>>20879616The Portal example really demonstrates how we've shifted into totalitarianism.
>competent female protagonistbut
>she requires some kind of leg augments to explain her athleticism>she doesn't disparage any men>she doesn't even speak>you can't even see her face in game, unless you play around with the portals as a mirror>she's not even on the game packagingthis combination is completely inconceivable in 2024. Every female character is an obnoxious feminist parody and serves as a vehicle for some San Francisco liberal VA to act out her cringey bossgrrl fantasies.
This change shows the journey from 90s/2000s tokenism, where minorities being shoehorned in entertainment was rightfully mocked as corporate cowardice, to our current time when having a white male protagonist is seen as de facto immoral, unless you subject him to some kind of degradation ritual.
Nobody gave a fuck about Chell in Portal because the west had not yet become an insane totalitarian hellhole.
However, the message is obviously that we SHOULD HAVE given a fuck and objected back then too. Then we wouldn't have got here. Female protagonist = no buy from now on, simples.
