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I’m sure he had it all calculated. He knew exactly what choices would give him the best odds of survival. He knew that the faster he got out of the initial bloodshed the better his chances would be. He knew that letting other kids die would benefit his odds of survival. He knew exactly what he should’ve done to preserve himself.

And yet, he threw all those statistics and odds, all that reason and logic out the window in the name of protecting Lou Lou, a girl that wasn’t even from his district. He threw it all out the window in the name of helping another human being that was in an unfair situation and had worse odds than him. He knew who the real enemy was; he knew it wasn’t the other kids being taken advantage of by the Capitol just like him.

So this came up a while ago, and it's definitely not the first time that its been noticed that there is a wide disparity between over sexualized, and what people find sexy.

This was again particularly highlighted when Capital-G Gamers got mad that Ghost of Yotei was designed with story and gameplay in mind over sexualization and pandering.

I present to you, memes posted unironically by that crowd:

(This crowd is still mad couldn't Erika Ishii removed from the game, even though they did succeed in harassing a developer into unemployment over a joke.)

The upside of this is, it did lead to some of the funniest actual satire I've seen in a while.

And in case you're wondering, yes Withers Big Naturals is a real mod, and one of the most popular ones.

— wincenworks

Something something social media encourages you to churn out 'content' instead of making art

Sorry, due to my on-going health issues and currently trying to figure out surgery details and costs, I don't have the time this year to do a good April Fools joke. ): 

I will however post one of my favourite Escher Girls related humour pieces here, that I posted in the past related to another tweet making light of female "fantasy armor" in video games.

For those that don't know the famous WW2 survivorship bias airplane image, it's an image of a WW2 bomber and the most common areas they were damaged in when they returned from missions, and the fallacy that you should armour those spots when instead you should armour the areas where they did not take damage because we're looking at planes that survived. If they returned with damage in those areas then those aren't the areas that are the ones being damaged in the planes that didn't return. The story commonly attached to the picture that the US military didn't understand this concept and needed a mathematician, Abraham Wald. to teach them though is apocryphal and usually used as a parable to teach people to not make a mistake based on survivorship bias. While it is true that Wald helped the US military with statistical analysis to know where to armour the planes, it was because the US military already knew about survivorship bias. But the general "lesson" from the story is still useful to take home.

Anyway, a Japanese artist on Twitter used that image and meme and drew up a comic about how all these battle bikinis keep being made as female armour in fantasy stories and video games and it's still one of my favourite jokes, so I wanted to re-share it with people who haven't seen it before today since why not, it's April Fool's.

And you get a bonus history lesson too! :D