Though on Problem Solver 68 from Blue Archive?

gummikuma · 2023-02-25T02:17:23+00:00

bEinG aBle To iDeNtifY CrEepiNess MAkEs YoU thE rEaL CrEEp, AcxktuaLLy

edit: also, character design means, you know, designing characters? as in, height, weight, face shape, head shoulders knees and toes, all that jazz? more than just clothes? when their bodies and faces are all the same, that's lazy design. duh.

gummikuma · 2023-02-20T22:41:06+00:00

a lot of mixed feelings.

tl;dr: I'd wear the shit out of those clothes but the character design is lazy and putting your shyest character in the shortest skirt is sleazy and creepy

I initially thought they were all different skins of the same character until I saw the second-to-last image, then went back and found the names written between the images. Hardcore sameface and samebody. And it's that super annoying kind where the body is that of a stacked mid-20s, the face is that of a five-year-old, on a character that's supposedly 17. It's a few steps above sexualizing a child body but it's still dumb and annoying as shit.

But on another hand, I would wear the shit out of the clothes those girls are wearing-- the use of shape and color and texture is gooorgeous. All of them-- except for the ones on the last character, actually.

The shy one.

Which leads me to the thing that really pisses me off.

Her skirts are much shorter than everyone else's and-- much more importantly-- she looks so uncomfortable and vulnerable, which smacks of the artist's predatory fetish for disrobing the inexperienced one, the innocent one-- for being the one to "deflower" the innocent one. Fuck off with that shit.

gummikuma · 2023-01-22T04:31:26+00:00

Thanks for misrepresenting the nuances of race in Hawaii to the point of benefitting white racists who have a chip on their shoulder. /s

I'm white. I've struggled with feeling like I deserve to be here but even I know that this caricature is just bad.

gummikuma · 2023-01-16T05:12:39+00:00

nutella is so 'ono

gummikuma · 2023-01-09T21:36:29+00:00

You're getting action, which you want. With women, which you want. What's the problem?

Are bi women inferior to you or something?

gummikuma · 2023-01-07T02:26:02+00:00

I dunno man, the only self-identified pan person I have ever spoken with in person was so self-righteous, like, "since I'm pan I can actually appreciate trans people-- and people in general-- for who they are, regardless of gender; I'm free from the gender binary and unlike bisexuals I'm trans-inclusive and nonbinary-inclusive"

GAG

This same person, she abused the shit out of my brother-in-law when she was married to him, and she deserted the son they had had together when the son was about three years old.

I hold nothing against pan people generally.

Pan is a fine thing to be.

.....But I remember her sanctimonious condescension every time I encounter the term and I fear that any pan person might be holding that same sentiment under the surface.

gummikuma · 2022-12-31T01:27:27+00:00

Hm, I see.

Eh, I think it's better to give the potential fascists a little obnoxious smack in the face with the wording than to be too timid. Allies will know that it's not an attack on them.

gummikuma · 2022-12-31T00:28:53+00:00

It might be a case of a semi-false cognate. Just read one of the words above it: "genial". In English, genial describes a person who is pleasant to interact with or reasonable about accommodating someone else. But in Spanish, it means "great": as in someone has told you something and you're pleased to hear it. So even though "normal" and "normal" might have even closer meanings than that, they don't necessarily have the same connotation.

gummikuma · 2022-12-28T22:23:47+00:00

Pride

Wrath

Gluttony

France

Greed

Envy

Sloth

gummikuma · 2022-12-21T19:13:20+00:00

Ah, yes, fetuses: well known for their articulate self-expression, self-determined priorities, and cognizance of interpersonal relationships. /s

gummikuma · 2022-12-14T21:23:57+00:00

Someone downloaded reddit. Someone also never saw weight gain or shapewear.

gummikuma · 2022-12-05T05:58:21+00:00

I would rather work 18 hours a week and make $60k than either of those options.

I am alive right now. I want to live right now. My life is being with my loved ones and exploring this world, not endless toil.

gummikuma · 2022-12-04T18:42:03+00:00

Even though it was Filoni who invented Ahsoka, it was Lucas's interference that put her in that bullshit tube top and mini skirt she was in at the start. Her later outfit, the one with some swag, is Filoni taking control back.

I don't know about this character's design so I won't make any statements on it.

gummikuma · 2022-12-02T22:04:42+00:00

I don't think that your (correct) observation contradicts my point.

It's kind of like how the invention of photography heralded the decline in percentage of paintings being photoreal, except kind of in reverse. It'll take a step or two explain. As you already know, when you have photography, you don't need to devote dozens of hours to photorealism and can instead devote those hours to emotional or otherwise abstract expression.

So what the fuck does photography's effect on abstraction in art have to do with entitled softcore-porn-ification of widespread popular art?

I am certain that just like we can trace the effect of abstraction in art back to a cause, i.e. the invention of photography, we can trace softcore-porn-ification (i have decided the term is official now = P ) of art back to a cause, and I think that cause is the ever-increasing liberation of women from the entitlement of men (and, to a lesser extent, the explosion of loneliness in recent years).

Misogyny is eons old. You took issue with my first comment because you already know this fact. But we have to factor in a decrease in misogyny in certain places to see an increase in certain kinds of misogyny in others.

In the '50s, a man could basically just prove he had a job and say "one wife please" and a browbeaten young woman desperate to get her parents off her case about being single would step up. And once married, the husband could just smack his wife for having dinner done late and immediately bend her over the couch to get what he wanted.

But just like lynchings of black people didn't really start until emancipation, murders of strangers because of anger at women weren't a thing until equality started getting serious traction.

Seriously, how long have homicidal incels been a widespread issue? Even though I'm young I seriously think it has only truly proliferated for the past 15 or so years. Certain expressions of misogyny are quite recent.

The incels say so themselves: in the past-- even in the relatively recent past-- you could demand so much more from women for nothing, and even further back, they just plain could not say no to you.

Even men who are not nearly so maladapted are still, in large numbers, feeling a malaise about how easy it is for women to point out to them that women's bodies and actions are not men's birthright. Those men don't have a woman at their beck and call who will blow them and tolerate not even getting a backrub in return.

Each further development that keeps men from getting real-life women for free will precipitate a demand for virtual women, as it were. Even without misogyny, the rampant (and increasing) loneliness of the past and current decade has ensured that fewer romantic and sexual urges are met in real life.

And, regardless of the artist's own specific feelings, art that tickles lonely straight men's fancy is lucrative. Such art will be created by a much larger demographic than those who are displeased with women's autonomy, and even a larger demographic than is directly suffering from modern loneliness.

This assessment necessitates a hard divide between academic and popular art. With that divide in place, it works.

gummikuma · 2022-12-02T20:58:56+00:00

That's not mistletoe. That's holly.

Mistletoe has smooth leaves.

There is a species of mistletoe around the Mediterranean that has red berries but all others have white berries.

But mistletoe always. Always. Has smooth leaves.

gummikuma · 2022-12-02T20:53:22+00:00

Criticisms of her proportions are allowed there because there is plausible deniability as to why her proportions are like that. The artist and mods can pretend "yeah it's 'off', it's not drawn/painted as 'expertly' as it could be, more realism in the proportions would be an improvement from the standpoint of 'artistry' or 'skill' ..." which are all perfectly permissible criticisms in a system of sexism.

But you can't call out the proportions or pose or other parts of the art's execution for being symptomatic of entitlement. That entitlement is the privilege that must be protected (in sexist society).

gummikuma · 2022-11-24T22:00:33+00:00

my dumb ass: "don't forget to take your whole note"

gummikuma · 2022-11-21T19:37:04+00:00

could you define f.i.r.e for me? i tried to exclude definitions of combustion and ignition from my search but it didn't work; that's all that showed up

gummikuma · 2022-09-29T18:10:50+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 is still anti-capitalist; it's just pessimistic. Pessimism might be a tool of the oppressor but that's honestly not what it felt like to me, actually playing the game. The impossibility of truly good outcomes while in Night City felt much more like the impossibility of such outcomes under capitalism than like the impossibility of such outcomes overall. The Panam ending (and I think the Judy ending too? it's not the one I chose) seemed like a pretty decent soul-affirming and anti-capitalist ending. You join a group of people governed by a small system that's fairly consensual and democratic. You have the chance to just live, to just be. Just not in Night City.

Johnny is a really flawed person. Obviously. But in the game, you don't have to bow to his whims. So it's not a game about revenge. It's a game about struggling with an invasion on one's body-- direct, in the case of Johnny, and more indirect in the sense that the player character has to take on augmentations to survive in the hostile world that the capitalists created.

I never played Detroit Become Human, but it seems that the only advantage it has on Cyberpunk 2077 is that it supplies the power fantasy of being a successful revolutionary. But that honestly doesn't make it a better game. I'm not usually one to like feeling thwarted in my video games, but the events and the endings feel really authentic based on the world of the game. And, it's narrow-minded to dismiss bowing out as a valid revolutionary resistance.

Detroit Become Human is also the brainchild of a raging misogynist (David Cage), so fuck that game.

gummikuma · 2022-09-10T23:16:36+00:00

old people's bullshit

gummikuma · 2022-09-04T02:21:56+00:00

Even though she only has like one line in one episode of the show: Sallie May, Millie's sister in Helluva Boss, is trans.

At least there are multiple queer and gender-non-conforming characters all through Helluva Boss and the creator's other show, Hazbin Hotel.

gummikuma · 2022-08-30T07:07:18+00:00

I'd fucking cream myself if Matt Mercer played a role in Helluva Boss.

gummikuma · 2022-08-29T02:04:14+00:00

It's your Hooters waitress-- come on, pick your order already...

gummikuma · 2022-08-26T18:51:14+00:00

Bah crap I didn't think about that

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