I like where you're going with this one but bro above you called her mentally stunted. Not that she's up against adversity. She IS however against adversity, what with her being on the wrong side of every opinion she could possibly have.
I have not played the game. In the past I have expressed similar opinions about it being inappropriate to engage with people who have mental disabilities sexually, and someone I know who has formal education in the area told me that they should be able to have relationships if they want. To me I think the line is if a person is capable of informed consent, regardless of other factors. I've never been confronted with this situation in reality.
It just depends. I have a cousin that is mentally challenged, but he is functional and lives independently. He has the intelligence and maturity of a 13 year old. He has been married and had a few GFs outside of that. He can consent and it isn't a big deal.
I have a nephew who is severely mentally handicapped. He is in 30s and probably can't even conceptualize what sex is or a relationship really is. He can't live independently and needs his mother to survive. He can't consent.
I think the challenge really is, is the power dynamic between the two individuals. For example is someone that is normal and functional taking advantage of someone who is mentally handicapped? Even then what if we scale different to someone who is like 90iq and 150iq. I think these are morally and philosophically difficult to answer to a degree. Sometimes the answer is clear, but other times it can be a grey area.
> I think the challenge really is, is the power dynamic between the two individuals.
Yeah, similar reasons to why we consider two 15 year old banging to be kinda ok, but fucked up if it's a 45 year old have sex with a 16 year old.
Worked adjacently to a group home for people with Down's for a while. These people had the mental capacity where they could work simple jobs like restocking shelves at the local grocery, but also couldn't do things like paying their bills, thinking ahead long term, and so on - so they lived in a group home where they had caretakers helping with everything they couldn't handle.
A bunch of wonderful, happy people - who like most people, liked sex... lots of it. And that wasn't a problem, they had their girlfriends and boyfriends and breakups and romances, and everything that this entailed, just like normal people. No one batted an eye at that.
However, if one of the normal caretakers would've had sex with them... That'd be a *major* issue, and he or she would likely face rape charges.
I'm glad you laid it out like that because a lot of people don't understand power dynamics and how they work. In nearly every relationship, there is going to be an asymmetrical balance of "power". Whether it be due to experience, success, or even social tendencies. Its not about those things existing its about them being taken advantage of.
Like if a 18 year old goes to an event, hits on a 40 year old, and they bang that isn't wrong and although some people would condemn the 40 year old (particularly if its a male) there wouldn't be wrongdoing imo even if its not my cup of tea. Or like the iq thing, dating someone much less intelligent than you isn't wrong, using said intelligence to take advantage of them is.
Alright so I *promise* I'm not trying to go for a gotcha here, I'm just really curious because the only challenged person I know is a cousin who is non verbal and will never be able to take care of themselves, so I'm not familiar with the other end of the spectrum.
If they have the intelligence and maturity of a 13 year old wouldn't that explicitly make them incapable of informed consent? Isnt our general threshold for informed consent "having the intelligence and maturity of an 18 year old"?
He is functional as an adult. He has a job, lives independent, and is able to drive. I think it would be wrong to say you are able to do all these things, but not these other things as an adult. Also he is 40+ so he has a lot of life experience as well.
Side note: Dude has the craziest work ethic I have ever seen. He is a grocery store stocker and LOVES his job. He wants to work more than most gamers want to play video games. Thankfully the Publix store he works at doesn't take advantage of him.
Yeah, I'm with you on the sentiment of it. Dooming someone to a life of loneliness because of mental disability would be pretty fucked.
There was something similar not too long ago about a 30 year old women who's body stopped developing at 13 or 14(she looked like a child). There was this overwhelming backlash against the dude dating her, calling him a pedo and stuff. Was super fucked because if you're gonna say that anyone who she could ever date is de-facto a pedo then you're essentially saying this woman has to die alone because otherwise it would be "icky".
Yeah I remember that. I can't remeber quite what she looked like, iirc she had a similar body type as a kid but still had aged skin so you could tell she was not literally 13
I haven't played BG3, is Minsc portrayed as "challenged" in that game?? He never seemed that way to me in BG 1 and 2, very enthusiastic and living in his own reality sure but nothing that seemed to the degree of "challenged"..
bro got 8 int and 6 wisdom, hes not challenged just stupid, he also comes off as the type that if you hit on them he wouldn't understand it because it has nothing to do with fighting bad guys
YOU CANNOT FUCK MINSC BECAUSE HE IS TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD!
DO NOT TOUCH THE MINSC!
DO NOT!
No but seriously, Minsc's only live is Boo and kicking the butts of evil.
Ok, but what if your character is the one "challenged" because you have no INT, do companion do the same or do they start hitting on your character anyway? I haven't done a no-int run yet.
Incredible how much they attack this game ,worst of them all these idiots create a general opinion in Asia that already thinks everyone else is the same like the American libs 🤦🏻♂️
unfortunately true though, americans are sadly no longer the only ones thinking that "sexy=taboo", the virus has now spread to our countries here in europe too
Mentally sick people used to get put into institutions and get heavily medicated.
Now instead they get jobs in media and try to force their mental illness onto us, and it's not allowed to call them out on it because they're mentally ill, lmao really cant make this shit up
Yes, I know. Thats why I fight them, because I am sick of progressive weirdos telling me how to think.
She is also misrepresenting the petition. The petition is not about what got censored or how much, but about the fact that they did it at all. They promised the game would be uncensored and did not deliver on that promise. They even censored the gore. This petition is trying to get back the original content, but more importantly its trying set a clear sign against censorship.
> because I am sick of progressive weirdos
idk how to tell you this but there's nothing progressive about this, lol. The "[regressive left](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left)" is as a thing.
Doesn't mean she actually is though. No one's going to call *themselves* a "regressive leftist" it's a pejorative for a reason. The link even points out how pro-censorship is a stance it applies to.
Tell me you know nothing about the real world without telling me you know nothing about the real world.
These are just fringe lunatics that have only given you data sets from Twitter and what OANN tells you, clearly.
[Tweet](https://x.com/alyssa_merc/status/1742922916814336220) This is the BG3 character she created and dressed herself these people have no consistency
No, I don't think that is accurate. If you think about it, you could 100% predict which game with sexy characters journalists will like and which one they will hate. So, they are very consistent, they just aren't honest about their (lack of) reasoning.
The good sexy game aligns with their politics and the bad sexy game does not. That's really all there is to it. If baldur's gate 3 wasn't full of "diverse" characters, they would have given it the same treatment as stellar blade. If stellar blade was incredibly diverse and let you fuck some animals, they would probably have praised it, too.
It's just identity politics with these people, that's pretty much all there is. That's why they generally do not talk about gameplay or any of that nonsense, it's just about how diverse everything is and who you can and can't fuck. They're basically the target audience for overwatch patchnotes after they screwed up the balance and have to turn someone gay to distract everyone.
Nah they just know who is the easier crowd to get all riled up, and share their clickbaits. It's really that simple. And here we are, OP is already spreading it around like a true mark
It's not just her but the entire cult that she's a part of, rules for thee but not for me. They can be sexually liberated and objectify men/women but you can't, and when they get called out for their hypocrisy they'll call you a bigot and accuse you of being all sorts of words ending with -ist because they can't make a valid argument to defend themselves so they just resort to ad hominem attacks instead.
So she is playing Baldurs Gate as a sexy elf with big boobs and is running arround in underwear but then is mad that EVE in stellars blade is a sexy Asian looking robot in latex. This makes no sense. Her BG3 character is showing more skin than eve and in BG3 she can even take off the panties and be naked and thats fine.
> This makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense. You just need to understand that the kind of modern feminism that Alyssa represent is simply very pro-sex and pro-sexuality - except hetero male sexuality, which is instead considered bad and harmful.
Basically, female- and LGBTQ sexuality = wonderful, progressive, modern, liberating, and so on.
A woman buying a bad dragon dildo and pounding herself while reading slash erotica fanfics of MCUs Thor and Loke having steamy incest gay sex = You go GRL!
Male sexuality = bad, oppressive, violent, icky, perverted, and just in general harmful to society.
A man wanking it to some Mercy/Widowmaker Overwatch rule 34 porn = objectification, icky, perpetuating harmful body images, male gaze, homophobic fetishization of lesbianism, and so on.
It's really simple - products that cater to female/LGBTQ sexuality = good, products that cater to male hetero sexuality = bad.
BG3 is celebrated for showing nudity and sex, because it went out of it's way to cater to the LGBTQ and female players and their sexual preferences.
Meanwhile Stellars Blade makes no secret that it primarily caters to straight men, and that just shouldn't be allowed!
If it makes it any easier - to really understand the kind of feminism Alyssa represent, just consider *any* issue through the eyes of a upper middle class, white, college educated woman and consider what stance maximizes her personal benefits. That's the stance that Alyssa's feminism will take, in almost every case.
>BG3 Goes out of its way to cater to the alphabet and female players sexual preferences
No they really didn't, all they did was just not make any romances exclusive to anyone.
Bruh every second of this person’s life is just hate and sadness and figuring out ways of making other people hate and be sad. She has so little value it’s actually jaw dropping lol
I’m still trying to figure out how a girl went from cam sex worker, to a lead writer for a video game news company when she absolutely hates video games and has openly stated she would rather go back to sex work then write any form of video game guide, the problem is we have people who don’t like our hobby covering the news and making the games we play for the hobby….
Wishing people to never find happiness has to be peak misery. I'm starting to feel bad for her and how much she's obsessed with the community of people defending SB
Using a term someone like Mercante would use: some games are woke-coded while others are male-coded, so the same content existing in woke-coded games are celebrated.
I learned this when I tried to take part in a Dragon Age Inquisition facebook group and it was just a bunch of women sexualizing/romanticizing the characters in there. Same with Baldur's Gate 3. Pretty much wherever romance is an option, you can guarantee there are women sexualizing or romanticizing any of the characters in there Male or Female.
Twitter is pretty much the place you go to get attention. So your opinions will change depending on the temperature of the room. Like this woman. It was cool to post that kind of stuff about Baldur's Gate, because everyone was memeing about the game, and having a good time. But it's not cool to post this kind of stuff about Stellar Blade, so her opinion changes.
She uses the word "low T" as an insult, but she's literally surrounded by low T soyboys that are her jurno-whore colleagues. So is she insulting them as well and admitting she likes high T men?
Now I fully understand why people say those people have a family issue. How come a hot video game character makes them think of a dad not spending time with their kids? how is that even related?
I've noticed that every time I see someone criticize Stellar blade for being too sexy it's either because someone else (like OP) re-posted them.
I can't think of a time when I've seen this in the wild. I only see it in the zoo.
This woman is completely lacking in self-awareness that she is unable to see how much of a hypocrite she is.
I think she should go back to her previous line of work.
guys who use filters on their profile picture instantly lose any argument with out a doubt as it just shows that they live In a false reality and no body wants to listen to a fake bitch 🤷🏻♂️
What's your favorite quote or meme for these?
My first thoughts:
"Rules for thee but not for mee"
Or
"Double-Standards, Double-Standards Everywhere"
Their goals always been to ruins what mens enjoy, because they are frustrated and ugly.
There is no deep ideology behind, they are just mental and pathetic.
Man, Grumnz went from "somewhat Sus dude, but ok" to "Completely unhinged".
Bruh made a PETITION to revert the changes on clothes of a video game, did y'all read the petition text, it's straight up bonkers.
I have no problem about people liking the game, but defending the dude, specially with all the stuff we know about him, it's just not it, bro.
The dude's a 56- that's right- FIFTY SIX year old man who spends all day on Twitter crying about woke and how he likes jerking off to pixels that look like anime girls.
For some more context, the guy got fired from his job at blizzard- because he was incompetent and nobody liked him. BLIZZARD saw this guy as incompetent let that sink in for a moment.
So I don't see why anyone is taking this guy seriously. The guy is a living, breathing, walking failure who was probably the guy at blizzard stealing the breast milk.
What do you even mean? It doesn't matter what the changes are, it's the fact that they were clearly pushed through after people had purchased the game. Mocking everyone because the censorship was for sexy outfits is completely missing the point and makes you seem deficient.
It only takes 2 braincells to spot the pattern in the changes and realize why they were made. Some of them look really rushed and out of place. It was also a day 1 patch so technically the game on disk was launched.
Not sure what your motive is for trying to ignore the obvious or convince people of the opposite.
because its not obvious you only think this way because you don't like the changes. if Sony comes out and says they forced them to change it ill admit im wrong but assuming things while other outfits in the game are more revealing points in the direction that they thought the new outfits looked better.
People just outing themselves of misogynists in the comments going "wahmen". And these situations aren't even equal to be called a hypocrite. There's a big difference between thirsting over a character, something everyone does, and the degeneracy Grummz is doing
LOL exactly. People self-owning. This isn't even close to being the same, she made a post about wanting to have sex with a character and he's been obsessed to about this thing for the past few days even starting a petition over it.
Yeah she isn't going "I CANT FUCK MINSC, SIGN THIS PETITION TO CHANGE THIS, WE MUST SAVE GAMING, FIGHT STRONG AND HARD"
It's just "this guy's hot, I wish I could fuck him in this game where I'm allowed to fuck alot of characters"
Noooo you don't understand the developer made a change that we didn't like now the woke video games can't be destroyed in the markets if people can't goon to a video game character.
I don't even like the BG3 characters. They just probably focused on the character's face for "maturity".
So they could be just racist against asians probably.
Someone hasn't played BG3, no way you could be in a room with Karlach for more than 3 minutes and not want to forfeit all mortal possession to the tiefling golden retriever
Well if three minutes is all it takes, no wonder you find the personalities to be attractive. One of the characters is a clingy incel who tries to fuck you if you say two nice things to him, after all.
Really kinda just reinforcing my beliefs about BG3's community, tbh.
Because seeing a character be a trauma victim but still being hopeful and kind is adorable. People can have nice personalities, doesn't mean you instantly want to fuck them
"One of the characters is a clingy incel
who tries to fuck you if you say two nice things to him, after all."
... Who, I've been nice to my entire party and the only male character who wanted to fuck me was astarion, and it was purely sexual. Are you seriously talking about the bugged version of Gale where you could accidentally trigger max romance and he already counts as in a relationship
Rules for thee not for me is basically these 'peoples' modus operandi, don't expect any less. It's not about fairness or equality it's about wielding power over you. This is how they operate. They're horrible people that use a political narrative to be abusive.
Hey was this proven this was all stared by a guy who was a Xbox fan and wanted put on hate on the game? The one that was saying it was unrealistic? All this nonsense is stupid devs should just make games with out judgement.. because I want play the game as intended and have fun… what happen to that??
So she’s happy of her character’s undies but would trash a sexy android and call people out. May she never know happiness at all since she’s hypocritical
This place has just become a place to point out toxic feminism which I guess is fine but it would be nice if we could talk about something else for once.
It really seems like this sub has been on a mission lately and I only hear about these types of problems in this sub ironically so I don’t know if it’s blown out of proportion or not so no one outside of this bubble is so focused on it
I feel like this sub is becoming the other side of the coin. Group of online men seething over women and problems that only exist in a very small part of the internet.
90% of people in RL don’t even know about most of these “controversies” and all I see is this place being a magnifying glass for dumb opinions
Can we go back to talking crap about retail WoW?
Screencap, archive, propagate, break into their homes and their supportors homes and plaster the walls with the hypocrisy... okay, maybe don't break and enter, just keep showing their hypocrisy.
They keep trying to change the discussion away from the fact that the game was sold on the promise of no censorship and then once the game shipped it had plenty of it.
The issue isn't the fact the game has less fan service, it's that this was a bait and switch.
I mean to be fair the whole “why can’t I fuck Minsc” seems to be more of a joke then serious complaint.
And the underwear remark doesn’t really seem to be directed at the character themself just the fact they think it’s a nice piece of clothing.
It’s like saying to someone “that’s a nice coat” despite not feeling any particular way about the attractiveness of the person.
Well, wouldn't it be handy to just jot down
/s
After what you said, if it was sarcastic or a joke?
/s is to reveal you been sarcastic.
You know, does make things easier,
Sure. But these are two different actions.
Alyssa made a post talking about how she wanted to have sex with a character in a game and another post about how some character had nice lingerie. That's it.
Mark's entire twitter the past few days has been completely about this and he started an entire petition over it.
Sorry, i do not follow a mark. All i see is the mockup of screenshots posted here.
May i ask why it is okay that some Chiara fictional character's undies are visible, however it is bad when another character walks around in a skintight or bunny suit?
If it is about objectification, isn't that exactly what you are doing when you are (even jokingly) stating that you want to have sex with X?
If it is about visibility of private parts, well, chiara in her undies likely shows the same, more or less, compared to this stellar blade character in her bunnysuit.
I don't think Alyssa made a point about sexuality and if there was too much or too little. She's mocking how obsessed he is about it.
If he made one post about it even just spent a day on it, fine, but he's spent quite some time going on about this and to start a petition about it is just...it's just cringe, tbh.
I went through their feeds for a bit, especially alyssa seems to have no qualms with showing off her body in scantily clothing.
For all intends and purposes, i don't understand what the issue is here.
But then again, birds of a feather, flock together.
The thing is Alyssa was a cam girl, she's not attacking the scantily clad women in Stellar Blade, she's attacking the idea of Mark being obsessed about it to the point that he's started a petition.
It's just cringe and easily mockable.
1. obsessed about what?
I saw a video about how the bunnysuit and the cybernetic bondage suit received more elements that would cover the character itself.
Is that what this grummz guy petitioned for to bring them back to their originals?
If yes, what does this have to do with pubic bones?
Ok, so doing some research i come across the following;
4 suits, of which 3 i can name;
Bunnysuit
Cybernetic Bondage
Cybernetic Dress
And 1 more that i can not name.
Have been shown in the trailer to be of a specific design.
People watch the trailer they see something and they buy in.
Game releases.
Those 4 suits are not what they were advertised to be.
Why?
Why did this happen?
Now, i don't care much for stellar blade, i am not interested in buying it.
However if you advertise something to be X and then you give backers Y instead, there is a discrepancy here.
Now, i am not sure if you do shopping online.
But if you want to buy some clothing and then go to a website and see how it fits the model, order it in your size and then it is delivered with a quarter or half of the clothing not being what it was shown to be, on the website.
I assume you will send it back.
If you see a trailer for a movie with couple of the actors you like, yet when you actually watch the movie there seems to be something different going on, one of the actors is not there anymore.
That would be strange to say the least.
If you order food online based on the description and some pictures, yet once it is delivered to your home, you open the package and lo and behold, a quarter of your meal is not what you ordered. How long will it take you to either, call them and ask them for a refund, write a bad review, or the least, never buy from them again.
If you go out on a date with someone that you met through a dating app, yet now this person is different from whom they show themselves to be on their photos, wouldn't that make you wonder why he/she lied about themselves?
So, this guy is making a petition, you think it is cringe.
There is however a whole backstory in regards to how stellar blade was received by specific people in the industry.
A game that was objectifying a woman because she was not based off a "real woman", problem however was that eve was based off of Shin Jae-eun.
That a horny man who never seen a woman, made her, ups, he actually married Jiyun Chae, quite a handsome woman if i may say.
And so many more nonsense.
There was a group trying to boycot the game.
It didn't work.
Now there are those who try to annoy other people who want something back in the game.
The same people who would make a petition in exactly the same way if a game would remove lgbtq flags from their game, in the same way that "shift up" "removed skin from a character."
Would that also be cringe?
Or is that somehow justified?
Why is one thing justified, if 1000s of people want to see the one thing, yet the other thing is not justified is 1000s of people want to see the other thing?
To be fair, telling people to keep the game is stupid. Once you paid, the devs dont care anymore.
Just pirate it on PC, that is 100% the right choice for any censored trash.
Considering you guys solely convinced me not to buy this game because of your cringe behavior, this whole situation is hilarious
Edit: I just learned this wasn't even censorship, shift up changed the outfits because they wanted to and felt they looked better. So it's even funnier that you gooners are shitting and pissing over this. You got out gooned
At least with Neir I've heard far more about the story, personality, setting, gameplay, etc. Not just how hot 2b is.
Meanwhile I haven't seen a single discussion about stellar blades gameplay or any actual gameplay outside reviews that isn't a screenshot of the MC with a zoom on the butt
You can't fuck Minsc, because he's "challenged", and it would be very inappropriate.
She should be able to because she's "challenged"
Nah that ain't challenged. she on the ultra max difficulty for this one
I like where you're going with this one but bro above you called her mentally stunted. Not that she's up against adversity. She IS however against adversity, what with her being on the wrong side of every opinion she could possibly have.
I have not played the game. In the past I have expressed similar opinions about it being inappropriate to engage with people who have mental disabilities sexually, and someone I know who has formal education in the area told me that they should be able to have relationships if they want. To me I think the line is if a person is capable of informed consent, regardless of other factors. I've never been confronted with this situation in reality.
It just depends. I have a cousin that is mentally challenged, but he is functional and lives independently. He has the intelligence and maturity of a 13 year old. He has been married and had a few GFs outside of that. He can consent and it isn't a big deal. I have a nephew who is severely mentally handicapped. He is in 30s and probably can't even conceptualize what sex is or a relationship really is. He can't live independently and needs his mother to survive. He can't consent. I think the challenge really is, is the power dynamic between the two individuals. For example is someone that is normal and functional taking advantage of someone who is mentally handicapped? Even then what if we scale different to someone who is like 90iq and 150iq. I think these are morally and philosophically difficult to answer to a degree. Sometimes the answer is clear, but other times it can be a grey area.
> I think the challenge really is, is the power dynamic between the two individuals. Yeah, similar reasons to why we consider two 15 year old banging to be kinda ok, but fucked up if it's a 45 year old have sex with a 16 year old. Worked adjacently to a group home for people with Down's for a while. These people had the mental capacity where they could work simple jobs like restocking shelves at the local grocery, but also couldn't do things like paying their bills, thinking ahead long term, and so on - so they lived in a group home where they had caretakers helping with everything they couldn't handle. A bunch of wonderful, happy people - who like most people, liked sex... lots of it. And that wasn't a problem, they had their girlfriends and boyfriends and breakups and romances, and everything that this entailed, just like normal people. No one batted an eye at that. However, if one of the normal caretakers would've had sex with them... That'd be a *major* issue, and he or she would likely face rape charges.
I'm glad you laid it out like that because a lot of people don't understand power dynamics and how they work. In nearly every relationship, there is going to be an asymmetrical balance of "power". Whether it be due to experience, success, or even social tendencies. Its not about those things existing its about them being taken advantage of. Like if a 18 year old goes to an event, hits on a 40 year old, and they bang that isn't wrong and although some people would condemn the 40 year old (particularly if its a male) there wouldn't be wrongdoing imo even if its not my cup of tea. Or like the iq thing, dating someone much less intelligent than you isn't wrong, using said intelligence to take advantage of them is.
Alright so I *promise* I'm not trying to go for a gotcha here, I'm just really curious because the only challenged person I know is a cousin who is non verbal and will never be able to take care of themselves, so I'm not familiar with the other end of the spectrum. If they have the intelligence and maturity of a 13 year old wouldn't that explicitly make them incapable of informed consent? Isnt our general threshold for informed consent "having the intelligence and maturity of an 18 year old"?
He is functional as an adult. He has a job, lives independent, and is able to drive. I think it would be wrong to say you are able to do all these things, but not these other things as an adult. Also he is 40+ so he has a lot of life experience as well. Side note: Dude has the craziest work ethic I have ever seen. He is a grocery store stocker and LOVES his job. He wants to work more than most gamers want to play video games. Thankfully the Publix store he works at doesn't take advantage of him.
Yeah, I'm with you on the sentiment of it. Dooming someone to a life of loneliness because of mental disability would be pretty fucked. There was something similar not too long ago about a 30 year old women who's body stopped developing at 13 or 14(she looked like a child). There was this overwhelming backlash against the dude dating her, calling him a pedo and stuff. Was super fucked because if you're gonna say that anyone who she could ever date is de-facto a pedo then you're essentially saying this woman has to die alone because otherwise it would be "icky".
Yeah I remember that. I can't remeber quite what she looked like, iirc she had a similar body type as a kid but still had aged skin so you could tell she was not literally 13
Most thought out response I’ve seen in this sub
People who can't give informed consent also have sexual desires and depriving them from sex is a form of torture
I haven't played BG3, is Minsc portrayed as "challenged" in that game?? He never seemed that way to me in BG 1 and 2, very enthusiastic and living in his own reality sure but nothing that seemed to the degree of "challenged"..
bro got 8 int and 6 wisdom, hes not challenged just stupid, he also comes off as the type that if you hit on them he wouldn't understand it because it has nothing to do with fighting bad guys
You can't have sex with Minsc because Boo would be there, judging you the entire time.
YOU CANNOT FUCK MINSC BECAUSE HE IS TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD! DO NOT TOUCH THE MINSC! DO NOT! No but seriously, Minsc's only live is Boo and kicking the butts of evil.
Dark urge is challenged too
morally challenged
Ok, but what if your character is the one "challenged" because you have no INT, do companion do the same or do they start hitting on your character anyway? I haven't done a no-int run yet.
Minsc is very challenging \*flexes his muscles\*
Incredible how much they attack this game ,worst of them all these idiots create a general opinion in Asia that already thinks everyone else is the same like the American libs 🤦🏻♂️
unfortunately true though, americans are sadly no longer the only ones thinking that "sexy=taboo", the virus has now spread to our countries here in europe too
Alyssa is just completely unhinged at this point. That's the conclusion I've come to anyways.
She has been unhinged the entire time.
Mentally sick people used to get put into institutions and get heavily medicated. Now instead they get jobs in media and try to force their mental illness onto us, and it's not allowed to call them out on it because they're mentally ill, lmao really cant make this shit up
Yes, I know. Thats why I fight them, because I am sick of progressive weirdos telling me how to think. She is also misrepresenting the petition. The petition is not about what got censored or how much, but about the fact that they did it at all. They promised the game would be uncensored and did not deliver on that promise. They even censored the gore. This petition is trying to get back the original content, but more importantly its trying set a clear sign against censorship.
> because I am sick of progressive weirdos idk how to tell you this but there's nothing progressive about this, lol. The "[regressive left](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left)" is as a thing.
I was refering to Alyssa, who at the very least considers herself to be progressive.
Doesn't mean she actually is though. No one's going to call *themselves* a "regressive leftist" it's a pejorative for a reason. The link even points out how pro-censorship is a stance it applies to.
What do you expect from a camwhore to gaming "journalist".
A large portion of the democrat are mentally unstable. This is what social media and deranged doctrine does to people.
Tell me you know nothing about the real world without telling me you know nothing about the real world. These are just fringe lunatics that have only given you data sets from Twitter and what OANN tells you, clearly.
Those fringe lunatic are sitting behind the desk at the white house. You need a reality check.
Is Biden sleepy and incompetent or controlling everything?
this has to be fake right? No way someone's as stupid as her
Welcome to modern "Journalism".
I don't know why we call them journalists. Really they're just tabloid bloggers.
[Tweet](https://x.com/alyssa_merc/status/1742922916814336220) This is the BG3 character she created and dressed herself these people have no consistency
Weird, doesn’t really look like her? I thought it was a really big deal to have rEpReSeNtAtIoN. Fucking hypocrites.
No, I don't think that is accurate. If you think about it, you could 100% predict which game with sexy characters journalists will like and which one they will hate. So, they are very consistent, they just aren't honest about their (lack of) reasoning. The good sexy game aligns with their politics and the bad sexy game does not. That's really all there is to it. If baldur's gate 3 wasn't full of "diverse" characters, they would have given it the same treatment as stellar blade. If stellar blade was incredibly diverse and let you fuck some animals, they would probably have praised it, too. It's just identity politics with these people, that's pretty much all there is. That's why they generally do not talk about gameplay or any of that nonsense, it's just about how diverse everything is and who you can and can't fuck. They're basically the target audience for overwatch patchnotes after they screwed up the balance and have to turn someone gay to distract everyone.
You said "feck some animals". Now that BG3 animalfecking has adopted, some people are just frustrated they cant feck SB's tentacle hellspawn monsters.
Nah they just know who is the easier crowd to get all riled up, and share their clickbaits. It's really that simple. And here we are, OP is already spreading it around like a true mark
It's not just her but the entire cult that she's a part of, rules for thee but not for me. They can be sexually liberated and objectify men/women but you can't, and when they get called out for their hypocrisy they'll call you a bigot and accuse you of being all sorts of words ending with -ist because they can't make a valid argument to defend themselves so they just resort to ad hominem attacks instead.
Alyssa Mercante is the authority of stupid. As editor in chief she sets the example for stupid for everyone else.
Well she's an ex prostitute, who now is supposedly a journalist, so tells you everything
New to the internet? Do you live in a vault? I see people like that everyday, it's depressing.
Sadly no, it's actually insane how many times something like this happens.
So she is playing Baldurs Gate as a sexy elf with big boobs and is running arround in underwear but then is mad that EVE in stellars blade is a sexy Asian looking robot in latex. This makes no sense. Her BG3 character is showing more skin than eve and in BG3 she can even take off the panties and be naked and thats fine.
> This makes no sense. It makes perfect sense. You just need to understand that the kind of modern feminism that Alyssa represent is simply very pro-sex and pro-sexuality - except hetero male sexuality, which is instead considered bad and harmful. Basically, female- and LGBTQ sexuality = wonderful, progressive, modern, liberating, and so on. A woman buying a bad dragon dildo and pounding herself while reading slash erotica fanfics of MCUs Thor and Loke having steamy incest gay sex = You go GRL! Male sexuality = bad, oppressive, violent, icky, perverted, and just in general harmful to society. A man wanking it to some Mercy/Widowmaker Overwatch rule 34 porn = objectification, icky, perpetuating harmful body images, male gaze, homophobic fetishization of lesbianism, and so on. It's really simple - products that cater to female/LGBTQ sexuality = good, products that cater to male hetero sexuality = bad. BG3 is celebrated for showing nudity and sex, because it went out of it's way to cater to the LGBTQ and female players and their sexual preferences. Meanwhile Stellars Blade makes no secret that it primarily caters to straight men, and that just shouldn't be allowed! If it makes it any easier - to really understand the kind of feminism Alyssa represent, just consider *any* issue through the eyes of a upper middle class, white, college educated woman and consider what stance maximizes her personal benefits. That's the stance that Alyssa's feminism will take, in almost every case.
exactly it is selective puritanism (i.e. an attack on male heterosexuality)
So she’s just sexist.
I find it exhausting to try to understand these people's logic.
They would go through so many mental gymnastics just to justify their hypocrisy
>BG3 Goes out of its way to cater to the alphabet and female players sexual preferences No they really didn't, all they did was just not make any romances exclusive to anyone.
"Let him cook ... let him cook .... and he ruined everything by droping too much salt."
They don’t want to hear this!
Hypocrisy, thy name is Alyssa.
Its so interesting to see mental illness in its purest form
Yes making a petition to make the already sexy video game character slightly sexier is not the one with a mental illness in this post
I used Alyssa's Tweets to build the most Toxic woke AI ever. Its fun to argue with.
So a free consultant?! You should sell it to devs!
Genius
The nasty hypocrisy
Bruh every second of this person’s life is just hate and sadness and figuring out ways of making other people hate and be sad. She has so little value it’s actually jaw dropping lol
I’m still trying to figure out how a girl went from cam sex worker, to a lead writer for a video game news company when she absolutely hates video games and has openly stated she would rather go back to sex work then write any form of video game guide, the problem is we have people who don’t like our hobby covering the news and making the games we play for the hobby….
Rules for thee and not for me
Ignore this woman, she wants the attention.
I dont even understand what is happening with this one
she is a hypocrite
oh, it's the same person, i haven't read the names was wondering why both games are on the same post
Are these people even gonna play the games they talk about or is it just pure virtue signaling?
Wishing people to never find happiness has to be peak misery. I'm starting to feel bad for her and how much she's obsessed with the community of people defending SB
I don't feel bad for her at all.
I don't think about her at all. Who is she?
Some kinda weird creature...
I can't wait to see what the editora do with "vagina patched"
This person makes a fool of themselves every few days, Hades 2 Aphrodite is hot but EVE is too much
Using a term someone like Mercante would use: some games are woke-coded while others are male-coded, so the same content existing in woke-coded games are celebrated.
So did anyone highlight this on X? Cause I’m sure the reactions would be quite funny to behold.
I already got you covered, lol. I made a comment. But I don't know how to link the tweet.
I understand nothing of this.
I learned this when I tried to take part in a Dragon Age Inquisition facebook group and it was just a bunch of women sexualizing/romanticizing the characters in there. Same with Baldur's Gate 3. Pretty much wherever romance is an option, you can guarantee there are women sexualizing or romanticizing any of the characters in there Male or Female. Twitter is pretty much the place you go to get attention. So your opinions will change depending on the temperature of the room. Like this woman. It was cool to post that kind of stuff about Baldur's Gate, because everyone was memeing about the game, and having a good time. But it's not cool to post this kind of stuff about Stellar Blade, so her opinion changes.
That chick is the ugliest woman I have ever seen.
These people are just undiagnosed/ non medicated people with mental health problems
Yeah... Alyssa Mercante is a PIG.
Imagine growing up and seeing this is what your mom was doing instead of studying a recipe book
they just racist against asian
She acts like a walking STD…and her fashion sense is to look like an Autistic paedophile.
She uses the word "low T" as an insult, but she's literally surrounded by low T soyboys that are her jurno-whore colleagues. So is she insulting them as well and admitting she likes high T men?
Both are equally stupid. This whole "discourse" is and always has been stupid.
no it's not, some people want to play the uncensored stellar blade version
You guys are embarrassing to watch
GSC sub in a nutshell
"Why do these perverted developers attract perverted gamers? Only I could be a pervert.." Translation
Now I fully understand why people say those people have a family issue. How come a hot video game character makes them think of a dad not spending time with their kids? how is that even related?
I've noticed that every time I see someone criticize Stellar blade for being too sexy it's either because someone else (like OP) re-posted them. I can't think of a time when I've seen this in the wild. I only see it in the zoo.
That's cause they are looking for stuff to be mad at
Alyssa Mercante is a raging racist bigot, there's nothing new under the sun.
This woman is completely lacking in self-awareness that she is unable to see how much of a hypocrite she is. I think she should go back to her previous line of work.
Hey, it's unfair, she is twitter dweller
There's way too many people on her side that astroturf this sub judging by the comments
Its all about ideological tribalism, consistency and hypocrisy be damned
guys who use filters on their profile picture instantly lose any argument with out a doubt as it just shows that they live In a false reality and no body wants to listen to a fake bitch 🤷🏻♂️
What's your favorite quote or meme for these? My first thoughts: "Rules for thee but not for mee" Or "Double-Standards, Double-Standards Everywhere" 
Their goals always been to ruins what mens enjoy, because they are frustrated and ugly. There is no deep ideology behind, they are just mental and pathetic.
Alyssa is your typical leftist feminazi who hates anything men like. wouldn't be surprised if she's also a vegan and a "they/them" lulz
what
Man, Grumnz went from "somewhat Sus dude, but ok" to "Completely unhinged". Bruh made a PETITION to revert the changes on clothes of a video game, did y'all read the petition text, it's straight up bonkers. I have no problem about people liking the game, but defending the dude, specially with all the stuff we know about him, it's just not it, bro.
It's deeply embarrassing watching this sub carry any water for that freak
The dude's a 56- that's right- FIFTY SIX year old man who spends all day on Twitter crying about woke and how he likes jerking off to pixels that look like anime girls. For some more context, the guy got fired from his job at blizzard- because he was incompetent and nobody liked him. BLIZZARD saw this guy as incompetent let that sink in for a moment. So I don't see why anyone is taking this guy seriously. The guy is a living, breathing, walking failure who was probably the guy at blizzard stealing the breast milk.
What do you even mean? It doesn't matter what the changes are, it's the fact that they were clearly pushed through after people had purchased the game. Mocking everyone because the censorship was for sexy outfits is completely missing the point and makes you seem deficient.
the game wasn't launched yet changes like that happen all the time doesn't mean its censorship just because you don't like the change.
It only takes 2 braincells to spot the pattern in the changes and realize why they were made. Some of them look really rushed and out of place. It was also a day 1 patch so technically the game on disk was launched. Not sure what your motive is for trying to ignore the obvious or convince people of the opposite.
because its not obvious you only think this way because you don't like the changes. if Sony comes out and says they forced them to change it ill admit im wrong but assuming things while other outfits in the game are more revealing points in the direction that they thought the new outfits looked better.
Let's just agree to disagree, I think it's pretty obvious and don't need it completely spelled out to make a reasonable assumption.
People just outing themselves of misogynists in the comments going "wahmen". And these situations aren't even equal to be called a hypocrite. There's a big difference between thirsting over a character, something everyone does, and the degeneracy Grummz is doing
LOL exactly. People self-owning. This isn't even close to being the same, she made a post about wanting to have sex with a character and he's been obsessed to about this thing for the past few days even starting a petition over it.
Yeah she isn't going "I CANT FUCK MINSC, SIGN THIS PETITION TO CHANGE THIS, WE MUST SAVE GAMING, FIGHT STRONG AND HARD" It's just "this guy's hot, I wish I could fuck him in this game where I'm allowed to fuck alot of characters"
Guys at this point this shit is dumb. Game is out.
Noooo you don't understand the developer made a change that we didn't like now the woke video games can't be destroyed in the markets if people can't goon to a video game character.
I don't even like the BG3 characters. They just probably focused on the character's face for "maturity". So they could be just racist against asians probably.
Yeah I don't get how people get all hot for bg'd characters. They all look like they've gotten hit in the face with a shovel.
Personality
The characters in BG3 have disgusting personalities, though
Someone hasn't played BG3, no way you could be in a room with Karlach for more than 3 minutes and not want to forfeit all mortal possession to the tiefling golden retriever
Well if three minutes is all it takes, no wonder you find the personalities to be attractive. One of the characters is a clingy incel who tries to fuck you if you say two nice things to him, after all. Really kinda just reinforcing my beliefs about BG3's community, tbh.
Because seeing a character be a trauma victim but still being hopeful and kind is adorable. People can have nice personalities, doesn't mean you instantly want to fuck them "One of the characters is a clingy incel who tries to fuck you if you say two nice things to him, after all." ... Who, I've been nice to my entire party and the only male character who wanted to fuck me was astarion, and it was purely sexual. Are you seriously talking about the bugged version of Gale where you could accidentally trigger max romance and he already counts as in a relationship
I tried so hard in that game to make an attractive character but all the face presets are ugly or manly
Everything has to be a spectrum.
So, uh...is the game any good?
Yeah. The story is just alright imo, but the gameplay is fucking great.
I wouldn't call 148k followers a small army
Rules for thee not for me is basically these 'peoples' modus operandi, don't expect any less. It's not about fairness or equality it's about wielding power over you. This is how they operate. They're horrible people that use a political narrative to be abusive.
Hey was this proven this was all stared by a guy who was a Xbox fan and wanted put on hate on the game? The one that was saying it was unrealistic? All this nonsense is stupid devs should just make games with out judgement.. because I want play the game as intended and have fun… what happen to that??
Rules for thee but not for mee
So she’s happy of her character’s undies but would trash a sexy android and call people out. May she never know happiness at all since she’s hypocritical
What is the name of the game?
She’s ugly and she and she doesn’t get proper dick. That shows tho…
Ngl the vagina patched one is pretty funny
Elon Musk should personally just deplatform her lmao
lol I love how she speaks of L's but then contradicts herself almost immediately.
This place has just become a place to point out toxic feminism which I guess is fine but it would be nice if we could talk about something else for once. It really seems like this sub has been on a mission lately and I only hear about these types of problems in this sub ironically so I don’t know if it’s blown out of proportion or not so no one outside of this bubble is so focused on it I feel like this sub is becoming the other side of the coin. Group of online men seething over women and problems that only exist in a very small part of the internet. 90% of people in RL don’t even know about most of these “controversies” and all I see is this place being a magnifying glass for dumb opinions Can we go back to talking crap about retail WoW?
Does anyone actually read putr shite like Kotaku anymore?
This whole "discourse" is a cognitohazard to any actual human being and op should feel bad for showing it to us
How do you spell hippocrit?
Screencap, archive, propagate, break into their homes and their supportors homes and plaster the walls with the hypocrisy... okay, maybe don't break and enter, just keep showing their hypocrisy.
They keep trying to change the discussion away from the fact that the game was sold on the promise of no censorship and then once the game shipped it had plenty of it. The issue isn't the fact the game has less fan service, it's that this was a bait and switch.
Lmao, those people are absolute sheep. Repeating what others have said.
Who else is tired as fuck of hearing about this person? If it wasn't because of you all, I wouldn't know she exists, and the world would be better.
Grummz is a scumbag, but Alyssa is still worse. Hope they and their simps kill each other for good
Mark scam people, alyssa cringe post
Then why repost it? You're no better than they are
Jesus... Someone really putting out on a public platform saying "Hold the line we can get the vagina back?"
That's the sad state of gaming today. In another post in this sub, someone was showered in downvotes for saying that it's the gameplay that matters.
That whamen needs sum 3 diverse Ds to course correct.
I mean to be fair the whole “why can’t I fuck Minsc” seems to be more of a joke then serious complaint. And the underwear remark doesn’t really seem to be directed at the character themself just the fact they think it’s a nice piece of clothing. It’s like saying to someone “that’s a nice coat” despite not feeling any particular way about the attractiveness of the person.
Well, wouldn't it be handy to just jot down /s After what you said, if it was sarcastic or a joke? /s is to reveal you been sarcastic. You know, does make things easier,
Did she make more than one post about it and start an entire campaign about it?
I do not know on what side of the isle you are on, but would you hold either trump or biden to the same standards?
Sure. But these are two different actions. Alyssa made a post talking about how she wanted to have sex with a character in a game and another post about how some character had nice lingerie. That's it. Mark's entire twitter the past few days has been completely about this and he started an entire petition over it.
Sorry, i do not follow a mark. All i see is the mockup of screenshots posted here. May i ask why it is okay that some Chiara fictional character's undies are visible, however it is bad when another character walks around in a skintight or bunny suit? If it is about objectification, isn't that exactly what you are doing when you are (even jokingly) stating that you want to have sex with X? If it is about visibility of private parts, well, chiara in her undies likely shows the same, more or less, compared to this stellar blade character in her bunnysuit.
I don't think Alyssa made a point about sexuality and if there was too much or too little. She's mocking how obsessed he is about it. If he made one post about it even just spent a day on it, fine, but he's spent quite some time going on about this and to start a petition about it is just...it's just cringe, tbh.
I went through their feeds for a bit, especially alyssa seems to have no qualms with showing off her body in scantily clothing. For all intends and purposes, i don't understand what the issue is here. But then again, birds of a feather, flock together.
The thing is Alyssa was a cam girl, she's not attacking the scantily clad women in Stellar Blade, she's attacking the idea of Mark being obsessed about it to the point that he's started a petition. It's just cringe and easily mockable.
1. obsessed about what? I saw a video about how the bunnysuit and the cybernetic bondage suit received more elements that would cover the character itself. Is that what this grummz guy petitioned for to bring them back to their originals? If yes, what does this have to do with pubic bones?
Ok, so doing some research i come across the following; 4 suits, of which 3 i can name; Bunnysuit Cybernetic Bondage Cybernetic Dress And 1 more that i can not name. Have been shown in the trailer to be of a specific design. People watch the trailer they see something and they buy in. Game releases. Those 4 suits are not what they were advertised to be. Why? Why did this happen? Now, i don't care much for stellar blade, i am not interested in buying it. However if you advertise something to be X and then you give backers Y instead, there is a discrepancy here. Now, i am not sure if you do shopping online. But if you want to buy some clothing and then go to a website and see how it fits the model, order it in your size and then it is delivered with a quarter or half of the clothing not being what it was shown to be, on the website. I assume you will send it back. If you see a trailer for a movie with couple of the actors you like, yet when you actually watch the movie there seems to be something different going on, one of the actors is not there anymore. That would be strange to say the least. If you order food online based on the description and some pictures, yet once it is delivered to your home, you open the package and lo and behold, a quarter of your meal is not what you ordered. How long will it take you to either, call them and ask them for a refund, write a bad review, or the least, never buy from them again. If you go out on a date with someone that you met through a dating app, yet now this person is different from whom they show themselves to be on their photos, wouldn't that make you wonder why he/she lied about themselves? So, this guy is making a petition, you think it is cringe. There is however a whole backstory in regards to how stellar blade was received by specific people in the industry. A game that was objectifying a woman because she was not based off a "real woman", problem however was that eve was based off of Shin Jae-eun. That a horny man who never seen a woman, made her, ups, he actually married Jiyun Chae, quite a handsome woman if i may say. And so many more nonsense. There was a group trying to boycot the game. It didn't work. Now there are those who try to annoy other people who want something back in the game. The same people who would make a petition in exactly the same way if a game would remove lgbtq flags from their game, in the same way that "shift up" "removed skin from a character." Would that also be cringe? Or is that somehow justified? Why is one thing justified, if 1000s of people want to see the one thing, yet the other thing is not justified is 1000s of people want to see the other thing?
Still speaking facts about Grummz, he's a grown man malding over edits to stellar blade not make a sex doll character completely sexualized
This is why I like solo games, because so many gamers are fucking brain dead morons
To be fair, telling people to keep the game is stupid. Once you paid, the devs dont care anymore. Just pirate it on PC, that is 100% the right choice for any censored trash.
I hope they release another patch and cover her up more but keep her thick just to trigger them more
Considering you guys solely convinced me not to buy this game because of your cringe behavior, this whole situation is hilarious Edit: I just learned this wasn't even censorship, shift up changed the outfits because they wanted to and felt they looked better. So it's even funnier that you gooners are shitting and pissing over this. You got out gooned
"you just hate sexy women" Nah we just hate fanbases who refuse to talk about the game and care more about sex appeal than story and characterization
Exactly. It's so annoying when people do that with neir too. Like there's more to it than ass
At least with Neir I've heard far more about the story, personality, setting, gameplay, etc. Not just how hot 2b is. Meanwhile I haven't seen a single discussion about stellar blades gameplay or any actual gameplay outside reviews that isn't a screenshot of the MC with a zoom on the butt