Stellar Blade / Project Eve Thread - aka Stellar Ass

[Asian tech support]

Elden Ring, Palworld, and Hogwarts were all seen as anti-woke.

Help me out here. Who was calling Elden Ring anti-woke? Was it because some unfuckable slags were griping about Malenia, or the usual suspects getting filtered and griping about accessibility?

 

[Happy Camper]

More on the strange goings on around the game. ResetEra, who were strongly against the game, are now singing the praises of Tachy.

All I've found to go on is this trailer, and I fail to see a reason why this second character is an empowering feminist character and the other is sexist misogyny for incels that is literally killing women.

Well you're seemingly expecting ResetEra to have cogent opinions from one minute to another. Sometimes they just decide to imagine something in their heads, so without further context I wouldn't even want to try to make sense of what I assume is on the intellectual level of "big booba girl in rubber suit #1 bad, big booba girl in rubber suit #2 good." Usually it's just a glitch in the hivemind that corrects itself later when they decide to just be mad about everything again.

 

[Male Idiot]

Inaccurate, the libtard in this comic is too attractive.

She is meant to be the woke sister of the gamergate girl, a colour swap.

 

[Psyduck]

Also, I'm betting there will be some tender moments between girls in the game, and you will see the narrative shift to make this into another "The gays win! This is a lesbian coded game!", type thing.

Wonder if someone will tell them that homoerotic tension between two attractive females is a very common cliche in anime, and it's always played up for the male coomer, not for the alphabet

 

[God of Nothing]

Wonder if someone will tell them that homoerotic tension between two attractive females is a very common cliche in anime, and it's always played up for the male coomer, not for the alphabet

just like in real life

 

[babadook]

They both have ginormous ears

 

[Alter Ego]

More on the strange goings on around the game. ResetEra, who were strongly against the game, are now singing the praises of Tachy.

All I've found to go on is this trailer, and I fail to see a reason why this second character is an empowering feminist character and the other is sexist misogyny for incels that is literally killing women.

I'm curious to see these exact posts your talking about as the spoken opinion may not be as pervasive as you suggest. Taking your word for it, though, as I partially mentioned in an earlier post, I suspect the sentiment comes from the difference in demeanor between EVE and Tachy in the prologue. EVE comes off as an inexperienced, fretting princess (bad) while Tachy comes off as a hardened Strong Female Character (good). Form-fitting suit aside, Tachy also doesn't get glamor shots nor skin-revealing outfits as EVE does.

Wonder if someone will tell them that homoerotic tension between two attractive females is a very common cliche in anime, and it's always played up for the male coomer, not for the alphabet

just like in real life

True as it is, I suspect that many men who celebrate lesbianism in media for supposed progressive reasons are fully aware of the actual reason for the trend (especially when compared to rare male homosexuality) but would rather not acknowledge it in fear of exposing their ulterior coomerism. It's a "safe horny" sort of thing, my favorite example in Western media being The Legend of Korra's lesbian turn at the end that I'm certain was motivated by the lust over girl-on-girl fanart through the entire duration of the show. Same goes for RWBY's "Bumblebee" pairing between two leads that went from ill-conceived fanship to canon years later.

In regard to Stellar Blade in particular, though, I personally doubt that female relations will shown as anything more than platonic or basic admiration of seniors. I don't expect anything that can be described as outright infatuation, like the characterization of Homura in Madoka Magicka.

 

[God of Nothing]

True as it is, I suspect that many men who celebrate lesbianism in media for supposed progressive reasons are fully aware of the actual reason for the trend (especially when compared to rare male homosexuality) but would rather not acknowledge it in fear of exposing their ulterior coomerism. It's a "safe horny" sort of thing, my favorite example in Western media being The Legend of Korra's lesbian turn at the end that I'm certain was motivated by the lust over girl-on-girl fanart through the entire duration of the show. Same goes for RWBY's "Bumblebee" pairing between two leads that went from ill-conceived fanship to canon years later.

well yeah
there's a reason why the token gay is almost always a dyke

 

[ShitLurker]

Something about the political reception to the game is bothering me.

It's a Sony exclusive, even though Sony was willing to burn down all their Japanese studios in favour of wokeness.

IGN condemned the character design, only to issue an apology and retraction.

I think Digital Foundry went from hating the game just for having a sexy main character to being neutral?

I don't get it. Usually when the woke left pick a target they attack it and keep on attacking it, even if it's detrimental to do so. The same is true for Steller Blade on Twitter and ResetEra, but those in a professional capacity start attacking it, then it's as if they're called off. By who and for what reason, I have no idea.

I'd say in this case it's an "orders from above" situation. Woke Sony needs a fucking win and all those faggots crying about the sexy korean will not fuck it up, agenda be dammed. So a "shut the fuck up or no early access/interviews" order came in and the peons are remided that they indeed are fucking peons.

I was watching Side Scrollers where they had a pro SBI dev on, and he kept making the same argument that games need to be live service. That the business model of making a game and putting it out for gamers to buy doesn't work any more. Again, a simple look at Elden Ring, Hogworts, and Armoured Core 6 show that the one-and-done game can work as a business model. It's just another arse cover for wokeshit selling like wokeshit.

It's gigantic horseshit as well, you can count with 2 hands at most the successful live service games at any given time and setting up the online infrastructure and server for expected activity is another money pit you have to invest in before the game even releases. It all goes back to them being shit at budgeting and how it became a dead art after "eternal free money" became a thing.

Help me out here. Who was calling Elden Ring anti-woke? Was it because some unfuckable slags were griping about Malenia, or the usual suspects getting filtered and griping about accessibility?

Elden Ring is woke neutral outside of the body type faggotry. I guess people consider not having woke shit as "antiwoke" but I'm convinced Miyazaki is not aware nor does he care about the culture war and only focuses on telling game journos to fuck themselves whenever they ask for his games to play themselves.

 

[X Prime]

Wonder if someone will tell them that homoerotic tension between two attractive females is a very common cliche in anime, and it's always played up for the male coomer, not for the alphabet

Hell, it's happening right now with the anime Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi.

As soon as the Netflix anime came out people looked ahead in the manga that's been out for years, interpreted lesbians, and there was suddenly a lot of fanart about it. Before any episodes implying anything even aired.

 

[M3xus]

Help me out here. Who was calling Elden Ring anti-woke? Was it because some unfuckable slags were griping about Malenia, or the usual suspects getting filtered and griping about accessibility?

It was a combination of the usual suspects getting filtered and bitching about "muh accessibility", as well as Western developers wondering aloud on Twitter why Elden Ring was such a success when it was lacking a "proper UI", which lead to the infamous "Elden Ring with a 'good' UI" meme image.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I'm curious to see these exact posts your talking about as the spoken opinion may not be as pervasive as you suggest.

From this page onwards. There's nothing particularly funny worth screen capping. Though there is some nonsense about the main character not having trimmed eyebrows.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-60

As @Happy Camper said, expecting consistency from ResetEra is a fools errand. It is the forum that gave us this gem.

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There is nothing worse than a hypocrite. Makes me fucking livid.
Faggot keeps complaining about "sexism" and other nonsense, and then has the fucking audacity to keep playing the game he apparently hates.

I've not looked at other places to see if that's the case everywhere. It's just weird seeing the whiplash as the narrative changes in real time.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Help me out here. Who was calling Elden Ring anti-woke? Was it because some unfuckable slags were griping about Malenia, or the usual suspects getting filtered and griping about accessibility?

Surprisingly I never really saw anyone bitch about Malenia's design. It was mostly due to FromSoft ignoring journotards crying about the difficulty, which was a stupid complaint in the first place since there's a million ways to overpower yourself in that game by getting spells, weapons, upgrades etc.

And then I guess because it's just a normal video game that didn't constantly shove propaganda in your face.

 

[Coldgrip]

Elden Ring is woke neutral outside of the body type faggotry.

Doesn't mean faggots and other retards won't try to see it where it ain't. Like the small group of "fans" that insist Finlay and Malenia were in some sort of lesbian relationship.

 

[ShitLurker]

Doesn't mean faggots and other retards won't try to see it where it ain't. Like the small group of "fans" that insist Finlay and Malenia were in some sort of lesbian relationship.

Yeah, but faggots are gonna faggot, I still remember how they tried to make Peppino into a pooner because they are sick in the head and I'm honest to god amazed that Marika = Radagon didn't get ferociously grabbed by the trannies. But the game itself does not try to court them or actively tells them to fuck off in any way (outside of difficulty) which was my point in "woke neutral".

Hell, it's happening right now with the anime Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi.

As soon as the Netflix anime came out people looked ahead in the manga that's been out for years, interpreted lesbians, and there was suddenly a lot of fanart about it. Before any episodes implying anything even aired.

Pretty much, read the whole series, it's not romantic at all, but people love their yuri and yaoi fetish to insane levels and the concept of "camaraderie" and "friendship" being dead generates this constant obsession with having everything fuck each other. In the Japanese medium it's incredibly straight forward, they make the 2 cute girls hug in suggestive poses because guys like to see that (exactly the same way with 2 dudes to bait the fujioshis). But in our land of mental illness can't just accept that it's some cake, no, it's "REPRESENTATION!", and like others have said, an attractive lesbian couple (which is something that basically is a unicorn with wings, 3 eyes and that spits fire) is always used as the "template" when the proper example is a lot less tantalizing and flattering.

Same deal with 2 dudes being gay since they treat it like something romantic instead of what it really is, buttsex musical chairs.

 

[Mega Black]

Wonder if someone will tell them that homoerotic tension between two attractive females is a very common cliche in anime, and it's always played up for the male coomer, not for the alphabet

It doesn't really matter to them. It's like how Bayonetta suddenly became an LGBT icon... Somehow, because of the teasing relationship she has with Jeanne. I still see people saying that Bayonetta hooking up with Luka came out of nowhere despite it clearly being signposted from the very first game that he was her primary love interest.

 

[That Chris Guy]

It doesn't really matter to them. It's like how Bayonetta suddenly became an LGBT icon... Somehow, because of the teasing relationship she has with Jeanne. I still see people saying that Bayonetta hooking up with Luka came out of nowhere despite it clearly being signposted from the very first game that he was her primary love interest.

The answer is, "people are retarded". I didn't follow Bayo since 1, but it's funny to learn that Bayo was suddenly an LGBT icon when Bayonetta 2 was leapt on by Sarkeesian and given all the -ists and -isms under the sun, even though the main character was designed by a woman with a power fantasy in mind. Guess she had to backtrack on all that in the end, unless she wants to falsely proclaim that she had direct influence on the matter.

I think it is worse than that, they know what they're saying, but i fully believe there's an agenda to push the idea that all videogames have to be live service, that's the reason why articles like "Elden/Palworld/Hogwarts Legacy lost 90% of players!" exist, to push the idea that gamers only need to play 3 o 4 games for their entire lives, and of course to make expend all their money in all kinds of microtransactions in the meantime.

There's people in the industry who loathe the idea of making a game that players only have to pay for once, so they'll try push live services as much as they can, even if most people don't really like them.

That is true. I was recently playing Granblue Fantasy Relink, a game that was in development hell for a bit but came out as a fully functional offline-capable game with AI teammates, and a pile of Redditors were lamenting how the game was offline-focused and how they would throw their money at Cygames for it to be live service instead.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

The answer is, "people are retarded". I didn't follow Bayo since 1, but it's funny to learn that Bayo was suddenly an LGBT icon when Bayonetta 2 was leapt on by Sarkeesian and given all the -ists and -isms under the sun, even though the main character was designed by a woman with a power fantasy in mind. Guess she had to backtrack on all that in the end, unless she wants to falsely proclaim that she had direct influence on the matter.

The historical revisionism is nauseating. They hated Bayonetta and she was targeted hard by Anita. Now they claim she's a gay icon (because reasons?) and they always loved her. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

a pile of Redditors were lamenting how the game was offline-focused and how they would throw their money at Cygames for it to be live service instead.

Redditors are not human and deserve nothing but contempt.

 

[God of Nothing]

The historical revisionism is nauseating. They hated Bayonetta and she was targeted hard by Anita. Now they claim she's a gay icon (because reasons?) and they always loved her. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

look
leftists aren't very smart

 

[Mysterious Figure]

The historical revisionism is nauseating.

look
leftists aren't very smart

Leftists would rather pretend they didn't say anything stupid.