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Fat Princess Gobbles Her Way into Blog Drama

Posted by Cole Stryker

 

You know, you just can't please these feminazis! All they do is whine about how women in video games all wear bronze bikini armor and boast gravity-defying boobies. Right guys? Enter Fat Princess. Finally, a game highlights a cake-guzzling damsel in distress, and they're still up in arms. From Shakesville via Kotaku:

I'm positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative assholes. It's not often I have the opportunity to congratulate a cutting-edge tech company on such splendiferous retrofuck jackholery. Way to go! The Fat Princess of Shakes Manor salutes you.

 

Charming!

More, from commenters over at Salon, of all places:

The social-reject coders that made "Fat Princess" ... went back to their cubicles littered with Angelina Jolie pinups and empty Mountain Dew cans to create this hilarious joke of a game. Their next gaming project will probably be "Grand Theft Auto: Kill the Darkie Hookers."

Ouch! All kidding aside, I see where these gals are coming from. The world needs more April Ryan's and Jade's and fewer Lara's. But removing her beauty and reducing her to a prop isn't the answer. Yet, the game's capture-the-flag chubby chasing presents a fascinating play mechanic. Oh I just don't know what to think.

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Comments

<(-.-)> said:

It's funny, because she's so huge you can barely tell that she's even flipping us off.  lulz.

July 24, 2008 5:15 PM

Angelfish_Titan said:

Oy! I wish the internet would just stop complaining about everything...it gets so annoying after a while. I mean, if you can't laugh at yourself, how long does it take to get pissed off? I'm not saying that blatantly sexist/racist/other -ists are good, but a silly cel-shaded game that has the opposite protrayal of the skinny little princess should be taken with a light heart. I mean, the goal is to get the fat princess, its not like you need to lug her body to the gym or something.

Oh well...whats the internet good for if not porn and flame wars?

July 24, 2008 5:23 PM

Nadia Oxford said:

Man I just bitched yesterday about Gamepro being all LOL BOOBS, but some chicks just need to take a rest. I laughed at Fat Princess because the concept is such an outlandish take on the usual Capture the Flag stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly a size 0 nor am I confident about my body. But this never once struck me as a jab at fat girls.

July 24, 2008 5:39 PM

Nemo Incognito said:

My brain is shutting down trying to comprehend the stupidity of this.  If this isn't the bottom of the barrel as far as trolling for cheap controversy goes I don't know what is.

Meanwhile sane people (including the silent majority of non-crazy female gamers who understand that their gender does not give them special insight and privileges) ignore this and move on.

July 24, 2008 6:11 PM

spectrumseven said:

LOL!

July 27, 2008 4:51 PM

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