Yeha, trust me - There are a quite a lot of athletes who look fat, but are actually mostly muscle.Not entirely true. You can be fit and athletic without being thin - as many rugby players would attestMaybe the issue was that there weren't more stocky or heavily muscled women.
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And even Overwatch has its issues *cough*Only women who don't adhere to traditional beauty standards are allowed to wear actual pants*cough*
Thrillseekers 2 will feature some characters who are more diverse in body type (it'll also have a few more prominent male characters too), though the story will still focus on the main six. We're a ways away from Thrillseekers 2 though, and there's a LOT of stuff in between (multiple spinoff games, an animated series, some book series)... this franchise is essentially the culmination of all the trends that have been taking place in gaming over the last ten years in terms of girls in gaming.
Funny enough, I initially just conceived it as another filler game when I was doing my list for 2004. It wasn't until I started daydreaming about what the characters would be like that I began to think I might have something that needed to be expanded on a bit more. So yeah, glad it's getting such a positive reception. I might be doing more with these characters outside the TL, I'll be posting that stuff in the Writer's Forum if I choose to do so.
Funny enough, I initially just conceived it as another filler game when I was doing my list for 2004. It wasn't until I started daydreaming about what the characters would be like that I began to think I might have something that needed to be expanded on a bit more. So yeah, glad it's getting such a positive reception. I might be doing more with these characters outside the TL, I'll be posting that stuff in the Writer's Forum if I choose to do so.
ITTL, I can easily see Jennifer Lawrence (she was born in 1993, IIRC, so she'd still be born) playing Stacy in a future movie adaptation (say, around 2012 or so)...
BTW, as for the girls keeping the money initially, they should watch all the movies where people try to keep stolen money; it doesn't end well for them. At. All.
(1) Yeah, the first Mystique in the X-Men reboot is playing Stacy.
BTW, as for the girls keeping the money initially, they should watch all the movies where people try to keep stolen money; it doesn't end well for them. At. All.
(1) Yeah, the first Mystique in the X-Men reboot is playing Stacy.
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For fun, I actually thought up a cast for a 2017 Thrillseekers movie featuring OTL actresses (a lot of whom would be actresses ITTL, though some like Darcy and China might be butterflied due to being born so long after the POD):
Alex: Cara Delevingne
Stacy: Darcy Rose Byrnes
Vivian: Becky G
Marina: Karen Fukuhara
Elissa: Molly Quinn
Kirsten: China Anne McClain
I'm not saying that female characters can't be heavy or muscular; I'm just saying that I've never seen a male professional skateboarder that wasn't in shape, and I don't know why this should be any different for a female character in a video game that happens to be very good with a skateboard. Now, if there were a game where the characters come from a variety of backgrounds, and they all had the same, ideal build, I would find that very weird: it's entirely plausible, for example, to have a somewhat overweight or even disabled woman as the main character of a survival horror game, if she's an ordinary civilian that just happens to find herself in the middle of a nightmare. Or, I don't know, a very frail and gaunt girl could be a powerful magic user in a RPG, too.
Or, hell, you could've made Stacy Summers be kind of pudgy at the beginning of the game, since she wasn't really doing crazy stunts back then. That would've been entirely plausible.
Even with Anita, it's really not an issue that's seen as a big deal with the game, just a minor nitpick and something that doesn't even detract from her enjoyment of the game.
It's not like any of the girls are super rail thin either, probably the one who has the most "supermodel"-ish body is Marina (though even she isn't exceptionally skinny), the rest are pretty much normal looking girls. Stacy would probably be one of the least likely to be pudgy since she doesn't normally eat junk food (it's Alex who eats a lot of junk food, she'll be chugging a Mountain Dew while Stacy sips water and eats a salad
). In fact, when they're getting ready for the more competitive-based sports they'll be doing in Thrillseekers 2, Stacy has to cajole Alex into eating healthier so she has more stamina to compete.True, but then, that could have had some Unfortunate Implications in and of itself, vis-a-vis having a character's transformation from weakling to badass symbolised by...losing weight. I"ve seen shows do that before. Looking at you, Yuri On Ice...It makes sense in that case too, but still
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Correct, Stacy's one of the skinnier of the girls even before she starts skateboarding. Honestly, since we never get the Spectacular Spiderman animated series ITTL, Stacy Summers from Thrillseekers is probably the closest thing we get to that version of Gwen Stacy existing (blonde hair, glasses, nerdiness, Lacey Chabert voice acting...)
Though we will be getting a Spectacular Spider-Man movie.
Just thought I'd let you guys know that I started work on it and shared some ideas with Ry and Nivek.
Don't forget to link them here when you do, so we all know they're there!
Fantastic update for a great game!
What's a certain Mark Zuckerberg up to ITTL? (BTW, the movie The Social Network has, as part of his character, being a lonely nerd who never got over losing his girlfriend; while this might be true, it ignores the fact that, during most of the timeline of the movie's events, he was already dating his future wife (1))
(1) Of course, when has a movie based on a true story ever really stuck close to the facts? He met Priscilla Chen in 2003 (when she first started college at Harvard), and dated her for nine years before they finally married.
(1) Of course, when has a movie based on a true story ever really stuck close to the facts?
He met Priscilla Chen in 2003 (when she first started college at Harvard), and dated her for nine years before they finally married.What's a certain Mark Zuckerberg up to ITTL? (BTW, the movie The Social Network has, as part of his character, being a lonely nerd who never got over losing his girlfriend; while this might be true, it ignores the fact that, during most of the timeline of the movie's events, he was already dating his future wife (1))
(1) Of course, when has a movie based on a true story ever really stuck close to the facts?
Mark Zuckerberg isn't working on Facebook, but he is learning programming for both websites and for games. Right now he's wavering about what he wants to do but he's still at Harvard and accumulating knowledge and contacts.
Here is a question: If I was on ITTL internet, what are the big websites that I will be able to get on.
Also as Chrome and Firefox is better than Internet Explorer (sorry IE fans), does Firefox still get created in ITTL and what about Google with their web browser ambitions.
EDIT: Also if you combined the two threads of this and Player Two start, it will be a grand total of about 7500+ posts to read through if you wanted to start at the beginning.
Also as Chrome and Firefox is better than Internet Explorer (sorry IE fans), does Firefox still get created in ITTL and what about Google with their web browser ambitions.
EDIT: Also if you combined the two threads of this and Player Two start, it will be a grand total of about 7500+ posts to read through if you wanted to start at the beginning.
That's a complicated question and something I'm not comfortable addressing in a single post. We'll try to do a technology update later on that will address those questions in a more proper fashion.
So why did Apple buy Sega if they are simply going to phase out the name? Is there going to be a Sega Games studio subdivision of Apple or something?
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