#Women's Wrestling

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And this Aphrodite feels low-key jacked. Whereas the Stellar Blade chick looks like a cartoon Playboy model. Some nerd-boys should be ludovico-techniqued into watching hours of wrestling, till they know what a real human badass woman looks like.

This is truly stiff competition for the worst case of willful false equivalence we've ever seen.

So, for those not aware: Ongoing embarrassment to gamers and the gaming industry, Mark Kern (former lead on FireFall), has been desperately trying to get Gamergate 2 going on X/Twitter... well after others have given up. If you need to get caught up on Mark, I recommend this video by documentary maker and experienced game developer, Dead Domain:

One of the latest fiascos in this mix has been the comparison of responses to character designs from Hades 2 (Aphrodite, left) and Stellar Blade (protagonist Eve, right). The post isn't by Mark, but is part of the general harassment campaign he's trying to lead.

If you're somehow not familiar with Aphrodite, she's the Ancient Greek goddess of love, lust and hot girl shit. It is absolutely perfect characterization for her to show up to a battle (or anything else) nude but for her hair teasingly covering the intimate parts of her body. But the buried lede here is, you don't fight her in Hades and nothing about Hades 2 indicates she'll fight there either, she just likes the aesthetic and has no reason not to indulge.

Stellar Blade will release on 26 April 2024, so we can't really give an informed discussion of her character. But what we do know is the studio head is the illustrator from Blade & Soul, Eve is described as being a member of "the 7th Airborne Squad" engaged in an "operation to reclaim the planet from the Naytiba", and the promotion material promises "an enthralling narrative filled with mature themes, mystery and revelation. Embrace the relentless pace, with no time to pause between moments where critical, story-changing decisions are made."

It's to be compared to games like Nier: Automata, Devil May Cry 5, Jedi: Fallen Order and Sekiro. And the screenshots look like this:

And yeah, unlike Bayonetta she's not supposed to be an unstoppable force of nature (and fashion) who is immune to self-doubt, she's supposed to be the scrappy underdog last survivor of her team.

Weird they gave her a costume that conveys... the opposite of literally everything they're supposed to be trying to tell you about her.

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✩ SKY PIRATES ✩ WWE RAW (AUGUST 26, 2024)

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CHELSEA GREEN SPEAKING FACTS!

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Awww Tatum’s gonna miss her dove 🥹

Tatum's rizz will NOT be ignored [x]

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Your favorite alien: Kris Statlander

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rhea ripley via instagram

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WOMEN'S ROYAL RUMBLE WINNERS

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Omg happy pride month 🤭

Just some Rhea to get your month started 🖤💜

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MIDCARDERS / WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT / POST MATCH by veyonis

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Thekla.

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Jade Cargill - Friday Night SmackDown 08/11/2024

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𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓼 & 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓼 🌼🌺🏵️🪻 Plum Mariko (AJW Dream Slam 1993) Jamie Hayter (AEW Dynamite 2024)

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Me tonight-💞🖤💀💗

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Bull Nakano again (with a little Kyoko Inoue)