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Motion capture captures the movement in space/time of a number of points on the body. Which are then mapped onto a character that has its own shape.
Just like Andy Serkisâ corpiform := Gollum, similar hourglass figures notwithstanding.
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The market is getting flooded!
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Well, I was kind of jokingâŚ
A difference Iâve noticed with the current crop of kids (at least mine) is their attitude to having their parents see them watch something like that. Hell, I just to get extremely embarrassed when I was watching TV with my Mom and a tampon or douche commercial came on. These days Iâll walk into the play room (where the TV is) and my son will be watching lesbian sex on OITNB and heâs all casual, like âhey dad. Want to watch with me?â
Youâre ignorant of context if you think thatâs the case.
No, it doesnât. Laraâs pants are tight, are mostly soaked through and clingy (with blood/water), and she spends a lot of the game crouched over in little tunnels and grunting hauling herself up ledges. She might be one of the only videogame protagonists with thigh gap. When the gameâs not like âlook at how this girl gets pieced/pummeled/grabbed/crushed/abusedâ itâs like âdamn, donât she look good, though?â
I mean, itâs not as porny as the original TR, but itâs still very much treating the protagonist as eye candy for the male gaze, and doing this while simultaneously causing her to grunt and cry and get stabbed and being really very concerned with those moments is one of the more deeply creepy things about gaming in the last 3 years.
Lets not confuse making progress with being free from error. Just because the new TR isnât AS porny doesnât mean itâs NOT problematic.
Again, you donât get a trophy for not being horrible, but when you are horrible, you do deserve to get called on your awfulness. Anitaâs calling out awfulness. Thatâs invaluable.
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âŚand here we see that you know exactly what Iâm talking about.
âŚand to re-iterate, being better than 5 years ago doesnât mean youâre good enough yet.
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It never good enough until body fetishes were completely absent form the medium.
If pants and a tank top is âpornyâ to you then what is good enough?
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And what are you getting this opinion from? Because itâs not any media outlet I can find including Feminist Frequency, who says[quote]2013âs Tomb Raider reboot gave us a new, and at least superficially more human, Lara Croft. Gone were the cartoonish features and Barbie doll proportions of the legendary adventurer. The new Lara Croft looked like a real person. The story half-heartedly tried to make her act like one, too, showing her feel guilty about killing a deer early on, but Laraâs internal conflict was quickly swept aside as she became a walking arsenal, slaughtering enemies by the dozens with bows, pistols, shotguns and other weapons.[/quote]
Itâs a violent game, but itâs just not porny. Even the single most controversial scene in the game deserves a content warning but is not exploitation.
I never said they were. In fact, I said
But regardless, your question is fundamentally and deeply flawed. You ask âWhat is good enough?â as if thereâs some magical thing that a game dev team could do to portray women fairly and thus be entirely free of criticism. It imagines that there is some checklist somewhere that just isnât being shared with everyone, that if only we meet the requirements on this secret invisible list (presumably held by Feminists somewhere, probably on a Coast), then we can stop talking about what people are doing wrong when they portray women in video games, that then we can just not worry about it anymore.
But that misunderstands the criticism.
Donât ask âWhat do I need to do to be good enough?â
Ask instead âWhat can I do to be better than I am today?â
This isnât a purity test that you need to just find the right answers for and then you will pass, itâs a skill that gets better with practice and that you are never, ever perfect at. The job of critics like Anita is by way of metaphor the job of the lioness - target the weak points in the herd. Without someone pointing out the flaws, the herd just gets fat and dumb and lazy. The stronger the herd gets, the more shrewd the lioness gets, but there is always a hunt, always a kill, always that give and take of problem and solution and new problem and new solution.
You can be the cleverest, fastest, most agile antelope and still have an off day, twist your ankle, and wind up in the lionâs mouth. Itâs not really the job of the lioness to compliment the antelope on how itâs not being dumb and lazy today. Itâs more the job of the antelope to be as good as it can be, and to hopefully be lucky. Thereâs nothing you can do to avoid ever being subject to criticism. Thereâs nothing you can do to be âgood enough.â You will fail. You will be wrong. You will not get a cookie when you donât do things that are dumb, and you WILL get criticized when you do something that IS dumb.
Thereâs only things you can do to be better.
And one thing Tomb Raider couldâve done to be better is to put Lara in something that doesnât make her a protagonist with thigh gap.
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As many people as they can. Companies donât make decisions in order to objectify women, they make decisions based on what will make them the most money. And Iâll bet theyâve already done their market research and found that their target market likes butts and the people who like their games but donât butts will probably buy their games anyway. So prominently featuring womenâs butts is a very low risk-high return decision.
Marketing and free market economics. Not sexism. Instead of blaming developers she should blame consumers for buying what they do.
The first doesnât exclude the second. Indeed, in a lot of ways, it encourages the second. And vice versa.
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porny
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good enough
[/quote]You brought these up, I made a snarky comment back and then I edited it to contain some amount of content. But your lecture points to one thing[quote=âDaedalus, post:372, topic:72494â]
The job of critics like Anita is by way of metaphor the job of the lioness - target the weak points in the herd. Without someone pointing out the flaws, the herd just gets fat and dumb and lazy. The stronger the herd gets, the more shrewd the lioness gets, but there is always a hunt, always a kill, always that give and take of problem and solution and new problem and new solution.
[/quote]This is both the flaw Tropes vs Women in Video Games has, and what your criticism has. You are not pointing out the weak points. Anita is glomming onto a very well worn and well earned target and not bringing anything to the modern day where her criticisms should be. You are throwing out words that are not supported and refusing to support them any further. If a lioness is the one in the weeds chomping on the antelope, that puts you in the position of the male lion hanging back and having a sweet mane you make sure everyone knows about. Anitaâs biggest impact was the attention she has gotten and that attention has spurred action from both crazy male gamers and female artists to create change and to move things forward. Just pointing back at the past and assuring people itâs still a problem is not criticism.
Also, the fucking definition of a thigh gap is to not had your thighs touch when your feet are together. Itâs a body type that is rare, and became a stupid fetishized craze on social media. There is zero goddamn evidence of Lara Croftâs latest design having a thigh gap, itâs a fabrication that canât even be proven because there are no âpornyâ pictures of the character by the publisher. Having a gap between your legs with your feet shoulder width apart is not unrealistic.
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oh shit, how did i miss this one.
iâll be right back.
ETA
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Well if she wants to do a video about how various market segments are sexist Iâd watch it but it would probably be pretty dry.
I donât mind her taking issue with sexism, it just ticks me off that sheâs blaming the wrong people. Like as if publicly traded companies will make decisions that will make them less money.
Chicken farmers donât go free range out of the goodness of their hearts, they go free range because thatâs what consumers demand.
UmâŚthe gender dichotomy in butt-coverings IS a weak point in the portrayal of gender in video games? Every one of her videos is pointing out something that could stand to be improved.
If you canât see that, then I think you might be one of those blind antelope.
Nah, in this analogy, Iâm just an antelope with some scars who respects the lioness.
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When given the choice between whatâs right and whatâs profitable, thereâs only one moral choice.
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Donât be naive. Itâs the companies job to sell games. The morality decision is with the consumer.
A company can only be moral as long as it doesnât cost them money. If they stop making games that their target market wants then they will lose money, people will get laid off and the company would probably get sued by its shareholders.
