Framing, Agency, and AAA Female Protagonists | Semi-Ramblomatic (www.youtube.com)

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Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I fully expected to cringe through this one, was pained to hear a snarky pretentious 40something cisgender man make a series of great points madeline-sadeline

(I have been following trilby man religiously for over a decade)

The tortureporn shit is so eyerolling. When the first Tombraider reboot dropped I figured that was that, and the torment would result in Lara becoming the relentless murder lady. Sike, two more games of torture porn.

Also I want my 35 hours back from The Last Of Us II thonk-cri

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