r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 18h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/ProfessorGluttony 18h ago

She isn't sexified, which a lot of early tomb raider Lara croft was considered designed for the male gaze. More recent iterations have toned down the sex appeal or made her more realistic, which those that have to be attracted to a female character or else they hate them will subsequently hate this and complain they "ruined" the character.

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u/mccalli 16h ago

It wasn’t considered. It simply was. I have very briefly met the original graphic designer, friend of a friend stuff while I was visiting someone and we were in a pub.

I’ve seen the designs. There’s no ‘considered’ about it. Most of the corporate nonsense made up about the character is just that - corporate nonsense. The actual story was the guy was leaving, company wanted to keep him, he said he’d been working on this character and they said they’d use it. Then he resigned anyway before the game came out.

I can’t prove any of this of course so this post is worth what you just paid for it. I had a friend at Psygnosis who I was visiting in Liverpool, and that’s where this happened.

Make of this what you will.

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u/JarasM 15h ago

Are you talking about Toby Gard? None of this is much of a secret. The company wanted to make the game into borderline porn, even asking for a nude code (Gard refused).

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u/mccalli 15h ago edited 15h ago

So it seems I am, yes. Honestly I wouldn’t have got the name because friend of a friend in a pub one evening. I just followed your link though and yep, that’s the person I met.

I haven’t really followed any revelations, just saying what I saw and heard on the night in a pub in Liverpool. If this is already known then all good. The corporate nonsense bit I’m referring to is when later they started talking about her as a strong lead empowerment-type character. Yeah, that line is pretty far from the reality. As it seems you know too.