Karate Fight
Summer vacation is over! Steeped in ancient magic, invading aliens, rampaging super science, and heroic students, Takoashi University is no ordinary school. The Takoashi University line of card games are simple to learn and feature fast and fun gameplay. Each game embraces classic over-the-top anime action as you battle for the fate of Takoashi University.
Karate Fight is a speed matching card game for 2-4 players, in the tradition of classic games such as Slapjack, Egyptian Ratscrew, and Snip Snap Snorem. Players alternate flipping cards to draw attack and skill cards which their opponent must attempt to block. Failure means your opponent wins the bout and takes the entire center pile of cards, increasing their strength. Watch out though, when specific series of cards are played any player may slap the center pile and claim the cards. The player who wins all of the cards becomes the ultimate Karate Master!
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
ubarose wrote: Go ahead and mock it, argue about it, declare your outrage. Better yet, do something constructive...
YOU WIN!
ubarose wrote:
Tentacle Bento was the first game in the series.stoic wrote: The press release forgot to mention the upcoming Karate Fight: Tentacles expansion.
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.
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.
Careful investigation? Just look at the cover art like everyone else does.
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.
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.