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>During an interview with The Verge, she posited that players may not be used to seeing a protagonist that is "so bold, so unapologetic," and that while phrases such as "I just moved s*** with my mind" may come off as cringe, Balinska puts that down to humans themselves often being just as cringe. (media.kotakuinaction2.win)
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– dekachin 55 points 3 years ago +55 / -0

Feminists think being a bitch is the female final form.

They think this because when they look around at other women in their social circles, all the most powerful women are bitches. This is because it's only the most socially powerful women who can get away with being bitches. This is true even from middle school and high school, where the most socially powerful women are the "mean girls".

So all these feminists deep down are jealous of the bitches and want to be them. They are bitches, but feel like they can't let their inner bitch out because people would resent them. But if they had enough POWER they wouldn't have to care what other people think, they could just be the bitch they truly want to be.

That's why all these "strong women" characters are such unlikable bitches all the time.

Non-feminist women understand that men and women fill different roles, with men as the aggressors/combatants and women as the supporters and community builders. So non-feminist women understand that "being a bitch" is directly against the female role, and that women are instead supposed to be diplomatic and consensus-building to get their way and have influence. Unlike feminists, non-feminists don't actually just want to be men. They value feminine power such as things like class, grace, and beauty.

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– send_it 32 points 3 years ago +32 / -0

Unlike feminists, non-feminists don't actually just want to be men.

It's not even that they want to be "men", it's that they want to be the exact kind of man they're secretly attracted to, i.e. the worst kind of man.

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– dekachin 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

very true. they want to be selfish powerful asshole men, not virtuous responsible protector men.

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– send_it 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

They look at their own social hierarchy and their own lust for "bad guys", thus concluding that the men's social hierarchy must be the same as theirs i.e. the bitches are on top (since, after all, men and women are exactly the same... Women are better, even, thus that conclusion surely must be correct).

In a rare moment of a coherent and logical conclusion, they therefore attempt to be men by what they perceive as being the best men - which is essentially a crossbreed of 10/10 psychopathy and sociopathy.

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– deleted 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0
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– Ender910 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Like our lord and savior Gaben?

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– TisDaRhythmOfDaNight 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

day of the umbrella

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

I like your take on bitches

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– DOI56 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

inferior men

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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

True. They aspire to it.

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– deleted 34 points 3 years ago +34 / -0
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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

I get it: realistic dialogue is unrealistic. The way people really talk is usually pretty boring. People fall back on common sayings, erode vocabulary with profanity, spew trite cliches, etc.

But that doesn't mean it's BETTER to make your fictional characters do it.

This is like....screenwriting 101 here. There's a way to make a fictional person seem realistic, which is often different from what real people WANT to watch/read.

It really is screenwriting 101. New writers have been reaching this "aha" moment since before movies existed.

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– LordLavaLamp 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

For example, the game firmly establishes that Freya's life is shit: she's on the verge of going to jail, loses all her money and her apartment, has no friends or family, etc. Needs a new start in life.

That doesn't sound like her life is shit; that sounds like she, herself, is shit, and everything else is a direct consequence of her being a shit human being.

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– dekachin 28 points 3 years ago +28 / -0

Ella Balinska isn't just the "voice actor". The character in the game looks exactly like her. She's just being an actor. The character is just her.

She's going to be a darling child of the entertainment media for a while, so it's funny that she's going to be so strongly associated with a shitty game:

  • she's black looking, but "one of the good ones" because like Obama her blackness isn't American, she's british and mixed race

  • she downplays her blackness. media types don't like angry blacks like John Boyega who chimp out and scream racism when they don't get their way

  • although her skin tone is dark enough to be deemed "black" her facial features are 100% white looking, so she's basically just a hot (not giving my opinion, but broadly people will consider her to be hot) white woman with the skin tone slider turned down

So she's perfect for what the hollywood types want: a "black" woman who fully checks the boxes, without any of the bitter aftertaste they get from other blacks.

Expect to see her very in-demand and forced into lots of stuff.

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– ShadistIsACuck 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

Yeah the actual actress is decent looking because she has pretty much completely white features

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– Grant_us_eyes 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

Funny how that works.

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– Norenia 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

media types don't like angry blacks who scream racism when they don't get their way

... What?

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– dekachin 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

They don't like to WORK WITH those people.

They love them in politics and generally for content, sure.

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0
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– daberoniandcheese 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

There's a video out there of Boyega literally screaming "Fuck u rayciss wypipo!"

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0
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– daberoniandcheese 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

I tried to find the source video but it's been purged apparently. All you can find is a million articles from the usual suspects defending him.

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– when_we_win_remember 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

while true that her face is not particularly negroid, it is ugly in the image here

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– LordLavaLamp 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

broadly people will consider her to be hot

That's a "citation needed" the size of the red eye of Jupiter...

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– current_horror 18 points 3 years ago +18 / -0

People are often cringe in the real world, but I’m not paying $60 to spend time with them.

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– SoctaticMethod1 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

In terms of 'a developed and understandable character' that players embodied, you have been beaten by a guy that only said one line in the entire game (Doom Slayer), animals like cats and dogs (stray and that WW1 game) and that bird from BF1 story.

If she had just said "I did what I could with the script" EVERYONE would have understood, especially considering that the studio in question is getting shut down.

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– Smith1980 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

And I bet every voice actor gets criticism. Haven’t played the game but from what I saw on YouTube it sounds like a CW show.

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– Assassin47 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

every voice actor gets criticism

Vic Mignogna: "Am I invisible to you?"

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– Smith1980 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Exactly

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Don't blame the actor for the director/writer's shitty job. She was told to act like a cringe zoomer and was congratulated for doing exactly that.

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– AnotherSchwarzesMark 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Duh, and obviously you are a bit defensive since it's your voice. Doesn't change the fact that the game is horseshit though. No matter how much you try to talk it up, a turd you put a cool hat on is still a turd.

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– alucard13mmfmj 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

Resident evil show flopped. This game flopped. You can do 10.. 20.. and continue to be in these failures. Maybe, just maybe after the 100th one when many more generations been brainwashed or become even more retarded from social medi... then maybe the game or show you in will not flop.

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– BigDaddyDangler4 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

She got out of a felony (because let's feel sorry for black women who have lived a life of crime, talked shit to a person with a gun to her neck, tried to hit said gun carrying thug and didn't get shot in the fucking head for it like a real human would because she pulled a bunch of Spider-man bullshit, tried to use pocket sand that she pulled out nowhere, got away from an adult male chasing her...and no I didn't play it myself. Others did.

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– SupremeReader [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Cringeception.

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– nuggetpatrol 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

The Cringe factor might not have been entirely responsible for this failure, but it contributed to the studio being closed.

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– AnotherSchwarzesMark 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Or anyone from the early late 90s to early 2000s. That was the whole character with an attitude stick we had, some did it great and some did not but I would count that as "bold". Meanwhile the dindu in this game is stealing shit right after giving a second chance, keeps being annoying and has got some of the cringeyest dialogue in gaming(yes, even counting anime games).

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