Penny Arcade recently covered the much-critiqued gender imbalance in video games with the comic above. Lady characters are pictured as having massive, bouncy breasts that in an actual battle would be little more than painful fun-bags. But would men be as interested in playing characters if they were represented as having massive genitalia?
Not only is that throbbing piece of terrifying manhood hard to walk with (like, say the unrealistic proportions of a female character whose spine would snap if confronted with Earths' gravity) but he possesses all the outward signs of what we identify as masculinity. His great bush of chest hair. His pecs and then under his pecs and than his abs. He is really quite a fine figure of a man. Except for his terrifying man meat.
Det er lidt latterligt. Hans stubbly anaconda er næppe en præcis svarende til de hoppende bryster og jiggle fysik så udbredt i spil i dag. Og nogle kan hævde, at den mandlige ækvivalent af tyngdekraftsdæmpende sjov tasker er muskulære pecs. Men kvinder kan også være muskuløse, og ærligt, mens det er sjovere end mere sandt i livet, er det stadig sjovt at se en mand blive besat af hans sexede bits.
Især siden den nye Resident Evil Revelations DLC omfattede en kvindelig version af den populære karakter Hunk. Du kan fortælle, at hun er en dame, fordi hun ikke har nogen bukser.
Indtil dag bliver dette så universelt fjollet som Mr. Anaconda / True Warrior deroppe, tror jeg lidt humor er nødvendig.
Hvis du vil tjekke den uncensored version, her er den originale Penny Arcade strip og de mere detaljerede Airborne Studios render. Vær forberedt på nogle skræmmende mandkød.