I occasionally dabble in Anime and was feeling interested in checking out another series, so I asked my friend for a good recommendation and they told me attack on titan. So I of course asked what the premise was...and then they all said "....we're not gonna tell you....cause then you won't watch it". They were…

Edit: Holy necro post...I just saw the date this was posted...how the hell did I get linked here!??!

Honestly...there's a really easy solution to this problem that doesn't require an iceberg'ish plot device. She's immortal. All they have to do to explain how she was involved in WWII is just say that she was there and leave it at that. The harder question is why she stuck around.

I don't think I'm being clear. Whether or not it's ok to save establishing Superman to the world for the next thing is another argument, but I'm going deeper than that here. What I'm saying here is that the movie doth protest too much.

You're missing my point. Yes, he saved the world from a bunch of aliens. That's all well and good but saving the world from aliens is pretty standard fair for Superheroes. Superman is more than just that. Superman is a symbol. He is the ideal of hope.
He is meant to represent a higher standard of heroism. A hero…

While I like that you acknowledge that ultimately it was the writer who led us down that point of no return in the movie and put Superman in that position, I have a problem with your argument for MOS.

I agree with you that it can be nice to see a different version of a character every once in a while, but the problem…

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This pissing contest about which console is or isn't faster is a load of garbage!!! Which console was more powerful last generation? Even if there was actually a definitive answer to that question it meant nothing in practice.

Godspeed Hawkeye initiative. Godspeed.

Needless versus senseless is actually a really good way of putting it actually.

I concur, and the B&B unit picture is misleading to boot. I think you could make the case that it's not a completely linear trend between sniperwolf and olga...but Quiet is definitely a new level.

Probably because Quiet has proven to be bridge too far, and that says a lot considering the existence of the beauties from MGS4 or the cleavage on a character like Sniper Wolf.

No, as I've explained to other people, the problem isn't needlessly sexy character design. Sexy character design isn't inherently bad. I agree it's probably fair to criticize Cortana's design as being juvenile, but it's relatively harmless and nobody denies that the female form is aesthetically pleasing.

Of course you can be conventionally attractive. The controversy here isn't that she's conventionally attractive. It's that she's dressed as a goddamn striper with a military fetish!

Lol...Kojima has a great track record....riiiiiiiight.

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had a more detailed post but I think I messed up something in quotes and it lost stuff....going to try and simplify, one sec

I don't have a problem with women dressing provocatively. I don't have a problem with illustrating characters provocatively. I'm a guy. I'm straight. I enjoy gazing on the glory of the…

To be fair, it is true that we don't entirely know what Kojima's point is and it seems like he thinks there's a reason for it, but the first glance is pretty damning and I'm not really ready to give him the benefit of the doubt.

And yes, it's an apples to oranges comparison because while Cortana being naked might be…

:Sigh:.....Quiet is not a living breathing human being who makes choices, she is a *character* who has been designed in this way. She didn't just wake up and decide that she was going to wear a bikini into battle, she's a doll that was dressed up.

No, again, you're missing the point I'm explaining. The point isn't "female soldier", which is why I cited the example of a fantasy female warrior in a chainmail bikini. The point is that the decision to sexualize Cortana may have no justifiable reason beyond T&A, but the worst thing it is is juvenile.
"Quiet" on the…

The point is that while you can criticize sexualizing a character for no reason beyond titillation and argue that it's completely juvenile, I find it much worse in the case of something like MGS because it leads into the problem of perverting the idea of "female empowerment". To be fair: Kojima seems to recognize…

No, that's not the point. Designing a character to look sexy with no apparent reason might be questionable, but the controversy here (regardless of whether or not they're right, and what the ingame explination is) is that a character who's apparently supposed to be some tough military soldier has been given a design…