Karate Fight

ubarose wrote: Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive...

YOU WIN!

ubarose wrote:

stoic wrote: The press release forgot to mention the upcoming Karate Fight: Tentacles expansion.

Tentacle Bento was the first game in the series.

I swear to God I really saw "Karate Fight: Testicles expansion".

To be honest, if this game was actually THIS...

...I would sell my house to afford it.

ubarose wrote: I put it up. I support community standards, but I'm not taking it down because 3% of the people who have seen it have a problem with the illustrations. Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive; boycott Sodapop games. email the publisher, write an article.

Of course, you have no real idea if I have actually emailed the publisher, well before I wrote that. Writing an article will do about as much good as posting here and I have no intention of buying a Sodapop game.

So only 3% of the readers complained. I'm guessing, with all the lurkers around here and 'guests', that there is a significant rise in the viewing of this particular product. I'm also guessing that those people really don't give a shit what FATs policy actually is, but they like to look at pre pubescent cartoons, if you give them the option. I'm not sure exactly who anybody thinks FAT is hurting by taking this bullshit down or is this some 'freedom of expression' ideal and me, not being hung up with that, simply can't understand it. I'd rather you allowed bog standard porn, to be honest.

The issue about sexualisation of children via cartoons and other media is actually a thing. So no, you don't have the right to dribble uncontrollably at cartoon images of kids, well you do, but we don't need to facilitate this. Make fun of the rant all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that sexualising children is not right and helping them advertise this, using the imagery that they do, is also not right IMHO.

Taking down this particular press release is actually constructive and NOT a pointless exercise. It is not a case of 'but where will we go from here?'. It's not even an issue where you feel you need 51% of the viewers of this press release to complain, before any action is taken. You definitely will never get that from lurkers. It is pure community responsibility.

You're being ridiculous. In no way are these depictions of prepubescent children. The first note of outage about the images was focused on the exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics of the characters portrayed. Whether you buy into the conceit that these are supposedly university students or not- and you could make a case about jail-bait, I don't think pedo-bear is coming to FAT.

Anyone who disagrees with me or doesn't give a hoot is obviously a kiddy-fiddler, mind.

LMAO This is the best Friday Freakout ever. I think Andy is saying "Less this:


and more this:
(Shirtless Cowboy)

Oh of course, you're right. They go to University so it MUST be fine. Phewee!! Thanks for clearing that up for me. For one second, I thought that this this crap was pandering to the pedo in men. But I get that in no way is it doing that. It's just a healthy depiction of the female body.

Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.

I think it's dumb pandery garbage but if I start complaining about dumb pandery garbage in the nerd world, where will I stop?

Fortress:Pantsu-Fetish

The boobies look really fucking healthy to me.

Considering that saline implants have a very high safety record, I'm fully satisfied with the healthiness of the Boobs.

They need to make a Star Wars version of this called Bounty Hunter: Booba Fett

ubarose wrote:

ThirstyMan wrote: Oh of course, you're right. They go to University so it MUST be fine. Phewee!! Thanks for clearing that up for me. For one second, I thought that this this crap was pandering to the pedo in men. But I get that in no way is it doing that. It's just a healthy depiction of the female body.

Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.

I did look at the cover art. It's women with large boobs. Female children don't have boobs. Pre-pubescent means before puberty, therefore Pre-pubescent = NO Boobs. Pedo men don't like boobs. Boobs = adult.

Like most anime, this is game's primary demographic is teenagers.

Is it a healthy depiction of the adult female body? Well, personally, I think it's an absurd and bizarre depiction, but that is an entirely different conversation. We can have that conversation if you really want to, but not today. I have to go deal with a whole pile of teenagers. I'll try to remember to tell them that the media's distortion of the human body is unhealthy.

Really? I also had a little poll with around 40 teenagers today and showed them this. I explained that this was a gaming website and so a niche community. They were surprised that a public website was happy to show it so obviously, some thought it was funny, most thought it was ridiculous, many were surprised at the depiction. One actually asked if Americans were happy to see this type of 'art' on a public website. I told them that most Americans simply didn't care and thought it all harmless. The discussion then led onto a wide variety of topics involving media depiction of women which was interesting in its own right.

Of the girls, 80% of them found it offensive, of the boys about 20% so no big surprises there (and I'm guessing that many of the boys who 'found it offensive' were simply saying that to impress the girls). I guess our adult conceptions of what is an acceptable topic of discussion for teenagers is a bit out of whack. In case you think I have no contact with teenagers, I am around them every day and I have a 19 and 16 yr old girl myself. So yes, I have to deal with a whole pile of teenagers every day. Of course, they aren't American teenagers and neither was the sample, they are British, Indian, Egyptian, Syrian, Russian, Chinese and French, so maybe their views are not the norm.

I actually did have a sensible discussion about anime and media distortion with them, apparently they do have brains and can think for themselves without adults saying "Don't worry this media depiction can't hurt you, just laugh it off girls, that's what us grown ups do. There are more important things to worry about". Quite possibly there are, but ignoring this bullshit does not change anything. Perhaps getting it off the news feed that we actually do control, doesn't change anything either but no one can say that it is not doing, at least, something constructive.

In my view, what many Americans fail to see, is that people do not agree with them on many, many issues.

When I happened to see the little image of this game in the header, I thought, "It's something anime, therefore I have no interest," and put it out of my mind.

It wasn't until I saw a two page thread about it that I went and clicked the article. Congratulations to ThirstyMan for getting more people to look at it.

I will probably experience some mildly traumatic flashbacks during March Madness. Basketball-sized flashbacks.

#karategate

Disgustipater wrote: When I happened to see the little image of this game in the header, I thought, "It's something anime, therefore I have no interest," and put it out of my mind.

It wasn't until I saw a two page thread about it that I went and clicked the article. Congratulations to ThirstyMan for getting more people to look at it.

Good, I hope more people stop and think why there is an issue at all and I hope this company does not get a press release next time they release something with 'fun' artwork.