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Stahlseele wrote:i wonder how big the #outcry would be if one were to simply replace exactly half of every enemy you have to fight, hurt, maim, destroy and kill with a clearly feminine variant . .
Not very big, I'm pretty sure.

I mean, it's not like there aren't games with a bunch of female enemies already, and I don't recall much whining about them. Let me try listing a bunch off the top of my head:

1. Red Alert 3 (Tanya, Yuriko, two Rising Sun infantry types)
2. Fallout New Vegas (The Legion only has male soldiers, but the NCR includes female soldiers and Raiders are pretty well-mixed)
3. All the Fire Emblem games (Pegasus riders are exclusively female, sometimes other classes come in female mook versions)
4. Left4Dead (Witch, Spitter, standard infected)
5. Ar Tonelico (Enemy Reyvetails, a bunch of feminine-looking cyborg things)
6. Mass Effect (All hostile Asari, notably with Benezia's mooks and Eclipse, Phantoms, Nemeses, Banshees)
7. Skyrim (I haven't done any kind of headcount, but mixed genders in mooks are a thing)

Anyways, the Bechdel test is not really a good indicator for how feminist a work is overall, since the amount of conversation in a work and who it's between varies wildly for all sorts of reasons. It's just a thing to think about, not an ironclad standard. Most obviously, if the work is from a first-person perspective and the viewpoint character is male, it fails more-or-less automatically.
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The Bechdel test isn't good for anything expect telling if an event occurred or not.
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Leress wrote:The Bechdel test isn't good for anything expect telling if an event occurred or not.
It's a bit more useful to compare it to the reverse Bechdel test. A work without conversation will fail both.
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I know it's important to be tolerant and inclusive, but isn't a dalek-only restroom a bit much? We already put ramps everywhere for them.
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If shrapnel wants to chime in, I'd be interested to hear a critique of this as a transformer.
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that's kind of genius O.o
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It truly is magnificent.

Without having a copy in my hands to see it for myself, however, I can only judge based off of what I've seen, but so far it seems pretty good. It looks a mite fragile, and articulation seems to be a bit on the low side, but the concept of a TARDIS Transformer is just so awesome that those can be overlooked. Also, the bow-tie is a really nice touch.

The only real downside that I can see is that you'd need a 3D printer to make it.
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Probably old but I laughed so hard.

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doesn't work for me.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Keys to the Contract: A crossover between Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kingdom Hearts.
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Now that is an oldie but a goody. I remember that comic from a while back.
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I'll take Catch the semen for six hundred, Alex.
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I laughed entirely too long and too loud at that.
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The new smash bros
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Avoraciopoctules wrote:The new smash bros
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...I now want to get the latest WWE game and put that in.

I recall when I had Smackdown 2 for PS1, I turned all of the Inner Senshi + the grownup Outer Senshi into wrestlers. Which meant there was almost enough of a female roster to warrant actually having a division for them at all.

But the crazy outfits to turn them into Yoshi and Pikachu, that's even better.
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That is awesome. The first pic looks somewhat axonometric as well.
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Spoilers for Madoka
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Keys to the Contract: A crossover between Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kingdom Hearts.
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TheFlatline wrote:Legolas/Robin Hood are myths that have completely unrealistic expectation of "uses a bow".
The D&D wizard is a work of fiction that has a completely unrealistic expectation of "uses a book".
hyzmarca wrote:Well, Mario Mario comes from a blue collar background. He was a carpenter first, working at a construction site. Then a plumber. Then a demolitionist. Also, I'm not sure how strict Mushroom Kingdom's medical licensing requirements are. I don't think his MD is valid in New York.
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I expected that to be a different character...
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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