Lara Croft gets a "realistic" redesign from eating disorder support group
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i'm fat so everyone else should be too
:what:
[QUOTE=Primigenes;48279071]Won't this just backlash if a Bulimic person see's the response of people shitting on how these edits look?
Also while I do see what they're doing. Superheroes, Videogame characters, etc aren't supposed to be average build
And if you're wondering where I got Superheroes from
[url]http://www.bulimia.com/examine/superheroes-with-realistic-body-types/[/url][/QUOTE]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/PowerGirl.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/Ironman.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/CaptainAmerica.png[/t]
Lmao, how delusional do you have to be to consider muscular builds and big breasts unrealistic especially on Super heroes.
[QUOTE=Primigenes;48279071]Won't this just backlash if a Bulimic person see's the response of people shitting on how these edits look?
Also while I do see what they're doing. Superheroes, Videogame characters, etc aren't supposed to be average build
And if you're wondering where I got Superheroes from
[url]http://www.bulimia.com/examine/superheroes-with-realistic-body-types/[/url][/QUOTE]
Those are literally just fat...
[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;48279256][t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/PowerGirl.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/Ironman.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/CaptainAmerica.png[/t]
Lmao, how delusional do you have to be to consider muscular builds and big breasts unrealistic especially on Super heroes.[/QUOTE]
ironman's armor also got fat. :downs:
Why the hell would someone make a metal suit of fat armor
0/10 unrealisitc
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[IMG]http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130102193625/darksouls/images/7/75/Smoughset.png[/IMG]
Fuck forgot about this fatty
[QUOTE=Bridger;48279296]Why the hell would someone make a metal suit of fat armor
0/10 unrealisitc[/QUOTE]
They also don't understand how corsets work.
I am a man, and even I understand how corsets work.
[QUOTE=catbarf;48279075]I'm all for developers having the creative freedom to depict characters as they like, but body image is a pretty serious issue for young girls and I can appreciate what this site is trying to do.[/QUOTE]
Meh, if anything, it should be done by the education rather than some silly website trying hard to attack artistic freedom.
I love how it trys to portray a realistic woman as a bigger woman when thats really not the case.......more so its just a portrayal of a women that can't be fucking arsed to eat right or do any exercise.
[QUOTE=saintsim;48278148]Might be a parody but i actually love what they did with Tifa
[IMG]http://www.bulimia.com/wp-content/themes/bulimia-child/assets/images/video-games-realistic/Tifa-Lockhart-Final-Fantasy.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
How to make their modified version perfect:
-Fix her jawline, it's slightly off
-Un-shrink the neck by making it an inch or two taller
-Give her back her collarbones
-Give her back her muscle tone on her arms, or even make them a bit more toned
-Tone her belly and back, right now they just look really flabby
-[I]Fix her fucking belly button[/I]
-While you're at it, fix that black shadow on her leg right under her skirt
-[del]put her in a maid outfit, everything's better with maids[/del]
[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;48279256]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/CaptainAmerica.png[/t][/QUOTE]Being ludicrously in shape is literally his "power". He was injected with a drug that keeps his body in absolute peak form no matter what.
I mean, I get the idea behind what they're [i]trying[/i] to do, buy how do they consistently pick some of the worst possible subjects?
Some of these edits make the characters look really boring and uninteresting to look at.
Good job, I think the only thing that'll get the attention of this is deviantart users
[QUOTE=Velocet;48277811][t]http://www.bulimia.com/wp-content/themes/bulimia-child/assets/images/video-games-realistic/Lara-Croft-Tomb-Raider.png[/t]
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The edited one looks a whole lot more disproportionate than the original. Most of them do really.
Apart from the waist being too thin I don't really see what's all that wrong with the original.
[QUOTE=Levithan;48277862]Athletic != literally thin as a stick
but nah lets continue making fun of a bulimic support group and fat people in general[/QUOTE]
Why do you always show up in these threads and immediately go on the defense?
He wasn't even making fun of the bulimic group or fat people.
[QUOTE=Levithan;48277862]Athletic != literally thin as a stick
but nah lets continue making fun of a bulimic support group and fat people in general[/QUOTE]
There's a pretty important difference between trying to establish support for bulimic people and fat people in general and trying to make a point that being bulimic or being fat is not an issue and, furthermore, that characters are not allowed to be thin as a design choice.
Characters who are meant to have an active athletic life aren't designed to look overweight, and characters who are meant to be attractive to some degree aren't designed to look morbidly obese. There's nothing wrong with these design decisions.
Moreover, most if not all of the characters shown in these edits are meant to stick out, they're supposed to be extraordinary beings. Being out of shape, being fat and not having healthy eating habits are really average and normal things, which makes them boring in the scope of fantasy and super hero stories.
[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;48279256][t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/PowerGirl.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/Ironman.png[/t]
[t]https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bulimia.com.assets/superheroes/CaptainAmerica.png[/t][/QUOTE]
This is just fucking stupid.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48278035]And then you take a close look and notice that despite they had a real person, they made the picture quite a bit thinner.
[t]http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/9/12/gta_v_upton_2.png[/t]
This proves their point, if anything.
Look at her stomach, look at the curve of her bikini bottom. And even though she's leaning back far more than in the game version, she comes out about as wide.
This is exactly what this is about.[/QUOTE]
look back at their edit though
[t]http://i.imgur.com/PAKdgeS.png[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/9g6w49F.png[/t]
[QUOTE=dai;48280080]look back at their edit though
[t]http://i.imgur.com/PAKdgeS.png[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/9g6w49F.png[/t][/QUOTE]
~curvy~
L m a o, I miss ratings in SH.
I would have screamed if this weren't a parody. Feels like something that would actually happen.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48277948]The original Lara Croft probably couldn't do a single pullup, tho. She's not fit, she's just (basic anatomy defying) thin.[/QUOTE]
yeah shes a fucking stylistically designed character
you know, a video game one
[QUOTE=aznz888;48278322]Actually it's been proven BMI doesn't mean jack -- a 5'10 200 lbs bodybuilder VS a 5'10 200 lbs regular average joe have the exact same BMI, but vastly different compositions in their body structure.
You might be thinking of FFMI(Fat Free Mass Index) which is a better indicator of your general body health & such.[/QUOTE]
FFMI and body fat in general are better indicators, but they're harder to measure. BMI on the other hand is easy to measure and despite outliers existing, they are still in the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Correlation_between_BMI_and_Percent_Body_Fat_for_Men_in_NCHS%27_NHANES_1994_Data.PNG]minority[/url]. BMI has a high correlation and is good as a preliminary estimate, just take it with a grain of salt.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;48279034] images that represent the average American woman’s measurements[/QUOTE]
The funniest part is that the average American woman is overweight, that's why they made them fat. It's not based on healthy or "realistic" standards of beauty, it's just making characters fatter as everyone else gets fatter.
Well, their intention is admirable. Unfortunately they're just on the other end of the spectrum; where media slices off body mass, they add more.
If you're gonna promote a healthy body image, you're not really helping by replacing underweight and unrealistic body proportions with overweight ones. That's just supporting the same underlying issue but taking it in the other direction.
Tifa and Helena's redesigns are actually really good IMO.
[QUOTE=Levithan;48277862]Athletic != literally thin as a stick
but nah lets continue making fun of a bulimic support group and fat people in general[/QUOTE]
I really don't see how any of these characters are thin as a stick. I'm a 135 pound guy (which is underweight for a guy, yes), but I share a similar body type to a lot of these girls.
Athletes aren't people that go out on a walk two times a week, athletes are people dedicated to having control over their own body. Unless your sport depends on you to be a large body size(wrestling, shotput/discus), then as an athlete, you should be very fit and, very skinny. Extra weight slows you down and that is not something an athlete needs.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;48280192]L m a o, I miss ratings in SH.
I would have screamed if this weren't a parody. Feels like something that would actually happen.[/QUOTE]
This is a "parody" in the same way that an episode of Half in the Bag or Mystery Science Theater that shits on a terrible movie. It's a legal defense in order to avoid the lawyers saying "this misrepresents our games and it's politically motivated, take them down."
[QUOTE=Levithan;48277862]Athletic != literally thin as a stick
but nah lets continue making fun of a bulimic support group and fat people in general[/QUOTE]
Yes, lets, they get their attention and we get to have a hearty laugh at their inane nonsense, then maybe they can get back to their actual purpose.
[QUOTE=Velocet;48280827]This is a "parody" in the same way that an episode of Half in the Bag or Mystery Science Theater that shits on a terrible movie. It's a legal defense in order to avoid the lawyers saying "this misrepresents our games and it's politically motivated, take them down."[/QUOTE]
Oh right, I forgot about parody laws in the US.
...holy shit. I'm gonna lose it.
I want to see a load of male video game characters redesigned as skinnyfat dudes
[QUOTE=Nukefuzz;48280630]I really don't see how any of these characters are thin as a stick. I'm a 135 pound guy (which is underweight for a guy, yes), but I share a similar body type to a lot of these girls.
Athletes aren't people that go out on a walk two times a week, athletes are people dedicated to having control over their own body. Unless your sport depends on you to be a large body size(wrestling, shotput/discus), then as an athlete, you should be very fit and, very skinny. Extra weight slows you down and that is not something an athlete needs.[/QUOTE]
Many athletes are athletic but not healthy. I'm seeing a bunch of knee-jerk in this thread - you should all calm down about this. Sure, creative freedom to portray what you want, but that's completely missing the point as some others have said.
[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;48281090]Many athletes are athletic but not healthy. I'm seeing a bunch of knee-jerk in this thread - you should all calm down about this. Sure, creative freedom to portray what you want, but that's completely missing the point as some others have said.[/QUOTE]
How are athletes not healthy?!
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