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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads

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Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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    It really sucks looking at the detrimental effect this had on gender ratios in gaming to this day. It’s gotten a lot better but it’s still not there yet.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yeah, we need to level the playing field by having half naked sexy guys on the cover of games. ^please

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

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          Doubt that’s going to be enough, I think if you want to make a sexually objectifying 90s magazine ad that appeals to female nerds you’re going to have to break out the homoerotic innuendos

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          People used to bring up Kratos in these discussions but before these new games he seemed far more likely to bite someone’s face off than to kiss anyone. There’s a difference.

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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          deleted by creator

      • molochthagod@lemmy.world
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        I’d rather we stop sexualizing characters altogether. If anything, it’s silly and makes it more difficult to take them seriously.

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          I think there is space for both sexualized and non-sexualized characters, as long as they are treated evenly. This is entertainment, they don’t need to be all business serious.

          I dread that in trying to be perfectly respectable, the medium might err to the side of prudishness and sexual repression.

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        🤤

      • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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        I’m ok with that

      • pickman_model@lemmy.world
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        Fair

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        looking in your direction, clive rosfield

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        After a woman says she doesn’t like being sexualized, your response is to not worry because the sexualization of women will continue, but you’ll start to sexualize men, too?

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