I have a bone to pick about dragon age modding

[severedscythe]

but I'm not sure how to pick it. This is making no coherent sense because I am tired and sore and cranky and exhausted and just. No.

Let's see how we go.

This really gets my back up.Why the fuck do they feel the need to change what is already an awesome character and make her, well. White? The game isn't quite as diverse as I'd like it as it is

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[jujika275]

May as well not even bother looking into mods for Oblivion then. 50 billion different ways to make your character look like a porn star...

[severedscythe]

XDD hyeeeeeah.

[middlemarching]

I've got a whole gender and sex-specific rant on female characters, male gamers, and power dynamics at work in video games, but I'm too B( over looking at that screenshot to articulate any of it right now. Suffice to say, people who mod these games aren't playing them for the story; they're playing them to get off on violence and idealized female bodies that they can guiltlessly salivate over in a fashion that wouldn't be socially acceptable outside of their bedrooms. It frightens me.

[severedscythe]

how does that icon even exist asdflkjasdf.

OH YEAH ASK ME ABOUT MY FEELINGS ON THIRTY SOMETHING BRUNETTE MALES BEING THE LEAD CHARACTERS IN EVERY GAME SOMETIME.

[middlemarching]

But along that vein I'm glad games are branching out and giving players the opportunity to customize the main PC. I'm not so impressed by F!Hawke in DA2, but F!Shepard in the Mass Effect series is an empowered woman who owns her every decision, doesn't take shit from anyone, and expects to be treated exactly the same as the men around her, nothing less.

Developers are making progress. ..Slowly.

[severedscythe]

F-Hawke is pretty fucking badass in my opinion, just cause well. Bitch took on the qunari and won. She took on the mages/templars and won. She's not some pushover and I hate how people write her like that cause asdf;lkjasd.

[severedscythe]

CHAINMAIL BIKINI IS THAT.

I DON'T KNOW

[irvys_sefie]

GOLDEN. CHAIMAIL. BIKINI. 8<

[severedscythe]

I KNOW RIGHT

[mongoose_bite]

Yeah, I remember the discussion of those mods on inclusive_geeks. There's just no argument for those things; it's blatent whitewashing - a nice mix of sexism and racism.

[severedscythe]

Yeah, it's just. :/ WHY