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Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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I just have to say that the Unicorn armour @ 17:30ish disturbs me with its terrible perspective.

I am pretty sure that that classroom is just a stock image used in every anime ever.

Eye lasers and crossbows: Two features of the two softwares demonstrated that are actual games.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jan 17, 2014

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Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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StoryTime posted:

Mass Effect.

Edit:
Oh wait, in Mass Effect 2 you have to spend plenty of resources to remove those glowing scars on your face, and become the beautiful porcelain gun goddess that you are inside.

Mass Effect 1 and 3 still stand.

I point out that they had a competition for which Femshep should be the official one. Instead of just going "you know what, we've had the same appearance for the last 2 games for Femshep, why not just keep that one?"

Also she appeared on none of the box art.
And the Blue Skinned Alien Space Babes are practically all either mercenaries or strippers.

Mass Effect was more a game where you can play a girl (but obviously canonically Shepherd is a man because pfft girls being the heroes) rather than a Girl Game.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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StoryTime posted:

I rest my case.

Male shep gets called either Male shep or Broshep :p

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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But if she's not in high heels, how will you know she's a girl?
I stand by my theory that Other M was a Galactic Federation ploy to discredit Samus for...some reason or other.

Edit: Also hmm. To do Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble for this thread or not, hmm. Has the (dis)advantage of being a blind run. Hillarious failure ahead!

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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TK-31 posted:

I know the subject of how much boys also like to play dress up has been done to death already, but I'm surprised no one has brought up Team Fortress 2 yet. Every single playable character in that game is male, and what is the most infamous thing about it? Hats.



Excuse me, Pyro could totally be a lady under all that fireproofing. You can't prove she isn't!
(I also have a female model for Heavy and Medic. But those are not quite as canon)

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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None of the nailchat explains why they are seethrough. At least the toe-nails became opaque once you painted them. I do not understand those nail layouts at all. My nails have THREE sections to them. A white bit at the base, then the pink alive bit. Then the dead bit that you cut at the end.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jan 20, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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That'd kind of make sense. But did the artist not have toes or fingertips to look at and go "Huh. That's kind of opaque.

Not see through.

Evidently this bothers me a lot more than it should. Perhaps I am hoping that by being able to comprehend this one little facet of the convoluted mess the rest of 'girl games' will start to make sense?

Edit You can rip the entire nail out. It hurts like hell and bleeds rather a lot.
Don't fall off bridges and catch your nail, kids! I would guess, thinking about it more, that the pink bit is the bit pressed against skin still, so has pink flesh behind it, while the protruding bit that you cut just has clear air behind it. Still, playing with various backgrounds around the room, my own nails don't let enough light through to change colours.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jan 20, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Specialised parts have always been my main complaint about specialised sets. Aside from the figurines themselves, that set actually looks pretty decent for a block set. Given that those windows (and, I assume, the door) are the same design as the ones I had 20 years ago, this looks pretty decent for a starter block set.
Also, there's a cat included in the set. Your argument is invalid.

That sausage on a plate is going to get lost the first time anyone plays with the set though.

Edit: Sure, it could be less "this is for girls" and you can argue about the specific colour arrangement of the blocks till you're blue in the face (whether or not the roofing tiles should've been red, for instance), but it's still a pretty solid set overall. (and yes, I built houses. As well as space ships and whatnot)

I used to get mad at the Pirate and Knight sets especially for their specialised parts. But again, years ago.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Jan 21, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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The slanted roof pieces are GREAT for making spaceships. That set only has a handful of specialist parts though, so you can just build whatever.

(also, the old buckets I remember had suggestions for what you can build on them)

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Xenia posted:

I paused the video after hearing there was no butterfly wings. That is a crime against humanity.



Truly now her makeover is complete.

Edit: The Viking Dressup game is sort of amazing. Though maybe because I'm used to Escher girl armour.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jan 22, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Nihilarian posted:

I played default DudeShep, because the character creation was rear end. (I think? It's been a while.) It's one of the few games where I did that.

Ms Hale does a much better job of the VO with Femshep. Then again, so did people who didn't check the other voices in SR2. I would love to see if random character generation, or some reedy black guy/girl changes the ratio at all.

Edit: that includes people missing out on the british male voice mind you.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Jan 22, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Nihilarian posted:

Why are we talking about voices now?

Part of what makes playing Femshep great is how she delivers her lines. And has decent armour, aside from some of the designs giving a massive butt-wedgie

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Mostly talk about the genricness of Maleshep and the character creation. WQhich made me think how sad it is that so many people missed out on FemShep and Male 3 n SR2

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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EVE did have pretty amazing character customisation. Followed by your ships being super-generic mass produced clones, which was a bit odd. This was a few years ago, so they might've updated ship cosmetics since I played.

Or well, mostly face creation now that I think on it.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jan 23, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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I usually play as a girl despite being not a girl IRL. Part of this comes from really liking Night elfs in Warcraft 3, and well. I have complained a LOT about the faces of male Night elfs. I still complain about it. Though I did eventually find one passable male face.

Generally though I play a girl because well. This is escapist fantasy. If I can be a wizard who rides a dragon and saves the world repeatedly, being a girl doesn't seem like too much of a stretch.

Sometimes though, the outfits make me feel super uncomfortable (AUGH WHY WOULD YOU GIVE ME 3/4 LENGTH PANTS. YOU MONSTERS)

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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It's a freeing experience. I also get super tempted to wear a skirt to work one day. And just count the annurisms (I work with a lot of 60+ year old men).
Oh man, if only tomorrow were 'STRALYA day. I'd do it just on principle. I still could.

As for in games, I really do enjoy how Saints Row doesn't judge. Voice sets are completely detached from biological gender. Which is also detached from clothing choices. I can play dressup however I drat well want.

Edit: I did go looking for a site, but hindisght tells me it's going to need a video update, not screenshots.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jan 24, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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MiracleFlare posted:


I don't know if these sites are officially affiliated with each other or are just grabbing whatever they want -- I'm pretty sure I saw one site just offer up some games for anyone to put on their own site -- but I've settled on holding all of them responsible for promoting game concepts like "remove the rotting teeth of Dora the Explorer while she cries" or "clean out the snot and germs in a Minion's nose".


MASTER?!!!

WHY MEEEEEEEEEE!


In other news, I also have sordid tales of ERP when I was younger and in a weird place. Thankfully MLP hadn't been invented yet, so I was safe from crossover hell. But this isn't Girl Games and ERP A/T, so I'll leave it suspensefully there. And look into making a content post later.
Which may also include the Motorcycle makeout game.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Nihilarian posted:

Boobplate or not, I rather like Hildegard's armor. Her princess dress is also pretty good.

But yeah, my standards might be low because of Ivy and the rest.

Hilde in Soul Calibure, from what I remember, is properly dressed. Which is novel in and of itself.

Especially Ivy does set the bar super-low, though.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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They already had suitable textures from doing male torsos (since they are able to be topless in public) so it's just a copy paste job of the textures. Plus it probably got weird doing your render tests to make sure it looks right and then have this untextured blob in the middle.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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KataraniSword posted:

I'm looking at the concept of Bunga Bunga and all I can see is a more surreal, :nws: take on Papers, Please.

I wish game creators thought in ways like that.

At least then it'd make more sense that it takes half an hour or more to process 'entrants'.
Glory to Arztotzka indeed.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Antistar01 posted:

I cracked up at the stoned fairy. That'd make another great avatar, I think.
Given how much the Bloodbowl chat insists I'm a girl sometimes I may have to steal this one later.


Devious Vacuum posted:

The other day I got a very important message on Ask.fm, and that person convinced me to make a clarification for this thread:



The message I got was related to Girl Games and trans women. I want to clarify that while the games we're making fun of are blatantly exclusionary on many levels, in this thread, we are all girls. These games want to define "girls" strictly and narrowly, so in this thread, I want to do the opposite. The bad messages in these games effect everyone, so therefore everyone is girls. Including everyone who identifies as female, which includes trans women, or, as I like to call them, women.

When I react to and analyze these games, I am going to start with what offends me personally, but of course that is not going to always be the same for the rest of you. People with different experiences and backgrounds will have additional things to say about why these games are dumb and bad. I have no authority to speak on behalf of a trans woman, a queer woman, a woman of color, A MAN, and so on, about how these games affect them except on a very superficial level. But that's why I made this thread!

I want you to tell me, and I am eager to hear your opinons and experiences. Ultimately, I want to increase my own awareness of all these issues and the awareness of the entire thread as well! It's no good to go around tearing down only some problematic aspects of these games. If you are reading the thread, if you are experiencing these games, then your opinions are valid and you will be heard here.

Okay, now go back to making silly .gifs, thank you everyone.

From my personal life outside the internet, I get the occasional person who thinks I'm a girl because I have long hair pony tailed up. Strangely, it put a bee under my bonnet more when it was 3 separate groups of kids in one day, than the two older gentlemen who have gotten my gender wrong.

I've also noticed, with my brother's children, that his daughters told his son that he can't play with some of the toys, they're for girls (they were like 5-8 at the time). It gets very temping to o into a feminist rage when that happens.

Which also bugs me with lady outfits in even non-girl games. I had to stop playing Loren: Amazon Princess because every time I saw the outfits I could not help but scream WHYYYYYYY.

And then of course there's my 17 y/o co-worker who, while being at what I'd call "healthily thin to average" build and weight, described herself as curvy. And bemoans 'having' to shave her legs. And has other patterns of thinking that summon parts of my feminist rage muscles twitch in agitation. And there's always the niggling feeling of "Should I say something. Or is that jerkish and judgemental and controlling. Just like the status quo."

That said, I still want to wear a skirt to work one Saturday. Just to see how long it takes for someone to say something if nothing else.

For maximum confusion and disjunction posted:

In the 90s I was a teenager growing up in a small country town in Australia. It's easy to forget how isolating that can be if you don't really fit in, considering for example that the Internet wasn't really much of a thing yet. So the first time that intro came on, it was like a revelation. "That's me! (Only female.) I'm not the only one like this!"

I remember it being really good overall at promoting individuality and whatnot. It's been years since I've watched it, though. I wonder how well it holds up today.

It took me a while to figure out that you meant Daria is a female version of you. Not that you were a female Daria.


I should really get to work on making an update for this thread. With actual game content, I mean.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Devious Vacuum posted:

The only episode I've seen of TNG that I can remember is the one where Troi gets pregnant with a space baby that is actually some kind of alien life wanting to experience being a human or something? So what I'm saying is I don't believe any of you.
She did that TWICE in the space of 3 episodes.
It was a little ridiculous.

Tasha Yar did break the mold a bit more.

She was also actually useful, unlike Worf. Until she had an encounter with a black goopalien.

RIP Tasha.

Though she time travelled or got cloned or something and her daughter eventually becomes Empress of the Romulan Star Empire. I forget if that's before or after the destruction of Romulus though.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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The truth comes out - France: The Original Anime lovers.

The French Touch. Uh. Well.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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chocolatekake posted:

I'm kind of starting to feel bad about watching some of these videos on Youtube. Because then I get suggestions like this. :(

Jesus! And I thought I was gonna get tospend the weekend creeper free.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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I feel the need to point out that those are, in fact, POACHED eggs, not fried.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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dijon du jour posted:



Aah, the ubiquitous microwave oven. This strange contraption appears in every single one of these cooking games. It’s the most inexplicable thing about all these games. Have these people never heard of a conventional oven? Are tiny microwave-sized ovens an actual thing that exists? Who is making all of these thousands of games? Is this where they imagined themselves when they got into the video game business? Am I ever going to fulfill my dreams? Do my friends actually like me or are they only pretending because they pity me? If I ever had to kill someone, will I have the guts to do it? Is there any reason for living, or is life just an endless parade of Girl Games? Will I be able to finally go to the grocery store and get some juice, or is it going to snow forever until I die from juice deprivation?




The closest I can think of is these.

Of course, certain recipes explicitly advise against using toaster ovens, so YMMV.

RIP dijon du jour. First life lost to Girl Games.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Onean posted:

Girl.me advertisement:



Google.com search result advertisement:


(Yes, there really is that much of a difference between the music quality, that's not a recording screw-up on my end. The in-game music is much better than either example, though still only mediocre at best.)

Once you get into the game it actually looks pretty good, aside from a pretty serious chainmail bikini issue. Battles are initiated simply by touching enemies, and once they start you have absolutely no control over them. However, there is eventually* a decent amount of depth due to a good selection of recruitable heroes, mounts, Angels and chance-based Aegises.

Wow. That actually sounds like a passable game for once. Not amazing, but at least able to whittle away a few hours on. And of course vastly different signup pages, one of which is a lot less decent than the other.
And pulsating virginal referencing boobs.

Unlike some of the other MMOs I've seen.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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DWK posted:


This is a recreation of me on my wedding day, looking slightly perturbed because I seem to have broken my wrist.


To be fair, that would probably ruin your wedding day just a bit.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Devious Vacuum posted:

More like: "Native American culture is just SO spiritual and beautiful, you know? This pattern really speaks to me. It's a reminder of a once great people and being one with nature, you know?"

Spoilers: this is the current attitude of many people in the fashion industry right now.

So they're basically girl games personified?
Or is it the other way around?

Also I only just caught up on the thread. I am both amazed and horrified by how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Though I think we all can appreciate Beautiful Car.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Feb 26, 2014

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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I may have started on the dark path towards becoming a monster.



'modesty' edition.


Such sweet dogs though! I daww'd irl when I finally got to the accessories page and saw DAWGS!

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Meowjesty posted:

The tiger tattoo is the worst thing. It goes across both legs and also comes with gun tattoos?

Naturally. But given that without it, I suspect that open top should be wide enough to see nipples, well. The guns are for modesty. I am 'glad' that the O-face is an option as well. It's how you know you're drawing a real comic book character.

I also actually meant to pick the black lipstick, but it must've changed when I switched through the different mouths.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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The Best Christmas posted:

Oh well it can't possibly get any worse can it?


:catstare: Nope, it absolutely can. I have not judged a human being any harder than I have the person behind the idea for this loving plastic surgeon game.

The gameplay doesn't even change from bodypart to bodypart. It's not even good from a gameplay perspective!

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Super-beautiful.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Yapping Eevee posted:

I love the fact that everyone's jumped on the chance to make their own mechs, and that mine is easily the least ridiculous. :allears:

WE're just enjoying the opportunity to indulge in something that doesn't make us horrible monsters in some way for enjoying. No body shaming. No racism. no *shudder* thinspirationalism. Just pure, uninhibited dressup.

Also crotch weapons.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Buried alive posted:

Those three rocket pods on the back can hold two more rocket pods on top of them. You can fix it man.

And those missile pods can, themselves, have missile pods on top of them.
Seriously, this dressup game has some sweet stacking.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Devious Vacuum posted:

I swear to god, I leave you guys alone for ONE WEEKEND and the thread goes straight to mechs and pig poo poo.

Robots are girls who need to dress up, too, DVac!

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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ThatPazuzu posted:

Alright, I tried playing other installments in the series (which are less... innocent than this one) and I was overjoyed that you can get your perfect goon boyfriend:


This thread is over. We've come full circle. We are now playing girl games that end with us dating a goon.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Antistar01 posted:

It reminds me of this classic:





This is what girls look like when you run them over?

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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It's okay. People have a LOT of spare ribs if you crack one or two.
They'll live.
Also, it was a kettle in the lounge room, not an iron.




International Diplomacy. Oh MY.

Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Mar 6, 2014

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Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

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Latest one we did of CPR training they said that the breatbing part isn't even critical, because they'll get some lung action from chest compressions.

And then you don't have to taste their gross corpse-breath (or risk herpes etc)

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