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Oh let me guess they've found that girls also play Cammy in Street V because she's overpowered and the twisted that info to fit their narrative
I don't even follow the fighting game community and I was like "It's Cammy, isn't it?" lol
I love cammy, but she is ridiculously designed.
username checks out 
yes, but girls with berets are also peak lesbianism
I mean this is my profile Pic. I didn't say I dislike the look 💅
Yeah, i can't disagree with anything of that, i mean last time somebody put on Street Fighter at a party i was playing as Cammy all the time (and kicked everybody's ass)
Same lmaooo
In other words, women want better representation. Who knew?
females
I’ll start the count.
Only in the suit
Female characters tend to get a fast, precise move set in fighting games that emphasizes building combos and getting lots of smaller hits rather than getting a small handful of big hits. So this could just be a reflection of gameplay preference.
And then there are the twinks that are always top tier for some reason (Marth, Joker, etc)
I don't play fighting games, I know nothing about them, but when I play them I like to pick characters like Gun Jack, Zangief, Ganondorf or Paul (whatever that johnny bravo dude from tekken is called) or kirby
What does this say about me?
You like doing the big smacky and having people inside you
That tracks
I tend to gravitate towards female grapplers like R.Mika (my favorite fighting game main of all time)
I chose Mario on Mario Kart. That means my idealized body image is a stout man with a comically Italian mustache.
Player characters with exaggerated sexuality doesn’t mean much in and of itself. Just as a boy might choose the super macho character with impossibly huge muscles and a square jaw, so too might a girl choose the hyper feminine character that she thinks is cute.
In those egregious games where the character is poorly masked soft porn, I doubt many girls would pick the character
:nerd: mario is highly sexualized
edit: Clarifying - didn't mean to imply you're being the nerd, but like that I'm correcting you and I'm being an obnoxious nerd
it's a comical way of missing the point. everyone likes sexy characters. everyone likes to play sexy characters. not everyone is an OCD coomer who can only play games as a means of acquiring soft porn.,
I don't even have to read this article to know it's bullshit. To this day badass women are way cooler than whatever sexualized trash the chuds want.
It's kinda funny that your pfp is Lenneth, because Lezard is practically that same chud you're describing.
Gamer pov seconds before I Potemkin buster their ass
I got master as dhalsim in sf6, does this mean I'm a Modi supporter?
What's the fighting game? In almost all of them, every single female character is highly sexualized, and it's the male ones who mostly aren't. It could be that the women preferred to play as women.
”Maybe this means a feeeeeemale will want to have sex with me” - gamers, probably
is the highly sexualized character meta?
As a thought experiment what would it have done to the gamer brain is women characters were always S tier.
Just like anytime there was a girl you knew you should pick them to win. Would we have had the misogyny problem we have today? I think that would work on most Gamers. I think the worst of them would have turned in to humiliation subs instead of incels.
peach crushes all pretenders in smash bros. I will frying pan, golf club, and crown all your asses.
#EternalMonarchism
Looks like they're talking about Soul Calibur VI, according to the article @bunnygirl@hexbear.net linked.
Looking at this roster page https://www.gamesradar.com/soul-calibur-6-roster/
Ivy and maybe Taki are your main sexy eye-candy characters.
The other female fighters are relatively modest in their dress 
7 out of 22 characters are women by my count
I mean, it's not Dead or Alive, but i still get tit pain just from thinking about going through a swordfight with the amount of jiggle physics some of these women have. And when i compare the character designs, it's kinda noticeable that none of the women are wearing full plate, or show visible scars, or look older than mid 20s, or are hulking frankensteins, flaming skeletons or piles of magically mutated flesh growths. It's all in all fairly conventional when we look at how fighting games do gender, only men get to be monstrous or fully covered up while all women are conventionally attractive and show it at least a bit - the more overtly sexualized ones go for a scary Domme look, the others are largely cute and girly, the feisty one is a Harley Quinn cosplayer to highlight how crazy yandere lolrandom she is. Pretty run of the mill. The few men that are sorta-kinda sexualized tend to be queer coded (fast fencing twink with visible bulge, steampunk kinkster weirdo from hell) and their sexuality is still less in-your-face than Ivy's to not make straight people too uncomfortable. There's a few handsome guys in there, but it's not surprising they do not flash their abs as much as the girls do.
I mean, don't get me wrong, i'm not trashing the game here. I don't even mind Ivy's character design, i have friends who dress like that at Pride or at the dungeon and i'm more than fine with that, plus she's got a freakin whip sword. She'd probably be the first character i'd play as in this game, i get why the study had results like this. Lots of women will be like "come the fuck on" when they see that artwork, but it's not surprising to me that the study results change depending on whether the tested group saw footage of the game or got to actually play it. It's not the character design that's gross, it's how gamers react to it, or how they would flip their shit when she'd lose a cup size in the next entry of the series. And that's something you think of a lot more when you just watch. When you get to act instead, dressing immodest and whipping people can look very different.
Link or lib
Haven't read through them yet but here's the links:
Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1gfiyeo/new_research_on_female_video_game_characters/
Article the thread links to: https://www.psypost.org/new-research-on-female-video-game-characters-uncovers-a-surprising-twist/
Actual study (paywalled though): https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241279625
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