
Aka "This doesn't match my personal life experiences as a straight white cis male Gamer and is therefore objectively wrong."
And there's your first and most dangerous mistake. It's not propaganda if it's true and still on going. You just rather be in la la land. You have a habit of ignoring actual points or truths people back up or show. Either by downplaying it or not responding when you know you have nothing to counter with. Or you overract or treat something as serious buinsess, because of a change of an outdated system, or "forced divsersity" bull crap you're tying to sell. I am starting to see why you don't come to the Current Events thread often. You told me that earlier this year, but you've been on it a lot more often than you want to admit.
This especially was weird. None of the female characters in Ghost were traditionally attractive, looking more like one would look when living in squalor in medieval times. Yet I've had someone in a thread right here post a picture complaining that the breast size of a TLoU2 character was slightly smaller than the face model's.
Except it actually was kinda Erased because for quite a while the claim was being pushed even the original MK game costumes were unrealistic looks for women to fight in. Eventually after a lot of fan pressure and a lower than hoped for sales they put the original MK costumes in the game as unlockable but initially you can look at characters like Scarlet etc and how much more they were covered up.
Of course, it's totally different when the Boys does it...
The argument was there wasn't any being presented. Not that more wouldn't be fine.
We're talking the same branch of Feminism that held up a person who couldn't understand why an illegal file sharing website would have porn adverts on it. The same person who claimed Lego was disadvantaging girls by creating sets that were more aimed specifically at boys and others at girls when their core original sets were getting more boys playing with them anyway and not girls thus Lego actually tried to get girls interested in it by tailoring sets towards them too but apparently that's bad for girls who already weren't playing with the regular sets and somehow Lego is the problem because it didn't magically managed to have girls playing with it's original sets to the same degree as boys despite doing everything modern 4th wave feminists would claim is good and should be the solution. (Gender representation in all marketing, gender neutral designs, lack of machoism and violence / war in designs etc etc)
You ain't in the parts of the internet I am, slick.
Not at all. But my point about them paying more still stands.
Except it has.
I'd bet my life on it. Go see for yourself.
Of course it's not fine. It's a game that, in the end, very few people win, and you can rest assured regular people like you and me ain't among that Very Few.
*Point to Liana K and many other women*
It's a Trope because it works and has emotional weight and depth to it and saves having to spend however long explaining stuff. I mean we don't have to explain to cinema audiences that the things on the screen aren't going to rush out of the screen and kill them, that's technically a trope that said thing is understood. Saving a loved one / princess / Damsel is an easy trope to do in games where they are more about gameplay. There's little to explain, the character loves some-one they've been taken away against their will so go save them.
Again easy trope to do with little story explanation needed.
