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I agree with you, I could do better than that big blue bit. I don't want to use a texture though, or 3D... I like the plain, single coloured look. But, I'm gonna try out your transparency suggestion.

Oh, true, I was only looking at the close-up. As you would...

EDIT: Oh yeah... once again, I get post 100 ^_^

Where do you people get the ridiculous notion that breasts this size are SO unrealistic? They may not be -common- but I've seen breasts as good as this plenty of times. I have a few pics on my HD I could pull out as evidence but take my word for it.

S... such as?

Is there a program -other- than Real Player that'll let me play movies encoded as .rm files? I -hate- Real Player and yet I've jus spent a couple of weeks downloading... well, a lot of something, a very huge collection of movie files, all encoded in .rm format.

I tried the Media Player Classic I have, and also VLC Player (which can usually handle anything you throw at it) and both only play the audio track.

I'm so jealous of your stuff here. It really does just have SO much personality and life!! I'm not dying to see a comic drawn by you, I think it'd be exactly the sort of thing I love. The more you do, the better you get at it, in a very short period of time. I'd say you're a natural, you definitely have the instinct and the skill to pull of a really excellent comic.

This is nothing new, it's probably one of the first things I designed in the game. I've been looking at it for the past half an hour wondering if there's a simply way or two I can improve it, aesthetically. I actually really like it, but it's been a long time and I reckon there's room for improvement there.

I'm at work so this is the best screenshot I can offer, but it's very low res so use your imagination for a bit;



Now, I don't want an overhaul, and I don't want any drastic changes. I don't want the functionality changed because it really works exactly the way I like (you can't see it but you use the direction keys to move a little cursor around. Clicking on one of the 5 buttons at the top changes the menu, but the shape for each menu is the same so only the contents and colour change).

I do wonder what people -think- of it, and if anything bugs you about it, or if you　think you know what it might need.

I'm basically sitting here with the outline drawn on a piece of paper, hoping perhaps the have the diamond/rectangle shapes a little more interesting while still being kept simple and not too "busy".

EDIT: I guess I'm thinking more of the outline of those shapes. I may just leave them as they are but... I don't know.

EDIT: Okay, new image is up with Discard instead of Delete

EDIT: New image up, redesigned.

I used to play that game a lot on my old Amiga but I never finished it. I didn't like all the trading and whatnot, just sailing around and exploring and swrod fighting. that really was an interesting read though!

Phew, I was getting a headache from all that semantics arguing back there. Thank god we've come back to humour, albeit, humour over semantics. (Eric, you spelt "meant" without the 'a' twice... sorry, I've been marking English tests all day. God... 40 more minutes and I can go home. I wasn't kidding about that headache).

No, no, that's one of my minions, VULVAFace.

Fish, get on the PM and sort it out. It's silly if there's left-over animosity in such a usually friendly community like this.

Well said, Nipper my friend. Sorry, sorry, Lord Nipper ^_^

I just think people should chill out a little more. Most of the women in Leisure suit Larry aren't to my tastes at all but I love those games, and I love their ridiculous over-the-topness. Those games objectify everything! Even fruit, and vases, and sea creatures.

LimpingFish once again makes an excellent point... those overbuilt bodies men often have in films are NOT good for the kinds of stuff they do. Strongmen in circuses lift weights and horses with pretty women on them and that's about it. The acrobats are skinny men.

EDIT: And since most of the feats these kinds of men perform in video games are impossible anyway, it just doesn't matter.

I think people are getting needlessly serious and upset about something very trivial. Just either say, "Dude, that chick's hot!" or "Whoa, dude, they're gonna poke my eyes out. I don't think I can play that game, sorry" and leave it be. I think she made it an issue when she posted her blog on the thread. He never asked what people thought about large breasts in the video game industry, he just asked for the standard stuff we all ask for when we post about our games.









(Eric loves Squinky!  )

I wouldn't say I'm supporting my own objectification as much as I'm supporting the objectification of -other- women so I can enjoy it. Ã, 

I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said on my side of the argument though. I said I think your blog post was stupid because that's the thought that came into my mind when I read it. To clarify though, I do not think -you- are stupid, you're clearly intelligent. I think it's silly to make an issue out of things like this, for all the reasons that have already been said by various people.

Pesty: VULGARFACE?! How did you know my Gothem City super villain alter-ego?!? That does it, I'm winding my foot up Le Chuck style to kick your metaphorical nuts into your metaphorical throat.

Here I go...!

...

*Ka-blooey!!!!!*

Well, I know I'm not stalking Chicky so... that means... Chicky is stalking me!! O_O

Pesty, I'm gonna kick you in the nuts for that comment about my face.

(Are you a girl? Do you have nuts?)

[love interest]

I just...

I know someone else has done it, but at the end of my post, I'm gonna quote LimpingFish again because it really is a beautiful piece of work he did there.

People, unrealistic breasts or no, she's a damn fine piece of ass, right? I want to congratulate you on not drawing her blonde, blue eyed and SASSY I like the whole straight brown hair thing (erm... no reason!) and she has a really, really cute face. Let's face it, the whole game looks insanely impressive in terms of artwork at the very least. Turn your eyes from the "scary" nipples if you must but it's really fantastic artwork!

Since we're all expressive opinions, I happen to think O.S. Squinky's blog was pretty stupid, and LimpingFish already covered why I think that. Sometimes I get sick of playing games with women who are only there to be sexual, but most of the times, it's because I feel a character is UNSUCCESSFULLY "sexy". When I see a genuinely beautiful and genuinely sexy character, she can walk around naked and fight crime with a dildo for all I care - in fact, please do. Most of the time when I get shitty at girls being sexual in games and most of the time, movies, it's because she's a kind of dowdy "sexy". Sarah plain and tall, girl next door "sexy", or just cliched sassy and loud and/or wearing a leather cat suit (Trinity from the Matrix really rubs me wrong way - boy is she not sexy at all)... that'll annoy me.

The way I see it, either have a girl in a movie playing the same function as any male character, by which I mean playing any kind of role, the ugly, the nerdy, the professional, the old woman on the park bench, the boss, the janitor, the mother, the out of work lawyer, the... you know, person... playing a -person- and not there to be the love interest just because they're the female in a group of men. Yes, be THAT sort of character in a film, OR be the sexy chick - in which case, be genuinely sexy! And OP (I can't remember your name), I likey your female character. Almost soley based on the fact that you've given her a really, truly pretty face. I hate it when people draw big boobs and expect that alone to make a woman sexy (Lara Croft comes to mind). Thankyou for remembering beauty.

And since -I'm- an attention whore, here's my (ollllld) website

-> http://kinoko.futariba.com

Which feature plenty of oversized (I would argue well-sized) breasts on pretty girls.

...and I am, in the future, planning on making a hentai game ^_^ (though it will have a certain twist *ahem* I won't say what).

So yeah, back to LF's well-written words.

Male gamers who complain about female game characters portrayed in a sexist light are possibly the funniest creatures this fish has ever come across.

Why not complain about obscenely pumped up male characters in video games being an unrealistic depiction of average "Maleness"? Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, 

Why are the "Comic Relief" male characters in videogames always skinny nerds, or fatties? Why are they always obsessed by horror movies, technology and pr0n?

Why are male heroes generally Hip Hop Wannabes or Semper Fi Jarheads?

Because of one thing: Lowest Common Denominator.

The "Her tits are just there to sell the game" argument is old. Old and tired.
We KNOW thats why they're there. The company that made the game put them there. On the cover. With pointy nipples.

Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within had a lead female character wearing three straps of leather across the cheeks of her behind. She may have well have been bare-assed.
Did it help sell the game? Maybe. Or maybe the upping of beheadings and gore did. Or maybe the new "Emo" prince and his RAWK soundtrack did.

Frankly, I could give a rats ass.

Offended by female game characters? Tough.

Offended by male videogame characters? Tough.

Nobody is asking you to buy or play or watch something that offends you.

The only reason we don't run into LCD syndrome in adventure games much is that nobody buys the bloody things anymore.

Give your female characters gravity defying knockers if you want, hell have them naked if you want. Give your male characters ripped pecs, and 12 inch wangs in their pants, if the mood takes you.

Does it undermine the charcter or the game? Maybe. Can a game have such qualitys and still be regarded as "serious"? Who knows.

People seem to like the Tomb Raider games, which contain some of the most overtly misogynistic views on "Femininity".

Do I have a point? I don't know, I'm tired from all this typing.

Form your own damn opinions on the subject.

BTW, I'm playing Doom 3 at the mo. Is it just me, or are no females employed by the UAC? Are they not good enough to work on Mars?

I'd be surprised if it was. That avatar is all over the net... everytime I see it, I think, "Chicky's in this forum too??"

I know, and YOU screw my brain up too >_< Rui too, but he's gone now.

I'm considering creating a template for my style of RPG after I've got all the bugs worked out of my own engine.