• SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Alyx was one of the few major female characters in games at the time that wasn’t sexualized by the developer in some way. So then freeze-gamers went on to build “Cinematic Mod” for Half-Life 2 a year later, which among other things replaced Alyx’s character model with a new “high definition” one that gave her big boobs, cleavage and an exposed midriff to make pp hard. so-true

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      Alyx was one of the few major female characters in games at the time that wasn’t sexualized by the developer in some way

      I mean she’s not the worst example but she exists nigh-entirely to be a cool badass girl who has the hots for the mute player stand-in

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        The distaff counterpart to Barney.

        He gives you your crowbar, she gives you your gravity gun. Both are attractive people who crack jokes and act familiar with you.