It’s strange the relationship fighting games have to diversity, made most evident in Street Fighter. There are tons of characters, from diverse national backgrounds, with hugely varied body types on the men and at least somewhat varied body types on the women (more than most games can say), and everyone is equal in…

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I seem to be in the minority of thinking that Quiet is perfectly effective as a character and our discomfort with her is exactly the effect Kojima intended. The original rain scene is actually very well done in my opinion, especially in how it conveys shifting emotions without words.

I’ve never been too coy about my love for fat women. I did eventually have it drilled into my head that I shouldn’t use that phrase because it’s “offensive,” but I’ve extracted that idea from my brain (it never was deeply lodged anyway).

German has a nice word that will probably never catch on in English because it’s too cumbersome, and I can’t even figure out how to pronounce it right. It’s a shame, because we could really use it:

I realized just after the edit window that “men fight wars!” sounds like a common MRA argument. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, just that they don’t even understand it. Soldiers (still mostly, but not completely, male) are used as objects by the patriarchy, taught that the only way to be a man is to engage in organized…

Metal Gear is one of the few series that, in my opinion, has a legit claim to objectifying men as much as women. In fact, male (non-sexual) objectification is half the point of the series. Soldiers in the series, predominantly male, are treated as things to be used as you wish and discarded when broken. Some sexual…

It’s true, but tropes are not bad. By creating a character with the concept of “scantily clad sniper,” he felt the need to justify it. Probably because he learned something from the reaction to Sniper Wolf’s glass-cutting neckline so many years ago. In doing so, he made a connection that’d allow him to make a point…

I wonder if people like this realize that “guys want to be around other guys” is easily one of the gayest sentences ever.

I just want to propose a counter to this. Considering that this condition is forced upon her and she suffers for it in the game, I feel that it’s meant to make male players a little uncomfortable when they check out the eye candy. I know that I’ve found myself more prone to averting my gaze than ogling her.

This is true, but incomplete I think. I see her as a metaphor for sexualized and silenced women. She’s probably wearing the maximum amount of clothing her condition will let her survive wearing. This probably stemmed from Kojima wanting her to be in a bikini, but in finding a good excuse he also found a deeper…

Of course, there’s another possible interpretation, that it’s a metaphor for the silencing of women and their forced sexualization.

Didn’t realize it was offensive. I thought it was the technical way to describe hair that naturally curls into tight coils. It’s true, blacks don’t have complete claim to the afro, but I’ve also been told that the term “Jewfro” is offensive.

Funny thing is, even before he said this, people speculated that Usopp was black due to his nappy hair and darker skin. Now they debate whether he’s black enough. He has slightly lighter skin than his father though, and his mother was lily-white, so we can probably settle on him being mixed-race.

This.

Aww...well, at least someone made this obvious joke.

I majored in literature in college. Granted, I didn’t finish (due to personal reasons, not academic), but I also realized had no desire to go back. I had gained basically all the critical analysis tools I thought I needed and completely reshaped the way I consume media, but the emphasis on “literary” works completely…

I really like the philosophy of Magic: The Gathering’s color pie, and this is the most common statement about Red: “Red is not kind to Future Red.” A recent story also gave me the beautiful phrase “Fist Logic.” Fist logic is when, the moment you become fully committed to a course of action, you realize that it was…

Telling him so he looked slightly discouraged and then made a comment about how he only knew that lesbians ever played Pokemon.

Thing Jesus did say: “Fuck this fig tree in particular!”