Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/crystal-dynamic-reveals-artwork-of-what-is-believed-to-be-unified-lara-croft-from-their-upcoming-ue5-game.816906/page-7?post=119288523#post-119288523

I can live with the throwback outfit, just hoping the in-game models emphasizes her muscle mass. Need some high level muscle simulation, especially when she's climbing.

Not a fetish

Shouldn’t be surprised they don’t know what body type climbers tend to have.

[HaughtyFrank]

These mentally ill pedos are probably going to lose their asylum soon tbh.

Sell it to Embracer

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-322?post=119287959#post-119287959

Seeing that dismissed as purely bad by others here just rankles me somewhat. She meant so much to a lot of us, regardless of if she was also masturbatory material for blokes. Because she was more than just a sex object to me, my sister, to a generation of younger women in gaming at the time and whilst it's obviously unintentional, that's what these takes feel like they reduce the entire idea and ethos to

It's okay if you disagree or take issue with how some of us are expressing ourselves about the OG Lara design. Sometimes I think we don't have or encourage enough critical dissent in here, especially when it comes to verbiage, which probably has pushed some women away. Which I certainly don't want to happen.

In a bubble, the design is fine. For me, I look at it and I just think about the way she was used as a sex symbol for horny boys and men. So the possibility of them going back to the design rubs me the wrong way, knowing how much the market still caters to men. With some modifications to her physic and the outfit to make her look closer to a professional rock climber, my lesbian ass would sweating. 😅 But alas I am not a demo worth targeting by the powers that be.

Also, it's not like reboot Lara wasn't sexualized in TR 2013. They did better with the following games (and I loved how many outfits you could unlock).

Princess Bubblegum not be a weird creepy cunt challenge (impossible)

Princess Bubblegum

Me: "SE, please stop sexualizing Tifa."
SE: "No."

[Polident]

Hold up how do you see Tomb Raider 2013 as over sexualizing Lara. She literally wears baggy cargo pants and is almost always covered in dirt and wounds. Back when it came out, if it faced criticism, was for the brutality of what was happening in cutscenes. People calling it torture porn. Despite the term, people don’t actually use it that way.

[Besticus Maximus]

More of a grabber than a climber is auld princess bubblegoon

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

It's almost as if every Princess Bubblegum post can be signed with "not a fetish" at this point. 

[Boredfrom]

So many people here are misjudging how many people are deeply disturbed by Biden's funding of the genocide in Gaza.

[Rendle]

It's okay if you disagree or take issue with how some of us are expressing ourselves about the OG Lara design. Sometimes I think we don't have or encourage enough critical dissent in here, especially when it comes to verbiage, which probably has pushed some women away. Which I certainly don't want to happen.

In a bubble, the design is fine. For me, I look at it and I just think about the way she was used as a sex symbol for horny boys and men. So the possibility of them going back to the design rubs me the wrong way, knowing how much the market still caters to men. With some modifications to her physic and the outfit to make her look closer to a professional rock climber, my lesbian ass would sweating. 😅 But alas I am not a demo worth targeting by the powers that be.

Also, it's not like reboot Lara wasn't sexualized in TR 2013. They did better with the following games (and I loved how many outfits you could unlock).

If these Tomb Raider games are so problematic why does Princess Bubblegum buy every single one? Sounds like they're the fucking creep who is using it for masturbation material. I mean in this post she's lamenting Lara Croft being a sex symbol for men, then a few sentences later about how she wants Lara's 'physic' [sic] changed so that it's more sexually appealing to her. By contrast I have never played a Lara Croft game and don't give a fuck what she looks like. Who's the sexist?

[Averon]

Princess Bubblegum is a horny lesbian fetishist that made it her personality. Which is hilariously ironic considering how often she accuse heterosexual men for doing just that but with women. In other words... 

 

It's all just complete projection on her part.

[Polident]

So many people here are misjudging how many people are deeply disturbed by Biden's funding of the genocide in Gaza.

The uncomfortable truth is the “caring” about the issue in America is overstated. They base it off social media where you’ve got a mix of Kony trend followers, bots, and non-Americans and kids who can’t vote.

The average person knows and cares slightly more than Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most care more about issues impacting their daily lives or their Starbucks order. That’s fine. In truth their impact is a net positive compared to these guys. Like, the stories of protestors disrupting traffic to JFK and other major airports. You think those guys are coming away with a more positive or negative impression of the cause and supporters?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

So many people here are misjudging how many people are deeply disturbed by Biden's funding of the genocide in Gaza.

Much like the Arab world not caring about Saudi Arabia killing their fellow Muslims in Yemen, Democrats really don't care about this "genocide".

[PogiJones]

The frills look kind of crappy but I wouldn't be surprised if they're there to actually cover up her butt a little more, which is ironically exactly what these idiots want

No, that's what they say they want, but what these idiots really want is to jerk it to her exposed butt then go on RE and jerk it again to their moral panic condemnations.

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-322?post=119287959#post-119287959

With some modifications to her physic and the outfit to make her look closer to a professional rock climber, my lesbian ass would sweating. 😅 

You're not a lesbian.

[Eric Cartman]

At least Amir0x was entertaining.

[Eric Cartman]

Just what are you trying to imply?

What thread is this for a Ree to look up kiddies in swimsuits?

[Eric Cartman]

User Banned (3 Months): Insensitive Commentary; Victim Blaming; History of Inflammatory Commentary & Trolling
Hahahahaha

She's a financial advice journalist

LMAO

Her husband is an idiot if he stays with her and doesn't take the kid, he can never trust her with money again. That's an amount of money that is "you are a danger to our child's future" money.

             Why are you banning him? He's right

[Eric Cartman]

Also same punishment as telling people to get armed and stage an insurrection if you don't like the election results

[Snoopy]

At least Amir0x was entertaining.

Beat up his mom because she interrupted South Park. Raised thousands to pay for her healthcare, blew the lot on a drugs binge. Got kicked off the mod team for being a dishonest scumbag. Got caught with cp. Pissy mattress. Soggy biscuits. None of the tards on ree have come anywhere close to those lulz

[Nintex]

I remember watching the community come together to help a drug addict raise money and being like  

If I recall correctly there was even a second attempt.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

So a heterosexual male cannot view women as sexy or have any sexy depictions of women in media, but a lesbian, a "lesbian", or basically anyone else can do that and it's fine? Is that the new rule here? 
They can't really believe that this makes any sense, can they? Why can't everyone just be horny and accept it?

[kaleidoscopium]

Pretty much. But it's also a sad indictment of where we are. If Biden is the best we can hope for, it pretty much shows we're at the end of American democracy. We're just kicking the can down the road until the guillotine falls

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ezra-klein-urges-democrats-to-hold-an-open-convention.817935/page-6?post=119292672#post-119292672

[Polident]

There’s a weird conclusion that gays are hedonistic creatures that lack any inhibition. Straights must keep it hidden. Only revealing their lustful gaze to sex workers or their non-monogamous spouse.

See, I’m trying to pitch a rebooted Pepe le Pew to Zaslsv where she’s a lesbian and it’s cool now.

[Eric Cartman]

There’s a weird conclusion that gays are hedonistic creatures that lack any inhibition. Straights must keep it hidden. Only revealing their lustful gaze to sex workers or their non-monogamous spouse.

See, I’m trying to pitch a rebooted Pepe le Pew to Zaslsv where she’s a lesbian and it’s cool now.

Its more like reactionary anti-catholicism, where cishet white men are the source of Original Sin, so anything they do, say, or like is inherently bad, even if its the exact same stuff everyone else does / says / enjoys.

[Yulwei v2]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/openai-unveils-sora-a-shockingly-realistic-video-generator.818091/?post=119299203

AI thread

Barely half an hour old and they're already in there in full histrionics

The continued evisceration of human expression into a cold hollow pile of wasteful data to make profit for billionaires.

[Eric Cartman]

Art was so much purer when you did to appease the rulers ego

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-322?post=119292516#post-119292516

I think the 'Classic' look currently being offered up could easily be altered by just changing the booty-shorts to cargo trousers, and bam, practicality whilst keeping the general iconic colours and style. The attempts at tribute update outfits with the Reboot Trilogy just felt a bit oddly-designed, as though they had to be modern-trendy first before they were pulpy adventure clothes, and none of them sat quite right as a result. (I prefer bomber-jacket Lara anyway and wore the Aviator/Remnant Jackets in the first two of the Reboot games, but I understand the importance of the original outfit as hopefully a directional arrow for fans to know how the series is tonally heading next.)

However, as mentioned in my other post, my fiancée still wears booty shorts and tank tops as her regular daily clothing DESPITE LIVING IN SCOTLAND BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEHOW IMMUNE TO THE WEATHER and it's certainly not for male attention. Some of the posts flying about (not pointing at you in particular) have been very heavy-handed and dismissive of any favourable attitudes towards Lara's old styling and it actually hurt a little to read those, as though my fiancée wasn't the "right" kind of lesbian woman for having that as her fashion sense.

I had to refresh my memory on the "tribute outfits" from the reboot saga. Besides the PS1 skins. I only see "classic" alt colors for some outfits, which are low effort. But also I'm less familiar with her classic outfits besides the iconic one. I digress.

Even if I'm not guilty, I do feel for you getting hurt by what some have said. That isn't right. Critical rhetoric can go too far or rather miss the fictional and hit the real instead. Which isn't right and justifiably hurtful to those affected. It's sometimes a blurry line and other times not. I endeavor to try and limit my own rhetoric so as to avoid doing that, but I'm ever learning.

I can't make any promises, but do feel free to report any posts that cross the line. At the very least I'll look at them.

[HaughtyFrank]

Silk, an animated Spider-Man show, is said to restructure towards are more male skewing audience and RE is fucking losing it

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98silk-spider-society-writers-room-scrapped-by-amazon.817986/

[Yulwei v2]

Silk, an animated Spider-Man show, is said to restructure towards are more male skewing audience and RE is fucking losing it

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98silk-spider-society-writers-room-scrapped-by-amazon.817986/

Whatever that writing room came up with must have been absolute dogshit for Amazon to do that lmao.

[kaleidoscopium]

The last sentence is everything I've been dreading the last few months. She-Hulk faltering, Marvels bombing, Little Mermaid and Blue Beetle disappointing, Aquaman 2 managing to pull ahead almost entirely on Mamoa's charisma, all the hype for Deadpool 3, the very strong likelihood that Kraven manages to outdo Madame Web....there's quite a bit over the last year or so to tell shitty Hollywood execs "hey maybe we should cut it out with the diversity stuff, the audience for these doesn't seem to like it". It wouldn't surprise me if we see a pivot refocusing on traditional (read: white straight male) audiences. And I'd say it'd be met with cheers except the usuals are too stupid to even get when shit's trying to cater to them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/‘silk-spider-society-writers-room-scrapped-by-amazon.817986/page-2?post=119290104#post-119290104

[HaughtyFrank]

They're switching because the only people who show up for bad comic movies at a baseline are the audience you guys at complaining about. Like the VAST MAJORITY of The Marvels theater audience was men.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98silk-spider-society-writers-room-scrapped-by-amazon.817986/post-119297439


And they're a bunch of idiots for thinking this suddenly means the show will be all about T&A. What it actually means is that before the show was probably some lovey doey show about Silk hanging out with her girlfriends or whatever