Most every game can't help but include skin variants nowadays

what I'm thinking is that if the overall game is "not serious" and not trying to be realistic then the girl soldiers are sort of whatever

Like I said, immersion v game mechanics

I remember one of the first Star Wars RTSs used the Age of Empires II engine

And whilst people were willing to overlook serious oddball shortcomings because "it's Star Wars and Star Wars is fiction"

A lot of people found it unacceptably absurd that you still had to mine stone and chop wood in order to build high-tech buildings and weaponry

my only gripe with the reveal trailer is that the disabled allied girl soldier is like the first thing you see and it's such a clear focal point that it is obviously ideologically codified

and the reaction of literally "shut up bigots" to any criticism

otherwise, bionic battle waifus are fine by me

Well, Wolf II is a good example

I Actually refunded because I'd spent thirty fucking minutes watching nothing but cutscenes and was already losing my mind

But I've seen the next scene

Where you waddle around in a wheelchair

It's like "wtf"

ya they hit like every possible "marginalized and oppressed" group they could

And that game isn't even 'realistic' to start with, just extraordinarily hamfisted

If it feels like it fits naturally, go for it

It's funny since I was thinking about this just the other day

The number of 80s films, 80s action films in particular, that had black dudes in them

Yet never called attention to the fact that there was a black dude in them

Everyone was just like "a'ight."

secular society doesn't like to be preached to? 🤔

Also, black TV shows and sitcoms? Father was

- A Cop
- A doctor
- A lawyer

etc

Therein lies the irony

You've gotten over the 'racism' issue when people no longer give a shit about you

"IM THE FIRST GA-"

"noooooooooooone caaaaaaaaaaaares"

well that CNN clip I posted the other day was from the early 80s, and here we are nearly 40s later not shutting up about racism

Seriously feels like things are worse now

watching that clip made me seriously reconsider the impact of race pimping

I remember when Obama got elected, and I texted ABC Radio with my comment

They even read it out

And it was something like "now that America has a black President I'm sure we'll all stop talking about racism, *riiiiiiight*?"

*Wrong.*

The guy even read it out correctly

it feels like he made it that much worse despite intentionally avoiding helping black people

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

``` am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. ```

Boom.

***1910***

```There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.```

well that's kind of weird

considering how much work was left to be done at that time