Karate Fight

What the fuck does Karate or Fighting have to do with manga-whores who look like they're smuggling basketballs?

Wow! This looks absolutely brill.

I'm packing in playing ASL so I can get me some Karate Fight.

PS Is it not possible to just not cover the release of this paedo bullshit? Why do we have to put up with this shit on the site? Presumably, we ban porn images, so why can't we ban this shit?

Down with this sort of thing.

I hate seeing this on our front page. At least those teenage girls don't look quite as baby-like as usual. I noticed it's from Soda Pop Miniatures, a company that solicits girls to be "booth babes". At a time when that practice is becoming more and more frowned on, at least by people with a sense of taste and dignity.

I move to ban garbage like this from the front page, I stand united with Andy. It isn't like this game is going to have ANY kind of traction anyway.

I'm really happy to have you fellas join me and Mr. Weeks in our fight against moral corruption. Welcome!

Michael Barnes wrote: I hate seeing this on our front page. At least those teenage girls don't look quite as baby-like as usual. I noticed it's from Soda Pop Miniatures, a company that solicits girls to be "booth babes". At a time when that practice is becoming more and more frowned on, at least by people with a sense of taste and dignity.

I move to ban garbage like this from the front page, I stand united with Andy. It isn't like this game is going to have ANY kind of traction anyway.

The article isn't on the front page. It never was. Your articles don't even hit the front page until the front page button on them is clicked.

The link to this thread is on the front page. I can bury the thread in bitchfest if that's what people want.

ETA: Bang the Walking Dead, Camelot, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Catacombs Expansion, Pathfinder Expansion, and DC Deck Builder Expansion also didn't make the front page.

I don't get the impression that anyone is carefully sifting through press releases and looking for pedo-manga games to post. Maybe this is a situation that could be handled with a private message to the site moderators. Or maybe someone could post a list of what is appropriate so everyone can adhere to it. Or you could even get a moderator--that would seem to be a popular option. The important thing, I would think, is to get outraged first, then go from there.

Fuck moderators, just don't have the pedo shit press releases.

You surely aren't arguing that this Manga bollocks is fine and posting their press releases is fine?

But Oh My God, we will need a policy. No we don't, just trash that shit. I'm not outraged, I just think we don't need to actually promote that crap.

I put it up. I support community standards, but I'm not taking it down because 3% of the people who have seen it have a problem with the illustrations. Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive; boycott Sodapop games. email the publisher, write an article.

I propose that the publisher re-name the game as Politically Correct Slapfest.

To me it is pretty ridiculous, not offensive, but breasts just do not grow like that on earth... or even in Heaven. Maybe in some kind of weird porno hell .. I don't know... and it seems perverted to me, it seems kind of sick to me. But maybe that speaks more to issues I have within myself than it does to the game. Who knows? What I do know is that even though I see it this was I absolutely refuse to assume that I know how all other people see it. I have no problems allowing for others to see it as innocent, tame, erotic in a safe and healthy way.. no problem at all. They have their filters and I have mine.

It sounds like JEM likes it, or is at least interested. Maybe not but it sounds that way and I do not assume that JEM is a pervert simply for that reason. This isn't offensive, it's funny. For me it's like a silly joke, catering to men based on something they really don't need to be catered to on anymore, ridiculous boobs that honestly wouldn't be very attractive in real life. It's all kind of weird. Almost like their making fun of men for their more pedestrian tastes.

So I say leave it.

The press release forgot to mention the upcoming Karate Fight: Tentacles expansion.

stoic wrote: The press release forgot to mention the upcoming Karate Fight: Tentacles expansion.

Tentacle Bento was the first game in the series.

I'm not remotely interested in it. I need to go lie down, I think I saw an ankle.

ubarose wrote: Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive...

YOU WIN!

ubarose wrote:

stoic wrote: The press release forgot to mention the upcoming Karate Fight: Tentacles expansion.

Tentacle Bento was the first game in the series.

I swear to God I really saw "Karate Fight: Testicles expansion".

To be honest, if this game was actually THIS...

...I would sell my house to afford it.

ubarose wrote: I put it up. I support community standards, but I'm not taking it down because 3% of the people who have seen it have a problem with the illustrations. Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive; boycott Sodapop games. email the publisher, write an article.

Of course, you have no real idea if I have actually emailed the publisher, well before I wrote that. Writing an article will do about as much good as posting here and I have no intention of buying a Sodapop game.

So only 3% of the readers complained. I'm guessing, with all the lurkers around here and 'guests', that there is a significant rise in the viewing of this particular product. I'm also guessing that those people really don't give a shit what FATs policy actually is, but they like to look at pre pubescent cartoons, if you give them the option. I'm not sure exactly who anybody thinks FAT is hurting by taking this bullshit down or is this some 'freedom of expression' ideal and me, not being hung up with that, simply can't understand it. I'd rather you allowed bog standard porn, to be honest.

The issue about sexualisation of children via cartoons and other media is actually a thing. So no, you don't have the right to dribble uncontrollably at cartoon images of kids, well you do, but we don't need to facilitate this. Make fun of the rant all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that sexualising children is not right and helping them advertise this, using the imagery that they do, is also not right IMHO.

Taking down this particular press release is actually constructive and NOT a pointless exercise. It is not a case of 'but where will we go from here?'. It's not even an issue where you feel you need 51% of the viewers of this press release to complain, before any action is taken. You definitely will never get that from lurkers. It is pure community responsibility.

You're being ridiculous. In no way are these depictions of prepubescent children. The first note of outage about the images was focused on the exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics of the characters portrayed. Whether you buy into the conceit that these are supposedly university students or not- and you could make a case about jail-bait, I don't think pedo-bear is coming to FAT.

Anyone who disagrees with me or doesn't give a hoot is obviously a kiddy-fiddler, mind.

ThirstyMan wrote: The issue about sexualisation of children via cartoons and other media is actually a thing.

They are college students. All the card games in this line of card games takes place at Takoashi University. Are you seriously suggesting that I carefully investigate every board game that is released to make sure that the women depicted are modestly dressed and wear nothing larger than a C-cup?

If people want to project their own fantasy that these illustrations of full developed young women are actually children, that's in their heads.

LMAO This is the best Friday Freakout ever. I think Andy is saying "Less this:


and more this:
(Shirtless Cowboy)

Oh of course, you're right. They go to University so it MUST be fine. Phewee!! Thanks for clearing that up for me. For one second, I thought that this this crap was pandering to the pedo in men. But I get that in no way is it doing that. It's just a healthy depiction of the female body.

Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.

I think it's dumb pandery garbage but if I start complaining about dumb pandery garbage in the nerd world, where will I stop?

Fortress:Pantsu-Fetish

ThirstyMan wrote: Oh of course, you're right. They go to University so it MUST be fine. Phewee!! Thanks for clearing that up for me. For one second, I thought that this this crap was pandering to the pedo in men. But I get that in no way is it doing that. It's just a healthy depiction of the female body.

Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.

I did look at the cover art. It's women with large boobs. Female children don't have boobs. Pre-pubescent means before puberty, therefore Pre-pubescent = NO Boobs. Pedo men don't like boobs. Boobs = adult.

Like most anime, this is game's primary demographic is teenagers.

Is it a healthy depiction of the adult female body? Well, personally, I think it's an absurd and bizarre depiction, but that is an entirely different conversation. We can have that conversation if you really want to, but not today. I have to go deal with a whole pile of teenagers. I'll try to remember to tell them that the media's distortion of the human body is unhealthy.

The boobies look really fucking healthy to me.

Considering that saline implants have a very high safety record, I'm fully satisfied with the healthiness of the Boobs.

They need to make a Star Wars version of this called Bounty Hunter: Booba Fett

ubarose wrote:

ThirstyMan wrote: Oh of course, you're right. They go to University so it MUST be fine. Phewee!! Thanks for clearing that up for me. For one second, I thought that this this crap was pandering to the pedo in men. But I get that in no way is it doing that. It's just a healthy depiction of the female body.

Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.

I did look at the cover art. It's women with large boobs. Female children don't have boobs. Pre-pubescent means before puberty, therefore Pre-pubescent = NO Boobs. Pedo men don't like boobs. Boobs = adult.

Like most anime, this is game's primary demographic is teenagers.

Is it a healthy depiction of the adult female body? Well, personally, I think it's an absurd and bizarre depiction, but that is an entirely different conversation. We can have that conversation if you really want to, but not today. I have to go deal with a whole pile of teenagers. I'll try to remember to tell them that the media's distortion of the human body is unhealthy.

Really? I also had a little poll with around 40 teenagers today and showed them this. I explained that this was a gaming website and so a niche community. They were surprised that a public website was happy to show it so obviously, some thought it was funny, most thought it was ridiculous, many were surprised at the depiction. One actually asked if Americans were happy to see this type of 'art' on a public website. I told them that most Americans simply didn't care and thought it all harmless. The discussion then led onto a wide variety of topics involving media depiction of women which was interesting in its own right.

Of the girls, 80% of them found it offensive, of the boys about 20% so no big surprises there (and I'm guessing that many of the boys who 'found it offensive' were simply saying that to impress the girls). I guess our adult conceptions of what is an acceptable topic of discussion for teenagers is a bit out of whack. In case you think I have no contact with teenagers, I am around them every day and I have a 19 and 16 yr old girl myself. So yes, I have to deal with a whole pile of teenagers every day. Of course, they aren't American teenagers and neither was the sample, they are British, Indian, Egyptian, Syrian, Russian, Chinese and French, so maybe their views are not the norm.

I actually did have a sensible discussion about anime and media distortion with them, apparently they do have brains and can think for themselves without adults saying "Don't worry this media depiction can't hurt you, just laugh it off girls, that's what us grown ups do. There are more important things to worry about". Quite possibly there are, but ignoring this bullshit does not change anything. Perhaps getting it off the news feed that we actually do control, doesn't change anything either but no one can say that it is not doing, at least, something constructive.

In my view, what many Americans fail to see, is that people do not agree with them on many, many issues.