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Microsoft wants to ban curvy females from video games​

US tech giant Microsoft is discouraging using excessively curvy female characters in video games, according to updated guidelines issued by the company on Tuesday.

As part of its inclusivity initiative, Microsoft offered developers a list of questions to consider while working on their products to check whether they are reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes. The guide, dubbed ‘Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen’, includes various stereotypes that the gaming giant believes are best left out.

According to the guidance, game designers should check if they are unnecessarily introducing gender barriers and should make sure they create playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers, and equip them with clothing and armor fitting to the tasks.

“Do they have exaggerated body proportions?”the guideline asks.

Female characters play a significant role in the gaming industry and have become fan favorites throughout the years. Various females, including Lara Croft, Bayonetta, and Ada Wong have played iconic roles in video games.

One of the most vivid examples of unrealistically looking female characters is Bayonetta, who is integrated into every facet of the eponymous fantasy action-adventure game. Stellar Blade, another game with a controversial design, has used a Korean model for its main character.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Leftoids are worse than evangelical christians when it comes to this crap. "uhm, sweaty, you are not allowed to look at things that are objectively sexy, here have this ugly degenerate shit we have cooked up, also we will turn your kids into ugly disgusting toxic waste monsters"

 

[Meat Target]

Can't wait for them to start creating ugly tranny main characters for their games, and then cry transphobia when they don't sell LOL

Rainbox Six Siege had that Megan Rapinoe-looking troon character.

 

[eDove]

The writer isn't bad looking. But that "Mary Jane" looks like a stroke victim.

Ehh… look closer. She's an unfortunate looking woman.

 

[Meat Target]

Ehh… look closer. She's an unfortunate looking woman.

Or she's just an average-looking thirtysomething. Not a supermodel, not hideous.

 

[X Prime]

Yeah that writer is pretty average.

But it does seem to look a lot like the MJ.

 

[eDove]

Or she's just an average-looking thirtysomething. Not a supermodel, not hideous.

No one's saying she has to be a supermodel, but she has very mannish features that separate her from the average woman. Her being used as an example of less-than-attractive women negatively influencing the industry is perfectly valid.

 

[Not a bee]

Dude, even women like playing as hot female characters. No one wants to play as a genderconfused blob. Get that shit outta here!

 

[The Ugly One]

“Do they have exaggerated body proportions?”the guideline asks.

This is a good question. Are the females in the game too tall and too wide? Are they carrying too much gear, running too fast, and jumping too high? Do their melee attacks do too much damage?

I, too, agree female characters should be more realistic.

Just like it's not realistic to fight in a bikini, it's not realistic to fight in a quadruple XL hoodie because it means you will be exhausted from thirty seconds of running.

Exactly! It's also not realistic to fight in a female body because a man will break you in fucking half.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I'd like to take a moment to remind you all where Woke comes from. It's not a natural phenomenon. It's faggots in government and big banking actively promoting communist agendas by creating shell companies who's job it is to extort and force a social credit system onto these gaming studios and bribe them into taking government gibs instead of relying on profits. They don't give a rats anus if you don't buy the games, they'll never go out of business because the government is directly funding their products. And they're doing it using YOUR TAXPAYER dollars! They're doing it using YOUR retirement funds. Every single time you put money into a 401K, the major 401ks are dumping your retirement money into ESG woke garbage to shove down your throat.

Why? Because video games have allowed you to say things the government doesn't like and there's now a global concerted effort to make sure you aren't allowed to think no-no naughty thoughts.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Leftoids are worse than evangelical christians when it comes to this crap. "uhm, sweaty, you are not allowed to look at things that are objectively sexy, here have this ugly degenerate shit we have cooked up, also we will turn your kids into ugly disgusting toxic waste monsters"

Yeah, it's like if leftoids have said to evangelical Christians "hold my beer".

 

[Buttigieg2020]

I had low expectations for the TES VI, but now I'm 100% sure it's going to be faggy to the extreme and a buggy unplayable pile of shit.

It’ll be like Starfield. Completely forgettable, functional, and full of magic Abos.

Leftoids are worse than evangelical christians when it comes to this crap. "uhm, sweaty, you are not allowed to look at things that are objectively sexy, here have this ugly degenerate shit we have cooked up, also we will turn your kids into ugly disgusting toxic waste monsters"

Evangelicals have a literal written code they have to follow, and were at least motivated by some form of goodwill. The woke literally hate beauty and hate you.

 

[GunCar Gary]

The writer isn't bad looking. But that "Mary Jane" looks like a stroke victim.

yeah, i don't consider the writer hideous or anything, but she definitely has a few goofy features. that's perfectly fine for a real person. taking those flaws and putting them in a 3D model of what's supposed to be a fantasy comic book character because you want to "break down gender barriers" just makes them look some horrible monster

it's even more egregious when you compare the previous image with this one. that girl on the left (Stephanie Tyler Jones) is supposedly the face model for both the first and second newer Spiderman games (Spiderman 1 3d model on the right). they uglied her up enough with the art style of the first game, but i don't understand how that person's face translates to that Spiderman 2 model unless they purposefully made it uglier...or used a new face model

 

[Something Awful]

The source for this is RT (Russia Today). "The decadent West wants to ban curvy women and replace them with trannies or something, be mad!", lmfao.

I like how they contradict the title in the very first sentence. "Ban" is absolutely not the same as "discourage exaggerated proportions". Get fucking real, don't fall for dumb outrage bait.

 

[TowinKarz]

Or she's just an average-looking thirtysomething. Not a supermodel, not hideous.

And therein lies the problem since MJ is canonically supermodel-tier gorgeous.

All the body panels on my car are the same color, so it's not immediately written off as a junker at first sight. But, it's also a 20 year old Buick, so even shined up, it'll never be a Corvette either.

The woke disciples, being socialistic at their core, don't see these distinctions as natural, or are obliged to see them and then "Correct" them through equity at gunpoint.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Meanwhile, in an alternate world Microsoft wants to ban 'curvy women'. And by 'curvy women', I meant landwhales.

Pity that we're not there to witness it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Let's just ban women from video games. Problem solved.

 

[AssignedEva]

Bayonetta's actual body proportions are insane if you look at her full body

I have no idea what you mean

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Evangelicals have a literal written code they have to follow, and were at least motivated by some form of goodwill. The woke literally hate beauty and hate you.

They're definitely more like the Puritans who treated Christmas as a workday and banned anything they didn't like.

Same philosophy behind both, too - if I'm going to be miserable because of the choices I've made, you are also going to be made miserable through my use of state power. No wonder the English did a posthumous execution for Cromwell and a couple other jackass Puritans and put their heads on spikes.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

that's literally the point of her character design. Bayonetta's actual body proportions are insane if you look at her full body, her limbs are freakishly long and her head is weirdly small, she's supposed to look like a composite centerfold nightmare. her animations are lurid to the point of ridiculousness. she's a parody of sexualization in games, but not a cynical one. Hideki Kamiya is a chad-autism nexus of incomprehensible depth. also, his lead artist he worked with to conceive the character was a woman.

unfortunately the second and third games increasingly lost the plot along with the tongue-in-cheek intent of the game's world and characters. funny, at one point Bayonetta was being used as an example of a "sex-positive" "empowered" female character, but I guess that's no good when she could be used as an example of heckin' macho male oppression instead. everything must ultimately become a cynical play for points in our retarded culture war.

Controversial take here, but none of that actually matters, because it's entirely lost on an audience that won't appreciate it.

Bayonetta's design can be exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness, her proportions can be impossible, her animations deliberately hypersexualised to the point of parody - none of that matters, because your average gamer is a barely functional retard who takes everything at face value and cannot see anything of the designer's intent beyond "Girl hot."

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I'll never forgive Sony for what they did to my beautiful redhead