Bikini Armor Battle Damage - Hypocrites and Sexy Art

Emperor Julian said:
I was reading a fun little article yesterday regarding knights armour and encountered these little gems

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Whenever I see her bitching about the boobplate I'm reminded Medieval knights specifically spent time and effort having their armour imply they have a massive dick....something which probably put it at increased risk.
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A protruding codpiece would catch blows, but getting hit on the dick is a lot less severe than getting hit on the sternum and having it smash because the blow was caught. Never mind that a dick is flexible, so won't break from impact unless it actually gets crushed or chopped off. A hard hit would be painful, but would still leave the dick intact if it didn't actually pierce the armour.

Fantasy boobie armour still looks stupid most of the time. The muscle cuirass was similar, but that wasn't usually quite as pronounced as fantasy examples.

Emperor Julian said:
Amusingly the armour sperg didnt do a really good job. There doesnt appear to be any chainmail under the plate, their are no attempts to cushion the skull which is vital for armour and their appears to be no attempt to defend the groin or back thighs. Unless you're trying to protect the purity of the women, this is bad armour.

EDIT-and the shirt only really serves to increase the risk of overheating in armour you want something airy and light as your clothing layer
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Arming doublets weren't light and airy. They had some padding to absorb the shock of blows and stop the armour chafing against the skin. And they needed arming points to attach the armour to. There was also a shirt worn under the doublet.

Fastening leg harness to arming doublet:

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Without fastening the leg harness to the arming doublet, it would just fall down. Fantasy armour is often just worn over bare skin, and not fastened to anything, so it would chafe horribly and bits of it would probably fall off.

Sometimes there were only maille "voiders" covering gaps in the plates, rather than a full maille shirt, for weight reasons. Also, there often wasn't armour on the groin and back thighs, because the knight would be sitting on a horse, and sitting on armour is uncomfortable.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
From the waist-down, the Injustice Harley Quinn design isn't bad, but waist-up it's not as fun. The jacket doesn't have the same flow of design as the pants and a girlier hairdo would work wonders (pigtails or an inverted bob).
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That is probably the worst re-design I've seen so far. Her injustice outfit is garbage in my opinion, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing their re-design. It makes no goddamn sense. They clearly put a white undershirt on them because they hate people showing skin.

This is really sad because I actually agree with them on something: I don't like the redesigns of Harley Quinn's costumes. (I really enjoy the original one from BTAS. It's a nice pun and they really should've stuck with it instead of sexy boderline hooker lady, with a light pattern change). I just don't think they're that good, but even then, they have to be so pretentious about it.

Why is she wearing a leather jacket? She's a Harlequin not a biker! She doesn't need an undershirt either really. She doesn't even have any flair with the new haircut, it just looks bland. everything they changed just made the outfit so much more unfitting. And then the artist complains about the color and saturation being shit, when the game is clearly using a darker color palette to show a different tone. They also seem to be under the impression that Harley Quinn is a fighter when she really can do fuck all unless it's related to psychology. And even then she failed at that.
 
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Tanti-Fanti said:
They also seem to be under the impression that Harley Quinn is a fighter when she really can do fuck all unless it's related to psychology. And even then she failed at that.
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Some light sperging, Harley Quinn is actually extremely athletic. She was a gymnast prior to becoming a psychiatrist. Even as far back as BTAS, she's shown being fairly athletic.
 
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Dahmer said:
Some light sperging, Harley Quinn is actually extremely athletic. She was a gymnast prior to becoming a psychiatrist. Even as far back as BTAS, she's shown being fairly athletic.
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Maybe it's because she didn't have a lot of major roles in the series (she is a side character after all), but I always just justified it as comic book logic when it came to the shit she did. If she was a gymnast before being a psychiatrist then I'm being an idiot for not knowing that and it's been awhile since I've seen BTAS. However, I don't know why these people are insisting that a battered woman who's trying to appeal to a crazed psychopath would care about anything about being a gymnast.

If that's the case, then I learned something new today. However, I still don't understand why they cut her hair considering that many famous gymnasts wear ponytails such as Simone Biles. Do these people think you can't function in a fight if your hair is too long? Because if that's the case, they're gonna be disappointed....
 
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Tanti-Fanti said:
Maybe it's because she didn't have a lot of major roles in the series (she is a side character after all), but I always just justified it as comic book logic when it came to the shit she did. If she was a gymnast before being a psychiatrist then I'm being an idiot for not knowing that and it's been awhile since I've seen BTAS. However, I don't know why these people are insisting that a battered woman who's trying to appeal to a crazed psychopath would care about anything about being a gymnast.

If that's the case, then I learned something new today. However, I still don't understand why they cut her hair considering that many famous gymnasts wear ponytails such as Simone Biles. Do these people think you can't function in a fight if your hair is too long? Because if that's the case, they're gonna be disappointed....
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Well her being a gymnast was before becoming a psychiatrist and meeting the Joker. It's more background information to her than something that you see her doing post-Joker. But it's an explanation for her athleticism and lithe build, similar to Dick Grayson being on the more slender side comparative to Batman because he was a trapeze artist/acrobat.

The redesign is nonsensical, Harley has always dressed in form fitting clothes. It's harder to do cartwheels and backflips in a leather jacket and pants than to do it in spandex.

Although, to be fair, many of Harley's recent designs forsake functionality for sex appeal and I'm not a fan of the shift away from her traditional design towards a sex symbol, but that's a whole other round of sperging for a different day.

It genuinely seems like these women behind this, and their faux-feminism, just fear any woman who's sexually attractive and owns it.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
Arming doublets weren't light and airy. They had some padding to absorb the shock of blows and stop the armour chafing against the skin. And they needed arming points to attach the armour to. There was also a shirt worn under the doublet.

Fastening leg harness to arming doublet:

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Without fastening the leg harness to the arming doublet, it would just fall down. Fantasy armour is often just worn over bare skin, and not fastened to anything, so it would chafe horribly and bits of it would probably fall off.

Sometimes there were only maille "voiders" covering gaps in the plates, rather than a full maille shirt, for weight reasons. Also, there often wasn't armour on the groin and back thighs, because the knight would be sitting on a horse, and sitting on armour is uncomfortable.
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That's a fair point, truth be told late plate isnt my specialty (I'm more into late Roman/ early medieval and I was a little unsure about the actual nature of the clothing. I still think the armour fails functionally in terms of shock absorbtion and multiple weak points.

Personally my thoughts on the boobplate boils down to if the setting is going for realistic armour or not. If it's some absurdist over the top high fantasy like warcraft I really don't have aby problem with it. It only really aggravates when their's an emphasis on realism and practicality.
 
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Pina Colada said:
From what I can gather, it’s a month-long Tumblr event that celebrates guys wearing (and often flaunting) skimpy, impractical armor for the sake of “muh equality”.
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If they want to look at doods wearing fetish outfits or whatever, they should just admit it. Whenever they say it has to do with "equality" it just comes off like they don't want to admit they're just huge perverts(while convincing no one). Just own it. No one will care.
 
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