#maori devs

[termagax]

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).

#*im awareeeee theyre doing bait with him and i refuse to acknowledge it until they put it in the fucking game #im not settling for those scraps especially as the game triples down on its anti-indigenous aesthetics and lore and everything #if you genuinely want to argue with me that roadhog counts as maori representation youre gonna have to take me to court over it idgaf #anyways. we jest here about my sexy wife but i think its worth pointing out now that mauga is here #and how mauga has been treated by devs and fans. that there is a tangible difference between the two #roadhog is niche hot and they barely if ever play into it its just kind of a side effect of the kind of character he is #if anything they try to make him grosser and less appealing most of the time #meanwhile mauga has pinups in game and in press material and is being sold as Sexy #in conjunction with a lot of unfortunate fucking circumstances that combine to feel extremely anti-indigenous #also illari as a comparison to kiriko bcz theyre a similar age bracket w similar builds and have a superficially similar gimmick #but kiriko is 9000 gamer boys favourite sex object while illari gets boredom at best or rage at worst #like. neither option is GOOD but its definetly DIFFERENT how theyre treated

[themyscrian]

meet the residents of Kilika Island! because if the FFXIV devs aren't going to take us to the south sea isles then im going to build it myself npc by npc. and also base some of them on FFX characters because that just makes sense to me.

#RLPaperDrawing #FFXIV #Final Fantasy 14 #Lalafell #Avalon Perolon #main inspiration was fiji b/c its canon that lalafell like clothing that obscures their body shape #but two of the characters are meant to be maori equivalent #it was fun trying to adapt their designs while still doing something that felt faithful to the references of Fijian clothing i could find #because the devs are currently doing shit like the south seas talisman so SOMEONE has to put some actual effort in #also yes i know i messed with their heights. tidus has short king energy and lulu should be taller than everyone. #im right.

[loressa]

Made for Regenerate game jam, 2022. 48 hours. Goal was to educate others on regenerative farming and Maori culture. Won first place.

#game dev #game development #game jam #game jams #indie games #twine interactive fiction #interactive fiction #if #solarpunk #intentional community #twine game #twine #twine if #new zealand #maori #Matikari

[ruleofbirds]

𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚕𝚘𝚐_𝟶𝟷.𝟷

Kia Ora, Te Ao!

Hello, World! It's official - Robbie has a tumblr now. Absolutely unfathomable. Honestly, it's mostly because it was this or Wordpress (or a more obscure indie dev forum) and this seemed the most accessible and quirky. I'm sure this won't lead to another awful endless scrolling habit. Any advice for the visual side of things is warmly received! I want this blog to be a fun part of the week, because a lot of fun will be had developing RoB. Just realised that acronym happens to be my name. Could be worse.

Okay! Now that the initial ramble into the void is out of the way, it's time to get into the c o n c e p t.

This tumblr is a devlog for my NZ ecosystem simulator currently titled "rule of birds", which I will be working on for the next 8 weeks as part of Blackbird Foundation's "Protostars" program. This means a weekly check-in with the other creatives in the program, the organizers at Blackbird, and a post for all of you here.

I'm breaking this week's post into 3 sections just to cover the bases;

01.1 -a bit about my creative practice and how it led to this project

01.2 -a discussion of "flocking" in programming (using p5.js)

01.3 -a discussion of NZ natural history

So here's the intro post, where I ramble about myself for a sec.

So! basically, I specialize in spatial design, I love working with anything nature-related, and I want to make a video game.

Lately I've been on a tangent based around art in NZ's cultural context - the design principles behind whakairo (Maori woodcarving) and how their composition conveys meaning, how histories of spirituality, tribal and colonial relations affected design, and my own art interpreting my natural surroundings with photography and charcoal drawing. I can neither confirm nor deny whether there will be an art zine compiling a wee bit of this work on the community table at the Whanganui Zinefest this Saturday.

That tangent branched off into a focus on natural history that's the keystone of rule of birds. My motivation for focusing on an ecosystem simulator is to articulate a basis for the sort of games I want to come out of Aotearoa. The sim will be the proof of concept - and I suppose this blog will be the manifesto.

I feel like there's a massive demand for games exploring NZ history - like, imagine a big-budget maori-led release set in pre-colonial time, with all the unique aspects of survival, resource management and day to day activity that involved - or an assassin's creed type action game based during the time of Te Kooti. It goes unsaid that Kupe is one of the best parts of Sid Meier's Civilization VI - iykyk.

What I think separates a good game from a great one is how alive the virtual world feels - rather than being led through an a-to-b progression of events presented in the same visual style I've seen countless times before, if the world can react in a dynamic way, and the details in the background are crafted to feel organic and immersive, I'm going to want to stop and wander off the beaten track that an objective marker may be pointing me towards.

The last game that caught my attention in this way - and coincidentally the one that made me want to put my coding knowledge to the test with gamedev - was, of course, Rain World. To everyone who knows me, I'm sure you're surprised I've made it three paragraphs without bringing this game up. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, because there is *a lot*, but key points are you are one creature among many scavenging for food in a brutal biomechanical ecosystem, hibernating between cycles of cataclysmic rain, and the game plays like basically nothing else due to how the coded behaviour of every entity in the world follows its own logic that has much more to do with its own survival than the experience of you as a player.

Here's a nice little illustration of the physics behind a movement-sensing tentacle monster, to give a sort of discrete example - but the creatures that act according to behavioural karma systems and the dynamics of how the different lizards scuffle and coordinate with each other is worth looking into too, if this is your thing.

(Source: GDC, Curious Archive)

Now, I really want to jump into some of this behavioural coding stuff, so I'm just going to move on to collecting things for the next post - hope this has been an interesting read! if you somehow found this page in your tumblr algorithm, welcome! I'll also be posting bits on the instagram page @robbiek_devlogs and you can check out my other work on my main insta @robbiek_art

Hei kōnā mai,

Robbie K

Next up: simulation in coding, natural history research post #1

Next week: Adventures in Godot Engine!

#natural history #programming #indiedev #birds #gamedev #devlog #Youtube

[swearingcactus]

Far Cry 3's Rook Islands - how based on Indonesia is it actually is

according to an Indonesian who is not exactly qualified to write this post but by god will i make that everyone else's problem. Long post under the cut in case you'd like to know the fun facts and insights about the game and Rook and how much they got right and wrong.

Here's what I will discuss:

Locations, Flora & Fauna

The Rakyat and what they preach and practice

Citra, Dennis and Vaas

I would like to preface by saying Indonesia is a big ass archipelago, literally the biggest archipelagic state in the world, and we have many cultures, sub-languages, and various indigenous tribes of which I'm not part of. So there could be a possibility that the FC3 game devs were basing Rook especially the Rakyat on certain tribes I'm not familiar with or with an actual cultural rep who knows more than I do, but somehow I doubt that too, considering how they seem to just base Rook vaguely on various Polynesian areas.

1. Locations, Flora & Fauna

The Rook Islands page in the Far Cry 3 Wiki does a great job of explaining this in more depth than I do, but to TL;DR it: the flora & fauna in Rook makes it seem like Rook's most likely in the eastern side of Indonesia (sharing the same fauna and flora as Papua New Guinea and Australia). This is especially evident since Rook has komodo dragons and they're only available in Nusa Tenggara Timur.

However, the vastly different animals in the North and South Islands of Rook indicates the possibility of Rook running through the Wallace Line, which irl happens between Bali and Lombok, two very close islands which have vastly different faunas.

So actually to squash down the locations into two tiny islands and grab all the crazy animals into two distinct parts like this actually happens irl, which is cool!

I got nothing much to add about plants cus they all seem to be pretty straightforward and all are available in Indonesia from what I see... with the exception that I previously had believed that the white plant that Jason can pick to craft immunity effects are jasmines, but it seems that officially they're tiares which are more commonly known as being used as leis by the Polynesian people. Either way, both Jasmines and Tiares are small, worn traditionally by women, smells nice and have some spooky connotations, so same difference to me :^)

The only location in-game with an Indonesian name is Beras Town. Beras means 'uncooked rice', so there's a little fun fact to note since when you get there the first time to see Hoyt shooting at the natives it was fittingly in a rice paddy field.

2. The Rakyat and what they preach and practice

The Rakyat is a dead giveaway that Rook is based on Indonesia or Malaysia. Rakyat means 'people' in both languages, and is pronounced correctly in-game. However, most of the Rakyat weren't speaking Indonesian and spoke with a New Zealand accent so are they like. Samoan? Maori?? God knows.

Indonesia has certain tribes who have tattooing as part of their history and culture, but the tatau seems to be based more on the Samoan tatau, at least from the name itself. Tattoos are called tato in Indonesian and not tatau. The design is also not like any known designs from tribes that have tattooing culture in Indonesia. With how Dennis explains each animal on Jason's tatau had meaning in the Rakyat's history for warriors, it seems like the entire thing was a creative liberty.

Other than the tataus, there's not much we know of about The Rakyat other than they're natives of the island. There's a side mission where you have to spy on a cheating husband, this one stuck out to me for a couple reasons. One being it's funny as hell, and also because the name of the guy the husband is cheating with is Jalak. Jalak is the Indonesian name for a Starling, there's a specific sub-species of the bird that is endemic to Bali, Indonesia. It's extra-funny if it's implied that the man the husband is cheating with is named after a bird because the word bird in Indonesia (burung) is a euphemism for dick.

Another side mission also has a minor character you have to find called 'Senin' which was pronounced wrong but it's an Indonesian word that means 'Monday'.

Those are all I remember, I'll edit if I remember more!

3. Citra, Dennis and Vaas

Citra - let's start with the most glaring thing. Citra is not supposed to be said with a 'S' sound but a 'Ch' sound. (if you go to google translate and type in Citra in Indonesia and listen to it, that's the right pronunciation). If they wanted to pronounce it like they did in-game, they should've just named her Sitra which would still sound pretty natural as an Indonesian name.

Other than her name pronunciation error, the name itself is actually pretty solid. Citra means image, like 'made in the image of god' kind of image. Considering she is the Rakyat's leader and is obsessed with cultivating an image of strength and traditional values, it's a fitting name.

Citra is also the only character to speak proper Bahasa Indonesia. She actually pronounces the words correctly and speaks clearly, which I was pleasantly surprised with! Just ignore the way the Indonesian is written in subtitles cus they are completely wrong. She only says a few lines so I'll discuss them here:

Senapan ke bawah - said when Jason first shows up with Dennis at her temple and she asks her men to stand down. Translates to 'Lower your guns.'

Berikan saya herbal - said when she asks for the first potion that Jason has to drink to get the vision that led him to hallucinate where to find Willis. Translates to: 'Give me the potion/herbs'.

Cinta untuk anak-anak kami - you can miss this if you didn't pick her ending. This is the only correctly subtitled Indonesian line, and it translates to 'love for our children'. Not child. Children. Plural. Miss ma'am... what in the everliving fuck are you trying to do hoping to have children with a guy who's shooting blanks at this point and who you proceed to kill immediately after? Let's move on.

Dennis speaks Bahasa Melayu, which is quite interesting to note, considering he is a foreigner who tries very hard to fit in. Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia are very similar to each other, hence why we can understand each other, but there is still a distinct difference between them. Since we're overanalyzing, it could be said that Dennis and Citra has never been 100% on the same page with how they speak slightly different languages.

Vaas never once speaks Bahasa Indonesia or Melayu, which considering how he has thrown away his Rakyat roots, makes some sense. And I love Michael Mando but I think he would definitely butcher the language lmao so it's great that they didn't make him say any native lines. Vaas is also not an Indonesian name, though we do have vas as a word, since vaas is Dutch for 'vase' and we picked up a few words when Netherlands colonized Indonesia. but i doubt they used the word vase for a villain name but hell, who knows. If we wanna get funky I guess we could say that Vaas was always colonized/under someone's control even down to his name.

Conclusion

Far Cry 3's Rook personally for me didn't do a good job at being Indonesian enough, from how villages look, to location names, to little things like the lack of food stalls that you would 100% be able to find if you just walk down the road in any location here. Though to be fair, it was 2012 and as such, a different time with different standards that they have since then set higher for themselves. Ubisoft did a much better job at adapting Kyrat into a believable country that was based off Nepal with rich world-building from NPC notes, locations in map, to the little items you can loot from the enemies that included Bagh-chal pieces! FC5 was also very true to Montana from what I'm led to believe from the countless praises in Reddit, and FC6 had a lot of great representation too.

At the end of the day, FC3's a great game with a solid map based vaguely off a location I just happen to be familiar with, and that is still pretty fucking cool.

#far cry 3 #far cry #far cry analysis

[nek-ros]

hm im neither native american nor maori so i should probably not say much abt this, but i realize with the feathers this kinda looks like a native american stereotype? but im also aware that the devs are based in aotearoa so the design could be based on maori traditional wear that also uses feathers (there is another design in the game with maori face tattoos, so i think that checks out)?

[cricketfun]

Indigenous vs Maori All Stars; Mens and Women's results, updates, latest news; Chapman and Hunt doubles lead Indigenous women to impressive win; Brandon Smith's heartfelt interview NRL All Stars 2024 team lists, live sco... #usa #uk

[rugbylovers]

Kiwi ex-cage fighter in line for shock 6N call, Quade's 'ffs' moment, Rennie on ropes, Skelton adds to Dan pain A former New Zealand cage fighte... #funny #memes #sports #live #tweets #win #twitter #tweet #bet #manchester #rugbymen #rugby union #irish rugby #super rugby

[lfmcn]

Cennetten Kopmuş Birer Parça Gibi Yerler

Dünyanın çeşitli yerlerinden derlediğimiz ve cennetten birer parça gibi gözüken harika yerler. Ölmeden önce gidilmesi gereken yerler sıralamasına zirveye koyulmalılar.

Vadhoo Adası, Maldivler

Dünyanın en eşsiz plajını görmek için Maldivlere gidiyoruz. Peki bu plajı özel yapan şey de ne? Bunun sebebi gündüzleri normal bir plajken, güneşin batması ile birlikte ortaya çıkan ikinci bir plajdır. Gecenin karanlığında eşsiz bir görsel şölen sunan bu kıyılarda, gökyüzündeki yıldızların yeryüzüne inişine tanık olabilirsiniz. Denizin içinde meydana gelen bazı biyolojik değişimler sonucu oluşan bu plaj sizce de inanılmaz görünmüyor mu?

Zhangye Danxia, Çin

Doğanın Çin’e bahşettiği mucizelerden bir tanesi olan Gökkuşağı Dağları tam 80 milyon yıldır görkemini korumaya devam ediyor. Jeolojik dünya harikası bu dağ tam bir renk cümbüşü. Yukarıdan bakıldığında akıl almaz görünen bu yerin oluşmasının nedeni ise mineraller. Toprağın sahip olduğu mineraller doğal bir şekilde bu dağı kırmızı, yeşil ve mavi renklere boyamıştır.

Salar De Uyuni, Bolivya

Dünyanın en büyük tuz golü olan Salar de Uyuni, Bolivya’nın ve dünyanın tuz ihtiyacının büyük bir kısmını karşılıyor. Bu tuz gölünü özel yapan şey ise ülkede yağmurların yağmaya başladığı dönemlerde, dev bir aynaya dönüşüyor olması. Yüzyıllardan beri değişmeden devam eden bu durum burayı ziyaret eden şanslı kişileri hayrete düşürüyor.

Cehennem Kapısı, Türkmenistan

Türkmenistan’ın Karakum Çölü’nde yer alan Cehennem Kapısı, yaklaşık olarak 50 senedir sönmeden yanmaya devam ediyor. Türkmenistan’ın yüzde 70’ini kaplayan Karakum Çölünde yer alan Cehennem Kapısı, bilim kurgu filmlerinden fırlamış gibi görünüyor. 1967 yılında doğal gaz sondajının çökmesi sonucu meydana gelen bu kraterlerin sondaj esnasında yer altındaki kireç taşı benzeri madenlerin suyla teması sonrası günümüzdeki haline gelmiştir. Sürekli olarak durmadan yanan ve alevleri geceleri yüzlerce metre uzaktan görülen bu kraterin gürültüsü bile yüzlerce metre uzaklıktan duyulmaktadır.

Kamış Flüt Mağarası, Guangxi, Çin

Görenlerin hayran kaldığı ve hiç ayrılmak istemediği bir nokta olan Kamış Flüt Mağarası, ismini mağaranın hemen dışında yetişen ve flüt yapmak için kullanılan sazlıklardan alıyor. Oluşması binlerce yıl süren sarkıt ve dikitlerin yer aldığı bu mağara rengarenk ışıklarla aydınlatınca ortaya kesinlikle görülmesi gereken bir manzara çıkıyor.

Moeraki Kayaları, Yeni Zelanda

Yeni Zelanda’daki Koekohe sahili boyunca yayılmış iri ve yuvarlak kayalar muhteşem bir görüntü oluşturmasının yanı sıra yerel hikayelerle de yüzyıllardır buradaki yerlileri etkilemiştir. Maori yerlilerin inançlarına göre yakınlarda batan bir gemideki sebze sepetleri taşlaşarak bu hale gelmiştir. Fakat yapılan bilimsel çalışmalara göre dünyanın Paleosen zamanından, yani yaklaşık 65 milyon yıl önce taşlaşan çamurlar, sahilde rüzgarın etkisiyle bu şekli almıştır.

Uçan Gayzer, Nevada, ABD

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin Nevada Eyaleti. Bundan tam 40 yıl önce, çöle dönüşmüş eski bir göl yatağında jeotermal enerji kaynaklarını delen işçiler, kaynağın toprak altından püskürmesiyle birlikte minerallerin yükselip bu şekli oluşturmasını sağlamış. Dünyaca ünlü bu gayzerin diğerlerinden farklı ise hiç ara vermeden sürekli püskürmesi. Read the full article

[indiegamesofcolor]

[ID: A photoset containing four images of the interactive book Puhaorangi.

Image 1 shows cover art of the mythologic figure Puhaorangi standing in front of a spectral background with glowing eyes. 

Image 2 shows a man and woman together looking at each other. A text box beneath them reads: “Toitehuatahi is a great explorer he is a wise and loving chief who cares for his people. Te Kuranuiomona his wife of high birth, a loving wife who works tirelessly for her family. Her beauty is known throughout the length of the land. Such is the meaning of her name. The sacred gift of Monoa. And it seems that even the heavens have been smitten by her.”

Image 3 shows Puhaorangi with his back to the viewer as he steps towards a cosmic sky. A text box in the foreground reads: “Without a moment to lose he drove his heel into his waka and commanded his companion forward, there was no hesitation from Amokura as they surged into the stream of Te Unuhanga, the brightness was too strong for Puhaorangi who raised his forearm over his eyes, the noise was piercing but on they travelled no sooner had they entered-- the chaos ceased.”

Image 4 shows Te Kuranuiomona standing in a jungle-like area of plants and trees. Her finger is extended towards a bird on a branch. A text box reads: “As she makes her way towards him he hears her whisper, ‘Such a thing of beauty-- oh Tāne I greet you!’. Enriched with joy by these warm words, he fills his lungs with air therefore extending his breast in a display of bravery and acknowledgement. Te Kuranuiomona folds her fore digit, touches her nose and extends it out towards Puhaorangi.” 

end ID.]

Puhaorangi is an interactive story book about the origins, exploits, and descendants of the Te Arawa ancestor and superhero, Puhaorangi! Learn from whom Puhaorangi descends from, where his superhero abilities came from, and what led him to traverse the solar system. Story author Raimona Inia also sees Puhaorangi as “the first Māori astronaut!”

For free on iOS and Android.

Developed by Metia Interactive, a studio from Auckland, New Zealand (whose name is being petitioned by the Māori party to be changed to Aotearoa as an act of decolonization). Founded by Maru Nihoniho, Metia Interactive has created games that represent Māori people and other ethnic groups. 

#video games #indie games #educational #mobile games #indigenous devs #Polynesian devs #maori devs #free to play #Pacific Islander devs

[pocfiles]

MASTERLIST: pocs entre 18-30 anos com disponibilidade de resources.

— abaixo do read more você vai encontrar uma lista de #100 pocs entre as idades de 18-30 anos com vasta disponibilidade de resources. a lista também vai contar com seus anos de nascimento, informação disponível sobre seu background étnico, e ao clicar em seus nomes você será redirecionado a sua tag de gif icons. ideal para players e centrais. observação: a lista não conta com fcs de kpop uma vez que os mesmos já são bastante utilizados na tag. caso lhe seja útil, não hesite em dar um like ou reblog. 

— FEMININOS

RYAN DESTINY (1995): afro-americana, mãe é biracial (afro-americana e branca).

ZENDAYA COLEMAN (1996): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 branca 

KIKO MIZUHARA (1990): 1/2 coreana, 1/2 branca. nacionalidade japonesa

MISHTI RAHMAN (1992): bengali. nacionalidade australiana

SAMANTHA LOGAN (1996): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 branca

GRETA ONIEOGOU (1991): descendência russa e nigeriana

NATASHA LIU BORDIZZO (1994): descendência chinesa e italiana. nacionalidade australiana

JESSICA VU (1999): vietnamita. nacionalidade americana

LAURA HARRIER (1990): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 branca

ALISHA BOE (1997): somaliana e norueguesa.

NORMANI KORDEI (1996): descendência afro-americana, francesa e indiana.

VANESSA MORGAN (1992): descendência tanzaniana e escocesa

TATI GABRIELLE (1996): afro-americana, coreana

HILLARY THRIN (1999): vietnamita

YARA SHAHIDI (2000): afro-americana e iraniana. 

MADISON BAILEY (1999): afro-americana e italiana.

CHRISTINA NADIN (1995): 1/2 filipina, 1/2 irlandesa

AMANDLA STENBERG (1998): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 branca

KIANA LEDÉ (1997): descendência afro-americana, nativo americana, latina e sueca.

COURTNEY EATON (1996): descendência inglesa, chinesa, e maori. 

MINA EL HAMMANI (1993): marroquina

ASLIHAN MALBORA (1995): turca

LAIS RIBEIRO (1990): brasileira, descendência negra, indígena e europeia

LANA CONDOR (1997): vietnamita

FIVEL STEWART (1996):  descendência coreana-japonesa-chinesa, nativo americana e europeia

IMAAN HAMMAM (1996): marroquina e egípcia

SALEM MITCHELL (1998): afro-americana, com descendência filipina

PARIS BERELC (1998): 1/2 branca, 1/2 filipina

AJIONA ALEXUS (1996): afro-americana

DIAMOND WHITE (1999): afro-americana

BRIANNE TJU (1998): descendência chinesa e indonésia..

JUSTINE BITICON (1998): descendência filipina e mexicana

YAYA URASSAYA (1993): norueguesa e tailandesa

DAVIKA HOORNE (1992): belga e tailandesa

SARAH CHEUNG (1996): chinesa

SAWEETIE (1993): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 filipina e chinesa

KELSEY MERRITT (1993): filipina-americana

CINDY KIMBERLY (1998): descendência espanhola e indonésia

PARK HYEMIN (1990): sul-coreana

YOVANNA VENTURA (1995): dominicana, espanhola

CHLOE BENNET (1992): 1/2 chinesa, 1/2 branca

HAYLEY KIYOKO (1991): descendência japonesa e europeia

KAYLEE BRYANT (1997): descendência japonesa e europeia

NAOMI SCOTT (1993): descendência indiana e europeia

KIM GOEUN (1991): sul-coreana

ASHLEY MOORE (1993): afro-americana, cherokee e branca

KELSEY CHOW (1991): descendência chinesa, cherokee e inglesa

TINASHE KACHINGWE (1993): afro-americana, descendência irlandesa por parte de pai

CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN (1991): afro-americana

SYDNEY PARK (1997): 1/2 afro-americana, 1/2 coreana

PIPER CURDA (1990): descendência coreana e tcheca 

JENN IM (1991): coreano-americana

MOON GAYOUNG (1996): sul-coreana

LYRICA OKANO (1994):  japonesa-americana

SOFIA BRYANT (1999): afro-americana

SATO HARUMI (1995): japonesa

BYUN JUNGHA (1993): sul-coreana

— MASCULINOS

KEITH POWERS (1992): afro-americano

ROME FLYNN (1991): 3/4 afro-americano, 1/4 branco

DOMINIC FIKE (1995): afro-americano e filipino

YANG YANG (1991): chinês

KEIYNAN LONSDALE (1991): descendência nigeriana e irlandesa

JORDAN FISHER (1994): afro-americano, descendência cambojana, taitiana e branca

BOOBOO STEWART (1994): descendência coreana-japonesa-chinesa, nativo americana e europeia

JONATHAN DAVISS (1999): afro-americano

ALGEE SMITH (1994): afro-americano

CHRISTIAN YU (1990): sul-coreano

REECE KING (1994): biracial, descendência africana e branca

MICHAEL EVANS BEHLING (1996): biracial, 1/2 afro-americano e 1/2 branco

DANIEL EZRA (1991): negro; descendência não-especificada

AVAN JOGIA (1992): descendência indiana e europeia

JADEN SMITH (1998): afro-americano

ZAYN MALIK (1993): descendência paquistanesa e europeia

AJ SAUDIN (1992): descendência tanzaniana

SHAMEIK MOORE (1995): afro-americano

CAPTAIN CHONLATORN (1998): tailandês

RYAN POTTER (1995): descendência japonesa, europeia e judia

CHANCE PERDOMO (1996): afro-americano

KEVIN ABSTRACT (1996): afro-americano

TREVOR JACKSON (1996): afro-americano

JACOB ARTIST (1992): 1/2 afro-americano, 1/2 polonês

JUSTICE SMITH (1995): 1/2 afro-americano, 1/2 europeu

MENA MASSOUD (1991): egípcio-canadense

DYLAN WANG (1998): chinês 

DEV PATEL (1990): descendência indiana, nacionalidade britânica

JOHN BOYEGA (1992): descendência nigeriana, nacionalidade britânica

DARREN BARNET (1991): 1/2 japonês, 1/2 branco

CHARLES MELTON (1991): 1/2 coreano, 1/4 branco, 1/4 cherokee

ROSS BUTLER (1990): 1/2 chinês, 1/2 branco

TOM MADEN (1989): branco, hispânico, nativo-americano

CODY SAINTGNUE (1993): descendência francesa e cherokee

PARK BO GUM (1993): sul-coreano

JI SOO (1993): sul-coreano

NAM JOOHYUK (1994): sul-coreano

TERADA TAKUYA (1992): japonês

—  TRANS/NÃO BINÁRIO

SHAMIR BAILEY (1994): afro-americane, não-binário

INDYA MOORE (1995): porto riquenha e dominicana, mulher trans

QUINTESSA SWINDELL (1997): afro-americane, não-binário

CHELLA MAN (1998): descendência judia e chinesa, trans, genderqueer

LAITH ASHLEY (1989): descendência dominicana, homem trans

#rp br #fc masterlist #poc fc masterlist

[crystalbeastsquidney]

Yo you totally don’t have to explain it if you don’t want but would you be willing to explain what’s going on with Cyberpunk and why it shouldn’t be purchased?

The game’s steeped in a whole bunch of bigoted shit including transphobia, racism, and ableism. Plus the dev team was treated like shit with major crunch for the game to even come out. Most recent has been the fact that a required part of the game was literally designed after a process that induces seizures with no way of turning it off/avoiding it. (The devs are planning to add an option now but it truthfully feels more like them covering their asses after the backlash—that option should have been there in the first place or y’know don’t fucking design your game to cause seizures)

Then there’s blatant cultural appropriation of mokos in the character creator (there’s a more in-depth post on that I reblogged not too long ago if you want to look for yourself, but basically they’re deeply personal maori tattoos and are like 100% a closed cultural practice that got added to the game for ✨aesthetics✨), and apparently a general lack of decent options for making black characters at least hair-wise. As well as a bunch of other stereotypes of black and asian characters.

And finally the transphobia,, god where to even start with this... honestly I’m too fucked up and sad at the moment to really put it to words so i’m just gonna link an article that should do the job, hope you don’t mind. Transmisogyny tw for that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/12/4/22058784/cyberpunk-2077-marketing-cd-projekt-red-transphobia

#asks #anti cyberpunk 2077 #anti cp2077 #anti cdpr #transmisogyny tw #<— for the article #transphobia tw #racism tw #ableism tw #my post

[themyscrian]

I saw your take on lalafell and they're absolutely AMAZING! The amount of detailing and arrangements were so lovely to look at, it's so clear you took careful consideration in looking into Maori and Fijian culture, full on kudos to you! And I hope this isn't rude to ask, but do you take comissions? If not I completely understand, still love your art!

oh wow—thanks, i really appreciate that! i figure if the devs aren't going to acknowledge that they've made lalafell canonically polynesian (beyond the really barebones touristy stuff like leis and inaccurate hula dancing) then i might as well try my best to tip the scales by putting some actual effort in. yeah technically fiji is melanesia but the stiff cone shapes of the barkcloth skirts felt more flattering for the lalafell body type so i figured why not base one of the many islands there!

im sorry to say i've never taken on commissions because i'm very inconsistent in my ability to actually draw to a high standard or within a normal time frame. i managed to do that height chart in a day because its a simpler, sketchier style but ive taken as long as 13 months to do more complicated pieces.

you'd have better luck my boyfriend @starshucker! he's a very talented illustration major, and let me commission him to do these higher quality digital refs for my wol and his mums.

feel free to send him an ask, and thanks again for the kind words!!

#RLPersonalAdventure #goldencamelias #heheheheheehehe this is such a compliment :)

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Civilization 6 New Frontier predictions:

So far Ethiopia, the Maya and Gran Columbia have been revealed. We are only getting one alternate leader (who I think will either be European or East Asian). I think the most likely additions are:

Venice

Portugal

Vietnam or Thailand

The Apache or Navajo

The Ochete Shakowin (Sioux)

Morroco

I think these are the most likely because they are located in underrepresented regions, and they also are most popular among Americans.

Civ loves European counties, and Portugal and Venice are the most requested civs to be added.

Southeast Asia currently only has the Khmer, and while civ usually only has one SE Asian civ, the fact that more will be added makes me think that Vietnam (which has previously been represented as a city state) and Thailand (which has been in other civ games) are the most likely Asian candidates.

The Navajo and Apache are likely I think because the SouthWest US is still very empty, and they are very well known. I think if not either of those, then we would probably get the Lakota or Dakota lead by Red Cloud.

Morroco has a history of being in Civ, and they would probably play an economic play style, something that would balance out having the Maya who are focused on science and Gran Columbia which is focused on domination. I’m okay with this introduction, but I wish they would add more than just two new African civs.

Civs I don’t think they will add:

The Haudenosaunne were my bet initially, but there is so much already in that region with Canada and the US starting there that I don’t think they would add another civ there, especially because they seem to only add non-white civs if they have to.

Any more Pacific Island civilizations seem unlikely because we already have the Maori. Even though there definitely should be more; there has not been an outcry for civs like Hawai’i or Papua because the fans of civ are mostly white or living in a majority-white country.

Nigeria or any other Subsaharran African Civs seem unlikely because there are already 6 African civs! Which is very underrepresented compared to the dozen European civs, but the game has not been known for its equal representation. Morroco and Ethiopia are really the only two African Civs that I have seen people asking for.

Any Aboriginal AustralianCivs are pretty unlikely, which disappoints me the most. There hasn’t been a lot of people asking for them, and people complaining about that region of the map have been mostly satisfied after the inclusion of the settler state Australia. The devs also explained that they didn’t want to add any in the last expansion because they didn’t want another war-focused civ (an extremely racist sentiment)

Anyways, those are my predictions for the new civ expansion

mod e

#civ 6 #mod e #sid meier's civilization #civilisation vi #civilization 6 #civ 6 new frontier

[goldie-claws]

i heard someone rec a short photography indie game called umurangi generation by a maori dev. it has no dialog but its still interesting. just though id pass it on since i saw you wer talkin about cp77 & all the probs with it like appropriation :)

Sat down and had a look and the appearance/concept of the game is already very intriguing! I can see the developer put a lot of love into it. Perhaps when I’m not worrying about uni work I’ll definitely snap it up and give the developer the love they deserve!

Thank you for the recommendation anon! <3

#ask #asks #virgin cp2077 chad umurangi generation #Anonymous

[hollowjourney]

I'm kinda fucking pissed off at the blogs I follow. Half of them are reblogging shit about Cyberpunk being shitty. Where were they when The Last of Us Part 2 was scene after scene of torture porn featuring one of the few LGBT characters that developer has created? Where were they when Naughtydog was forcing their devs to crunch AND to watch hour after hour of real world executions and hangings to get the physics "as realistic as possible?" Where were they when a professional game critic compared TLoUP2 to Schindler's List of all goddamn things (which I feel might be at least a little anti-Semitic to say, but as a gentile individual I don't get to decide what is or is not anti-Semitic) and that tweet was retweeted by the lead writer? I have seen nothing about Cyberpunk that makes it worse than TLoUP2 (I actually think Cyberpunk is less harmful than TLoUP2), so to see my mutuals of all people dragging THIS game when they didn't have any outrage over any other "Triple A" title this year pisses me the fuck off. I know this game has some problematic aspects, but they're being blown out of proportion. The transphobic ad slogan that was meant to show how terrible corporations are was apologized for, and it and the racist portrayal of that one gang, which is likely a hold over from the fact that this is based on a ttrpg from the 70s, were from 2019, enough time to be rectified (btw, no one is bringing them up at all beyond "this game is transphobic and racist" so I'm inclined to believe that it's been dealt with). The strobing was a coincidence and will likely be patched along with most of the bugs and glitches which are ubiquitous to any game releasing these days because no "Triple A" developer will ever release a finished product at launch ever again. The Maori tattoos are a bit of an issue, but I blame that more on Polynesian rights aren't as entrenched in the zeitgeist yet and not on any intentional maliciousness. Just let me enjoy a game I've been looking forward to for over half a decade without making me feel like I should hate it and myself. To be clear, I'm not saying the game isn't problematic. I'm saying that it's not as problematic as it's being made out to be and that the hypocrisy of my mutuals pisses me off.

#personal #do not reblog