Answer:

1. Ugly Foids who want to bring down every other foid to her level

2. Attractive Foids who want to make everyone else ugly so they'll be the prettiest foid in the room

3. Pathetic Moids who simp for the Attractive Foids

The face-model for Aloy from the Horizon games is pretty. Name is Hannah Hoekstra if anyone wants to look up more pictures for proof.

So one arm of the company went to the effort of hiring a pretty foid and modelling her face. Another arm decided to then change that face to be ugly by giving her horrible skin, blotchy red alcoholic complexion, gross eyes with eyebags and dark circles, disgusting matted hair in the worst style you could ever conceive and an overall "unwashed lesbian" aesthetic.

This doesn't help explain why but definitely shows it's done on purpose.

I think it's probably just a response to the mild backlash back when every woman in gaming was over sexualised. Got to probe they're not doing that anymore and they've all hired heads of diversity to enforce "sensitivity".

The women who work in AAA Vidya want normal looking b-words they can self insert as ala that b-word from Twilight so the hoes they design look plain and or ugly NEXT QUESTION

My own biased opinion based off observations at the AAA company I work at.

The art department is largely made up of lgbtqi+infinity cultists by this point (and white women but I repeat myself).

There isn't anything wrong with that on the surface, plenty have existed before and have created plenty of awesome shit. But there was a generational shift post 2016. The people getting jobs didn't grow up playing the games the rest of us played, their favorites are shit like The Sims or neopets. Seeing hot chicks just isn't a priority for them. Add on top of this repeated discourse about how terrible and r*pey the “male gaze” is and you have an entire department jumping up and down to be on the right side of history.

That's also why you don't see the same kind of treatment of male characters or even lgbtq+infinity characters. See, male gaze is problematic and sexist therefore we will not cater to it. But imagery that appeals to women and lgbtq shit is wholesome and empowering so therefore is to be allowed and promoted. My company will no longer produce hot skinny babes with nice tits as characters but every male character is going to be nicely buff with a deep v to expose as much skin as possible.

Watched this video about “safe horny” and “safe edgy” a bit ago and it really put the whole thing I'd been observing the last few years in perspective.

<- peak feminity

The gaming industry is run by trains, and they want to degrade standards of female beauty, for obvious reasons.

It's because they have a view of culture in which everything is discursively constructed. That means that things are the way they are as the result of an ongoing discussion between basically everyone in the world all the time. People who have more “power” (e.g., media influence, positions in politics and academia, etc.) have more ability to shape this discussion than others. So, to take beauty, most of these leftoids would basically deny that there is an inherent quality of beauty (essentialism) and argue that beauty is a shifting discourse that is set by what people in a given place and time say is beautiful. Because it's not stable, the more people (especially culturally powerful people) who say that something is beautiful, the more true it is. That's why progressives value representation so much. They believe you can shift society's view on a thing completely if you utter it enough. This is combined with an emphasis on uplifting those who are seen as disadvantaged (BIPOC, uggos, disabled, etc.). So, they feel that by creating more representations of these people as “beautiful,” they are doing the cultural work of shifting the meaning of beauty to what they see as a less oppressive standard. This may be true to an extent, but as always, I think they massively downplay how ingrained certain things are through our biological heritage.

Because they themselves are ugly? People these days live vicariously through media so hot women in media threaten them even when they're fictional and made out of pixels.

They just want everything to look like non passing trains so they can point to the characters and say “see I look like her. Im a woman”

it's insane that with every new iteration of those compilations i see a new version of that bug eyed broad. why is she in every modern vidya?

As with everything these days, it is about power.

The anti-beauty impulse is iconoclastic, not in the playful mid-20th-century sense, but in the literal sense of destroying icons. It is dour, tight-lipped and totalising.

[It] says that beauty doesn't exist, shouldn't exist, isn't important, is the enemy of virtuous behavior and thought. The aim of such gestures is not to expand anyone's aesthetic. It is to punish you for being attracted to what is now forbidden.

https://unherd.com/2022/12/beauty-has-become-our-enemy/ but half the article is about sone old Ruskie sci fi novel so don't bother. I just liked the bit above.

Bro what the frick is that bottom picture?

Ayro remme sip on dat rean

You don't put a comma after the question mark when making a series of questions.

Loool the girl with the pink buns in her hair is pretty egregious that literally does look like a racist caricature.

I figured they want then to look more like the avg American populace of butt ugly people

It's not complicated: they just hate male heterosexuality. They will literally turn on a dime when they go from talking about the awful sexy female character to talking about the wonderful sexy male characters in the same game.

Also frick you that pink haired b-word is CLEARLY a reference to Richard D James and thus Kino

I'm blaming the beasts for this one

(beasts = Jews)

Also, transfer me 100dc so I can pin this post