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Dove partners with Unreal Engine and others to launch 'Real Virtual Beauty', to reflect real-world diversity in video games.
- Thread starter Eddie-Griffin
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levyjl1988
Banned
No, I wouldn't want to buy video games with ugly characters in them. Video games are an escape for a reason like movies.
It reminded me of this one scene where there are women too attractive for the jobs they work in.
It reminded me of this one scene where there are women too attractive for the jobs they work in.
Tams
Member
Because it's promoting being fat as good.
And let's be honest, the chat majority of people don't want to look at ugly people, nor see being disabled as a good thing (don't @ me for that, I'm not railing against disabled people).
Hell, you there are probably more not not so attractive, and disabled people who use games to be something they aren't than those who want accurate depictions.
TheGrat1
Member
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
"Yes, yes my naive zoomer. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Stay indifferent to everything, all for the greater good and a world full of ponies. Yes, stop noticing things, it's all conspiracy propagated by basement dwellers"
fart town usa
Gold Member
Thought the exact same thing.I got a better idea for Dove.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Can’t wait to see the roster for Destruction All-Stars 2.
VN1X
Banned
I'm no male nerd!!!!!
GymWolf
Member
That's because their engine sucks donkey balls.
A Most Virtuous Cat
Banned
This cult is getting out of hand
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Dude I barely woke up and you got me like "wtf when did I say that?".
MikeM
Member
Accuracy. If they want to look like their original pictures- go to the gym. Eat better. Otherwise, don’t misrepresent yourself.My god, the absolute fucking savagery...
No it isn't. It is promoting people being comfortable in their skin by allowing them to express who they are in virtual form. There are fat people. There are always going to be fat people. You can encourage them to be healthier AND let them feel represented in gaming if they choose to say "Fuck that, give me all the cookies."
Oh give me a break. If this is the lens you view good game design through then 100% this kind of saccharine campaign is needed.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
None of us are running out to buy their products, however.
The whole point behind marketing, well, it's supposed to be anyways. Not preached to with false virtue.
Tams
Member
lol, it's a marketing campaign, social warrior.
Pimpbaa
Member
Nah, mods fix that easily. I’m thinking more like sub par modellers in the art department. Hell gamers make better looking characters in their games with detailed character creation. A bad engine doesn’t have to mean bad artwork.
Eddie-Griffin
Banned
But for some reason it makes everyone want t buy their games.
Todd Howard knows how to hypnotize games through the TV lol. Explains Fallout 76's turnaround.
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ZoukGalaxy
Member
Can't describe better my mood than this gif.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Totally forgot about this.
Someone needs to run these
through Blizzard's Diversity Space Tool
Someone needs to run these
through Blizzard's Diversity Space Tool
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DragoonWalker
Member
Frankly this is a massive and misdirected overcorrection. It's true that very ugly, very disabled, and various other minorities have been ignored and invisible for so long, but even grouping them into one sweeping category of "diversity" is insulting and patronizing. Why should black people be grouped in with disabled people? What do disabled people have to do with obese people? What do obese people have to do with mentally challenged? And so on. Diversity is so much more than meets the eye. Look around you. That people at work. At school. Do you know their life story? Do you think you know everything about them, just because they look average and well adjusted? This "special people first" thinking is the kind of harmful perspective that leads to people getting ostracized in the first place. Boxing people into reductive checkboxes. If these companies truly want the extreme minorities to have equal footing with everyone else, they should be celebrated alongside of them, not apart from them, exclusively because of their problems, differences, or shortcomings. Honestly, people shouldn't even be categorized like this. Abbreviated into marketing statistics. People are worth celebrating individually, when they' achieved something, not because they're part of some arbitrary group they did nothing to be a part of (or choose to be born into). Everyone who's lived a full life has a story, should be celebrated because of their achievements, not just because they have some debilitating problem.
It's understandable that companies do this for attention, but it's sad that so many have bought into it. Don't be anything less than who you are in totality. Don't let the thing that others use to define you become the only thing by which you define yourself. Gay, black, disabled, female... if you're any of those things I'm sure that has shaped your life in a big way vs the thing you're not... but it doesn't have to be all you are. You could, in fact, be any of all of those things and share a lot of the same interests as anyone else who isn't. Or have interesting stories that don't revolve around any of that. Freedom has become a diminished value because we have forgotten that people could in fact be, not defined by severely limiting traits that they don't even have control over.
It's understandable that companies do this for attention, but it's sad that so many have bought into it. Don't be anything less than who you are in totality. Don't let the thing that others use to define you become the only thing by which you define yourself. Gay, black, disabled, female... if you're any of those things I'm sure that has shaped your life in a big way vs the thing you're not... but it doesn't have to be all you are. You could, in fact, be any of all of those things and share a lot of the same interests as anyone else who isn't. Or have interesting stories that don't revolve around any of that. Freedom has become a diminished value because we have forgotten that people could in fact be, not defined by severely limiting traits that they don't even have control over.
GymWolf
Member
The only good aspect is the fact that you if you leave a fork in a place, it's gonna be there after 20 hours.
Neat feature but it is not worth the shitty engine performance\look for me.
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Bragr
Banned
Not on purpose. But yes, they are the Dove demographic.
Where are you getting ANY of this? This is such a spectacularly dishonest read of this campaign. In case you were actually interested, here is the actual description of the campaign. What about any of that reads like what you've quoted?
Oh heavens, it is?!
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Men’s Dove needs to promote beautiful male characters who look like this:
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Only if he identifies as non-man.Men’s Dove needs to promote beautiful male characters who look like this:
Eddie-Griffin
Banned
The picture from the campaign?
Tams
Member
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
The one with the locs is an albino African American.
Darkmakaimura
Member
LMAO.https://www.gamesradar.com/beauty-p...games-to-change-the-game-and-boost-diversity/
https://www.dove.com/uk/stories/about-dove/dove-gaming.html
I'm surprised they didn't partner with Sony since they had similar ideas on this issue, given Horizon. I suppose they are working on a game using Ureal with one of their partners as the resaon for the engine partnership.
bender
What time is it?
Men’s Dove needs to promote beautiful male characters who look like this:
His belt has seen some shit.
midasmulligan
Member
Meanwhile…
. . . that's a lot of bullspit to impute from a graphic image, especially when a clear description of their intent is already available.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Tams
Member
kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
levyjl1988
Banned
I can see Dove going this route as well.
When you go woke you go broke!