So Stellaris, the "4X" game by Paradox, is releasing various updates to some of its older, previously "cosmetic" DLCs which includes the Humanoid pack. In these updates are two new portrait options that are being described as "Elves".
Behold, "elves": https://i.ibb.co/1f3ZyxJ/elves2.jpg
Don't worry, they come in many colours, the fact the default option is brown is totally a coincidence.
https://i.ibb.co/wLrcCqQ/dfa5a33825065088193e525adb199e510ad02a7e.png
https://i.ibb.co/HGD7DJZ/eec8cf19bf79a5de08f7069acceb264e38cef117.png
Do note that so far that second image is still labelled as "Females", so wait and see how soon that changes to "Body Type 2" or something else.
The second set aren't much better: https://i.ibb.co/ZSDWdJ5/085749c6cadb73a8aeb68cf0be5b83dd18d47db2.png
The response has been somewhat cathartic with many players calling out the new designs as of a quality not befitting a game such as Stellaris which has been running for 7 years now.
There are also some very expected comments about how the portraits have certain slants towards actual human appearances. As well as bats.
Some of the nicknames for the portraits even include "Nubians" more so because they look less like Elves rather than more like certain Human groups.
Keep in mind Stellaris is the game which previously banned certain mods that would skew leader/population appearances in certain ways, in this case towards Caucasian, however as is known by many here it's acceptable when The Message is "correct.
Oh and a final point, these changes to the past DLCs are coming with a price hike. Those who have them won't be charged extra but a previously cheaper tier of DLCs that added in species content instead of "Story content" as the larger DLCs are referred to is now on par with the newer DLCs which brings the total DLC cost for Stellaris to something like $270.
They really hate brown people don't they. Every 'diversity initiative' they do makes them appear really ugly or at best, slightly above average while white or white enough, even though they'll put them as villains 90% of the time are more attractive.
Just look at the latest 'Snow White', I'd much rather get with the evil stepmother than 'the fair maiden'
Have you seen the average brown person? Not the ones carefully selected for TV and movies, but average ordinary brown people. They're not easy on the eyes.
Maybe I've been lucky as sure I've run into some more.....primitive looking black people but I've met more attractive or above average black women on the street along with Asians, Indians, Eastern Europeans, Mediterranean, Middle East can't tell etc
Across the board anyway media especially gaming from western companies is presenting women as more ugly than what you see on average in your regular service industry.
Probably just a mix. Being in the US, for every hideous black person I see I can see a troglodytic white, an insectoid Asian, a mongrelized Latin American, etc. US residents are generally unhealthy, unkempt, and unattractive.