I saw Vee's video about Sargon talking about a good take on beautiful women in video games, and I think it's rather compelling. It isn't necessarily just about "sex" appeal, it's about the idea that people like beautiful things. In the case of a video game, the "thing" is a character, and people like seeing beauty. some games like Cyberpunk 2077 lean very heavily on their aesthetic beauty, not just in characters, but in the world design. You don't go to see Michelangelo's David to get your rocks off, you don't go to see Greek sculptures to get your rocks off, it's to see a thing of beauty that speaks to something deep inside you that seeks beauty.
A lot of video game commentators back when such things mattered were incredibly happy when the end of the era of dark and gritty brown "realistic" environments ended because they were excited to see beautiful environments and designs again. It isn't because they wanted to pork the environments, it's because beauty is important beyond the surface, at least for those who behold that beauty.
Rejecting beauty for postmodernism isn't the future, it's the past, and it's a past that's already failed. Beauty isn't a set of shackles, it's something that affects our hearts and makes us strive for more beauty. We aren't logic machines with gears and sprockets and turbines, we're human beings who carry a piece of all life going back to the first single celled organism in each of our cells. The fact that we're humans matters, particularly to us. Any ideology that would reject our humanity will not continue and I think we're seeing the death throes of that ideology now. It was never going to last long.
A lot of video game commentators back when such things mattered were incredibly happy when the end of the era of dark and gritty brown "realistic" environments ended because they were excited to see beautiful environments and designs again. It isn't because they wanted to pork the environments, it's because beauty is important beyond the surface, at least for those who behold that beauty.
Rejecting beauty for postmodernism isn't the future, it's the past, and it's a past that's already failed. Beauty isn't a set of shackles, it's something that affects our hearts and makes us strive for more beauty. We aren't logic machines with gears and sprockets and turbines, we're human beings who carry a piece of all life going back to the first single celled organism in each of our cells. The fact that we're humans matters, particularly to us. Any ideology that would reject our humanity will not continue and I think we're seeing the death throes of that ideology now. It was never going to last long.
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