Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤤

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• pickman_model@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fair

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m ok with that

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  looking in your direction, clive rosfield

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• BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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