Fluxi

27 | Drifter | Mid-tier Gamer

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[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@Mjaysusu If we ignore gender surely Tracer makes more sense? Sandevistan would look like a blink to most people.

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@ow_emerald You're insane if you think Dmon looks like anything above an epic... let alone an Ultra

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

Female characters have always been able to do this shit. And let's be real here, Men in video games have NEVER made sense. How many random protags have the combat skill of a delta operative?

You just suspend disbelief when it makes you feel many and feel insecure when it doesn't

[SirD 🇺🇸 @Sir_Dammed]

I want to voice why I have a problem with Lucia as a playable protagonist in GTA.

Mainly because, I've seen some mutuals suggesting that disliking this means you "hate women" or that it's some sort of sexist belief.

Let's make something very clear: female protagonists in video games... are completely fine. But it is preferrable for it to make sense. For example: Lara Croft is a master of gymnastics, and she leverages her agility/flexibility in her fighting style. Not to mention, she mostly relies on guns.

Bayonetta aka Cereza is a fantasy character. It works perfectly fine, because she acts as more of a fantasy heroine. The same applies to characters like Tifa, Agrias, etc: they exist in a fantasy middle ground, where they can believably work as strong melee fighters. 2B is an android... the list goes on.

Video game developers have historically always made sure that their physical fighters who are women, actually fit logically/in the context of their game's world or story. GTA6 is a different story entirely, because GTA is and always has been heavily grounded in reality.

Obviously a lot of the feats you accomplish in the game would never happen in the real world, but that doesn't matter. We're discussing immersion, not technicalities. You can think of immersion like a rubber-band: our brains are willing to "stretch" what is believable, but if you stretch it too far, the rubber-band breaks.

Luca is a 135lb Latina who can literally beat the shit out of 3+ dudes with her fists. For anyone with a normal brain who understands GTA, this is going to absolutely shatter their faculties. It's taking GTA and stretching it into more of a fantasy, than a grounded crime game/story. Maybe you personally don't have your faculties broken by a small Latina woman being able to fist fight three dudes in GTA who would absolutely fucking destroy her, but I do.

This doesn't mean I hate women. It has nothing to do with my feelings for women, in fact, and everything to do with how I perceive/process fiction and fantasy. I've never viewed GTA as a fantasy, so seeing a character like Lucia being able to rely on brute strength and fighting ability to overpower 3 men at once is jarring and cringe.

And this is intentional, by the way: western video game developers have made it their open and outspoken mission to erase the lines between fictional men and women. They want to push the narrative that "everything men can do, women can do just as well!" It's the product of a modern, ideological agenda whether the GTA6 diehards want to admit it or not.

If this was the Rockstar of old, Lucia would have a completely different fighting style. She wouldn't be boxing with 3 dudes and winning. But because the western games industry is ""progressive"" now, this would be considered sExiST and misoGynisTIC. That's what makes it fucking retarded and annoying: your excuses and "buT u cAn flY ouT of a cAR anD surviVE" talking points are irrelevant.

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@mysticrosalievt

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@krisandtheredsu @_Vicgarcia_13 It's a superhero film, are you gonna vomit whenever any of the young heros take a punch?

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

Are we being so fr. This is sub 15k prem, what are we doing @valvesoftware.

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@mysticrosalievt That would require me to have my shit together. And as a wisely beautiful Jon Bernthal once said... let me tell you something 😂

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@madebyStvr @MovieFlameProd tbf that's not Tobey that's the Movie's script

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@lewdlyusagi3 @missusmummy Some black people are gangbangers, are all black people gangbangers?

Some white people are racist, are all white people racist?

Some men are rapists, are all men rapists?

Some women are sex workers, are all women sex workers?

You know a smart person wouldn't think this right?

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

Can we talk about this seriously though?

"I'm not transphobic I'm just so sick of men identifying as women saying something highly specific that I've dreamt up"

When? Who? Cos I've never seen this said by anyone in the trans community. Not even close.

[Jag the Hero @JagTheHero]

There are people trying to cancel @yukiwaru_ right now because of a "transphobic" rant. They've got her sponsor to drop her, and now her "friends" are making posts about her.

I downloaded the video because I expect that the uploader will take it down since it's not going as they expected. The sponsor who dropped her has gone private. The VTubers who were blasting her are locking down their replies.

I cut down the video a bit, but I'll throw the full one in the comments.

She basically said:

Sexuality not being an identity
Men can't get pregnant or have periods
Pride is sexualized and targets children
She's a tomboy but that doesn't mean she isn't a girl
She's against pronoun enforcement

And her "friends" and sponsors want to blacklist her and put her on blast for it

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@itsFalloutVixen The artstyle is gorgeous it literally looks like a mix between the MR art and GTA 6

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

"Oh look you can change the colours that's cool"

Also

"TOP SCARS??? SHADOW ISN'T TRANS REEEEE"

God you sound so stupid, a free model giving options so it can fit what anyone wants makes you that upset feels very snowflake to me 😂

[Miia ♥ @MiiaTzu]

If you do not like me or my community, stay away from us. If I am using a new model like the Shadow model, do not be shocked when we call out things like top scars that have nothing to do with what literally Sonic is about. We aren't snowflakes, we're calling out things that taint stuff that are supposed to get us OUT of politics. Yet, you guys keep forcing that stuff onto us - it's actually ridiculous. It feels more like a message than anything else. People saying "turn it off" are missing the point entirely lol - they literally spent time to add that in - it doesn't change what is IN there.

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@mysticrosalievt I mean, you're not wrong, but I don't like this metric 😂

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@mysticrosalievt You keep popping up on my shorts and twitter feed but I never followed you, my fault 😂

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@Ked_Jiisan @hazardous_art I understand your thought process here, but Ferrari has proven this to be false 😂

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@JBruno1988 @BitterCRZDLoner I fear there's some confirmation bias going on for you here. I'm glad you enjoy these things, but theres so much more going on in the industry than you seem to be aware of. Family Guy-esque stuff still works. And theres a lot of unique stuff going on too.

[Fluxi @itsfluxi]

@snowdrop_drawss "Its not that you were in hospital, I'm just letting a bunch of people go that haven't done anything. And you haven't done anything because you were in hospital" like... do we not hear ourselves?