Bikini Armor Battle Damage - Hypocrites and Sexy Art

[Hummingbird]

Also why get rid of the ponytails?

Because flowing hair isn't practical even if it's in pigtails since they can flow.

What irks me the most about this R. Mika redesign is that the new costume would restrict her movements than give more freedom. Also, don't wrestlers wear mouth guards?
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I love how Ozzie dismisses actual wrestling outfits in favor of applying physics to fabric, especially when Japanese pro wrestlers have more over-the-top designs to their costumes.

Spoiler: Because they won't do the research

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I was going to make this responce...

Street Fighter has had it's hot guys who the artists emphasized: the handsome Vega (who has no shirt), Gil and Urien who are buff and scantly-clad (a lot of women like buff guys and I thought their bods were smoking hot), or Ryu's new design that The Mary Sue dubbed "Hot Ryu".

Since (in general) men and women's bodies are built differently, different parts are emphasized when it comes to attractiveness. Straight/bisexual women aren't attracted to the same thing, some love looking at big muscled torsos and would drool over Kratos.

The thing is that I've gotten them mad at me for "causing trouble" mainly because I have disagreed with them and challenged some of their views. ( I also noticed that the redesign took out one of her teeth.)

 

[John Titor]

While the outfit isn't bad and I like her weapon change, but one thing the designer misses is that free-form dancers aren't meant to have so much on them. The middle part doesn't look very flowing. If this wasn't for a dancer, it would work a lot better.



Sometimes simple (but not too simple) is the way to go.

Dancers who can fight in the FE series would be SERIOUSLY hindered by pretty much any armor. Their fighting style is extremely acrobatic, with lots of twirling and jumping and stuff like that as they attack with their swords. Plus they need to make pirouettes when they use the Dance command to refresh units AND, since all of them are pretty girls, they also need the sex appeal to literally lift the others' spirits

So basically, any kind of armor would make Olivia and other fighting dancers useless, via limiting her movements... aka doing EXACTLY THE CONTRARY of what the Dancers must do in the battlefield. All because these whiny little girls feel that must hide these fictional girls' bodies behind stupid-looking armors to feel good about themselves.

The Panne "redesign" is just as stupid since, like it's already been said, she shapeshifts into a MASSIVE killer rabbit to fight; any armor would restrain her and it may even BREAK when she goes beast mode. Again, it's not only ugly and chunky-looking but it's extremely unpractical for her (and the same would go for Yarne) no matter what these idiots say.

Do they get triggered at the sight of belly dancers?

But muh combat value!

Anybody who has played FE (read: not BABD apparently) knows that dancers should not be fighting the enemy head-on, sword or no sword.

 

[Hummingbird]

Do they get triggered at the sight of belly dancers?.

They don't like the Shantae sereies all that much, either. Also, check out the comment section.

 

[gobbogobb]

DoA beach volleyball must have caused at least 3 strokes

 

[John Titor]

For the record. Mara's portrayal doesn't bother me. Have they seen some Buddhist statues?

Any of them genital-related? The most gnarly ones I saw were depictions of Hell like a dude getting sawed from the crotch.

They don't like the Shantae sereies all that much, either. Also, check out the comment section.

Of course they don't.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Bikini Armor is interesting, on one hand it's a pretty legitimate complaint that a lot of female armour looks absurd compared to their male colleagues and this can be really grating in a 'realistic' setting and I do think it does get a bit obnoxious. (fantasy armour is a bit of a pet hate of mine)

The problem with Bikini (and it's cousin hawkeye initiative occasionally) is that it's clearly well beyond light hearted satire and overtly despises products aimed at male audiences and confident female sexuality. They don't really give a shit about context or the viability of costumes as long as they hit a list of frankly abritary criteria.
Looking at the site creator and she's a bog-standard tumblrina right up to the part where she's way too old for this shit. She reminds me of Anna Kreider in that she tries to be a light hearted quippy fun but it's a weak facade hiding a rather akward bitter personality who is no where near as smart as she thinks she is.

EDIT-what really grinds my gears is when the armour is still useless shit even after it's been edited so not to inflame mens passions and maintain her purity.

She was better off in the skimpy shit since that's at least cooler reducing the chance of heat exhaustinon while it's totally failing to protect your body.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I never got the point of "sexy" "armour", whether it's metal bikinis on women or studded leather bondage gear on men. If you're not going to wear actual armour, wear normal clothes, or nothing, like some Celts did. Random bits of spiky metal and studded leather are uncomfortable, look stupid, and would be pointless to go to the effort of making in the first place.

I don't like the other end of the scale with massive, bulky armour that people couldn't move around in, either. A real plate harness weighed about the same as a modern soldier's gear, because that's the maximum weight a man can carry and still fight effectively. Enormous, spiky pauldrons that don't let people lift their arms and would spike their comrades and catch on things by accident just look stupid.

I understand that people go for a "rule of cool", but I can't see what's "cool" about fantasy armour. It would be horrible to wear, even if you weren't fighting. A lot of fantasy films and TV shows like LOTR and Game of Thrones sometimes use more historically inspired armour like maille shirts and helmets for that reason - it's fantasy, but the actors have to be able to move and not spike things and each other by accident. There's still often far too much studded leather bondage gear, but that's mostly found on men.

The problem with this blog is making it all about identity politics, not just making fun of horrible fantasy armour like Lindybeige and Scholagladiatoria do.

 

[Pina Colada]

They’re on the SC6 Taki reveal like flies on honey, and compare her masked appearance to that of a blow-up doll’s. I’m shocked that they didn’t call her a “literal fighting fucktoy” (ugh).

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[Pepito The Cat]

Ok, I was going to collect a bunch of quotes and add my take on this whole ordeal but there's SO MUCH I want to discuss that it will literally take me the whole day so if you excuse me, I'm just gonna drop the quotes and babble for a bit.

First off, I know these type of girls. I was a huge anime geek back in the late 90s, right when the fanservice-vehicle-girl stereotype started to decay and when Yaoi was getting mainstream. Among the greater fandoms there was this breed of teenage girl: skinny, glasses, no tits, no confidence, severly uptight and very shy at all times that idolized the Yaoi stereotypes: cut but very skinny bodies with very feminine mannerisms that went against the beefy shonen type. And, of course, they outright despised the skimpy heroine/sidekick.

Apparently, some of those girls grew up to be this weird cross between SJW and purist Yaoi lover. They like their guys cut, skinny, sensitive, easy to control and, at the same time, hate the muscular, strong, capable, totally independent hero guy. They want their females covered, so they don't represent a treat and their guys sensitive but buck-ass naked because YUMMY!. They still have the same mentality from decades ago, from when they were tweens.

This is some Twilight-esque dynamic where all the guys are completely in love with some random nobody with nothing to show but at the same time they censor and cast aside those girls who DO have something to show... aggressively and with a passion.

They treat men like objects while complaining women get the same treatment. Because, deep inside, they are still this very insecure incel girl with no ego and zero confidence in themselves.

This is Fem-iIncels VS Stacy: weird SJW/weaboo edition.

 

[Hummingbird]

Ok, I was going to collect a bunch of quotes and add my take on this whole ordeal but there's SO MUCH I want to discuss that it will literally take me the whole day so if you excuse me, I'm just gonna drop the quotes and babble for a bit.

First off, I know these type of girls. I was a huge anime geek back in the late 90s, right when the fanservice-vehicle-girl stereotype started to decay and when Yaoi was getting mainstream. Among the greater fandoms there was this breed of teenage girl: skinny, glasses, no tits, no confidence, severly uptight and very shy at all times that idolized the Yaoi stereotypes: cut but very skinny bodies with very feminine mannerisms that went against the beefy shonen type. And, of course, they outright despised the skimpy heroine/sidekick.

Apparently, some of those girls grew up to be this weird cross between SJW and purist Yaoi lover. They like their guys cut, skinny, sensitive, easy to control and, at the same time, hate the muscular, strong, capable, totally independent hero guy. They want their females covered, so they don't represent a treat and their guys sensitive but buck-ass naked because YUMMY!. They still have the same mentality from decades ago, from when they were tweens.

This is some Twilight-esque dynamic where all the guys are completely in love with some random nobody with nothing to show but at the same time they censor and cast aside those girls who DO have something to show... aggressively and with a passion.

They treat men like objects while complaining women get the same treatment. Because, deep inside, they are still this very insecure incel girl with no ego and zero confidence in herself.

This is Fem-iIncels VS Stacy: weird SJW/weaboo edition.

You definately hit the nail on the head.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Appealing to the male demographic is sexist and should not be allowed in The Current Year. Women drive most purchases anyway

 

[Ceiling Kitten]

And, of course, they outright despised the skimpy heroine/sidekick.

As someone who was into yaoi stuff back then and saw MANY pathetic girls like this, I can confirm this and add that it wasn't just the "skimpy heroine/sidekick". ANY woman who showed ANY sexual/romantic interest in a guy that these fangirls wanted to slash, and therefore threatened the Holy Yaois, was seen as a threat and made these screeching little girls shit their panties like there was no tomorrow. They even used lots of the so-called modern "fandom feminist" points against these fictional girls: "too girly", "too weak", "lives only for the guy", "ugh stupid bitch", etc. And at the same time, like you said, they slapped exactly these same "undesirable traits" on their favorite ~bishonen~ and masturbated to these guys acting like caricatures of "women" (or better said, what these self-hating girls saw as "women").

Apparently, some of those girls grew up to be this weird cross between SJW and purist Yaoi lover. They like their guys cut, skinny, sensitive, easy to control and, at the same time, hate the muscular, strong, capable, totally independent hero guy. They want their females covered, so they don't represent a treat and their guys sensitive but buck-ass naked because YUMMY!. They still have the same mentality from decades ago, from when they were tweens.

This is some Twilight-esque dynamic where all the guys are completely in love with some random nobody with nothing to show but at the same time they censor and cast aside those girls who DO have something to show... aggressively and with a passion.

They treat men like objects while complaining women get the same treatment. Because, deep inside, they are still this very insecure incel girl with no ego and zero confidence in herself.

Definitely. BABD and millions of modern "feminist fangirls" act exactly the same, only covering their misogynistic bullshit under layers of patronizing and fake-ass "feminism". Now they try to pass their terror of sexually-attractive fictional and real girls (who remind them of how awkward, charmless and plain they were and sometimes still are) as desire to portray women in ways that are supposedly more "modern" and "progressive"... by covering them up so they won't show The Dreaded Tittays/Asses that TRIGGER the perpetual ugly ducklings to death.

 

[gobbogobb]

That's a lot of words for anime makes people dumb.

 

[Ruin]

Another thing that annoys me is that often times their redesigns are just as silly and unrealistic as the outfits they criticize. I'm not saying thong panties and a top that barely covers the nipples is realistic but a lot of the characters they whine about are spies, rouges, thieves, and other people for whom freedom of movement is important and full plate armor would be absurdly impractical if not fatal.

 

[IceGray]

As someone who was into yaoi stuff back then and saw MANY pathetic girls like this, I can confirm this and add that it wasn't just the "skimpy heroine/sidekick". ANY woman who showed ANY sexual/romantic interest in a guy that these fangirls wanted to slash, and therefore threatened the Holy Yaois, was seen as a threat and made these screeching little girls shit their panties like there was no tomorrow. They even used lots of the so-called modern "fandom feminist" points against these fictional girls: "too girly", "too weak", "lives only for the guy", "ugh stupid bitch", etc. And at the same time, like you said, they slapped exactly these same "undesirable traits" on their favorite ~bishonen~ and masturbated to these guys acting like caricatures of "women" (or better said, what these self-hating girls saw as "women").

My cringy phase was essentially a jealous fangirl, jealous of other attractive characters, etc. Even knew one classmate who despised female love interests because she thought they were wimps and was a fujo in every other way.

It was only in university that I was given a wake-up call on how some skimpy characters actually work within their world, it's not always about being a lingerie catalog.

Hence my current resolve to point out hypocritical logic, poke fun at it, and take things less seriously.

 

[WaltherPPGAY]

I noticed this post on Saturday plugging a cow: Dan Olson.

I guess that means skimpy clothing is bad, but conspiring with a serial rapist to sexually exploit children and covering up rape for the sake of winning an argument is good.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Another thing that annoys me is that often times their redesigns are just as silly and unrealistic as the outfits they criticize. I'm not saying thong panties and a top that barely covers the nipples is realistic but a lot of the characters they whine about are spies, rouges, thieves, and other people for whom freedom of movement is important and full plate armor would be absurdly impractical if not fatal.

Spies, rogues, and thieves would just wear normal clothes for wherever they are to assimilate with the local population. That might involve full armour to infiltrate an army camp, but obviously not for stealing from people at the market (this brings up the common issue of fictional characters never changing their clothes, much like autists). I do think a society where all women wear metal bikinis is a little unbelievable, though. Even tribes who wore almost nothing wouldn't go to the effort of making pointless bits of spiky metal and studded leather to wear.

 

[GethN7]

I'm quite confident if we could see what all the people who contribute to this internet puritan anti-women look like, we'd all recoil from the mass amounts of lard, danger hair, and fugly, because there is no damn reason for any woman to be this bitter over FICTIONAL characters unless they are a walking case of sour grapes.

 

[Gingervitis]

Imagine the absolute aneurism that would occur if they came across a scantly clad character that was actually a hooker or someone else who specialized in seduction dressed skimpily.

 

[c-no]

They’re on the SC6 Taki reveal like flies on honey, and compare her masked appearance to that of a blow-up doll’s. I’m shocked that they didn’t call her a “literal fighting fucktoy” (ugh).

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I'd bet 30 shekels they never saw a menpo in their lives before.

Spoiler: Actual armor piece used by the samurai

It's a real piece of armor and saying it makes some video game woman a blowup doll is rather funny.

I'm quite confident if we could see what all the people who contribute to this internet puritan anti-women look like, we'd all recoil from the mass amounts of lard, danger hair, and fugly, because there is no damn reason for any woman to be this bitter over FICTIONAL characters unless they are a walking case of sour grapes.

I'm confident that any fictional woman not held up to their autistic standard can leave them in perpetual offended mode. While bikini armor can get tiresome, it's always funny to see how they claim they can make a correction that would really mesh well with the design of a character.

Imagine the absolute aneurism that would occur if they came across a scantly clad character that was actually a hooker or someone else who specialized in seduction dressed skimpily.

They could complain about male gaze or how it could insult sex workers. Then again, it's all video games and they should realize that bit is just some humor they could actually chuckle at since they throw around "fighting fuck toy".

Since some people mentioned that Tales character with the edgy torn outfit and arm, here's another character that could piss of BBAD. Said character is a rogue and demon who is part of an alien setting that involves different planes of the multiverse.

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Whether one finds her outfit ridiculous or not, it's entirely justified since due to said character being demon-blooded, her internal temperature is much higher than a human so if she want's to feel more cool and comfortable, she would have to wear the outfit she has. A concept artist also stated the clothing is meant to reflect the fact she lacks wealth and is more or less a person who got the pieces at some point in her life (aside from also saying he wanted to make the outfit because it appeals to him as an artist).