Man, what brochures do you read that talk about ron jeremy tripping over his own dick? :( Also that post was more pointed at Aemer in my mind when I was writing it. He's the one that talked about a difference between "pandering" and "bad pandering" after all. As to your point, yes, men also have pro...

Let me try this point again. See, there's this thing called body dimorphism. It's very common among girls. They look at their bodies and see them as wrong and bad, because when they look at the bodies of other girls in the media, they see idealized, perfected figures, such as those in Kingdom of Ama...

I basically said I was ok with porn. I don't know where you got "not subtle" from.

I certainly won't advocate for idiots. I mean, I certainly CAN, and personally try to show such people a lot of patience, but I know there's no way I'm ever going to convince anybody anything on that front. PS: I actually hold Soul Calibur in higher regard than Amalur. The game's practically porn, a...

You even say yourself that you need to constantly err on the side of caution: that's pointless. Tiptoeing around all these elephants does absolutely nothing to address the fact that there are elephants. And they're different elephants that should be treated differently. As a reductio ad absurdum ex...

You could've probably saved some breath if you'd simply asked him what he meant, if you felt it was ambiguous. It's good to get some things out in public even if they aren't properly directed at someone. I run into a LOT of people who, in private away from "certain" people of "certain" groups, thin...

I'm a biracial male, why? Aemer, making characters sexed up when there's no appropriate sexual context for it is pretty much the exact definition of objectification. And the appearance of both female and male characters in LoL is for the benefit of male audiences. When a male character is supposed t...

racism and sexism are not directly comparable Yes they are. A lot of people not regularly subject to racism or sexism might not understand that easily, but they really are. And I know you'll probably be upset at reading this: "How dare you assume I'm privileged and don't understand racism or sexism...

Stylish figures can come without exaggerated feminine characteristics that just coincidentally happen to be result in a sexualized character. League of Legends added a new female character recently, a Viking woman riding a boar, with heavy ice theme. ...she's wearing a bikini while doing it. As an i...

Nobody's said that giant boobs are totally cool because they make the characters hot and that's what's important yet, so I wouldn't really call my contributions to this discussion "arguing" anyway. But I'll bite a motherfucker if they pick up that thread. :V

Man, you must have terrible eyesight. I gave my female PC in Amalur a fucking goatee (via chin tattoo) and short haircut and she's still recognizably female from just the appearance of her above the neck. Perhaps it's my fault for wording my comments too vaguely, but also: fuck you . If you actuall...

Ah, I have no idea where this argument is going anymore. I guess a large elephant we're all pointedly ignoring is the fact that these are games , where visual cues are quite important. "Find NPC barmaid in town" is a lot easier if she's "the one with the tits". We're not at the point where we can m...

Also, JSL: the roman breastplate examples there are almost all probably examples of officer armour anyway (footsoldiers rarely could even afford plate armour), so I confess it was slightly sly of me. But it does serve to show that "armour with tits" is not a concept without precedent. There's a dif...

I fully sympathise with your feminism Jetset, but I think you're taking it too far. I don't believe it's necessary to make armour completely androgynous, and I don't think making the top of a plate mail moderately form-fitting is unreasonable. After all, when you select to play a female character, ...

There is no context ever that boob armor is acceptable Wait, what? Are you seriously saying that a suit of armour that actually fits the body of its wearer is never acceptable, if that wearer has tits? No, that's not what I'm saying. It's not that the armor "fits", it's that they're trying to make ...