Archive for February 28th, 2006

And now, a morally self-righteous interlude.

Oh, for the love of all that is good and holy, take a look at the main character for this upcoming amateur adventure. Admittedly, she’s no more disgustingly silicone-enhanced than most polygon-formed girls gracing the covers of gaming magazines, but having to see this in an adventure game gives me quite the “Et tu, brute?” feeling. I honestly thought we were at least somewhat more mature than the mainstream pubescent male hardcore gamer crowd.

The justification for the creators of this game making their main character so… er… bouncy is that since they have to draw a gazillion character animation frames, they might as well spend their time drawing something that they find aesthetically pleasing. After all, who wants to play or make a game starring an ugly girl, right? And also, if we can have Arnold Schwarzenegger-type male characters, why can’t we have well-endowed female characters?

Rather than go into detail about how ridiculous these arguments are, and how they blatantly ignore the obvious fact that women, unlike men, have a long history of being objectified into less than rational human beings, I’m just going to smugly smirk at the fact that I made Gertrude Zzyrgenhymer completely flat-chested, and that the character wearing the least clothing in TGTTPOACS just so happens to be male.

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