Funny - I didn't get that vibe from the "Rabbit Girl" in the Wildstar trailers at all. She seemed like an adult to me. With the caveat that she was a bit of a "ditzy" adult. (Not unintelligent, just easily distracted).
Indeed, that's my take too. Plus, she's more traditionally 'cute' - actually, she's a sort of east/west style hybrid to my eyes, and seems to work rather well. She's a valid artistic attempt in my book...which is why I just decided to do the pic below...but we'll get to that in a minute
And we do NOT need to be drawing attention to a staple of American comics that could be turned against us in our campaign here.
Agreed - we are all comic book nerds, and while we may have issues with the visual styles of Champions and DCUO, I'd take either of them in a heartbeat over the grotesque mockery of 'art' that is
Blade and SoulI REALLY don't want to hate on Wildstar too much. They're in the same unenviable boat as the people at Arenanet. They are doing some damn good work. I only wish they could find a way to do it for a company other than NCSoft. I don't want to go negative on them so much as I'd like to encourage them to find any way out from under NCSoft that's possible.
Sadly I can't see them managing to escape from NCSoft's thrall. I feel for the guys and gals at Carbine right now - they are based in Southern California after all, and they of all people must have felt the shock waves rattling their offices on August 31st.
But here's the important bit - both with that angle and the more overt objectification of females in B&S - listen up.
They are SOCIAL angles. Tools that we can use. And yes, Mantic, I am USING the squick factor consciously.
These are tools that NCSoft has unwittingly GIVEN us to beat them over the head with using the social media (facebook, twitter, livejournal, blogger, etc) and I fully endorse the idea of us USING them to build negative PR memes. And we have MORE than enough lead time before B&S is even released to make a MAJOR headache for them.
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The more saturation we have on the topic on OUR terms before NCSoft realizes what's happening, the better!
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One last thing. And it's VERY IMPORTANT.
Comedy. Satire. Ridicule.
Turjan had the right idea - MOCKING Taek Jin Kim in his cartoon paneled strip.
We need MORE like that. We need not to come off as OUTRAGED. We need to be making FUN of NCSoft for their idiocy!
We need to make the entire CONCEPT of Blade and Soul being released in America to be exactly what it is - A BAD JOKE. Something to ridicule. Something to LAUGH AT.
If we can make it so that we turn the gamers lusting after Blade and Soul currently into gamers who don't want to ADMIT that they play it for fear of that ridicule - of being MOCKED for it. I will consider it mission accomplished.
AMEN to that!
We don't have vast resources at our disposal, so we have to make do with what we have. There's a name for such a situation - it's not the Heroes on the blueside or the Villains on the redside...it's the goldside we have to look to for this. This is
Resistance territory.
But I don't advocate blowing up hospitals, Calvin Scott style
Graffiti on walls, word of mouth, emotive images to jar people out of their daily routine and make them question what they've been taking for granted - THAT is where our path lies.
We may not have vast resources but what we DO have in spades in our community is CREATIVITY. That's one of the cardinal things that drew us to CoH in the first place after all, isn't it? It's a world where our creativity can run free. Creativity has another thing going for it in the 'unconventional techniques' arsenal - it's unpredictable. It sparks, it jumps, it makes associations that logic can't.
And if your adversary can't predict your moves, they're at a disdvantage.
So yeah, with that in mind, back to what I was saying about Wildstar earlier. Here's the thought that popped into my head -
If anyone can find a use for that pic - knock yourselves out!
