Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads

• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, we need to level the playing field by having half naked sexy guys on the cover of games. ^please

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • molochthagod@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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  • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🤤

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  • pickman_model@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m ok with that

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    looking in your direction, clive rosfield

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  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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