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| Rolling Start
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|  "Moral/racial question about character design"
, posted Sat 27 Apr 17:29
I'm in the process of creating character designs for a fighting game that I plan to build for a term project, and one character in particular has got me wondering just how appropriate he is. All black readers, please respond.
Do you feel that the idea of a militant, anti-white, african-american character in a fighting game is offensive? He/she would be dressed similarly to the black militans in many Public Enemy videos, berets, camo, shirts with pro-black slogans and images.
Because I have always admired the image/ideas of black militants, despite being white myself, and I feel that they are sorely misrepresented in the media today.
What do you think? Would an angry, anti-white black militant fighter be too offensive?
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| Crimson
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| "Re(1):Moral/racial question about character d" , posted Sat 27 Apr 18:03
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I'm in the process of creating character designs for a fighting game that I plan to build for a term project, and one character in particular has got me wondering just how appropriate he is. All black readers, please respond.
Do you feel that the idea of a militant, anti-white, african-american character in a fighting game is offensive? He/she would be dressed similarly to the black militans in many Public Enemy videos, berets, camo, shirts with pro-black slogans and images.
Because I have always admired the image/ideas of black militants, despite being white myself, and I feel that they are sorely misrepresented in the media today.
What do you think? Would an angry, anti-white black militant fighter be too offensive?
Sorry, I'm not black but if I were to make a game charcter of a anti-black and call him ccc or something. Some people would get offended, some woulden't. I think it's the same for your scanerio, some people would think of it as a game, but some might take it seriously.
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| ZamIAm 435th Post
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| "Say it loud..." , posted Sat 27 Apr 21:26:
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I'm in the process of creating character designs for a fighting game that I plan to build for a term project, and one character in particular has got me wondering just how appropriate he is. All black readers, please respond.
Do you feel that the idea of a militant, anti-white, african-american character in a fighting game is offensive? He/she would be dressed similarly to the black militans in many Public Enemy videos, berets, camo, shirts with pro-black slogans and images.
Because I have always admired the image/ideas of black militants, despite being white myself, and I feel that they are sorely misrepresented in the media today.
What do you think? Would an angry, anti-white black militant fighter be too offensive?
I'm black. Let's go shall we?
The major advantage/problem comes from how you portray this guy. If he just a pointless racist? If so, he's gonna seriously offend some people, both white and black. If he has a reason such as the game taking place in the 60s with racial turmoil all around or perhaps something done to him previously, such as KKK assaulting his family that causes him to go into a revenge mode, seriously adds to his design and lessens the ammount of offense people will take from it. Move names and execution are important. In keeping the character but reducing the complaints it would be best to have pro-black names than anti-white.
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After you finish your project, would you mind if I looked at your source code?
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| Hungrywolf 776th Post
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| "Re(2):Moral/racial question about character d" , posted Sun 28 Apr 21:10
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What do you think? Would an angry, anti-white black militant fighter be too offensive?
I don't know about this.... It could be okay, but I think real life political problems don't have anything to do inside a game. And hate-based character especially.
For example, characters like Blue Mary or May Lee, who are fashion-hating characters with ugly clothes, are very offending to french people... OK, bad example.
I'm gay, and I think I would find very offensive an anti gay fighter... (Except Takuma, of course.)
odd, this past week I've seen two people dissin' on Mary, and I've never seen that before, it's starting to bug me now....
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| UnCauzi
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| "Re(1):Moral/racial question about character d" , posted Sun 28 Apr 23:35
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I'm in the process of creating character designs for a fighting game that I plan to build for a term project, and one character in particular has got me wondering just how appropriate he is. All black readers, please respond.
Do you feel that the idea of a militant, anti-white, african-american character in a fighting game is offensive? He/she would be dressed similarly to the black militans in many Public Enemy videos, berets, camo, shirts with pro-black slogans and images.
Because I have always admired the image/ideas of black militants, despite being white myself, and I feel that they are sorely misrepresented in the media today.
What do you think? Would an angry, anti-white black militant fighter be too offensive?
You know what would be revolutionary? A black character that looks like an ordinary urban black male. Seriously with a short fade and wearing hip hopish clothing. Could just make him a down and dirty street fighter type. Strangely enuff, there are no regular black folk portrayed in games really, I guess, the game designers don't know what regular black folk look like?
And what's with the trend of black girls and white hair lately in these games?
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 278th Post
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| "Power of the Cons" , posted Tue 30 Apr 15:58
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Terry's clothing would be normal back in the 80's.
I have always lauded the KoF series for putting at least some of its characters in normal looking street clothing (Terry, Kyo, Kensou, May Lee), but they haven't done that yet for the black folks that pop up in games from time to time. Lucky's get-up is kind of close, but the colors are too bright, and the shorts don't go with the styles I see on blacks around here. But again, they only have movies to work with.
Dudley is an interesting one. I'm guessing he's supposed to be a member of a high falutin' British family, but do black families like that exist in Britain? I'm guessing not...
i like Terry's and Kyo's clothing. i attempt dress similarly when i go out. hell, i even have the cons! well, they're not red or anything, but i think they're still pretty sweet
http://www.converse.com/shop/images/1h731.jpg
i hope that link works
ehehehe, i always point at them and tell my opponent "it's gotta be the shoes" when i beat them with Terry. well, maybe i'm still living in the 80s -_-
haha, speaking of Tyson, my friend JUST pointed this out to us the other day -- M. Tyson ..... M. Bison
probably why they renamed Bison to Balrog when Street Fighter came to America
ah clever Capcom! original
and Iron D, hehe, no offense taken
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"Re(5):Moral/racial question about character d" 
it's how i'd do an anti-white character 
