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more bulging muscles and less male power armor

maybe some nice bellies imho
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?

surf. do it.
do it bro.
do itttttt
 

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So let me summerize this : feminists have the right to criticize what they consider over-sexualized female characters, and at the same time show their tits and pussies at every public manifestation ? Sounds neat.
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?

surf. do it.
do it bro.
do itttttt

Do what?
 

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Roguey The problem with SJWs is that they can't seem to decide what they are. Are they elitists, arbiters of good taste who oppose sexualized content in games because it appeals to an uncouth lower class element? (Your use of the term "puerile" suggests this)

Or are they moralists, who wish to purge "offensive" taboo content from the world to protect sensitive minds?

In other words, do you oppose sexualized characters for the same reason elitist upper-middle class Blue State liberals mock NASCAR, or do you really honestly think you're defending the world from something here?

The hard work on resolving this issue has already been done

http://www.p4rgaming.com/scientists-create-video-game-character-that-will-offend-absolutely-nobody/
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?
She was drunk/passed out.
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?
She was drunk/passed out.

So? People do stupid shit when they are drunk all the time, not just infront of the camera.
 

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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?
She was drunk/passed out.

So? People do stupid shit when they are drunk all the time, not just infront of the camera.

It's ok to do stupid shit when you're drunk.
 

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inb4 ps4 is used by al qaeda executions
 
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"Sex sells" is a facile statement. A lot of things sell. Popular actors sell films. Violence sells in all entertainment. Mario sells games. Maybe Blizzard should put some modern military and Legos in their Heroes of the Shitstorm game, because those sell video games too. Sometimes sex doesn't sell. Putting bare tits in a Pixar film will lose a huge chunk of audience that there aren't enough horny teenagers who are into CG cartoons to replace it with. I don't see how the statement has any value aside from explaining why creators of low-brow entertainment put it into their work regardless of context or logic. But that explanation is not necessary, because that's what hacks or those run by hacks do.

As a statement about the market it's simplistic. As a justification for having every female in a game be stacked to the rafters, it highlights the lack of sophistication of the person doing the justifying. They are popamole. They probably enjoy network TV where 22 year old models play forensic experts and detectives where tight T-shirts, but think The Wire is bad because it has too many people they aren't attracted to.
It is a very universal statement that I suspect will still be true long after certain movements or systems like the economical or governmental ones we take for granted will possibly be long gone. The moment it isn’t true anymore would bring rather dire consequences for the human race.
http://news.discovery.com/history/art-history/early-wall-art-europe-120514.htm
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/th...s-show-aspects-of-sex-beyond-the-reproductive

As some of those articles state, it can even be used to sell entirely unrelated and generally "unsexual" things from food like corn flakes, various body products to cars.
“Whether or not a product is related to sex doesn’t matter, a good marketer can relate a product to sex for profit. In turn, the public will see the advertisement for this product and fail to realize the irreverent correlation between the two.”

Popular actors sell films.
Do they happen to very often be outright ugly or unpleasant to look at?

Violence sells in all entertainment.
About as “facile” as what you are complaining about three sentences in, but I guess also potentially true. I didn't say it's the only thing.

Mario sells games. Putting bare tits in a Pixar film will lose a huge chunk of audience that there aren't enough horny teenagers who are into CG cartoons to replace it with.
Are the best examples you can think of really two products that are marketed mainly towards children? And even there, say in Disney movies or cartoons you will rarely see ugly characters or ones that are unpleasant to look at.

The Wire is bad because it has too many people they aren't attracted to
It wasn’t exactly free from sexual content, but I’m happy you brought it up because more and more premium series watched by a lot of people considering themselves to be the more “sophisticated” audience employ said technique and show actual sex scenes you’d have found only in soft-core pornography freely a few decades ago: http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/cover-story-brave-nude-world-pay-tv-pushing-boundaries-1200703785/
Game of Thrones, Rome, Entourage, Spartacus, Homeland, Banshee, The Borgias, Shameless, Californication, Dexter, The Tudors, Mad Men, Southland, Hell on Wheels, American Horror Story, Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, Justified, The Americans, The Bridge, House of Cards etc.

Going back to games, regarding Blizzards audience in WoW a lot of female players actually loudly complained about not having classically “attractive” humanly looking avatar options on the Horde side upon release which eventually lead to the introduction of the Blood Elves as a faction and they seem rather popular: http://i.imgur.com/N0tWJqx.png

In MOBA games, from the amount of women that actually do play it the “sexy” characters are apparently also the most popular: http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=31555980#31555980
For context, did you know Miss Fortune is the most popular character among female League players? Sona is #2 – something that is appealing to the eye is more aspirational and has a higher “cool quotient” than things that are not – even without hormones in the equation

It’s funny because the closest official body agreeing with RPS is the Iranian government: http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/28/league-of-legends-female-characters-banned-in-iranian-tournament/
 
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What's really interesting is that why does boobage in games sell even though high quality, fully explicit porn is so easily available?
 
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Twitch eventually banned Darckobra, but not before he — potentially — changed the whole landscape of this streaming situation. If things like this continue, and especially if they continue to be lumped in association with Sony, you better believe that features will be re-examined, modified, and possibly even removed. No company wants to be associated with this kind of thing, and measures will be taken to add distance.


They banned him because of a tit and a naked body? OMG WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW THAT NAKED CHICKS BODY, the horror! Where's the fucking problem?
She was drunk/passed out.

So? People do stupid shit when they are drunk all the time, not just infront of the camera.
It makes it even more weird that it's so difficult for them to figure out that they shouldn't be drinking. Man isn't a learning animal.

So let me summerize this : feminists have the right to criticize what they consider over-sexualized female characters, and at the same time show their tits and pussies at every public manifestation ? Sounds neat.
Are you sure they are the same persons? I met some feminists that not only like those characters but also are cosplaying them. Then I saw comments on RPS accusing the article writers of "slut-shaming" and "puritanism".
 

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So let me summerize this : feminists have the right to criticize what they consider over-sexualized female characters, and at the same time show their tits and pussies at every public manifestation ? Sounds neat.
Are you sure they are the same persons? I met some feminists that not only like those characters but also are cosplaying them. Then I saw comments on RPS accusing the article writers of "slut-shaming" and "puritanism".

Well I'm talking about this new breed of feminists that objectify their bodies worse than any "sexist pig" would have imagined.
 

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