i miss q!jaiden and q!foolish's dynamic so much where did jaiden go :( bring her back give them more shit to break into admins pleaseee foosh is gonna get bored. they require enrichment your honor. i miss their silly banter and absolute chaos together, btu also the whole "outcasts together, theyre all i've got now"
i miss mouse and tina shouting jaidens name whenever they saw her log in/meet up with one of or both of them. we're missing a woman in girl village and no one seems to care :(
i miss seeing jaiden parkouring around a room in someone elses pov while everyone holds a serious conversation, theyre talking about code attacks and egg deaths in ordo theoritas and shes over here literally climbing the walls and finding the perfect place to perch and eavesdrop from.
i miss jaiden saying BALLS?!?! BOLAS?!?! every two sentences and her insistence on hatsune mikus existence
i miss her :(
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one thing i love about slf is how hard it subverts the hot girl harem trope. like yeah you have the mc playing as a guy whose party is all girl avatars. but literally none of them are into him (and the one girl who's into him is Big Time Struggling to get into the party REI PLEASE GIRL USE YOUR WORDS YOU'RE SO OP I'M SURE THEY WOULD LET YOU IN)
like arthur is even a hot girl supermodel in real life but also a complete dick (affectionate) and her and sunraku are just absolute assholes to each other (positive) literally zero romantic tension there
then there's katzo. obligatory spunky tomboy girl of the group. and he's just some guy lmao
then there's emul. npc rabbit with a hot girl form. but sunraku is never not normal about her
maybe i'm just setting a very low bar but it's refreshing and fun! to see these interactions between people that are just. genuinely and completely there for the game
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seeing some people's reaction to weird gamer men oversexualizing kiriko is "mauga is right there, half naked, with serveral pin-up sprays" and while i do agree to an extent, i do feel like alot of people are kind of ignoring like. the racial element of mauga's sexualization, like i like mauga, he's hot, but the second i saw him in the short story, i wasn't a big fan of the whole "big savage brown indigenious guy" and it feels like very few people are pointing that out.
RIGHT LIKE. we cannot fix "gamer men fixate on fictional asian girls to a violent degree, usually in a racist way or enabling racist tropes already present in the character" with "gamer girls fixate on fictional brown men to a violent degree in a racist way or enabling racist tropes present in the character" like you guys are part of the same problemmmmmmm youre doing the same thinggg its not better because youre doing it to men like.
i think some people only want to see the kiriko problem as misogyny and while im not going to even pretend that ISNT a massive part of it, theres still like. a reason kiriko and d.va and mei are fascinations for these dudes. there is a pointed difference between the way these three get spoken about compared to their white counterparts (and their dark-skinned counterparts too - look at the responses to illari for a really easy comparison to how kiriko is treated). their ~exoticism~ as asian women is part of the appeal. even if you dont just wanna take the way dudes online treat them (like making a joke that shes "obvious pornbait" for speaking japanese and using JSL) as evidence of that, look at their marketing. kirikos whole thing is atheleisure traditional, shes got her Mystical Japanese Spiritualism Ninja Powers and her magic doggy and they constantly put her in japanese and korean fashion, and dva has been constantly crossing over with korean merch companies. i cant help but notice theres no brazilian IP crossovers or merch launches for lucio, or any attempt to Sell Peru To Gamers for illari. they couldnt even pick a town in Samoa to name maugas map after. these people wouldn't buy that stuff because it's not fetishized in the same way asia is.
but like. a lot of the people trying to Gotcha these racist dudes with an asian fetish just whip out their favourite racist tropes instead and its a really bad look. like you guys dont wanna examine how your examples of The Characters Its Okay To Hypersexualize are all brown? even the people who wanna fuck cassidy dont talk about him like this. or like. fuck if you want a good comparison for mauga lets look at roadhog. big half-naked tank who theyve been playing up a sexual energy/comic relief duology on since day one with racially insensitive cosmetic options. nobody treats it like its completely normal to talk about him that way. the dev team isnt pushing pinups of him out. he isnt flexing his boobs in trailers. hes a white dude*, so he gets the bare minimum dignity of being treated normally. incidentially hot, maybe, but for the most part his character is sold on being cool , funny and scary. mauga is being sold 50% on being a Sexy Rogue Love Interest and 50% on. releasing late. they put in so little effort for him to be anything else despite hyping him up as suuuper significant to the lore and a major gamechanger its almost embarrassing to watch. (this is why that short annoyed me so much for anyone keeping track).
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so this is, as far as anyone can tell, not a joke. this is an actual list an alt right dipshit gamerTM made of 'conservative core' games and posted on a 4chan clone, and it's the greatest self own I've seen online in a while. guy is just out here boasting about his own lack of media literacy
I'll put the full list below a cut for anyone who wants it, but i just want to highlight a extra few special entries here first (minor content warning for mention of forced pregnancy, nothing explicit):
Toho Project: it's almost certainly on here because it contains anime waifus, but I've literally never met a toho fan who wasn't trans. technically i guess cis toho fans exist, but they're definitely not the ones keeping the franchise afloat
The 3 different Warhammer 40k games: 40k was created as a critique of reactionary conservatism generally, and margaret thatcher specifically.
Doom: just gonna quote the creator of doom here. "Trans rights are human rights, important rights, critical rights and society needs to do more to make this the case for everyone."
Sniper Elite: this is a game about shooting nazis in the balls. literally, that is the game. there are nazis, you shoot them. usually in the balls. that feels like a pretty firmly anti-nazi stance to me, idk
Persona 4: this game is about how conservative japanese society mistreats teenagers and denies them physical and emotional agency. gonna go out on a limb and guess it's on here because dipshit fancies one of the female characters
Silent Hill 3: silent hill three is about a teenage girl who is impregnated against her will and desperately wants to not be pregnant but a powerful religious organisation tries to force her to carry the baby to term and as a direct result the world nearly ends. in one of the endings, it does end. because of the lack of an abortion. i cannot believe the game about the importance of reproductive rights isn't even the stupidest entry on this list
Fallout 3: it is, granted,one of the less political fallouts. it's still a game about how the U.S. gonvernment destroyed the entire world by declaring war on china and then nuking the planet, and also about how unchecked capitalism and the replacing the social safety net with corporations will inevitably lead to those corporations abusing people, and how that is very bad actually.
Bioshock: literally the first thing that happens in this game is you are told libertarianism is a stupid ideology that will always fail and ayn rand was a moron. and then the game goes on telling you that. at length. in a variety of creative ways. for the next 15 hours.
Metro Last Light: see fallout, this is a game about war-hungry governments who don't give a shit about their people end up nuking the planet and nearly wiping out all life.
and finally, to end on the highest possible note:
Metal Gear Rising Revengence: not only is this an entry in a franchise which is entirely and exclusively about how awful the military industrial complex is, this game specifically is about a soldier who was abused by the military killing the president of the united states because his use of private military corporations to fight wars is morally indefensible. literally. that's the plot. it's entirely possible raiden just says those words in that order out loud in the game because hideo kojima knows writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
anyway, the alt right are fucking morons and media studies needs to be a compulsory subject in every school on the planet.
full list below the cut:
Toho Project
Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Doom
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Sniper Elite
Mortal Kombat
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Persona 4
Rimworld
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Quake
Silent Hill 3
Resident Evil: Parasite Eve
007: Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Battlefield 4
Dino Crisis
Fallout 3
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Arma III
Squad (no, I don't know what this one is either, it appears to just be called squad? it looks like a rainbox six knock off)
Ready or Not (disappointingly, this looks like a Call of Duty knockoff and not a game based on the film ready or not, which is about killing the 1% with a machete)
Company of Heroes
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Devil May Cry 2
Fire Emblem: the Three Houses
Megaman Zero
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Bioshock
Halo 2
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Ninja Gaiden II
Metro: Last Light
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine (fun fact, at the end of this game your character gets executed for heresy because they saved lives, but i'm sure that's not commentary on anything at all)
Killzone 2
Dead or Alive: X-Treme Beach Volleyball 2
God of War (the original, not the Dad of Boy reboot)
Metal Gear Rising Revengence
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still thinking about an interaction that just happens minutes ago …
don’t react well to being yelled at how to play the game.
do not talk to me like that. I don’t care WHO you are.
it’s just a game, chill out. you’re really shouting abuse at strangers online?!
Whatever’s happening in your actual real life does not mean you can go online to abuse people verbally.
If it’s such a huge deal to you how I’m playing… go solo. go ranked. whatever you do, gtf away from me.
I ran because we’re out numbered and I hadn’t even a secondary weapon or enough ammo… you ran off first. don’t run into fights 1v3 immediately then blame US for your loss.
I also had to run off towards the end or the ring would get us … so hope it was worth it 🤡
it’s selfish and just plain disgusting behaviour, if this is how you treat strangers online.
Hope you carry on sucking. 🫶✨lil entitled man child
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