BW Media Spotlight

Some time ago we looked at the Game Theorists, or specifically MatPat, the main theorist and creator of the YouTube channel. One of the ones I didn’t get to mention (because I’ve only caught enough episodes since the original article) was Gaijin Goomba’s series Culture Shock, which looks at the mythical and cultural inspirations for video game characters or scenarios. It’s a good show, check it out. Well, he also does videos on his own channel, including commentaries.

That brings us to tonight’s commentary by Gaijin Goomba. One of the complaints I hear is that video game women today are overly sexualized, and that is true to a point. One piece of “evidence” is female characters with large breasts, usually using jiggle physics that the Dead Or Alive programmers would call too much. (And if you’ve seen those games, imagine more unrealistic bouncy boobies.) However, large breasts, while turning many guys on instantly (I’ve always been into smaller breasts…easier to hug and cuddle and stuff, ladies) may not be one of the problems. In trying to make video game women less slutty are the people complaining about body shaming guilty of it themselves? GG explains better than I can.

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