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Fire Peach in Super Mario 3D World! Finally we get to see her use some powerups! I caught a quick glimpse of her small form too and it’s absolutely adorable.
It’s making me wonder what the plot of the game is going to be since she obviously hasn’t been kidnapped this time. A lot of people are predicting Wart is actually the antagonist, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up for that, and there’s so many of Bowser’s normal minions in the game.
Super cute!
TWIST: ROSALINA’S BEEN CAPTURED
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This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a scripted “trash talk” bit someone made a scripted rape joke (male gamer to girl gamer who sucks at a game: “just wait, it’ll all be over soon.”) and then they acted like it wasn’t a big deal and then they released an expensive, anti-consumer (DRM on physical games) piece of hardware. And then Sony just released the PS4 which is just the PS3 but better graphics and $100 cheaper than the Xbox. So THAT happened.
But then Nintendo just quietly released a bunch of great looking sequels for all of it’s major franchises (Mario, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, and Smash Bros.) and every single one of those games interestingly features playable female characters who haven’t been seen in decades like Dixie Kong and Princess Peach - and Pikmin now has a new female hero.
One of my favorite things about Peach in the new Mario game is that one of the power ups is a literal “cat suit” and Peach’s “cat suit” doesn’t sexualize her at ALL. You can’t even see her boobs. She just looks like she’s wearing over-sized footie pajamas it’s so cute. Also they added a pink letter to the Mario logo just to accommodate Peach’s re-inclusion into the franchise as a character with actual agency!
So at the end of the presentation they tell you to go to the Smash Bros website to find out about new characters. And then they announced this character, Wii Fit Trainer, on the site. And in an interview the director said he gets thousands of requests for almost every video game character under the sun and he’s gotten absolutely zero requests for this character and he put her in the game to be funny and defy fan expectation. This character is literally “hey fuck you we’re the ones making the games around here, and we’ll be goofy and funny if we want to and also check it out another female character in Smash.”
Also the inclusion of the Animal Crossing villager is interesting because Animal Crossing is VERY popular with girls and even though the villager is male I’m 100% certain his alternate costumes will include the girl default villager character. So that’s neat. The three Smash characters they announced were two girl(ish) characters from two girl(ish) games and then Mega Man.
Also in the new Animal Crossing game boys are allowed to cross dress and all of the animals are explicitly genderqueer in the dialog. Characters say stuff like “Boys can ware make up if they want to, I mean, it’s 2013, who cares?” and just today a jock rhino was looking deeply into my eyes and asking me to hike a football and I asked him if he loved me (which was one of the option out of other options about sports) and he was like “Oh I guess a lot can happen when you look into someone else’s eyes like that, huh?” He didn’t even care that we’re both guys. Also in the new Pokemon game you can be black.
Basically what I’m saying is Nintendo is quietly and systematically making their games more socially progressive and Microsoft made a rape joke and then said “what? it was a joke.”
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TCR | 2013.06.05 | Man of Steel goes commando
I don’t think he loses any character from them taking away his speedos. I think it’s just about him being more serious (to fit the tone of the movie. I mean it’d be hard to take him seriously if he was wearing a pair of boxers over the top of his alien armour/suit.
If you want whimsical, golden/silver-age superman where he wears his panties on top of his tights go watch the Christoper Reeve films.
The briefs were actually based on the costumes of circus strongmen of the time, of whom Superman’s creators were big fans. Acrobats also wore reinforced briefs outside tights for comfort purposes, and also to conceal the gigantic crotch bulge that results from wearing tights.
Also, purely from an aesthetic design perspective, the extra red from the briefs helps to balance out the concentration of color in the costume and avoid having too much blue, unlike the current look.
im with beeftony on this one yo
exactly. aesthetically (aside from the obvious crotch bulge coverage) the red underwear and the yellow belt helped balance the colors by incorporating the colors from the superman logo into the rest of the costume.
in the new 52 comics, superman without the yellow belt makes the yellow in the logo looks very out of place because it doesn’t tie into the rest of the costume
they tried to fix this issue by desaturating the yellow in the logo for the movie superman costume but as a result the iconic logo is kinda lost in the muddy desaturated reds and blues with nothing backing the “S” to make it stand out because if they had the actual yellow behind the “S” it would have stood out too much because it would be the only yellow in the costume
the outfit strikes me as especially odd because the first thing people tend to notice about the superman costume is the logo and a big reason our eyes are normally drawn there is because red and yellow are high wavelength colors and your eye starts at the logo and then travels to other areas of high impact color like the cape and the belt and boots and the way the colors are placed draws your eye around the entire costume and helps you take in the character you are looking at. but all i look at when i see this costume is his cape and the rest of it just visually isn’t interesting at all…
they said they wanted to go “realistic” but realism doesn’t have to be boring and this desaturated nighmare of a costume really has no excuse
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Wii U & Nintendo 3DS Developer Direct - Super Smash Bros.
started watchin’ Kerfuffle vids, can’t stop laughing
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It’s like Les Miserable, except if Jean ValJean had become a drunk abusive asshole instead of turning over a new leaf.
Welp, Dio killed Jojo’s dad and became a vampire. Awesome.
Vegeta?! I wasn’t expecting that either Dio.
Yes, good. Jojo’s my favorite kind of protagonist, the unflinchingly wide-eyed idealist who get’s put through hell but won’t stop believing in goodness and decency. To the point that other characters want to be better people so they don’t let him down. See also Emp from Empowered.
