a) i obviously didn’t think that, it was very clear you were complaining about them being horny. i was saying that being dominated by male characters is at LEAST as important when discussing whether something is misogynistic or not as how horny it is. i am aware that they are horny, i mentioned the designs as shorthand for that. also when going “it’s more than just the character designs!” you said “have you looked at baiken???” which is an example of… character design. but allow me to rephrase: there is more to misogyny than being horny
b) “Even her fucking character portrait is a mild upskirt.”

this is a normal outfit. i see people wearing skirts like that all the time. you can see a hint of what looks to me like a pair of modesty shorts underneath, but i am only just now learning this because you have to REALLY zoom in, which i never did because why on earth would i? even if i were to concede that the art is horny (which i really don’t, this is such a normal outfit. i wear skirts that short sometimes!) that does not equal objectification, which is when women are reduced to sex objects. bridget is not being reduced to a sex object here, she is a character with agency in the story and a good, resonant character arc

this is in contrast to what i was discussing in point c, which was the most important point. she USED to be exactly as objectified as you said, with her existing solely so the game could be horny about her and set up transmisogynistic punchlines.
compare. in strive she is a person, in her og appearance she was just a sex object. there is a difference between a woman in a kinda skimpy outfit and a woman who is being objectified

fuck off with that

a) no fucking way fighters are that high in misogyny. at the very least they consistently let you play as women, which has to put them a fair way up there. there is more to misogyny than having horny character designs
b) bridget isn’t objectified? camera doesn’t ogle her, she’s given a story where she self actualizes and is given internality that is reflected in her character design, design isn’t even horny, especially by the standards of the franchise
c) i was specifically referring to an instance where a japanese dev went back and fixed an extant shitty tropey objectifying horny bullshit character (incredibly sexualized in her og design, being 14, plus all the transphobic jokes and inherent transphobia to the bit) by giving her internality as a character and making the gender stuff not just the trap narrative and instead allowing her to grapple with identity, as well as making her both way less sexualized AND an adult woman. please do not look at this and go “this isn’t an improvement”

that’s kinda what they did with

i don’t have strong opinions on the sound samples, and i do mostly prefer the sprites. but those prerendered backgrounds are gorgeous, i really love them

and i like the ff7 minigames about as much as the ff6 ones, though i totally get where you’re coming from

i really don’t think so. this isn’t nostalgia or anything, i didn’t play either until i was an adult. if nothing else midgar is a way better opening to the game than ff6’s, that’s something i won’t budge on

nah, they’re different. kafka isn’t that good a villain anyways, sephiroth is better because he’s lame as hell

nodding thoughtfully. i think it isn’t identity fraud if you have the other guys memories because you remember doing all that stuff and also aren’t claiming to be the guy, just someone with mostly your own past who is very similar to him

yeah but like, that isn’t identity theft, you know? cloud is just kind of a poser and doesn’t realize it

i can’t imagine shinra vets get any benefits, and also cloud is a veteran so if he did that’s still not stolen valor. the real tricky part of this is the claim of being a soldier first class, which wasn’t true but he DID kinda fuse with one and also he very much killed sephiroth that one time

are memories not part of the brain? certainly they’re close enough for a response to a shitpost

is it identity fraud if you genuinely have part of that guys brain in your brain? also i’m not actually sure he did, iirc he was claiming to be cloud strife the whole time

yeah, that’s what i’m saying. trying to escape your own name and body and identity and constantly thinking about your agab like that?

transgender lesbian hdb

actually you could ABSOLUTELY make that read, given his relationship to masculinity (viewing it very consistently as like, punishment and a prison) and his body and trying to escape his old identity and even his name. though you can’t read him as a lesbian, he very clearly likes dudes. bisexual trans woman hdb

I WAS COMING IN HERE TO POST THAT

it’s an honor

i figure it’s a good point that’ll get most people most of the way there. not too confusing

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yeah a lot of dems are far right enough they’d probably be labour