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Dead Island Riptide's CE is just gross. NSFW. [Might be pulled. Read OP.]
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This, got a chuckle out of me for how goofy it is and that's it.
I mean it looks dumb and no-one will seriously keep this standing around, but that's clearly the point.
Goldenroad
Member
USA! USA! USA!
In all seriousness, remember when, after the first trailer, it seemed like Dead Island was going to be a cut above?
In all seriousness, remember when, after the first trailer, it seemed like Dead Island was going to be a cut above?
Night_Trekker
Member
I don't care about political correctness, but that's lame as hell. There's a lot of shitty video game CE tat out there, but this is about the worst I've seen. Who would want to display this crap in their house?
Here's hoping the game itself ends up being as good as the original, at least...
Here's hoping the game itself ends up being as good as the original, at least...
Evolution_1ne
Banned
actually considering that breast are intact would suggest the oppositeMyEpitomeCliché;46465904 said:
The developers aren't even Americans so I don't get the USA! crap you posted.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Why is this ok and but DI bikini body is in bad taste? I don't see a difference.
Would be more similar if the screwdriver was a penis.
flyinpiranha
Member
I hate the sexual objectification of the screwdriver we have in today's society.
Clearly...
slightconfuse
Banned
Ughhhh why is this a thing. I thought people were joking on teitter
Don't forget the speedo.
akidnamededdy
Banned
Duh, only Americans do boneheaded stuff like this. We so fat and dumb and angry.
AlimNassor
Banned
What isn't objectification of women? Women gets nude in a commercial! How disgusting and sexist. Man does it! Who cares. Should all human women be covered head to toe and never be allowed to show their sexual organs?
radios shipping overview
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Man, I wouldn't want that anywhere in my apartment, either. Both are tacky, but the Dead Island figure has that extra creep-factor.
I suppose that figure only really makes sense if you put yourself in the mindset of someone making a zombie game, who's obsessed with schlocky videogames and zombie movies, and who's comparing the product of their entire livelihood to other zombie media and their collector's-edition items.
It's a thing that is only acceptable or even conceivable within a very (very) narrow context. The comparison to anime figurines is valid in that sense. The developers of DI inhabit that context full-time. Anybody outside of that context will likely find this pretty fucking tacky, creepy, and/or offensive.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Fix'd.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Well it's for dead island/hardcore zombie fans. I mean they're going to look at it as such. I understand some people don't like it but the way the internet is all up in arms about it. Feels rather silly to me personally.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Well that just ruined my morning.
Nealand Liquor
Member
I was just thinking that with how over sensitive the West has become over anything depicting the female form, they should have another CE using the David, complete with tiny penis and all, as the model. Doing such would not only create the media buzz they are going for, but it would also put an end to sexism arguments this Venus parody is creating.
paperboywriter
Member
as a corpse?
SlasherJPC
Banned
You know if this was announced around Halloween, I bet people would be all like "Yeahh cool" lol
I only read the first page (100 posts per page).
From what I gather on the OP, The ridiculous outrage on Twitter and on some gaming news websites:
200 dollar life size replica gun as a pre-order bonus or goty: oh, that's nice
the sheer mention of breasts: OH MY GOD ARE THOSE FEMALE MAMMARIES THIS IS HORRIBLE WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS
So, America is the exact opposite of Japan?
Other than being an ugly statue, I don't see a problem with it. Gore is gore. It's the mutilated torso of a woman, she's wearing a Bikini. So?
From what I gather on the OP, The ridiculous outrage on Twitter and on some gaming news websites:
200 dollar life size replica gun as a pre-order bonus or goty: oh, that's nice
the sheer mention of breasts: OH MY GOD ARE THOSE FEMALE MAMMARIES THIS IS HORRIBLE WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS
So, America is the exact opposite of Japan?
Other than being an ugly statue, I don't see a problem with it. Gore is gore. It's the mutilated torso of a woman, she's wearing a Bikini. So?
Pretty much. Not limited to US gaming websites though, also read it on RPS.
radios shipping overview
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This isn't just about how it's a statue of a woman in a bikini. It's the combination of a sexualized female body with an image of gory death and the dehumanization of the corpse as "zombie bait." It's easy to read that as a negative, callous attitude towards women.
The statue is sculpted to look like it has breast implants, for crying out loud. That says a lot.
Honey Bunny
Member
Blimey, that's a pair of tits! Panic!
It's a fucking Tropical Island breast-implants bimbo that died out of a zombie attack.
I just described the entirety of the game. And so did the statue.
StevePharma
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This thread needs more creepy sexualized figurines to get insulted and appalled by. 
This would be a pretty egalitarian approach. An anonymous man depicted from the bottom of the ribcage to the top of the knees wearing an itty bitty Union Jack thong. Only it couldn't be a tiny-penised David because as you can see, the female version has enormous fake cartoon breasts. So they'd have to equip him accordingly.
But that will never happen because violence against men is almost never sexualized the way violence against women is. Maybe I'm missing a raft of examples, but the RE6 dicks are the only exception I can think of.
Kageshinzo
Member
Well, at least we know where some of Acclaim's marketing guys went after they went under.
gutterboy44
Member
I don't think you really read what I typed nor exactly understand what it is you are trying to say yourself. "Sex sells" and sexual objectification are not the same thing. They often co exits, but they or two different things. Eg, an attractive woman present in a beer commercial is not objectification. A beer commercial with nothing but a sexy woman with no context or connection to the product other than, here is this "object" and our brand thrown in the end is objectification. Danica Patrick, a female race driver getting product deals because of her "looks" is not objectification. The women in F1 races who stand around in bikinis simply to hold signs and umbrellas is objectification. This grotesque statue is about as literal representation of sexual objectification as you can get.
MoonLightWave
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Waaaaah waaaah I'm offended waaaah
WhiskeyKnight
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I always wonder how stuff like this gets approved. Who wants to put like something like that on their shelf?
Neuromancer
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Butterhead
Omegasquash
Member
Not my style, but whatever. Not feeling any outrage, but for anyone that would objectify this...that's ew.
For the record, I am not appalled. I just don't know who in the hell would want a bloodied and decapitated corpse of a formerly hot woman in a bikini displayed in their house. I am sure some perverted 'hardcore' teenagers will get off on it, though. Which is whom I am guessing they are aiming this at. In which sense, it is most certainly tasteless. A simple zombie statue would have sufficed and would have a much broader appeal.
You really add a lot to the conversation. Also if you read most people aren't so much offended as they just think it's stupid and tacky.
It's as idiotic as an "art piece" as the Walking Dead head-stuck-with-a-screwdriver-through-the-eye statue. But nobody is coming out of the fucking woodworks to write how horrible and demeaning that is.
StevePharma
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Don't do drugs but would develop coke habit snorting bumps off her stomach.And what if the zombie was a bikini lady?