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Is HOT RYU the most significant event in videogame history?
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It's simply viralizing after some gay gamers noticed him (specially since he fits the current trend in gay communities of the masculine bearded men as the most attractive), but it's nothing more than that, don't fool yourself Hours
You don't have to masturbate to videogames, of course, but not even finding anyone attractive just because it's an animated character sounds stranger to me. If you can feel immersed in a game, or relate to video game characters, why can't you find them attractive? It's not like he's a tentacle monster, he's a dude.
I love this thread. It's that right balance of hyperbole and serious topic I come to GAF for.
As for the topic itself, pffff I dunno. It's a beard I guess.
silvermember
Banned
That is because you don't know the meaning of weird. If it was as weird as you make it seem to be, art in generally would not invoke EMOTIONS. And yet humanity spends millions going to art museums.
Lights and Waves
Member
Lol, k.
SenorArdilla
Member
This is so amazing
It's not a fetish? Visual depictions of attractive people are still attractive. Hell, verbal descriptions of sex are arousing.
As an artist i understand the difference between aesthetically attractive and sexually attractive. Quit getting all defensive after sexual gifs have already been posted.
That is weird to me. If it is not weird to you, more power to you.
I think the new ryu looks great. Hot? Sure whatever. He looks cold too lol.
That is weird to me. If it is not weird to you, more power to you.
I think the new ryu looks great. Hot? Sure whatever. He looks cold too lol.
lmao
Well as an artiste you should understand better than anyone that visual depictions have the power to instil real emotions.
It's like saying, 'why get sad at a novel, there's no real deaths involved'.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Wow NSFW dude, some of us are at work
if you aren't interesting in a topic, don't post in it
Sure sure. Phone sex,sexting and 50 shades of shit invoke emotions too.
But these are animated characters with people posting spread eagle sexual gifs about them like they would enjoy some type of relation with said character. Thats the part i find weird.
I don't understand what's weird about this. Do you think it's also weird that people want to have a relationship with Mr Darcy? This is almost the entire point of art.
Maybe I'm just dumb but what the hell is the "W"? Is that supposed to be boobs? Is the "X" a belly button?
I'm not familiar with mr darcy. Is that a character based on a human being? If so, Then no i wouldn't think its weird.
You could tell me ryu is based on a human being. Sure. But hes an animated character based on a human being. Thats the difference. Would that not be similar to hentai? Also something I'm not into.
shinra-bansho
Member
Not particularly more-so than most male character depictions. It just looks like a martial arts pose/posture with an artstyle with heavy musculature. The pose does not really look like a sexualisation of Ryu, overt or tacit.
I mean, at the very base of this premise of the comparison (and really the thread as a whole), is that [many, most, all] women and gay men are particularly attracted to heavy musculature and a heaving chest. Some may be, I suppose. And that the type of ridiculous sexualised poses that female characters are often depicted in would even appeal to women en masse. It may appeal to some, I suppose. But I don't think the point of Hawkeye-ing female depictions is to say "This is attractive to me. I want objectification of males like this." rather it's to highlight the ridiculousness of the female objectification in media.
The Lone Dragon
Member
What the heck are you trying to say?
Being stimulated/attracted to/moved by "characters based on human beings" is either WEIRD or NOT WEIRD.
You can't cherry pick examples you personally like as NOT WEIRD and examples you don't personally like as WEIRD.
Fake people are fake people.
Why so angry. Theres no picking and choosing.
A character based on a real human being, well... looks human to me using the minds imagination of a real person. Ryu, does not look human to me. He just has features a human but he does not look like a real life human being. Hes hand drawn and animated.
Maybe im the weird one. And I'm okay with that.
How can you not know who Mr Darcy is? SMDH
Lighten up, dude.
if MBMBAM has taught me anything, it's that we're all "weird" in our own ways and if we are to expect tolerance for ourselves then we must extend it to others.
some ppl like white girls with big butts, some like dressing up as sonic the hedgehog and finger blasting each other. we gotta be OK with it all.
Um sorry i guess?
I'm pretty light bro lol. No hard feelings toward anybody coming from this direction.
Theres a big difference between those two but i get your point.
It doesnt bug me, if thats what you want to do like i said more power to you. I just find it weird.
I'm gonna go back to that part of gaf where the mounting of a nikki minaj wax figure is accepted as weird too.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Is it your claim that an abstract portrayal (i.e., not photorealistic) of a sexually appealing person is not sexually arousing to the average person? Pinup illustrations aren't sexy because they are drawings?
You are absolutely in the minority here and no amount of "i don't jack off to anime because I'm not a loser" will win you this fight.
Arc Christelle
Member
So this is what's going on in this thread.
Continue on with your masturbatory deeds.
-exits-
Continue on with your masturbatory deeds.
-exits-
Who said anything about losers? I was talking about what i find to be strange behavior. I never name called anyone or degraded anyone in that manner. Some of you guys are pretty defensive though.
I'm out.
I'm not defensive. I don't want to have a relationship with Hot Ryu. I'm not writing Hot Ryu poems. I just think it's weird that you can understand how people can have emotional reactions to representations in general but you think it's weird that people have emotional reactions to just this kind of representation.
This thread is silly. I love silly threads.
tsk tsk, look at them bare shoulders... why i never
This thread can't keep getting away with this.
Thank you for your contribution. Your analysis will be remembered and hotly debated for years to come.
i'll give you a clue;
tsk tsk, look at them bare shoulders... why i never
This thread can't keep getting away with this.
Time to take your meds
DR2K
Banned
Sounds like you have a parent fetish based on the screen name you chose for yourself.
TatteredHat
Member
It's not so much an argument for anything, it's just personally disappointing to see it happening.
I happen to enjoy a social circle containing people from a large variety of ethnic, sexual and social backgrounds, thanks for asking.
I mean, you're still ignoring the context, like everyone else in the thread who's tried bringing up that point.
Chris Redfield's pretty explicitly designed as eye candy nowadays.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Brb just gonna rub one out quickly
TatteredHat
Member
If I did then it wasn't intentional, and I'll apologise for missing the intended context.
umop_3pisdn
Member
There is a big difference. Hypothetically if we were talking about real people, in some contexts (dependant on the individual) it can feel good to be objectified. But then you look at the position of women in this question, and misogyny and/or entitlement can make objectification a lot more complicated, pernicious, and socially destructive. There isn't necessarily anything intrinsically wrong with objectification, we'd probably just like the ability to consent to it, and how it is drawn down gendered lines does emphasize some of the circumstantial problems with it and they aren't equal across the sexes.
What does that even mean? My handle could mean a numerous amount of things but you want to take a jab because we have different personal opinions.
I've already clarified that if you're into the topic at hand it doesnt bug me. Only that im not into it.
But i guess im not allowed to have an opinion.
Chill out guys.
It's not an intended context. The point is that nobody is calling for puritanism in their games. Nobody wants games to have zero sex appeal whatsoever. The issue is that at the moment sex is used in games where it really has no right to, and it's used with complete abandon. What people want is an end to 'here's some character in a game and if you do this and that you can see up her skirt', or the high prevalence of female characters who only exist for titillation.
Barrylocke
Member
Basically for me, tone down the wonton female titilation in games a good deal, and maybe dial up the male titilation in games a half turn to I have a little something to ogle now and then.
DR2K
Banned
No need to get defensive. Nothing wrong with having a fetish.
Oh i have a fetish. Just not whatever the hell you said earlier.
Did this really turn into a debate about how people can feel aroused by an artificial representation of real life ? Cause it's pretty logical you know.. If something turns you on in real life, a representation of it, in drawing, videogame or whatever, will work to. There is really nothing weird about it.
So that's why i feel all funny inside when i see stick-figures? Awesome!
depths20XX
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