For anyone interested in Cleopatra’s family tree, just how incestuous it was and the question marks in it, I found this video to be well-done, interesting and fair. And entertaining.
I thought it was good!
Or is it a tool to help speed up making random characters not look like someone hit random on the skyrim character creator?
Yes, beloved random innkeeper that everyone was aware of and wasn’t a case of people upset about stupid things hunting out the one example of it happening?
I am sure you really do.
Nope, I think it’s a tool in the toolkit to help out when you have to populate a world with characters so you don’t end up with the Starfield randomly generated background npcs.
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The art department ALWAYS knocks it out of the park!
But Faerin isn’t a background character, why would it be okay to put minimal effort into her? And that method of character creation is exactly how you wind up with Starfield background characters.
Citation that they didn’t put any effort into that character?
Reread the other post of mine that you replied to. I don’t know. I was just expressing my hopes that they didn’t create her using a diversity generator as the other poster brought up because that would be terrible.
If she wasn’t generated, that’s good, but she’s still a pretty egregious example of diversity stacking on a single character.
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I’m still not seeing any good argument, just some vague arbitrary idea about if someone has too many of certain traits it can’t just be how someone wanted to make a character but some weird conspiratorial BS about scary diversity or something.
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dunno if you ever played it, but back in 1999, sony and verant came out with the first 3d mmorpg, named everquest. wow is modelled after it. one of the playable races were the erudites, who were black, elegant, stately, beautiful, impeccably dressed and geniuses. my first character was an erudite wizard. i loved how they addressed the subject. it was a great approach. faerin is very close to it but they focused on the soldier angle, and soldiers tend to wear close cropped hair. the amount of wounds though look too painful and downplay her gracefulness
https://wiki.project1999.com/images/thumb/Fashion_velious_erudite.jpg/800px-Fashion_velious_erudite.jpg
https://wiki.project1999.com/images/FemaleEruditeQuellious.png
https://youtu.be/OtmzJCFnJk8?t=105
ignore her attire. everybody started out in their undies
i think wow is leaning into realism too much as far as black humans go. people play fantasy characters for fantasy. a black player may want to look like faerin, but many would prefer idealism, if they had a choice between extreme beauty / handsomeness/ machoness and so on, or someone who may realistically be battered and battle scarred, they’d appreciate the idealism over the realism.
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I mean, if a human designed Faerin, they probably thought she looked cool. However, since we live a world where they insist that every black person in media is supposed to be lauded as representation, I can state that Faerin doesn’t remotely represent myself, my family, or the majority of black folks.
I see this happen all the time with characters and I’m simply tired of it. Can we get a normal, basic black person who is passibly attractive and doesn’t have Faerin’s cut or Killmonger hair before worrying about all the other diversity points they’ve tacked on?
I get it though, you think this is a sincere effort and that criticizing the design is an attack on making the world a better and more inclusive place. I won’t argue with you further, you won’t hear me anyways.
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Thank you. You get it.
Yeah this isn’t even new, I’m confused.
I literally thought I was starting to go insane thinking this…
just exhausted of the racist tokenism and gaslighting from Blizzard.
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The person you replied to deleted their original post, but I was gonna say, are people tripping?
If Xal’atath looks like a man, I guess I’m (literally) gay.
that second character’s model is incomplete.
This is the most Facebook post I’ve ever seen
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its the lighting. in some positions, the lighting made her face look angular, accentuated her chin width and length and momentarily made her look like a male dread lord, and then went right back to being a female void elf. the eye picks up little nuances under scrutiny like that but doesnt always impact people who are only casually viewing it. and if deliberate it makes sense since xal isnt a void elf. she’s not even likely to have a gender if shes a void creature
3/4 of this feels like a promo for cirque du soleil, pretty mid for a trailer if you ask me, only last quarter felt like a WoW trailer
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