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Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

I don't think it's much of a controversial topic. It should be stopped; there's no way to justify it. The more difficult question is what we should do about it. We can't ban artwork; we've been through this situation over and over again. We also can't pretend that developers are awful people for doing it, or even that they're necessarily doing it on purpose. Developers, especially fantasy developers, are huge nerds. Their gaming experience is probably rooted in DnD, where this whole issue can be traced. Some of them may see their female characters and find nothing wrong with them at a glance because it's been the standard for so long. A sense of tradition has always been much more harmful and lasting than genuine conviction or malice.

We could get a lot of honest developers to stop depicting women this way. They mean well, but what happens when those that don't will do it anyway for marketing's sake? Then the problem stays in the industry and more people grow up with it. It's a problem, for sure, but one has to wonder where and how we can correct it.

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I feel so bad for my cat.

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Do you ever get really high and then become a humanity-altering philosopher?

Smiral said
I go more for self discovery and/or contemplating intimacy with the universe.And I'm forever stuck in a loop of "I'm a genius"/"I'm an asshole"

You're not alone there.

I think it's a developmental thing.

Do you ever get really high and then become a humanity-altering philosopher?

Post it somewhere, after which you'll realize how underwhelming it actually is.

Rinse and repeat. Then you'll be a humanity altering philosopher.

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5/10

Did nothing, nothing went wrong.

what the actual fuck

Unsurprising, personally.

Sucks super hardcore, but I'm not surprised.

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Awson said
I don't about the score. I don't even care that it was my card, Card.Random vulgarity trumps an joke?

Yes. It does. When that joke is bad, yes.

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Awson said
You're awful.MY LSIT SAID TO PICK FURRY OR BRONY...I bet you're going to blame the list.BLAHAND FORCING SOMEONE TO WATCH AN ENTIRE EPISODE OF A RANDOM SHOW BEFORE DEATH IS A FUNNIER IDEA THAN "Genital Warts." lrn 2 sophisticate ok I'll stop being unfun

No, it's not. It's dumb. It's a dead joke that's been done with Twilight, The Bad Star Wars Trilogy, and anything that's visual and bad that you can think of.

Besides, Broby and I were both at nine. You were boned.