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[Chuck Berry]

It's quite the power move lol

The great part is that he's a black dude. What are they gonna do? Fire him for his comments?

If it was a white dude making statements like that (no matter what the race) he would already be attempting to collect unemployment by now.

 

[VanCityGamer]

To be fair....

Yes…?

 

[lifa-cobex]

What an alt-right, fascist, bigoted thing to say.

But when you're right. You're right.
Also you're now part of GG.

GL

 

[yurinka]

Resident Evil 5's Sheva was the peak of black female characters

Yep, I was going to mention her and other characters from fighting games that already have been mentioned. But most -if not all- these cases are from old Japanese games. The woke censorship affects mostly to the west devs, even if now some Japanese teams also start to get affected, even if in a minor way.

 

[realcool]

It's worth celebrating that even these dudes finally open their eyes.

All he's proven to me is that he wears blinders. I'm unconvinced that he's come to his senses.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This is what happens when you have self-loathing fugly women and mental illness men who hate women, designing female characters.

It's literally sexist to uglify beautiful women. And these slacktivist developers have done so in every single western game the past 10+ years compared to the source model.

Exhibit A is all you need:

 

[Larxia]

All he's proven to me is that he wears blinders. I'm unconvinced that he's come to his senses.

Definitely, because if you look in the replies, someone send a screenshot of a post from Grummz talking about this, and... he gets frustrated by it? I'm really confused.
He complains about this, but when someone share the info, he's mad.
Wtf? lol

"Misconstrued", how so? It's really strange.

- Complains about how characters are made ugly on purpose
- Someone say even artists admit it
- It was inevitable I would get misconstrued

 

[DeepEnigma]

Definitely, because if you look in the replies, someone send a screenshot of a post from Grummz talking about this, and... he gets frustrated by it? I'm really confused.
He complains about this, but when someone share the info, he's mad.
Wtf? lol

"Misconstrued", how so? It's really strange.

- Complains about how characters are made ugly on purpose
- Someone say even artists admit it
- It was inevitable I would get misconstrued

The Cult of Ideology is a powerful drug. Hard to fully break free when your livelihood dependent on it.

 

[diffusionx]

The Cult of Ideology is a powerful drug. Hard to fully break free when your livelihood dependent on it.

"uh oh goobergooters reposted and jason schreier just sent me a text ABORT ABORT ABORT"

 

[PeteBull]

Woke western dev studios, nuff said, and i got a feeling it will get much worse before it gets better

Edit:
At least Ads on GAF arent made unfuckable

Gyazo

gyazo.com

 

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Not just black females but all females in general have been uglified. It sucks. Was Sheva really the last, hot, black female character in a video game? That was 2009!

 

[Icymanipulator]

The most racist thing of all is to make black characters ugly. They very people who are supposedly trying to “help” are the ones making it worse.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

Senna in Lol is beautiful ,cinematic and splash art, not talking about in game model.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

 

[DeepEnigma]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

"I want to speak to the manager or I'll make you tap out."

 

[Shut0wen]

Imagine having a special issue playboy magazine exclusively of uggos. I don’t kink shame but don’t expect that to sell to the majority.

disclaimer. I only read it for the articles.

People are saying characters are ugly n shit but honestly they just look like average people, aloy looks like every fat ginger and joana dark looks like the lead singer from yazoo

 

[Gaiff]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

Her best design was on the N64 anyway.

 

[PeteBull]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

One of many things they do to push woke agenda, masculine women with big chins, known tactic/behaviour, they think it will make more natural for normal society to accept tranformers crowds as being beautiful

 

[Shut0wen]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

Mate do you even know who yazoo is, greatest duo of all time and joana dark has kino voice

 

[Boss Mog]

I don't know this guy, but he's obviously some kind of woke activist, complete with palestinian flag. If even these kinds of people are complaining about ugly female characters then you know it's not some conspiracy theory.

 

[Dr. Claus]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

To make them "Trans Friendly".

As for Del Walker - dude is a walking talking hypocritical racist cunt. How he has a job in this industry I will never know.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Her best design was on the N64 anyway.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Thankfully GTA 6 won’t have this issue because they actually care about having authentic Black representation in their game instead of token shit designed by guys too scared to click the “Interracial” tab on PornHub.

gta 6 will be woke, the chick has a man jaw.

 

[Doom85]

Resident Evil 5's Sheva was the peak of black female characters

Don’t forget Elena from Street Fighter, in fact IIRC her English VA for SF 4 also did Sheva’s voice.

 

[kirby007]

should have been a decision maker instead of a simp for hot black booty

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

sowrry but forced DEI is real and makes entertainment worse. and I fuckin hate to be aware of it.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Mate do you even know who yazoo is, greatest duo of all time and joana dark has kino voice

If you want a good laugh, have a Gen Z listen to Yaz and Erasure and tell them only one of them has a man singing. See if they can guess which one.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Uncharted 5 - Cassie Drake:

You know its coming.

 

[Lethal01]

Not just black females but all females in general have been uglified. It sucks. Was Sheva really the last, hot, black female character in a video game? That was 2009!

Obviously not

 

[lughnasadh123]

Personally I'm just sick of the focus being on if a character is too sexy or not sexy enough overshadowing stuff like gameplay and story.

 

[captainpat]

Sad and hilarious to see statements like this after years of gaslighting that western devs weren't intentionally uglifying female characters.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Sad and hilarious to see statements like this after years of gaslighting that western devs weren't intentionally uglifying female characters.

why am I not surprised? Same thing with the Sweet Baby bullshit.

“The thing you loved has ALWAYS been woke/feminist/queer/whatever”

Oh no turns out there are DEI consulting companies, staffed by activist wackos and actual racists, helping publishers get their cut of that sweet DEI investment money by cramming this shit into our entertainment.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Remember when the new tomb raider game came out and then a while later they decided to make Lara uglier for no reason?

Lunar orbit remembers

 

[intbal]

GAF has been talking about this subject for a long time.

For all the talk about diversity, women of color in Western games aren't very diverse

Some good data in that thread for anyone wanting to keep it going in this one.

 

[SonGoku]

From

to

in little more than a decade. I'm not brave enough to even imagine where we'll be in ten years with the current trajectory.

for some reason "she" reminds me of mlid

 

[Tommi84]

Why is everyone raging over normal looking people?

because this is a VIDEO GAME. If I wanted to look at an ugly people, I'd be looking in the mirror or outside

 

[Lethal01]

GAF has been talking about this subject for a long time.

For all the talk about diversity, women of color in Western games aren't very diverse

Some good data in that thread for anyone wanting to keep it going in this one.

I mean, the rest of that thread kinda proved that OP was talk nonsente at the time and really cherry picking to make his argument work. Because he noticed that that year had a few black girls with afro's

 

[IAmNotFromDelaware]

It's because angry ugly cactus-legged black women make the final decision. Executive turn to them for approval because they're afraid of offending anyone. Never mind these so called women only play Tetris.

 

[Astral Dog]

Their ideologies work ike a cancer that rots creativity ,quality and expression, he thought it would be fine as long as they spread the message but now he is finally bothered by the results, they want to appeal to the lowest common denominator, not him or the artists, those uglified mediocre characters are supposed to represent the actual audience

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Woke circular firing squad

 

[mckmas8808]

That's a smart way to use DEI against itself. The male gaze is bad, but shouldn't we at least have hot black women?

Just because this developer is black, means he's using DEI against itself. I hate that what he is saying is true. But we've seen it for a while now. Even I didn't believe some on GAF a few years ago when Control was first released. She was the first lady that I remember people getting upset about and saying that the industry was forcing devs to make women look more manly. I didn't believe it.

But a couple of more years proved that it was true in many cases. I hope this brother saying something can allow other artist to speak up, because East Asia is kicking our butts in female model designs over the last 5-8 years.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

People are saying characters are ugly n shit but honestly they just look like average people, aloy looks like every fat ginger and joana dark looks like the lead singer from yazoo

The fallacy of this argument is that fantasy/action/superhero characters are NOT average people. They are the top of the genetic pool, so portraying them as ugly is not only stupid but works against the purpose of the narrative.

None in his right mind would design Captain America as a bald 5,7' guy with a soft body.

 

[mckmas8808]

S

It seems like hes coming from a genuine enough place.

Theres a few I find who look fine but some could be better. I dont hink using an e thot posting a selfie is the best example though

Why she gotta be an "e thot"? Because she's pretty and taking a picture? Come on man....

Definitely, because if you look in the replies, someone send a screenshot of a post from Grummz talking about this, and... he gets frustrated by it? I'm really confused.
He complains about this, but when someone share the info, he's mad.
Wtf? lol

"Misconstrued", how so? It's really strange.

- Complains about how characters are made ugly on purpose
- Someone say even artists admit it
- It was inevitable I would get misconstrued

The twitter user called Del a "wokie". Come on, you know what that means. And you know a "wokie" wasn't used to be nice or complimentary. So stop with the foolishness.

 

[Lethal01]

None in his right mind would design Captain America as a bald 5,7' guy with a soft body.

Tall and buff sure, but that doesn't really correlate to him not have a weird face and going bald.
Short super heroes are also pretty common in japan actually.

 

[mckmas8808]

The fallacy of this argument is that fantasy/action/superhero characters are NOT average people. They are the top of the genetic pool, so portraying them as ugly is not only stupid but works against the purpose of the narrative.

None in his right mind would design Captain America as a bald 5,7' guy with a soft body.

So you think this character was designed badly?

Considering this is her gameplay?

 

[Shin-Ra]

What’s this obsession with giving women big mannish chins?

It’s Joe Chin from Parappa.

Uncharted 5 - Cassie Drake:

You know its coming.

Don’t make fun of us potatoids, at least we don’t look like Bendover Arse.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeah, we have known this for a while. It's not just black women but they do get the short end of the stick. We can at least look at some hot white female characters in games. There have been zero hot black female characters in games. Everyone looks like shit.

Its not that hard to get a beyonce or rihanna or even a zendaya you know.

Hey you never know.

Considering how weird, political and discriminatory a lot of those so called wokes are, there's a possibility it goes like this:

1. Make women in game fugly because it makes themselves feel better than looking in a mirror

2. Make guys still good looking lean guys or powerful meatheads

3. Make black women extra fugly lately, while keeping some whitie chicks better looking because hey they are racist, have power of video editing and graphic design, and most importantly the vast majority of western studios (when they do their front lobby gigantic employee pic they all seem to do every two years on Twitter) is almost all whites anyway

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

It’s Joe Chin from Parappa.


Don’t make fun of us potatoids, at least we don’t look like Bendover Arse.

It’s MA’AM

 

[TheUsual]

Making women look ugly has to be like some anti man shit. It's the only reason I can think of.

Some angry lady is somewhere saying fuck the male gaze.

Make video game woman hot again.

Also probably some of the women in the teams being petty and preventing overtly sexualized women characters because they don't look like them. Heck, even what we would consider modest is probably a no-no.

Men probably do that to a degree but no where near as much.

 

[SHA]

So they're faking the product intentionally, I hate devaluing my purchases, it makes me feel the money we put on this stuff and what we actually get are all fake.