Yikes.... Save me from the Crazyness...

It was Army of 2. Not a bad game, really, if you had a friend with a heartbeat. I'm not a consol FPS person myself, but I had fun. It's not pink mohawk, it's Electric Pink 2 foot Mohawk Battle Guitar Machinegun.

It's over the top and it knows it.

EP2'MGBM.... Gotta love acronyms...

That looks like the Akihabara district. That's pretty mild for some of the things I've seen there.

I so want that...

Doesn't the world of SR4A have a flavor text stating that EVERYONE carries some sort of firearm for protection? If so, then it's not surprising if people started making their weapons like accessories & matching some pieces with some clothes/shoes. Easy to see a corp bunny with a pink, blinged out Colt L36 that perfectly matches her shoes for that night out at Cub Penumbra.

I have to wonder if there's a status symbol aspect with this as well. If you look back to one of the links I posted earlier in this thread about designer duds in mafia prisons you'll see that things like this are being used as status symbols in crime rings. I have to wonder how long it will be before Joey Santori starts using a diamond encrusted gun to kill off threats just to start a reputation.

And I totally could see a socialite having a crystal encrusted gun. It would be exactly like cell phones in the early/mid 2000's. The crystal craze has kinda died down but I totally see how men and women alike would start personalizing them.

Damn. Now I'm all off on tangents in my brain thinking about how I could customize a gun to match my favorite outfits...

Heh, my adept's pistol was supposed to have grips like Reinhard's Beretta from Blade 2, to match his katana, and I wanted, for a time, to make a pair for my airsoft Springfield.

And here I was trying to figure out how to match my newly acquired Lanvin 70's op art dress to a pistol of some sort that will match a few other vintage dresses I own! LOL!

The status symbol aspect is there today. One only has to look at the blinged-out custom pistols confiscated from drug cartels or Saddam's gold-plated AK.

For the completely tasteless...

Of all the things Saddam was accused of, I doubt good taste was among them.

To be fair, does any world leader have good taste?

I certainly couldn't tell ya. Jeans and a polo are as high class as I get. Saddam was stylish compared to Kadaffi, though. At least Saddam knew when to shave.

I'm high fashion for where I'm from. I'm not wearing a wife-beater.

Putin and Obama have excellent taste in suits.

Clearly I am missing out in current events. Although I vaguely recall the AK.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Obama have great fashion sense. I really *REALLY* love what Michelle does with her fashion. She wears a good majority of clothing that anyone can buy. I was just digging through Marc Jacob's Facebook yesterday and found some wall photos with her wearing dresses of his. Sure, they're still high three figures, but anyone can conceivably purchase one. Its not like she's wearing impossible to find clothing. I think it really helps relate her image to people

Queen Elizabeth II has wonderful fashion for a woman of her age as do William and Kate. Most of the British royals have great fashion sense. (Yes, even Princess Beatrice in the Cthulhu hat). Nicolas Sarkozy is a very well dressed man. Charlene, Princess of Monaco is a wonderfully dressed woman but I'm not sure how long she'll actually stay a "World Leader" with Albert being a creeper.

So I don't know. I tend to think that most world leaders are fairly well dressed, I think Gaddafi/Saddam just gave a weird skew on things.

Holy canoli! Wiki for the win. So I'm reading up on Gaddafi's kids and it turns out his only daughter Ayesha is way different than I expected! Hello western fashion influences!

I don't like some of Mrs. Obama's outfits, but I tend to think of Jackie Onassis as the standard for class. Why JFK thought he needed to cheat on her I'll never understand. (yeah, power trip, whatever.... Whadda low life.)

I came across an article in Bloomburg Weekly (Because I'm corporate scum that gets BBW.)I had to share concerning this topic I brought up earlier:


Its about a town that's now 1/4 illegal Chinese workers that work in sweatshops to put that "Made in Italy" stamp on clothing and leather goods. Tax evasion, human trafficking and black market goods. What more could you want?

Combine that with a Bunraku Parlor and skillwires so they can shift from job-to-job? Sleep Regulators or gross amounts of Long Haul knock-offs would be needed.

On discovery channel's American guns they customized, what looked to be a Kimber originally, 1911 by duracoating it hot pink. The owner of the company refused to do it at first. It might hurt male gun enthusiasts to see or make pink guns, but such is the price of women becoming gun owners. Its not a "phasing out" that is being fought, but a "phasing in" of females back into the firearms market. Maybe I'm just too chauvinist, but it still hurts me a little when I see "cute" guns.

Drugs?

He liked American Whiskey and Westerns I hear, so I'd say yea he had good taste.

Eh, gotta stay awake to pull those 24 hour shifts somehow.

For more on a similar front, the US has some territories in the Pacific that do similar. As they are territories, you can stamp products made there as being "Made in the USA", but, they're immune to US labor laws, so you have sweatshop wages, forced prostitution (and forced abortion), 12-16 hour workdays, no vacation time, prison-style walled enclosures and (shock of shocks) a high suicide rate. Women are brought in from SE Asian countries that have a poor economy, promised high wages and a good life, then get locked in and have to work to pay off their signing fee. It's LIKE the old Company Store, but different.

Any linkage? Color me curious. Not surprised in the least.

I did want to mention that I noticed one of the more prolific Italian houses, Prada, has had some significant price droppage. I was on Saks website last week and was shocked by how "affordable" the line has become. Not surprisingly, they are one of the houses that are employing these Chinese workers. Sad because Miu Miu is one of my favorite lines

"No longer do you need to go to knock-offs for slave labor made clothing! Now you can do it with high-end name brand items! And not just US High-End Name Brands, but Brands from AROUND THE WORLD!!! Why? Because we like money."

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan#Controversy

There ya go.

Ties in with Jack Abramoff, which ties in with native American casinos and the territorial spats between gambling institutions that don't want to allow gambling within driving range of their personal gambling area.

Buuuut, that starts getting close to political talk, which isn't okay for the forums.

Back to cute orks, quick!

Japan may have cute orc chicks, but the real hot ones are still in Seattle: http://kuragiman.deviantart.com/art/Blaze-...-2072-194655138

I think that's an Elf, a "fat" Elf, but an Elf nonetheless.

On one hand I'm all like "YEAH! Nice looking lady!" On the other I'm like "Really? Could we get more cheesecake?" I mean. Put her in *SOMETHING*. Not surprised when I saw who it was though.

On second look I like that she's fleshy. Her body is really nice. Her feet though? Liefeldian.

I can't say too terribly much, since the only Shadowrun art I ever put together that I cared for was this one:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/Wak...agleShaman2.jpg

I love the *style* of the attire, but, the cutoff shirt isn't the best. It should really go lower on the torso, to the waist, rather than be quite so crop-topish.

Jeans need more wrinkles, by far.

But, you know ... not an artist, so I live with it.

To be fair, there's a lot of beefcake to go around as well, so...

I'm surprised, CanRay, that you haven't posted this one.

With plastic surgery, cosmetic bioware, & every other new health/beauty technological advance, I'm surprised there aren't more "visually acceptable" orks & trolls about. If I was the manager of a swanky AAA restaurant/mall/club/venue that needed to employ Orks & Trolls, I'd sure want to make them as "pretty" as possible for my consumers.

Hey, pretty is relative. Don't forget the song, "Room for a Litter".

I'm playing one in my current game

I would argue that many females are not attracted to the general idea of "Beefcake". At least not in my social circles.

You'll find that most artists that companies hire are male and most are able to go from 'male gaze' to 'neuter gaze', but it's a rare fella who can do art in 'female gaze'. Lord knows I can't, but, as noted, not an artist.

Of course, dipping through Deviantart (and Elfwood and so on) will show off a bajillion female artists with teh skills to work professionally, but few do. Real shame that. Of course, there are plenty of artists regardless of gender who do art for art's sake and don't *want* to do it as a career, or who are too slow for professional deadlines, or who can produce their own work but aren't comfortable doing comission work where the vision isn't their own, etc etc etc.

In short, people are complex.

But enough of me yammering ... image tax!

[img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/164/5/c/Commish___Crescent_Scar_33_by_imDRUNKonTEA.jpg[/img]

[img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/074/e/6/Commish___CrescentScar_25_by_imDRUNKonTEA.jpg[/img]

[img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/248/4/2/sketch_09_05_2011_by_imdrunkontea-d48zvo2.jpg[/img]

(Really big one next)
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/097..._by_Dmitrys.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/241...oth-d2xlb1b.png

Fixed.

If you think the weirdos in the books are fun, try to get hold of the runner cards from the short lived Shadowrun TCG. If I have free time sometime I'll scan some to put up

Who said anything about women?

But at least it shows equal opportunity exploitation, that's all. For some reason, I never hear about the Fireman's Calendar being a blow against males everywhere...

Ah! Thanks.

I keep forgetting that we don't use embedded images.

See this is something odd to me. Being a classically trained traditional artist the thought of neuter gaze is the only one that I feel is innately inside me as an artist. I haven't once found myself idealizing a man or feminizing my work. I don't know, just odd to me. I think you start to lose integrity when you allow a perspective like that to take over your work. And Wak, you are far better than you give yourself credit for

If I could draw more than stick figures, I'd love to draw what my idea of how a 'prettyboy' troll may look. Like one who just ended up with the 'finer featured' end of the stick for his appearance. I mean any race can run from one end of the looks to the other(attractive, not as attractive, rugged, not as rugged, in the middle, average), and I don't see why trolls are any different; it's just that you never really see much art of a 'prettyboy' male troll.

Need more pretty goblinized folks, it's just fun to see.

Damn straight! Less scrawny elves, more good looking Dwarves, Orks, and Trolls!