u/Kappapeachie

I know not every left leaning space is like this but I can't help but feel a bit isolated overtime as they started to move away from caring about women and more about super nebulous things that don't do much for women? It doesn't help that a lot of them will weaponize progressive language to look more "feminist" than they actually are over innocuous shit that women happen to like. Remember twilight? Remember fifty shades? And now you have people saying morning glory farm is a book that promotes beastility without ever reading it or how often they misrepresent female desires.

I hope this doesn't go against the sub too much? I was just annoyed how often this happens that I had to leave so many places for mild hints of misogyny.

I noticed my resting glucose was like 200, I took my ozempic, checked it after eating a sandwich, and it soared to 400? I really don't wanna burden my parents or get hooked up to a IV but I've had a high reading before and it came down after taking my meds (though admittedly it was in monjaru, which my insurance rejected). Like, I'm starting to feel that I should try something else since before then my ozempic was working just fine? What changed?

Note: please be civil and don't go calling people names or anything. I just wanted to make this thread given my own feelings on certain games despite my own left leaning beliefs.

I'll start by saying back in 2013, I never really cared for the tomb raider reboot trilogy and still don't to this day despite rolling my eyes at all the chud outrage over lara's new redesign. There's a lot to be said about how she looked back then, but even now, I still don't understand all the backlash when there's bigger reasons not to like it that actually make sense. For example, I liked that in the og series' lore, lara was an adrenaline junkie who got into the treasure seeking game at her own accord instead of following another person's legacy.

In the reboot, it felt more like her legacy was interconnected with her father's and less on her need to seek out what the world has to offer in terms of excitement. It inadvertently made her motivations and reasoning feel less feminist more regressive despite it's attempt to dial back the games allegedly sexist aspects (even though for the og it was in the advertisements, not the game itself though I can get that take when it came to LAU lara) of the older games. It just left me less and less disinterested the more I unpacked these games until I just gave up on the franchise after that.

But what makes me feel weird is all the newer fans who loved it, lean left like me, and even derided the older games for obvious personal reasons masquerading as just wanting the franchise to be less centered on the male gaze. But, at the same time, why did the people behind the reboot feel the need to make lara less like an agent that did shit and more of a passive object in the first game where didn't even like tombs? I get it's for character development since a lot of characters had arcs where they came around something they disliked. But in this instance, it just felt like that one scene in the dmc reboot where nu-dante got a white wig stuck on his head and just sweep it off as a jab at people loved the older version of that character. That's not endearing, that feels insulting to so many people?

Anyway, I got a bit carried away with my little rant lol. But I hope this doesn't make it sound like I hate reboot lara because she's not hot. That was never my issue and though I don't like the trend of making games more and more realistic at the cost of whimsy, at least the new unified lara is rerailing back aspects I liked from the older games, so I'm looking forward to that.

Now if you want mine, it's utter bullshit especially when these types then accuse women and feminist of being jealous of attractive women when that's not what we're talking about. We often point out the disparities of attractiveness between male and female video game characters on how women on average are depicted as just eye candy while men can be mad scientist, brutes, war heroes, and old masters but every single chick is just "x but sexy at all cost". I'm glad that more games are wisening up by diversifying their women, but there's a long ways' path to reaching true equality between sexes, but somehow this is a slight to gamers who only play games to wank one out for whatever reason.

They're even using AI slop to turn otherwise actually attractive women into polished dolls because ofc their brains can never get enough. I say this as an artists who likes drawing "attractive" and "appealing" character designs. If every woman is just the same copy paste ideal of sexiness, it stops being cool and becomes lame in the end.

Like the only triple AAA games I've played have been older gens or from non-western companies, and the ones that did interest me turned out to be double AA or indie instead. Idk if it's the genres I like or the fact that I don't like playing games with huge file sizes and hard to run graphics, but the only new release I'm a bit interested in is GTA 6 and the latest tomb raider but I also don't wanna give them my money.

It makes finding another girl who likes stuff that I like (niche old games, rpgs, fighting games, platformers) pretty hard because I don't wanna feel like an idiot talking about shin megami tensei than she just looks at me as if my body turned blue. I get that older gens weren't as kind to women or the graphics mase it hard for people to care about the characters, but I've been gaming or been aware of gaming my whole life. Not everything is hyper realistic open worlds with do everything mechanics. Sometimes I just enjoy playing a small scale strategy game because it's nicer on my wallet.

But I wanna say your gaming preferences doesn't determine who you are as a gamer, I'm just fucking lonely as shit.

And I don't mean in a super sonico way, but like normal women with bodies that can support big boobs? It's either just skinny girls with massive honkers or bad caricatures of fat people. Ofc I'm biased as a chubby bi woman lol but I'm only human.

Or is the internet just amplifying the voices of those who do because sometimes I question my own relationship with female bodies as a bisexual woman.

Not in a bad way but like, some of these ladies make me go nuts idk why?

Especially since making a big budget fantasy/action/sci fi movie wouldn't work in live action without a lot of waste involved. But I'm also wondering how to make the process of animation more eco friendly and the like?

Because I noticed I like feminine men but in terms of both looks and personality, but not like in a soft boy androgynous way, but like, I love truely gnc men who wear skirts and dresses while rocking makeup.

Lemme clarify this isn't all people, I'm just noticing this weird double standard where men are cool with tomboys (to a degree) but women seem to find feminine men threatening once they start dressing in skirts and dresses or wearing makeup. The reasoning is usually that it's humiliating for a man to dress feminine because femininity defined under the patriarchy is somehow like a punishment and not just a natural variation of human presentation. Femininity isn't high heels and corsets, it's soft, flowy, and graceful. It doesn't have to be restricting.

idk why I do, but I really do not like it when they're put under the same brush especially lumping plot heavy works that just so happen to have attractive people having sex sometimes as inherently high class "porn". I get why some people do it, mainly to normalize porn that isn't violent. But I feel like with the way porn is framed as mindless entertainment that exist to get your socks off, calling anything else that has sexual content as porn simply muddies the two and eventually gets them both affected in case the government just wants to delete sex from society.

Like on a scale to 1-10, how stylized can a game before it's too much for you?

I got nothing to add besides, not really? I get wanting to be immersed more, and something more abstract prevents that, but sometimes that might be the point of the experience. As long as it's not unappealing or a mess to look at, graphics don't really matter as much as gameplay does.

I've heard of this argument for fucking years and it has never once convinced me that some muscle guy is the same as a woman posed in such a matter to accentuate sex appeal. The man is supposed to be powerful and inspire while the women is suppose to be inviting and arouse the presumed cishet male viewer. Kratos is a male fantasy with any kind of sex appeal being an accident and not the intended ethos of his character. Yet when we talk about how seuxalized women unnerve us or doesn't seem fair, so many guys pull out of the woodwork to say we're wrong actually or just prudes who hate "beautiful women".

Nah, I like women, I just don't want all women in games to be doll faced girls with boob implants and fake smiles.