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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.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Imagine if someone started arguing for literal years, that the games industry should remove any and all ripped, physically fit or otherwise attractive male characters from video games, and replace them with either scrawny weak manlets or fat dudes, and that every game's narrative should be about how the manlet/fat guy is a total badass, along with obligatory scenes where he beats and humiliates women to stick it to those femoids. And of course the femoid stand-ins in those games have no comeback, they can only sit there, listen and concede that the manlet/fat guy is right about everything.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the obvious inference you'd make would be that the person arguing this is a joyless incel and that he wants all of video games to forego entertaining everyone else in favor of being his personal incel cope fantasy.

That's the gender-swapped version of what I think all these girlboss themed 'strong female protagonist' narrative 'games' from the last decade are, a femcel cope fantasy. Femcel cope fantasies have somehow become the industry standard.

Change it from "games" to "movies" "TV shows" "commercials" or literally any other form of popular culture and media, and the message would still ring true. The fact is that these subhuman scumbag fucks HATE you. They HATE everything that you stand for, and want to destroy anything and everything good, and make sure that you never have any joy or peace in life. They feel like they DESERVE your money, and view you as nothing more than a piece of trash that they can milk money and resources from. They browbeat their consumer base, openly degrade, chastise, and mock them, and then expect you to PAY THEM for the privilege. Fuck that! I consider myself fortunate that I really havent been in the gaming world much since the tail-end of the PS2 era, but from the outside looking in, it still pisses me off to no end. The endless onslaught of wokescolding, microtransactions, and outright degenerate propaganda is so tiring, and seriously has me MATI. I really want these creatures to suffer and die in the most drawn out and painful way possible. (Only in Minecraft, Fallout, Fortnite and Timcast IRL, of course.)

 

[Michael Wade]

Steller blade will pave the way forward

 

[M3xus]

In regards to the "mods will save TES VI" argument: Starfield is a pain in the ass to mod because Bethesda made it so practically every plugin that changes the game will need compatibility patches to work together. How much do you want to bet they'll double down on that for TES VI?

 

[WULULULULU]

I do like to say that modding will not save it either. The same woke faggots are infesting the very same communities, especially discord. The Gmod community went against Nazi RP servers and went apeshit towards the fact that one of the models in the game was a real-life corpse. The Left 4 Dead 2 modding communities are filled with furries (and NSFW furries moreso). The Darkest Dungeon communities have a hatred for boobs (hence the people shitting on mod classes such as Duchess and Omen Seeker) and have a love towards furries as with the L4D2 modding community.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

This Gabe Newell clip has and still is relevant.

 

[fatcock burgerking]

First the video game boobs, next it will be YOUR boobs! Will you not fight in defense of Breasts? What of big jiggly butt cheeks! Shall you cast them aside, as well? Draw your blade and stand for something for once in your God forsaken life!

 

[Hitman One]

I can't wait for GTA VI to have that banging hot, clearly insane Latina and her gigachad huite bf. It they're well written then nobody sane will give a shit how she looks, chuds will love her and trannies will seethe.

 

[Ser Prize]

In my experience, most people of %CURRENT_YEAR% category don't even know what pretty/appealing/beautiful/etc means; and not just because shit can vary from person to person, but when they think what a good female character should look like, their brain fucking breaks. And part of it I'd say is due to modern sensibilities with all the hyper-sexual shit shoved in our faces in all sorts of media and advertising. The women in Resident Evil are mostly physically unremarkable; they're not double stuffed in the tits or ass category, they're not built like a house, or anything else, but their bodies are toned enough and their faces are pleasant enough you can admit that yes, they're attractive, and it doesn't matter if they're in street clothes, tactical gear, or a red dress, they can rock all and still look good. Imagine that, simply being a little toned up with a pleasant face is too fucking much for these psychotic puritans. But when people say they want something nice to look at; it's immediately confused (or strawmanned) as demanding a women with a triple-G chest and an ass that belongs on a draft horse and wearing nothing but 2 pieces of fishing twine; and not that I'm asking for it, but we can't even have that, it's always some fucking mystery meat with a jacked up face. And you may not fucking like it, but people generally would like to look at something they find pleasant as opposed to something repulsive; hard to fucking believe, I know.

What's wrong with wanting what you described? That's basically a Frazetta painting, and those are rad as hell and a cornerstone of the fantasy/sci fi genre.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Look at any nude female statue from any culture over the past 5000 or so years. They have several things in common. Wide hips, large breasts/buttocks, symmetrical clear features.

Any culture at all, European, Asian, African, Latin, there is 100% an idealized female beauty standard and is shockingly universal regardless of the culture.

 

[Kheapathic]

What's wrong with wanting what you described? That's basically a Frazetta painting, and those are rad as hell and a cornerstone of the fantasy/sci fi genre.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting it, people know what beauty is, and while it may vary from person to person, we all know what good facial features are and that being fat is bad. It's only these current year lunatics who need to destroy any sense of beauty, and pretend to do so under "this is what women look like." Beauty can't exist, and while I never really cared much for Aloy, adding 10 pounds of fat to her cheeks is a prime example of this. "This is what a woman looks like!" Not a woman who runs, jumps, and climbs as much as she does.