Marvel Rivals is too sexy!

[shevek]

And lacks diversity. Both of which are only a problem for a few socialist gamers.
[see Yellow Flash's video below for that analysis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAMyzA5lrcg

But it's apparently also free? Every female character is hot in it. You even get some Squirrel Girl thickness.

Other than Doreen, there is Dagger, Black Widow, Luna Snow (new hot Korean heroine from Agents of Atlas), Hela, Magik, Mantis,
Peni Parker (Spiderverse), Scarlet Witch, Psylocke, and Storm.

So play it if you like to play video games.
I'm sure this game will be very popular and the vast number of Marvel fans will enjoy it.

Let everyone know what you think about the heroine characters!

[Mr. X]

Hmm the guys seem pretty jacked. So candy is only bad depending on who eats it vs the nature of candy?

[shevek]

Hmm the guys seem pretty jacked. So candy is only bad depending on who eats it vs the nature of candy?

Yeah, for the Twelve Weirdos on Twitter (now renamed the Thousand Weirdos on Bluesky).

But for everyone else, I just suggest having fun playing the game and watching the sexy superheroines engage in combat
and maybe get their asses beaten once in a while.

[Femina]

I've seen basically nothing but universal praise for Marvel: Rivals, so I expect that whatever controversy you've drummed up is a quiet minority. I have zero interest in it cause it's just Overwatch with superheroes... and IDGAF about tournament shooters and other 'sport' videogames. If I wanted to play sports I'd go outside and do something USEFUL with my time like exercise. When I play video games I'm just there to relax and have FUN, which competitive crap simply doesn't afford me. (It doesn't help that for decades they've failed to do anything of merit whatsoever with the superhero genre in videogames that the medium and concept actually lends itself too outside of sporadic spiderman or batman games... and this BLOWS MY F'King mind!)

But that said... I've seen nothing but happy people from the folks that actually care about these types of games, which is a f'k ton of people. There's no controversy here that matters.

[ivandobsky]

I also don't really have the time or motivation to be playing hero shooters or really any online multiplayer games, but the following video is amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvzt6mCs9Z8

[bbsucks]

Any video that explains why Marvel Rivals is doing better than Concord did without mentioning that Marvel Rivals is free while Concord cost $40 surely doesn't have an agenda it's trying to push.

(I'm not saying price is the ONLY factor at play here, but how do you not even mention it?)

[shevek]

I've seen basically nothing but universal praise for Marvel: Rivals, so I expect that whatever controversy you've drummed up is a quiet minority.
But that said... I've seen nothing but happy people from the folks that actually care about these types of games, which is a f'k ton of people. There's no controversy here that matters.

Read what I said, and then apparently read it again. I did not say there was any controversy that actually "matters". I said "a handful of socialist gamers". I said "Twelve Weirdos on Twitter". That is, by definition, pretty much nobody.

My thread title was just trying to be funny and a little clickbaity to get people talking about the video game, especially to comment on the abundance of sexy superheroines in it.

I personally don't even play video games. I just wanted to get a conversation started about what looks like a fun way to spend some time and be entertained with a superheroine theme (for those who *do* play such games). We look for ways to do that on this Forum, right?

And "bb sucks", the couple of videos I watched which commented on the game (including Yellow Flash) *did* mention that Marvel Rivals is free, as far as I know. That's how I knew it was free!

[bbsucks]

FWIW - I was commenting on the video that was posted right above my comment. Not trying to make a statement about anyone who posted or has ever seen the video. Talking about the video itself that was posted. I'm not actually participating in an argument between "shevek" and "anyone else."

[Femina]

I've seen basically nothing but universal praise for Marvel: Rivals, so I expect that whatever controversy you've drummed up is a quiet minority.
But that said... I've seen nothing but happy people from the folks that actually care about these types of games, which is a f'k ton of people. There's no controversy here that matters.

Read what I said, and then apparently read it again. I did not say there was any controversy that actually "matters". I said "a handful of socialist gamers". I said "Twelve Weirdos on Twitter". That is, by definition, pretty much nobody.

My thread title was just trying to be funny and a little clickbaity to get people talking about the video game, especially to comment on the abundance of sexy superheroines in it.

I personally don't even play video games. I just wanted to get a conversation started about what looks like a fun way to spend some time and be entertained with a superheroine theme (for those who *do* play such games). We look for ways to do that on this Forum, right?

And "bb sucks", the couple of videos I watched which commented on the game (including Yellow Flash) *did* mention that Marvel Rivals is free, as far as I know. That's how I knew it was free!

I'm just offering my two cents Shevek, not actually arguing with you, sorry if it came off that way. The forum title invites discourse and opinions on if the game is 'too sexy' afterall... and my two cents on that amounts to 'no not really, and I don't think many people actually believe this' as it's own standalone statement. My general opinion on hero shooters is doubly not expressed as argument, I don't like them... got nothing against people that DO like them, occasionally get a chuckle out of watching videos of professionally humorous people playing them what LOVE them. I whole heartedly promote the creation and participation in videogame genre's I don't give a shit about. Different strokes for different folks.

[shevek]

I'm just offering my two cents Shevek, not actually arguing with you, sorry if it came off that way. The forum title invites discourse and opinions on if the game is 'too sexy' afterall... and my two cents on that amounts to 'no not really, and I don't think many people actually believe this' as it's own standalone statement. My general opinion on hero shooters is doubly not expressed as argument, I don't like them... got nothing against people that DO like them, occasionally get a chuckle out of watching videos of professionally humorous people playing them what LOVE them. I whole heartedly promote the creation and participation in videogame genre's I don't give a shit about. Different strokes for different folks.

No problem! The thread title was a humorous riff on 'Stellar Blade is too sexy'.
I hope people who enjoy hero shooters like playing this game and all the gorgeous heroines in it!
If anyone has any opinions after having tried the game, please post them.

I also think if they could afford it, some creators on this Forum would probably love to create a sexy video game with their characters.

[ivandobsky]

have an agenda it's trying to push.

That vid and channel is light-hearted fun for people that are already agree. Its purpose isn't to persuade anyone.

[Mr. X]

Well the right wing busy bodies are now fully back in 1980 mode trying to ban anything fun. We get rid of one group and the old one comes back. No difference between Anita Sarkesian and Jack Thompson. My site already had to implement some age verification nonsense cause of states like Texas.

[Femina]

Well the right wing busy bodies are now fully back in 1980 mode trying to ban anything fun. We get rid of one group and the old one comes back. No difference between Anita Sarkesian and Jack Thompson. My site already had to implement some age verification nonsense cause of states like Texas.

We can but hope America hasn't foolishly voted in an antediluvian era of Christian sex values in their mad rush to push Christian values into everything else it was traditionally meant to be SEPERATE from.

idk... is religion in the country to politics adjacent for the site? It might be... I can't imagine it's gonna be that much of a culture conflict in here though that we'd all rather not have the Christian politicians censoring pornography.

Spreken ze, does marvel Rivals appear to be beefing up the marvel rule 34 section if the interwebz? You can usually tell how healthy a game's cultural relevance is almost objectively by the strength of it's rule 34 presence. xD

[Mr. X]

I wanted expanded liberty with some discipline not ping pong-ing back and forth between left and right wing authoritarian wackery. I don't want antifa violence but I also don't want abortion clinics blown up by right to life.

There is a third way. We can have expanded liberty without extremes. The stuff I make should stay in the shadows but some cheese stuff is perfectly fine.

[shevek]

I wanted expanded liberty with some discipline not ping pong-ing back and forth between left and right wing authoritarian wackery. I don't want antifa violence but I also don't want abortion clinics blown up by right to life.

There is a third way. We can have expanded liberty without extremes. The stuff I make should stay in the shadows but some cheese stuff is perfectly fine.

Not to get too political, Mr. X, but ping-ponging is pretty much the way of politics throughout the Western world. We just haven't had much rational centrism since the 90s, but then again, we don't really quite go to the extremes, either. We're still mostly lawful and mostly democratic and mostly peaceful and mostly prosperous. An occasional school shooting, an occasional assassination of a CEO, but otherwise we're pretty much OK.

So take heart: even the bipolar ping-ponging in the West is by no means as extreme as how things sometimes go in lesser developed or non-Western areas. For example, in Syria you had a murderous authoritarian dictator who killed 500K and exiled 10 million and now you have wacko jihadist anarchy - literally no in-between. What do you think is going to happen if the Mullahs fall or if the Saud family collapses or if Erdogan bites the big one? You'll have a patchwork of competing territories and fiefdoms like in Libya or the Congo or Sudan or Somalia or Yemen or Haiti or Gaza, etc.

[Also: Persian girls are very hot - just drive through any rich Los Angeles suburb and see for yourself - and I would very much like the Ayatollah to take a dive so we can see some gorgeous Iranian women in tight spandex costumes, thank you very much.]

Alright, back to the topic at hand. Much like Femina - I, too, would like to see evidence of some rule 34 action on Marvel Rivals. It's too sexy not to!

[Dogfish]

I wanted expanded liberty with some discipline not ping pong-ing back and forth between left and right wing authoritarian wackery. I don't want antifa violence but I also don't want abortion clinics blown up by right to life.

There is a third way. We can have expanded liberty without extremes. The stuff I make should stay in the shadows but some cheese stuff is perfectly fine.

To be fair, there has never been left wing authoritarian wackery in the West. There has been left wing complaining, but nobody left of centre has ever had the political capital to do anything about it.

All of this stuff comes from the right. Historically in the UK it'll be because a white woman gets murdered so the porn laws have to tighten up and anybody who disagrees is a pervert. And I say that full aware of the fact that I am a pervert who joined other perverts trying to persuade the government this was a terrible idea after they last went on a mad one about it. That was a Labou government but they were not left wing in any meaningful sense.

Also and this should be obvious, there's not one lefty with the clout in the finance industry to have VISA and others simply declare that porn is bad. Ditto Paypal and other companies. The censorship the industry, especially individual producers have to deal with every single day, is once again not coming from angry feminists on soap boxes or anybody else like that. The financial sector says it doesn't like, for example, chloroform in videos, or hypnosis in videos, then suddenly it's either gone, or it's having to change keywords to adapt.

It's the God Squad, and their pals, and the weirdos on the right.

I'm sure there are lefties who would do it if they could, but they've never had the chance.

[Mr. X]

I wanted expanded liberty with some discipline not ping pong-ing back and forth between left and right wing authoritarian wackery. I don't want antifa violence but I also don't want abortion clinics blown up by right to life.

There is a third way. We can have expanded liberty without extremes. The stuff I make should stay in the shadows but some cheese stuff is perfectly fine.

To be fair, there has never been left wing authoritarian wackery in the West. There has been left wing complaining, but nobody left of centre has ever had the political capital to do anything about it.

All of this stuff comes from the right. Historically in the UK it'll be because a white woman gets murdered so the porn laws have to tighten up and anybody who disagrees is a pervert. And I say that full aware of the fact that I am a pervert who joined other perverts trying to persuade the government this was a terrible idea after they last went on a mad one about it. That was a Labou government but they were not left wing in any meaningful sense.

Also and this should be obvious, there's not one lefty with the clout in the finance industry to have VISA and others simply declare that porn is bad. Ditto Paypal and other companies. The censorship the industry, especially individual producers have to deal with every single day, is once again not coming from angry feminists on soap boxes or anybody else like that. The financial sector says it doesn't like, for example, chloroform in videos, or hypnosis in videos, then suddenly it's either gone, or it's having to change keywords to adapt.

It's the God Squad, and their pals, and the weirdos on the right.

I'm sure there are lefties who would do it if they could, but they've never had the chance.

who right now in Britain is arresting people for mean tweets? Is that right wingers? Doesn't sound like them.

[shevek]

To be fair, there has never been left wing authoritarian wackery in the West.

I'm sure there are lefties who would do it if they could, but they've never had the chance.

They had the chance.
It was called the French Revolution. Off with their heads, remember? Tens of thousands perished.

Another good but smaller example was the Spanish Civil War - there were atrocities on both sides.

Also, depending on what you call "the West", there has been plenty of left-wing authoritarian wackery in Central America,
the Caribbean and South America.

I think what you actually meant to say was the "Anglosphere".
The novels Brave New World and 1984 were warnings about the Anglosphere moving in a left-authoritarian direction.
Many parts of the Anglosphere have been moving TOWARDS left-wing authoritarian surveillance statism for a while but have met resistance.
When someone says "arrested for mean tweets" they are talking about the current state of things in Scotland and England.

Anyway, did you think the female characters in Marvel Rivals were hot?

[Dogfish]

French revolution was the best thing that ever happened to France, and an event to which the USA owes its founding principles and very existence. So, y'know, might want to be nicer about it.

[Dogfish]

I wanted expanded liberty with some discipline not ping pong-ing back and forth between left and right wing authoritarian wackery. I don't want antifa violence but I also don't want abortion clinics blown up by right to life.

There is a third way. We can have expanded liberty without extremes. The stuff I make should stay in the shadows but some cheese stuff is perfectly fine.

To be fair, there has never been left wing authoritarian wackery in the West. There has been left wing complaining, but nobody left of centre has ever had the political capital to do anything about it.

All of this stuff comes from the right. Historically in the UK it'll be because a white woman gets murdered so the porn laws have to tighten up and anybody who disagrees is a pervert. And I say that full aware of the fact that I am a pervert who joined other perverts trying to persuade the government this was a terrible idea after they last went on a mad one about it. That was a Labou government but they were not left wing in any meaningful sense.

Also and this should be obvious, there's not one lefty with the clout in the finance industry to have VISA and others simply declare that porn is bad. Ditto Paypal and other companies. The censorship the industry, especially individual producers have to deal with every single day, is once again not coming from angry feminists on soap boxes or anybody else like that. The financial sector says it doesn't like, for example, chloroform in videos, or hypnosis in videos, then suddenly it's either gone, or it's having to change keywords to adapt.

It's the God Squad, and their pals, and the weirdos on the right.

I'm sure there are lefties who would do it if they could, but they've never had the chance.

who right now in Britain is arresting people for mean tweets? Is that right wingers? Doesn't sound like them.

I mean, it is, quite literally. Who do you think wrote the laws?

[Dazzle1]

French revolution was the best thing that ever happened to France, and an event to which the USA owes its founding principles and very existence. So, y'know, might want to be nicer about it.

I hope you are being sardonic.

[shevek]

French revolution was the best thing that ever happened to France, and an event to which the USA owes its founding principles and very existence. So, y'know, might want to be nicer about it.

I hope you are being sardonic.

Probably not. Hard leftists literally believe that a Reign of Terror is necessary to fully implement a left-wing revolution.
I mean, executing "only" 16,000 people, France's slaughter was mere peanuts compared to what came later on in the massacres of the
20th century by both communist and fascist regimes. (Yes, right-wing violent revolutions also portend lots of killing.)

But Dogfish made a huge mistake that you forgot to call him on, and here it is:
The American Revolution was in 1776.
The French Reign of Terror was in 1794.
Cause and effect?

Duh. Both were inspired by plenty of philosophical and political works of the Age of Reason, which were primarily written in England and France.
But the US version came first, and was relatively more peaceful and related much more to actual battles and fighting rather than mass executions by guillotine. In total, about 25, 300 were killed on both sides of the American Revolution over the course of eight years, while in the Reign of Terror, all the casualties literally happened over the course of only one season.

I might also add that the principles of the American Revolution have been upheld with a stable government which exists to this day and has endured through empire-building, a civil war, giving citizens more and more rights, two world Wars, and the election of a certain orange man.

Whereas literally within less than ten years after the Reign of Terror, the French government collapsed into an imperial dictatorship ruled by Napoleon, after which France went through several fits and starts before actually establishing a real liberal democracy.

Why do you think one of the most prominent hard-leftist publications today is called "The Jacobin"? The French situation was an early example of what we later found out to be pretty much de rigeur during the 20th century: socialist and communist revolutions almost immediately devolve into murderous and repressive authoritarian situations - this has proven to be 100% true across the world for more than a century in every country around the globe which was defined during the Cold War as being 'Second World'. And it didn't even stop with the end of the (first) Cold War (we are now in the Second) - you've even got recent examples like Venezuela and Syria (Baathism is socialist!).

The only counter-example ever, on a macro scale, is Rojava. Period.

So, Dogfish literally made a cardinal mistake of chronology. Debate ended.

You like those sexy Marvel heroines in Rivals, or what? Let's see some Rule 34 posts already.

[Dogfish]

Ah yeah I got my revolutions back to front. My bad.

But yeah, Marvel Rivals looks like a winner. It's completely eating Overwatch's lunch, which pleases me because Activision Blizzard suck.

[Mr. X]

Ah yeah I got my revolutions back to front. My bad.

But yeah, Marvel Rivals looks like a winner. It's completely eating Overwatch's lunch, which pleases me because Activision Blizzard suck.

Is that a fair comparison though? Overwatch is a paid product. I think Rivals is free to play

[phopho]

I absolutely think the French Revolution was the best thing for France, reign of terror notwithstanding. Without the violent French Revolution, we probably don't have the the more peaceful democratic flowering in Europe over the next century (not even getting into France's direct involvement in the American Revolution). Monarchs & advisors everywhere had a worst-case example that pushed them to negotiate. There was never going to be a gradual democratization of Europe without a shock like that.

As for the reign of terror, Mark Twain I think said it best:

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

Anyways I'll pay the toll for my historical opinions with some pics, some of it is pretty hasty AI produced slop but the games only been out a few weeks, what do you expect? No surprise at all that Psylocke stuff is popular:

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The shocking thing for me (besides not much Dagger) was the absolute dominance of Squirrel Girl in r34 art:

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[phopho]

I don't have any more historical opinions but I'm banking these additional Squirrel Girls pics in case I need to rebut something:

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[Dazzle1]

French revolution was the best thing that ever happened to France, and an event to which the USA owes its founding principles and very existence. So, y'know, might want to be nicer about it.

I hope you are being sardonic.

Probably not. Hard leftists literally believe that a Reign of Terror is necessary to fully implement a left-wing revolution.
I mean, executing "only" 16,000 people, France's slaughter was mere peanuts compared to what came later on in the massacres of the
20th century by both communist and fascist regimes. (Yes, right-wing violent revolutions also portend lots of killing.)

But Dogfish made a huge mistake that you forgot to call him on, and here it is:
The American Revolution was in 1776.
The French Reign of Terror was in 1794.
Cause and effect?

Duh. Both were inspired by plenty of philosophical and political works of the Age of Reason, which were primarily written in England and France.
But the US version came first, and was relatively more peaceful and related much more to actual battles and fighting rather than mass executions by guillotine. In total, about 25, 300 were killed on both sides of the American Revolution over the course of eight years, while in the Reign of Terror, all the casualties literally happened over the course of only one season.

I might also add that the principles of the American Revolution have been upheld with a stable government which exists to this day and has endured through empire-building, a civil war, giving citizens more and more rights, two world Wars, and the election of a certain orange man.

Whereas literally within less than ten years after the Reign of Terror, the French government collapsed into an imperial dictatorship ruled by Napoleon, after which France went through several fits and starts before actually establishing a real liberal democracy.

Why do you think one of the most prominent hard-leftist publications today is called "The Jacobin"? The French situation was an early example of what we later found out to be pretty much de rigeur during the 20th century: socialist and communist revolutions almost immediately devolve into murderous and repressive authoritarian situations - this has proven to be 100% true across the world for more than a century in every country around the globe which was defined during the Cold War as being 'Second World'. And it didn't even stop with the end of the (first) Cold War (we are now in the Second) - you've even got recent examples like Venezuela and Syria (Baathism is socialist!).

The only counter-example ever, on a macro scale, is Rojava. Period.

So, Dogfish literally made a cardinal mistake of chronology. Debate ended.

You like those sexy Marvel heroines in Rivals, or what? Let's see some Rule 34 posts already.

It was the history part I was asking about.

I was hoping this was a just a mocking of those who think the U.S copies everyone else

[Dogfish]

Ah yeah I got my revolutions back to front. My bad.

But yeah, Marvel Rivals looks like a winner. It's completely eating Overwatch's lunch, which pleases me because Activision Blizzard suck.

Is that a fair comparison though? Overwatch is a paid product. I think Rivals is free to play

Overwatch went free to play, it's now Overwatch 2, and it has years of content added. Also years of annoying its fanbase.

[shevek]

No complaints at all about your R34 content, Phopho, it's what we're here for.

I'm just sad, looking at all that art, that we never got the live Squirrel Girl version with Milana Vayntrub. When everything has to rely on either
AI or sexy anime art, it just seems a little fake compared to the live thing. Hopefully some sexy Squirrel Girl cosplay is in our future at Cons.
(Haven't really seen any yet.)

Carry on with the art, though! (And regarding Dagger, I just think nobody remembers who she is at this point, and that mediocre TV series didn't help much, so it'll take a while for her hotness to be rediscovered. But hopefully we'll get there.)

[phopho]

Oh yeah a Milana Vayntrub Squirrel Girl would have been incredible. She does the voice in the video game though. There's been cosplay of her out there for years, but not in that costume:

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[shevek]

Looks like the newest addition to Marvel Rivals is the Fantastic Four, and there is a hot version of Sue Storm (Invisible Storm).
The FF are called to save the day when Dracula (I guess, the version from Tomb of Dracula?) tries to take over the world.

A few 'Redditors' are sperging but overall, everyone loves it. In fact, the game has kept 90% of its player since launch.
Plus, you can apparently buy a 'skin' in the game that transforms Sue into the sexy and evil Malice! (see below)

I got the news from Yellow Flash, but if you don't want to go this link, you can just go to the game and play the newest FF characters.

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[lionbadger]

And lacks diversity. Both of which are only a problem for a few socialist gamers.

Whst's Musk mad about this week?

[Malice]

I’m not really into multiplayer games, but I’ve only heard good things about this one from people who’ve played it.

The gameplay looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen, especially with the characters I’ve checked out. And the superheroines look stunning. I think everyone here can appreciate that! +1 in my book.

The success of this game just shows that most people don’t care too much about social commentary in video games. They just want something fun to escape from their daily life.

And hey, if we get badass, gorgeous women as the cherry on top? That’s a huge plus for me.

As for the French revolution: