r/justneckbeardthings • u/talking_joke • 1d ago
Really regret breaking my 2 year deactivation streak on Facebook 4 months ago
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u/JimAbaddon 1d ago
It's hilarious how much a woman with a shaved head has hurt them. They think just because the character is a woman, she must absolutely look like a model.
Ciri looks great though.
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u/Ozarrk 1d ago
I know Forspoken as a game may have been questionable, but are we really putting Ella Balinska in the "unattractive female protagonist" bucket?!
Really? Ella fucking Balinska? Literal supermodel and Charlie's Angel.
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u/TheChief275 1d ago
I think it’s only because she is an annoying main character, which in their mind can only be because they aren’t pretty enough to activate their second brain
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u/etoileleciel1 1d ago
I just looked her up and yeah… those guys are DELUSIONAL calling her ugly just because her hair is shaved here. She’s gorgeous! Literally model status.
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u/token40k 1d ago
same people that fantasise downfall of society and gooberment don’t want to accept some looks that are a little bit outside of their trad wife archetype
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u/PapaImpy 1d ago
I actually have a opinion on this and it might sound like I'm siding with the coomers on this one but I'm not. AAA games have started using attractive real world actresses as models for their characters. While the tech is really good it's still not out of the uncanny valley so these really beautiful women end up looking off when put in a game engine. Also we've reached a point where we have really detailed textures and lighting which starts showing imperfections, but much like with photography, sometimes you want to hide these imperfections for the sake of appeal. The game devs are striving for maximum realism, the coomers want every character to look like they have a snapchat filter on but ideally for the tech being used every character should be ever so slightly stylized.
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u/anubiz96 23h ago
Shaved head and darker complexion. Theres something colorist and possibly racist going on as well. They lightened her skin tone and chsnged some facial features too.
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u/AardvarkNovel4861 1d ago
No it’s just the fact we’re sick of seeing ugly characters in games. We’re already ugly irl. Let us pretend please. The thing about ciri thought ((minus the few gooners)) most people are mad for destroying the lore and made Ciri an actual Witcher with mutations and everything instead of keeping how tje game ended and have just be a Witcher in name.
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u/JimAbaddon 1d ago
Whatever you say to make yourself feel better.
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u/AardvarkNovel4861 1d ago
And Ofc y’all pricks can’t even see two sides only necks can’t fap ahhhh
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u/DadBodDorian 1d ago
You’re complaining about video game characters not being hot enough for you. Get a life.
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u/Codeofconduct 1d ago
Honey I mean this in the nicest way possible: have you applied this amount of care and thought to anything other than video games lore? If you try, your world will widen and this shit won't be so meaningful to you that you post this type of embarrassing remark on the internet.
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u/JimAbaddon 1d ago
Can you please continue? Seeing you explode like this and over something so small and inconsequential is very entertaining.
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u/iamnotreallyreal 11h ago
Anyone who actually paid attention to the ending of the Witcher knew exactly that Geralt was passing on the torch to Ciri and if you had proper media literacy then you would also know that Ciri had always intended to be a Witcher, mutations and all. The people who are mad for CDPR "destroying" the lore have no idea what the actual fuck they're talking about because CDPR made up the fucking lore ever since Witcher 1.
Let's not pretend that the majority of the complaints about the women in the pic are not rooted in racism and sexism. The second picture proves it.
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u/Snoopyshiznit 10h ago
Where are the supposed ugly characters? This lady with the shaved head is quite pretty. Same with the ever stupid Aloy argument in horizon zero dawn, she was always pretty. Or does every single woman in a video game need to have huge tits, a giant ass, lip fillers and shit to be acceptable? Jesus Christ yall are the ugly ones, if not on the outside then on the inside
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u/AardvarkNovel4861 10h ago
Where did I mention aloy? Where did I mention she had to be porn star level? I swear y’all will only pick the parts you want to read Jesus fuck man
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u/Snoopyshiznit 6h ago
Hey, you said porn star level, not me. That wasn’t even in my comment. Yall gooners need to chill
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u/ToddlerOffPerks 1d ago
Whose the target audience?
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u/CakeSlapping 1d ago
Probably just anyone who isn't a porn-brained incel gooner really.
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u/AardvarkNovel4861 10h ago
And that’s why veil guard failed right? Because the non porn brained incels didn’t buy it?
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u/ForHeHasReturnedNow 1d ago
Why is the majority disliking the shit then? Every single one of them is an incel? Sounds like cope.
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 1d ago
If you only view the YouTube dislike ratio and "I/Someone fixed the protagonist of the game" posts as the majority, then yes that majority would be incels.
The actual vast majority of people do not give a shit.
People, not nerds who are so addicted to porn that their first thought when a new game is announced is, "They ruined it because I can't masturbate to the main character," which is coming from someone who thinks he himself looks at a wee bit too much porn!
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u/ForHeHasReturnedNow 23h ago
You are aware that there is a slight difference between appreciating an attractive player character and literal masturbation, right?
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 23h ago
And you know what? I appreciate attractive player characters as much as the next reasonably well-adjusted dude. If I had the choice, I'd rather stare at someone with a nice ass for four or five hours at a time.
I don't immediately declare a game woke trash because the main character's boobs are too small or has a shaved head and thusly does not make me sufficiently hard.
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u/JustLikeFumbles 1d ago
You can’t use direct fan engagement to gauge the opinion of fans?
Wild
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u/Orangubang 1d ago
Social media and the engagement therein is in no way to be taken as a Guage of anything more than the opinions of those who choose to engage. Social media is not real life in any way, shape, or form. Hell if direct engagement on socials was a barometer of interest or success Harris would be president!
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 1d ago
Fans, in the sense of, "I am a fan of this product because of the porn."
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u/ForHeHasReturnedNow 23h ago
Equating attractive player characters with porn certainly is weird way to frame it. Also, their motivation for being fans is not of relevance here.
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u/CakeSlapping 1d ago
It's the vocal majority, not the actual majority.
People who don't mind it just get on with their lives as per normal, so you don't hear much about it, unlike the whiny porn-brained losers who seem to dedicate the entirety of their being into constantly seething online about how woke it is that a female character doesn't make their little willy go boing!
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u/ForHeHasReturnedNow 1d ago
But how do we know the general opinion of the majority, if they are not vocal? With a dislike count we at least have a measureable approximation of it.
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u/Lt_Dickballs 1d ago edited 1d ago
People who don't need their video game characters to make them horny.
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u/guleedy 1d ago
Even me as the general gamer target audience, can recognize that the swing on both sides is bad. The bald girl is not ugly yall just vanilla and ciri is not ugly either. I can agree their is this push for "realism" that has had both good and bad appeals.
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u/BaneAmesta 1d ago
You took the words right out of my keyboard lol. The bald girl's real problem to me, is that she looks incredibly generic in her realism and her outfit is so boring, it took me the whole trailer to get what genre the game is supposedly about. If is really a space bounty hunter (which uh, how many games about this we already have?), then the clothes aren't helping to sell that image at all.
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u/TheGrapeTrain19 1d ago
People who play video games. Get better bait
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u/ToddlerOffPerks 1d ago
I hope everyone buys it is all I'm saying champ. No bait. Just thought about having a conversation but clearly any thinking against the collective is bait. 🤣
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u/TheGrapeTrain19 22h ago
Whatever you say little bro, da collective will always be your made up enemy you’re right
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u/VonFatalis Owner of 6 pissjars 1d ago
It's so frustrating when they muddy the conversation about corporations becoming out of touch by screaming woke about everything.
I'm fairly sure concord will be a staple in Wharton's textbooks on what not to do.
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u/Haxorz7125 1d ago
lol as if a naughty dog or Witcher game would ever be anything but insanely successful.
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u/AardvarkNovel4861 10h ago
Lets see. Witcher might do good. But naughty woke bs will fail. Just like veil guard and last of us 2. It will flop.
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u/Haxorz7125 10h ago
Oh shit, remember when tlou2 sold over 4+ mil copies in its first weekend? Naughty dog is done for 😰
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u/omguserius 1d ago
And Sears would never go out of business.
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u/Kotsaka04 19h ago
Ah yes, Sears. How can anyone forget how they went under. Too bad their business fell apart for reasons that aren’t exactly relevant to the topic.
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u/omguserius 19h ago
We’re not talking about mismanaging a huge successful company into bankruptcy?
Studios die eventually. It happened to lion head, it happened to acclaim, it happened to radical, it happened to silicon knights…
It can happen to naughty dog
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u/revolutionPanda 1d ago
The “conventionally attractive redesign” would only be cool if the story was about like a non working class woman that was always pampered and never had to lift a finger suddenly had to become one of these bounty hunters for some reason. Then, we’d watch the story evolve from being an out of touch socialite to someone who had to track down people and use violence to survive. Then she realized the world was not as easy as she thought it was and wanted to change the system she previously benefited from.
We could get some cool commentary on class consciousness and how poorer people have to do anything to survive and how richer people don’t really ever get it.
That would be a kick ass concept, but sounds like an entirely different game I just made up.
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u/Frolkinator 1d ago
I dont get the ciri hate, first witcher 3 trailer made Geralt look older than he was in rhe game.
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u/Killhamski 23h ago
You don't have to run over Concord. It's already dead.
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u/Kotsaka04 19h ago
I’m surprised they managed to make Concord even stand up on its two legs, let alone acquire the body in the first place considering how dead it is. It’s like they dug it up from the grave and performed necromancy for this set up of a joke of being run over.
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u/YoshiTheFluffer 1d ago
God I don’t know what happened but I keep seeing shit pages like this. Its like people are playing games with one hand in their pants, calling it a failed game without even seeing gameplay 🙄
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u/BionisGuy 1d ago
Stuff like this keep on popping up on my Facebook feed aswell, never interacted with anything like this but other gaming pages and i'm just like.... Why is this bothering you so much.
Had a discussion with a friend about this the other day and we both came to the realization that the people that are making fun of all of this things are probably extremely closeted homosexuals.
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u/BroForceOne 1d ago
More like they spent so much time on rule34 that they’ve turned into some kind of hentaisexual and can’t be aroused by what an actual human looks like any more.
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u/The_Law_of_Pizza 1d ago
...the people that are making fun of all of this things are probably extremely closeted homosexuals.
So we're back to using gay people as the butt of jokes again?
You've leaned so heavily progressive that you ended up coming out the other side as homophobic, like somebody digging so deep they pop out of the other side of the Earth.
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u/BionisGuy 1d ago
Not back there. But seeing people go all like "yet another ugly female" "woke women in videogames" makes me wonder honestly.
Nothing bad about being homosexual whatsoever, it's just it feels very weird for someone being straight sitting and saying stuff like this ya know.
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u/ACodAmongstMen 9h ago
I really hope intergalactic is genuinely fun just to piss off those dorks, and they always give examples of "woke games that flopped" and then they just ignore the spider-mans and the baldur's gates
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u/PlaneCantaloupe8857 22h ago
ciri doesnt even fit though. she looks exactly what she always did just literally older.
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u/SpooogeMcDuck 1d ago
All Facebook is now for me is thousands of shitty content engagement pages that I don’t follow pushed to my feed and hundreds of dead accounts from people I met once at a party in 2007