Comments on: This Week: Pleather, Frustrating, and Booming http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Brian http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-112558 Brian Tue, 20 May 2008 00:04:31 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-112558 Brits are weird and cosplay is weird in a wonderfully amazing beautiful way! Brits are weird and cosplay is weird in a wonderfully amazing beautiful way!

]]> By: Bonnie Ruberg http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91354 Bonnie Ruberg Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:58:58 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91354 See, Flickr viewers agree: strangely hot :). See, Flickr viewers agree: strangely hot :).

]]> By: Phil Wilson http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91350 Phil Wilson Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:36:21 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91350 These were at Animagic 2006 in Bonn if it's the same girls as here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dshave/201253663/in/set-72057594111610461/ These were at Animagic 2006 in Bonn if it’s the same girls as here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dshave/201253663/in/set-72057594111610461/

]]> By: Bonnie Ruberg http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91345 Bonnie Ruberg Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:54:33 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91345 Ah, but does it make you question your masculinity? Personally, it's a bit strange how many a-ok levels it hits for me. On the one hand, girls making out: good. On the other, boys making out: also good. On the third hand (yes, there are three) revenge for Four Swords being a pain in my ass by transforming into into some sort of Link on Link fantasy: very good :). Ah, but does it make you question your masculinity? Personally, it’s a bit strange how many a-ok levels it hits for me. On the one hand, girls making out: good. On the other, boys making out: also good. On the third hand (yes, there are three) revenge for Four Swords being a pain in my ass by transforming into into some sort of Link on Link fantasy: very good :).

]]> By: Scott Jon Siegel http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91284 Scott Jon Siegel Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:50:55 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91284 Yeah, nobody can deny the hotness of that image. Yeah, nobody can deny the hotness of that image.

]]> By: Bonnie Ruberg http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91278 Bonnie Ruberg Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:53:43 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91278 This comment re: sexy Links came from Destructoid writer Tron Knotts. I think it sums up the wonderful weirdness nicely: "[It's hot.] I think that's what creeps me out about it. I like it more than I should, at least according to my self-enforced identity construct as a 'straight male'." It's lesbian, gay male, and video game cosplay eroticism all at the same time! Triple threat to my sense of being 'normal'!" This comment re: sexy Links came from Destructoid writer Tron Knotts. I think it sums up the wonderful weirdness nicely:

“[It’s hot.] I think that’s what creeps me out about it. I like it more than I should, at least according to my self-enforced identity construct as a ’straight male’.”

It’s lesbian, gay male, and video game cosplay eroticism all at the same time!

Triple threat to my sense of being ‘normal’!”

]]> By: Bonnie Ruberg http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91109 Bonnie Ruberg Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-91109 On the one hand, an actual rape game (even if it's raping imaginary people) sounds pretty horrifying. Still, it makes you wonder, how is it any different than a game where you go around killing imaginary people? What makes "living out" one any more or less unsettling than the other? On the one hand, an actual rape game (even if it’s raping imaginary people) sounds pretty horrifying. Still, it makes you wonder, how is it any different than a game where you go around killing imaginary people? What makes “living out” one any more or less unsettling than the other?

]]> By: halfassured http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-90900 halfassured Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:59:09 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-90900 Did you ever see that Japanese rape simulation game? As far as I could tell it was a stealth game like Metal Gear solid, except instead of infiltrating a base to destroy nuclear weapons you stalked and raped random girls around town. The whole "do bad things to imaginary people" aspect of gaming is pretty interesting in its own right, and its prevalence probably bespeaks something about human nature, but for me the more interesting subject is doing bad things to the avatars of other players in multiplayer games -- griefing and such. Did you ever see that Japanese rape simulation game? As far as I could tell it was a stealth game like Metal Gear solid, except instead of infiltrating a base to destroy nuclear weapons you stalked and raped random girls around town.

The whole “do bad things to imaginary people” aspect of gaming is pretty interesting in its own right, and its prevalence probably bespeaks something about human nature, but for me the more interesting subject is doing bad things to the avatars of other players in multiplayer games — griefing and such.

]]> By: Darkpen http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-90735 Darkpen Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:19:17 +0000 http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/03/07/this-week-pleather-frustrating-and-booming/#comment-90735 Clearly, the man's played his share of "Rapelay" and "Virgin Roster" on PC, and is a hardcore PC-only, anti-console gamer. Either that, or he has some mad PSP emulating skills that he refuses to share with the rest of the world. Clearly, the man’s played his share of “Rapelay” and “Virgin Roster” on PC, and is a hardcore PC-only, anti-console gamer.

Either that, or he has some mad PSP emulating skills that he refuses to share with the rest of the world.

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