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bikiniarmorbattledamage · 7 months ago

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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:

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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.

-wincenworks

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burstfoot · 7 months ago

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PROPAGANDA: Emperor's Blade: · Supersoldier of Ursus · Implanted with demonic shards to ensure their absolute prowess in battle against fighting extradimensional demons · Possibly persist beyond death if consumed by Collapsal influence Emperor: · Seemingly cannot die · Has a gun · May operate on Bugs Bunny rules of reality

#arknights #emperor #emperor's blade #posts brought to you by typing emperors blade and only coming up with the penguin #im undecided. i thought this was an easy emperor sweep but the Black Mark compliates things

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popsicle-stick · 5 months ago

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pov the corpse you are doing an ill advised post mortem on just gets up and looks at you like this wyd

#jack seward #dracula #(a giant scar has mysteriously healed but that gets relegated to minor grievances when the dead body's eyes open)#this is not lucy!!! this is a scene im playing about with for that dracula sequel project. my guy is working at a busy london hospital and #notices a pattern with patient deaths........and starts post-morteming. this goes as well as one can imagine #if this should be marked as mature content PLEASE lmk im generally overcautious with these things and will happily mark as such #cw syringe #cw blade #uh. what else.#medical malpractice #??#lottieart #dracula spoilers #implied. possibly. i guess?

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pichichustudios · 4 months ago

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I want my tragic brothers be happy 🫠😭

#inazuma eleven #inazuma eleve go #victor blade #tsurugi kyousuke #tsurugi yuuichi #inazuma fanart #inazuma 11 #ina11 #inazuma eleven go #axel blaze #endou mamoru #mark evans #matsukaze tenma #arion sherwind

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molly-yasha · 11 months ago

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Wyll, you’re in range of both [explosions] so I need you to make two dexterity saving throws.

#baldur's gate 3 #high rollers #shadows of athkatla #theo solomon #mark hulmes #wyll ravengard #wyll #*#.gif #me watching the whole time: [walter white screaming in car dot jpeg]#no theo!!! dont rush in!!! wyll is squishy!!!#don't buy into the lore that he's an actual blade he's a little squishy warlock!!!

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katofvalentia · 7 months ago

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Recently beaten FE7 for the first time on Eliwood Mode so here's something featuring my own take on Mark's design

#the game was fun & I totally get why so many people got hooked on the series thanks to it!#fire emblem #fire emblem blazing blade #fe7 #mark fire emblem #eliwood fire emblem #lyn fire emblem #hector fire emblem #katvart

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jebbeesketches · 2 months ago

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Lyn in Pajamas :3

It's based off Juri's Pajamas in SF6

#jebbeeart #fanart #fire emblem #fire emblem fanart #fire emblem blazing blade #fire emblem blazing sword #fe7 #elibe #lyn #lyndis #mark

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do-mkokoro · 1 year ago

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blade stelle haha

#blade #stelle #bladestelle #will this one be taken down idk #fanart #akira’s art #honkai star rail #hsr #崩壊スターレイル #honkai blade #刃 #星刃 #do u see the hand marks on her neck she legit died #but lol yeah fem!top she dicks down on him no #i like tumblr tagging sm like i cant say shit like this in the actual caption 😭

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its-stimsca · 3 months ago

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BEWARE THE IMPOSTOR!!!!

⚠️ 🎩 ⚠️ / 🎩 ⚠️ 🎩 / ⚠️ 🎩 ⚠️

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lilacthebooklover · 3 months ago

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me, looking at the most toxic, awful, horrendously unhealthy fictional relationship in the world: why can't i have what they have? :(

#remind me of how easily you could kill me then say i won't die until you let me #you insult me and I'll insult you and we'll both know each other so unfathomably well that every word is a finely tuned blade #we'll kiss and you'll draw blood and I'll think of you every time i feel the bite mark #in every universe we find each other and we hate each other and we want each other more than we can say through words #tell the world i'm yours while i glower with reverent loathing #every conversation we have is poison #we twist and distort each other until there's nothing left but two shattered halves of a one way mirror #I'll hold you tightly like you're the only thing that matters #we'll slowly settle into a sort of rancid dependent domesticity #and set out to ruin each other until even those jagged shards turn to dust #(apologies reader of these tags #the “you” i'm referencing isn't referring to you personally #or you generally #i'm just cooking up more motivation to write sdhdjshdj)#(oh! also- please note the use of FICTIONAL #this is all just imagination loll)#why yes this is about #toxic old man yaoi #however did u guess #also just general #toxic yaoi #toxic yuri #but ykkkk #I watched one too many animatics #billford #hahahaaa who said thatttt not meeee hahaaaa #they ruined me #oh also-#pureshadow

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jckpot · 3 months ago

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rip jack of blades you would have loved she wants revenge

#I didnt use a reference also so if the markings are wrong no they arent #eventually #jack of blades #fable #fable tlc #fable anniversary

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mediumlargedarkpizza · 1 year ago

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#why is this so funny #saw v #and btw the blade on your pendulum was inferior #:/#john kramer #mark hoffman

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hawkinasock · 5 months ago

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artist's rendition of an interaction i had on pony town a while ago

#i was yanqing btw #the blade was my friend #also i couldn't fit it in the frame but my other friend was cosplaying jy and making the 😬 face #honkai star rail #hsr #yanqing #blade #jingren #question mark?#my art #edit: i fixed a few errors i noticed after the fact #if you saw the og no you didnt #wdym blade still looks naked? youre crazy i think youre making things up in your head /j

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gzeidraws · 2 years ago

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small but mighty !

#fire emblem #fire emblem blazing blade #mark #lyn #eliwood #hector #fe7 #fe blazing blade #mark fe #lyn fe #eliwood fe #hector fe #fire emblem heroes #fe heroes

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veilkeeper · 1 year ago

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how much time did gortash spend taming the dark urge and teaching them they could be loved, that they could be more, only for them to end up in the arms of another

#how many scars from their hands and blade does he bear as a mark of pride #i need a minute #durgetash #bg3 #mine

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clairenatural · 2 years ago

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i think it would have made sense to explicitly establish that angel blades are tied to an angel's grace and therefore can only be manifested/only have angel blade powers when used by that angel (otherwise they're just fancy knives) and at one point out of desperation dean grabs cas' to stab whatever demon because hey some damage is better than none but it does the glowy angel blade thing that it's only supposed to do for cas and they're both like 😳

#the answer is that cas' grace touched dean's soul in hell and left a mark on it and also because they're in love #this also solves the issue of why angel blades are not theeeee most sought after weapon for hunters now that there's a good amount leftover #from dead angels (rip) and they can kill. anything #well. many things

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