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An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:59:22 am »
Before I begin, it should be noted that this applies to all female characters, not necessarily players. I suppose it could be about male characters too, but I haven't experienced them exhibiting the behaviour described below.

Dear Female Characters,

Leather armour looks like this:



It is not skin tight, revealing every curve of your Laanx-sculpted body. It is not hoplessly revealing and cut so that your cleavage shows through to tempt all those that of the male variety that walk by. That would be latex:



If you stab any one of those ladies, their clothing will rip, they will bleed, then they will die. And so will you, if you are dressed like that.

Now, I'm not saying you should not dress like that. That's wholly your option, and I support your decision 100%. But stop kidding yourself. You're not wearing leather armour and it affords you no protection. It does however, afford you a dominant look when you stand over your masochistic partner as he grovels at your feet begging his mistress to do her will.

Sincerely,

Someone who has tired of your nonsense.

P.S. Kaerli, no, you can't look "still beautiful" when you're built like a tank, scarred to hell, carrying at least three times your weight (which is considerable, and almost all muscle, so no nice curves) in weapons and armour. If I think armour is beautiful, I'll marry one of the guards in Bronze Doors, thank you.


I am most certainly NOT the one known as Perriwinkle or Overtherainbow

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2011, 05:52:05 am »
There is a Brown Way spell that manifests skin tight leather armor. It's a game, after all. This is maybe a bit too much.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2011, 07:20:11 am »
I loved it. Hilarious and creative, and wholly relevant.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2011, 11:00:26 am »
Hahahaha xD
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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2011, 11:09:18 am »
can I ask? what is your complaint directed to? FanArt? Character descriptions? character portrayal?
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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2011, 05:22:56 pm »
Yes.


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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2011, 06:03:22 pm »
Before I begin, ...
:thumbup: ::) I think I agree!

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2011, 10:21:50 pm »
The point is a good one. RP needs to have some plausibility. I'll try to keep my male klyros' armor desc reasonable :). On the other hand, the personal reference to a specific player weakened your argument. It was also unnecessary and somewhat impolite. And your concept that a muscular giantess can't be sexy is an opinion. It isn't necessarily my thing, but there is someone for everyone.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2011, 11:01:01 pm »
Thank you kind sir, for saying what has been on my mind since I began. All of it. +1
« Last Edit: May 21, 2011, 12:18:03 am by Phantomboy86 »

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2011, 01:05:27 am »
There is a Brown Way spell that manifests skin tight leather armor. It's a game, after all. This is maybe a bit too much.
There is a nicer Red Way one for that too.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2011, 01:49:22 pm »
The point is a good one. RP needs to have some plausibility. I'll try to keep my male klyros' armor desc reasonable :). On the other hand, the personal reference to a specific player weakened your argument. It was also unnecessary and somewhat impolite. And your concept that a muscular giantess can't be sexy is an opinion. It isn't necessarily my thing, but there is someone for everyone.

You make the (somewhat noobish) mistake of thinking he didn't intend to offend anyone and also, the mistake of assuming he was genuine in his creation of his thread. This is comedy, people will be singled out and made fun of for their somewhat critical, sometimes blaring, contradictions and flaws. It's human humour.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2011, 01:56:57 pm »
I think a point was missed here; A fundamental difference between yliakum and our world is women are to fight as often as men. So likely it exists armour created to suit a woman!
Do I need to say that an armour has to be close to the skin to actually protect (maybe not for mail)?
(that's also why you shouldn't be able to just go to a smith's and get plate armoury... It used to take about a year to have your full plate in our world, and you was to go try the fitting every two weeks or so)

And about the strength... Being able to lift 600kg and run half an our with such a burden is obviously not of fully-natural origins; the laws of biophysics clearly state you can't grow that much muscles.

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2011, 03:03:22 pm »
Enough with all the reasoning. Let's just point and laugh! Look, someone with a dark aura of doom over there!
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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2011, 04:04:25 pm »
Enough with all the reasoning. Let's just point and laugh! Look, someone with a dark aura of doom over there!

*Travosh laughs and incinerates the probable level 8 DW master of doom over there

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Re: An Open Letter to the female characters of planeshift
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2011, 04:44:18 pm »