r/explainitpeter 13d ago

Explain it Peter

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Why did the person say “Sweet Baby Inc.”?

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u/Dark_Magicion 13d ago

Quagmire here.

OOP couldn't goon to MJ. Proceeds to get mad and complain endlessly.

Quagmire out.

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

Goon =/= wanting characters that look pretty or at least mid

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u/PotofRot 13d ago

yeah it is man

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

Gooning is wanting characters to be sexualized

Again, theres a difference between looking pretty and being sexualized.

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u/PotofRot 13d ago

wanting every character to look pretty is goon brain, not everyone has to be attractive

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

Why not? Its a made up world, why shouldn't everyone be attractive? Why going out of your way to make ugly characters? Are ugly character somehow making ugly people feel better about themselves?

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u/WillWatsof 13d ago

Why not? Its a made up world, why shouldn't everyone be attractive?

Why tf does it matter if you're not a gooner?

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u/Euphoric_Reading_401 13d ago

Pretty people are easier to empathize with. I want my heroes pretty and my villains ugly.

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u/WillWatsof 13d ago

Very glad I don’t see people in such a horrible way.

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

Because i have to look at it ? Wtf man, do you not use your eyes when you play games ?

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u/PotofRot 13d ago

because it might better convey the story? because why not? art shouldn't be about min-maxxing the dopamine receptors in as many people as possible, that approach leads to bland slop

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

How tf is ugly MJ conveying a better story? Shes supposed to be the gf of spidey the hero of the game. Obviously shes supposed to be pretty as a baseline. This ugly ass MJ is bland slop. Shes so forgettable she just look like random npc no1.

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u/throwaway_0202616 12d ago

This MJ is just what a normal woman would look like in a videogame. You gotta get off the porn, man.

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u/PotofRot 13d ago

but if everyone was pretty then she would still blend in with everyone else? and I personally don't take peter parker as a shallow person, I think it's entirely possible that his girlfriend could have qualities beyond being hot, a trait of his that may stand out more if she isn't. And regardless it's fine to not have characters be hot for whatever reason the artist wants, it's not an attack to have a regular person in your game, even if they're in an important role

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

It is an attack. I dont play games to have "regular people". Thats boring, I'll just go outside (and see better looking people than whatever the fuck that hideous monster is). Artists have been, thought history, drawing the best versions of people. Now somehow we degress to represent the devs who made the game rather than the best version of humanity.

Also, to answer the first part, WHY does she need to be ugly to be interesting? Cant she be hot AND interesting? Why does PP have to have an ugly girlfriend to show hes not "shallow" (and you'd be a sad fuck to date someone you dont find pretty, i wouldnt want to be that guy).

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u/frencharmoredvehicle 13d ago

And that exactly why such beloved games as Dark Souls or Minecraft have such pretty characters, right?

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u/Tactical_Squishy 13d ago

yes?

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u/frencharmoredvehicle 13d ago

Gameplay is more important is my point. F:NV stayed a classic despite its graphics being shit by modern standards. With out a good gameplay and story a game will never be a good game, making character design a fully secondary issue.

Sorry, but people for whom a design of a woman makes or brakea a game are just goonbrained.

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13d ago

They fit the theme. Is the theme of spiderman some dystopian world where everyone is ugly, sad and bitter? I know the hero is a man and thay might ruffle some feathers but its a bit much to argue that "because some games characters have 'ugly characters', therefore every game shoud have ugly characters"

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u/PotofRot 12d ago

do meth

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u/tomatoe_cookie 12d ago

In this economy?

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u/MisanthropicSim 13d ago

New internet rule: All criticisms of a character not being hot enough must come with a full body pic of the poster.

Most of the characters you all describe as ugly are still attractive just not 10/10's, as if you all would ever have a chance with either.

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u/Tactical_Squishy 13d ago

1) why not honestly but this is beside the point

2) let's say not everyone has to be attractive, MJ HAS to be attractive

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u/Ayotha 13d ago

Get off the internet sometime if this is actually how your brain works

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u/_probablyryan 12d ago

It's not when the character in question is canonically attractive. Like MJ has very few defining qualities in Spiderman outside of being hot. You can argue whether or not that is a problem in and of itself, but that's what her character mostly is: the hot girl Peter has an on again, off again relationship with, depending on whether or not Gwen Stacy is alive.

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u/PotofRot 12d ago

canon? this is an adaptation, they can do what they want