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Might a well share some more pictures of weirs knockoff toys I found...

They replaced Wasabi (the black guy in green armor depicted on top of the package) with a white, faceless monster with black dots for eyes...

If you look below, you'll se that Kristoff looks more like a young Donald trump than a Disney price, Elsa looks like she got a spray-tan and her hair is made from a melted marshmallow and her sparkly ballgown is replaced with a blue bedsheet wrapped around her chest, and judging from the red lump in her hand and the red blotch on the reindeer's neck, she just performed some manner of mortal Kombat fatality on the poor animal.

And last but not least, here they tried making dolls supposed to look like children from Asia and Africa, but were too lazy to switch the eye and eyebrow color on them...

Your new tracks are great, and I'm impressed to see that you came up
with so many of them this week!

Awesome, I'm so excited! I will buy this game as soon as I'm able to get this song out of my head!

Yay!  Neofeud has been Greenlit!   Thanks AGS community for your support and for voting!  Gonna make Steam cyberpunk again.  We have to give "The Last Night" a run for its money.

Hooray, does this mean that Neofeud fill finally be on Steam?

These ads for online games...
Upon close inspection I saw it was just some warrior dude standing next to a bear with the same armor as him,
but at first I almost thought he was some sort of centaur creature.

Then I just wanted to share these bizarre toys I found in a bargain bin:

It seems manifacturers of knockoff toys have no idea on how large chickens are...

You make a good point, Gillbert, but my complaint isn't about realism as much as aesthetics,
and I think that the costumes look boring and cheap for being in a movie with a multimillion dollar budget.
If you aren't constrained by realism, why not go all out and do something interesting and dramatic rather
than just use leftover pieces of leather stapled together?

To use some examples, the armor of Thor and the other Norse gods in the Marvel movies weren't realistic either,
but they looked like there was thought and effort put into designing them, and I could say the same of the designs
for the characters on planet Krypton in Man of Steel or the characters in Lord of the Rings too.

I had trouble telling most of the amazons apart for much of the time, and nothing about them looked even vaguely Greek.
I also found the amazon costumes jarring in Wonder Woman since all the other costumes from the WW1 era were rather accurate and well done.
I guess this might count as minor spoilers, but:

Spoiler

The armor for Ares looked like a ridiculous knockoff of the guy on the Skyrim cover! Also, why did he have a Victorian-era mustache in Ancient Greece?

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However, this is just my opinion, and taste is subjective. But does anyone think that the amazon costumes looked beautiful or memorable?

[Wonder Woman]

I just saw the new Wonder Woman movie, and while I liked most of the movie,
the costumes they went with for the amazons really grinds my gears.

This is an promotional image from the Wonder Woman movie:

And these are images for Game of War, a free to play strategy game mostly known for using B-list actresses in gaudy costumes to trick people into spending money on micro-transactions.


Why on earth do the the costumes on commercials for a free phone game look less tacky and better made than those in a 150 millon dollar blockbuster?!
Now don't get me wrong, I liked the story, acting and action in Wonder Woman, but the silly costumes made it really hard to feel immersed in the movie whenever the amazons were on screen.
I think costuming in movies in general is criminally underrated, and especially in sci-fi and fantasy. I think it makes up a larger part of world-building than people give it credit for,
and it always bugs me when movies that do everything else well fails in that department.

Very nice, always fun to listen to what you come up with!

Great, as always!

[Case in point:]

Something that bothers me with a lot of sci-fi and fantasy stories is when they try to use magical beings as a metaphor for real-life oppressed minorities... ... and the oppressed ones in the story have superpowers.

The whole message of "they are harmless people who are just like us and don't deserve to be shunned and feared" falls apart when the large masses have a legitimate reason to fear them.

Case in point:

The mages in Dragon age, people with magic powers who are either locked up in towers away from the locals or hunted down by knights because they either risk becoming mad with power and practice blood magic, or possessed by demons and turned into monsters (and even kind and well-meaning mages risk being possessed against their will). The game treats this as a cruel injustice against the mages.

X-men, and several other Marvel superhero movies, where the government wants to register people with various super-powers, such as shooting laser-beams from their eyes, mind-controlling people and kill them just by touching them. According to the X-men movies, requiring people to register mutants with the ability to kill countless people with a mere thought is considered literally just as bad as Hitler.

And let's not forget almost every single movie about witches, where Salem and the witch hunts are mentioned, but in the movie, witches are real and can do magic. All the people who were executed in the witch trials were innocent, because you can't kill people with magic spells in the real world, so it kind of grinds my gears when people make up stories about witch hunters hunting real and dangerous witches, and are totally justified in doing so.

Good work! 

How fun, the review seems great, I'm so hoping this game gets greenlit on Steam soon!

It grinds my gears whenever people making games/comics/movies promoting a "strong female character"

You could stop right there if you wanted, because it shouldn't be exceptional to have one.

I like your analysis. I remember thinking this about Nina in the Secret Files games. She gives so much sass all game that she just seems like a rude person. There's a point in one game where she gives sass to a SWAT crew in her underwear. She's strong, independent, but she needs Max because... ? Also, they end up getting married, so she really is the archetype you're talking about.

I think Nina is far from the worst example, but yeah, so many of her lines are pretty cringe-worthy, especially the jokes on housecleaning, they felt recycled from the 1950's. 

While we're at the subject, it also bugs me when people claim that female action heroes are unrealistic because the average man is slightly larger and stronger than the average woman.
Aside from the existence of guns, bows, spears and naginatas rendering size a moot point, male action heroes defeat bigger and stronger foes all the time!
Like when Indiana Jones fights that huge, muscular guy, or when Indiana Jones fights that other huge, muscular guy. 

It grinds my gears whenever people making games/comics/movies promoting a "strong female character"
and say "she's not like other girls, she's a strong independent woman" and then proceeds to use exactly the same cookie-cutter character we've all seen before,
who starts out being pointlessly rude only to have a change of heart and fall for the hero anyway, and despite being introduced as a strong fighter just ends up being
used as damsel in distress in the third act anyway. Seriously, these characters are so predictable they should be considered walking spoilers by now.

It's exciting to see you make new music tracks, they are pretty good too! 

Also, my latest game is out now, and I used seven of your tracks in the game!
Here's the link: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2150/

What is it with internet and weird reimaginings of Colonel Sanders? 

Sorry to say, but I seem to have trouble opening the link in your last post.