Is there some exterior reason for her taking this domineering role?
The narrative angle is that she basically had no free will. Not basically. She genuinely did not. There's a pheromone trigger that turns off her higher functions and attacks whoever was splashed with them.
So she's trying to take control of her life but because she doesn't know how social dynamics work, it comes off as her being dommy.
Some people overhype her dominant aspects more than there are because she only really becomes domineering if you
encourage it. There's points in the main story where if you didn't encourage it, Null will speak up and tell her not to boss him around.
It's a coping mechanism, as are all quirks. They're intentionally written to be kinky, but unhealthy.
If you don't encourage quirks, Null is a lot more helpful in a constructive way rather than just allowing himself to be an outlet for their frustration.
Though we're doing a rework of the system to allow Null, and thus the player, to encourage these habits in a dynamic way.
Such as telling Laura
it's okay to stalk you, but not to dominate you in the bedroom. Or telling her that it's okay to be dommy in the bed room but not outside it.
If she's in some series like she's in here, I might read my first one!
Click on the link in my signature. It'll tell you a lot of what to expect from our game development and has a link to an entire write-up of her best works.
Oh come now, that's not just women, men do that all the time.
I said on average. I wasn't excluding men or implying it's just a women thing.
I would also argue that they aren't dismissing the existing fanbase
I would agree with you if it weren't for the numerous articles of writers, directors, and actresses openly stating "This isn't for you!" Or stuff like "The Force Is Female." Which was said by the current head of Lucas Arts. She even wore it on a shirt.
Like there's nothing nuanced about it. They're being very direct about it.
Bethesda for all their mediocrity has made Fallout many times larger than it was as a turn based isometric game.
Two very different companies. Though you're right.
However, I'd argue it's because of how dated Fallout 1&2 are. If they had the tech that modern isometric games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Disco Elysium have, I have a strong feeling they'd out-perform the FPS games.
Though I'll admit that we don't live in that reality so it's mostly me going off of market assumptions.
Like it or not, at the end of the day it is hard to argue with success.
When Bob Iger, the head of Disney, states that their current model is failing. Combined with the fact that Disney has needed to shut down several hotels and businesses, as well as upcharging the parks and other services to cater to more wealthier customers in an attempt to turn a profit... I don't know where you're getting that success from.
Like even your own math is showing they're making less. Yeah many of their projects break even, but that hasn't been considered a success for decades as the money has to be distributed to the people who worked on the film and shareholders so Disney as a company actually does lose money.
Not that you would know anything about that, would you Shiny? Nothing like that was done in the Null Hypothesis.
Don't remind me.
As explained above we actually do have corruptive elements but people just moved the goalpost to outright be abusive in ways that not even RLE goes to.
Someone once suggested necrophilia in which Laura flatlines and we fuck her in that period it takes for her to heal back.
Yeah, it was one guy but Jesus it was one hell of an escalation during that conversation.
Think I might take a few days away from the forum, let this peter out.
Forums can induce stress my dude.
"Yeah, but this is the American way."
It isn't but cheaters will justify their actions in crazy ways. I'm not happy with America right now but I don't like to let my biases get in the way of being fair.
that the word "Kung-fu" came from name "Confucian"
This is a brain-dead take if I've ever seen one. Like I'm not even familiar with that part of the world's history and even I wouldn't come to such a stupid conclusion.
It's a corporation and it wanted to get the untapped market of those franchises and completely forgot the core demographic that made those franchises successful.
Hence Electronic Arts' tactic of taking something, adding microtransactions, and then assuming the IP wasn't popular when it fails and not their shitty business practices.
Did Cebulski make Peter David write mangaverse Punisher to be a woman who dresses like a geisha and uses dominatrix gear to "punish" Tokyo crime families?
That's... a thing? Like dude... what even?
These were watered, trope-y and stereotypical looking that looks to capitalize on something without consulting, asking or learning the about the culture beyond stereotypes.
To be fair, not saying it's a good thing, but every culture does this to every culture. Look at Americans in literally any other country's media and you'll see either fat dudes or people obsessed with guns.
Heck to associate with you, no country portrays China in an flattering way. RIP Akira Toriyama but his mistreatment of Krillan and Tien are pretty good examples.
a) These stereotypes exist WITH a Japanese (like, wrote for/drew mangas in Japan) writer
Again, to be fair, at the time Mangaverse was becoming a thing the Japanese manga and anime industry was relying on its own stereotypical tropes. Miyazaki's often misquoted "Anime was a mistake" came from an interview where he criticized studios for just cannibalizing other anime and relying on the same tropes repeatedly rather than attempting to portray stories and characters as real situations and real people to tell a more relatable story.
Not to defend him, but Cebulski's "contributions", including the Punisher thing, was no worse than what the Japanese were putting out themselves. I'm 100% sure that's why he got away with it for as long as he did.
