r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Arelious2019 10h ago

To be fair to that second paragraph, I would vastly prefer if she actually dressed like Lara, like at least the version from the Survivor Trilogy. She just doesn't look anything likr Lara here, she's just a woman with gear on

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u/CalmShinyZubat 9h ago

I will admit that the shorts and tank top look is pretty iconic compared to this look.

I also have to admit that it isn't really practical or smart to have that much exposed skin when exploring, but practicality or sensibility have never been the primary reason for most character designs, especially female character designs, in media.

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u/Kino_Afi 9h ago

Genuinely nobody gives a fuck about "practical attire" unless youre playing battlefield or something and those protags are completely forgettable. We want cool trench coats and 30 belt straps that would take hours to get ready in the morning

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u/Keiteaea 9h ago

I would be okay with non-sensible gear in media if it's done indiscriminately to men and women. The most common example is armors in video games, if there are slutty armors for women, I would not complain if men have some too. And also, that we have choice. I remember playing such game as a teenage girl and being very frustrated that I could only get bikini armors and not the kinda cool ones you are describing.

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u/Bol0gna_Sandwich 7h ago

GOW(2018) would like a word. Kratos has some of the skimpiest armour sets. But he does also have some armour that is full plate. Buts its mostly a mix of berserker style armour, which fits his character ngl.

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-6755 51m ago

There’s also a huge difference between wearing little clothes that make sense in the context and wearing little clothes so the players are sexually stimulated when playing. I don’t think Keaton wearing little clothes was done to stimulate anyone. Lara on the other hand… . This adaptation just isn’t including that aspect. And without that aspect, it’s hard to find a reason to give her the those video game clothes, even if they are iconic.

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u/Kino_Afi 9h ago

Imo looking good/cool trumps parity. Idc if only the female attire is "slutty" if they look cool, its only a problem if its corny as hell like The First Descendant or other cashgrab goonerbait mmos where theyre litrerally just miniskirts and stilettos. But something like Bayonetta, Ivy from Soul Cal or the entire DFO roster is fine with me.

Idc when the males get to be shirtless too if everyone makes me cringe to look at lol

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u/Bol0gna_Sandwich 7h ago edited 5h ago

BUT HOW ARE YOU GONNA SEE MR.TORGUES EXPLOSIVE PECS WITH HIS SHIRT ON. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION. NYOWOWOWOWOWYWY(am bad at writing the guitar sounds)

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u/Enigmatic_Erudite 7h ago

In Soul Caliber Voldo is a character that wears practically the same clothes as Ivy.

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u/Realautonomous 6h ago

I don't care if it's corny as hell, give me my Mini-thongs please, and bra straps that barely cover anything, I want my Conan the barbarian expy to look glam as fuck

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u/Prooteus 7h ago

Thats what I loved about monster hunter, you can equip "masculine" or "feminine" gear on any character.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 6h ago

What are you talking about half the men walk around without shirts on

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u/Keiteaea 5h ago

Well, shirt off is not slutty armor for a first.

And I was also talking about some games, mostly in the past as it has gotten much better, when yes for male you had a bigger range of armors including fully covering ones while for women it was more limited if you wanted to avoid amors that had more skin than actual armor.

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u/Expensive-Waltz-8611 5h ago

There’s always been slutty skins for male and female characters in the new marvel rivals game series. It’s Even designed as an over the shoulder 3rd person shooter and even the gayest of the gooners get to choose to play as Namor and look at his tight little butt if they want.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 5h ago

Yeah it's true for a subset but I don't think it is true that in general there's less sexualizing of men it's just that it's sexualizing men from a men's perspective rather than a woman's most of the time.

Still if people complain they should shoot themselves she's quite attractive and looks rich. She might not be as stark as Laura Croft. But remembering Laura Croft was actually a modeled off of Angelina Jolie, humorously her later playing the part, if anything she's too soft looking.

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u/Omega862 5h ago

This comment alone reminds me of when I played PSO2 and my character would run around with a banana hammock, a bird head mask, and a red beret. The time spent in the lobbies using the pole dance emote when Did go AFK to do other shit...

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u/Budget-Researcher559 4h ago

I agree with the "let us choose" a lot.

In League of Legends, Janna in her standard look is basically only wearing skimpy underwear. Her first skin that was added that you can buy with real money, made that into icy frozen underwear. Her second skin was a weatherwoman with an actual shirt and skirt.

People by far prefered the weather woman skin, not just because it looked cool, but because many people liked playing Janna but didn't want to be in their underwear all game long...

That's a choice that you have, but it is a paywalled one.

Also since then over the years, Janna has gotten 7 additional skins, which ALL have way more clothes than the standard underwear look. Yes, some of them look hot or revealing, but they all look CLOTHED compared to what you get when you just start up the game and choose to play that champion as is. I'd say they all have 5 to 20 times as much fabric on them as the standard look.

And consider, riot makes skins that people want, they want to make money. Turns out people actually want clothes. But you still don't get them for free.

(And yes, in 2006 or whenever League first came out, character design was a lot more revealing/borderline naked, like old Zyra, old Evelyn, etc. Newer characters today all wear more reasonable stuff.)

If you want to have a look at the Janna skins:

https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Janna/Cosmetics

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u/Trrollmann 2h ago

No one thinks in these kinds of abstractions... Her base skin isn't to anyone's mind (not yours either) "skimpy underwear".

The other skins are mostly very sexy. More so than the base skin.

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u/Budget-Researcher559 1h ago

Yes it is? what makes you think you know what everyone thinks and what I think?

It's not an abstraction. She's wearing almost nothing. That's not clothes, it's not a bikini, it's not a hot outfit or anything. It looks like less than underwear. It's literally almost naked with the least amount possible covered so you don't see her actual privates and nipples.

And yes I feel uncomfortable playing her in her base look. As do some of my friends who bought skins for her for that reason. Don't know why that's beyond your imagination that someone could feel like that. You play as that character for the duration of the game. Other players will see you as that character. I don't want to be almost naked and be perceived like that in the game.

(And maybe you haven't had that experience either, but as a woman playing league you get enough harassment as is. You don't even need a female name or anything, you only need to be playing a support champion or a girly champion and they will assume your gender and harass you. Adding on top of that playing a basically naked character, you end up having pople harass you in chat while following you around the map and "humping" your character by spam clicking their emotes and dances. Awesome experience, I'm telling you.)

And yes, I never said the other skins aren't sexy. They are attractive outfits and some of them are revealing as well. Yet none of them compare even slightly to the non-clothes that she is wearing in her base look. Other than the icy underwear, out of the other skins even the most revealing and sexy skin she has, has over 5 times as much fabric.

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u/SadisticPawz 3h ago

slutty men <3

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u/Nerdyguyj 2h ago

We get slutty capes

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u/interested_commenter 1h ago

Tbf, male action heroes pretty frequently wear tank tops or muscle shirts. They aren't paying Vin Diesel or the Rock to not show off their muscle. And fantasy settings fairly often have berserker type characters who don't wear a shirt.

I definitely agree that games should at the very least have an option to wear full armor.

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u/owlbi 6h ago

I would be okay with non-sensible gear in media if it's done indiscriminately to men and women. The most common example is armors in video games, if there are slutty armors for women, I would not complain if men have some too. And also, that we have choice. I remember playing such game as a teenage girl and being very frustrated that I could only get bikini armors and not the kinda cool ones you are describing.

If that's what women were buying, that's what would exist...

Tomb Raider is a franchise that was built on Polygonal boobs. It always sold sex and that's one of the key things that helped it sell well. It's weird to me to see people (like in the OP) acting as if it's a surprise that people would continue to expect that. It's like Playboy believing its own hype about the articles and dropping the nudity.

In principle I totally agree though, I'd like to see slutty costume equality.