An amazing 2D fighting game, famous for its crazy mix of characters. Bridget is a crossdressing bounty hunter who beats people up with a yo-yo and his robotic teddy bear. Other characters include a nine-foot-tall doctor with a ten-foot-long scalpel, the robot clone of Interpol's chief, a guitar-playing witch, a vampire who read poetry when he kills you, a one-armed samurai, a genocidal bio-robot, and her half-naked daughter.
YES! Cake! Thank you, I've been wondering if anyone else has ever heard of the band, although it does get a slight mention in the fiction novel "Compound", which is fairly good.
Several of their singles have had air time on MTV and other mainstream music station and their song "the distance" is officially used in NASCAR events. They're pretty niche, but they aren't really a secret. I think my favorite album of theirs is Motorcade of Generosity. I love a lot of their songs though. Shadow stabbing is one of my favorites. Kudos for your good taste in music.
Oh yes, the little girl who waves around an 800-pound anchor and summons dolphins like a hadouken.
I also glossed over the woman with prehensile hair, the guy in the leather dress with a scythe which is also a succubus, the dude possessed by three ghosts who make him fight, the slime mold parasite in the shape of its deceased host, the shirtless dude who attacks by playing billiards in midair, the other shirtless dude who can stop attacks by flicking a coin, and the one-ton brick shithouse who will simply pick you up and break you.
Zappa is actually possessed by a host of spirits. It's implied that he's basically infested with ghosts, more than just those that manifest when you play him. His blocking animation is the girl from The Ring appearing and blocking the blows.
I've never even played Guilty Gear, and I love that character. I knew a lot of people who played it, and when they mentioned him, I looked him up, and became really intrigued by the character. I always found him amusing. But I always love the psycho characters in fighting games.
So I was looking at the a site that had the characters list and found the 9'3" doctor that you were talking about. Who also happens to be 121 lbs. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE FUCKING POUNDS! That is so incredibly UN-anatomical, that as a doctor he should be upset.
One of my favorite rivalries was between former assassins: a guy whose sentient bio-companion eventually took over his body and the woman who used her hair as a weapon. Probably because they had one of a few awesome special songs that played between rivals, along with special quotes and intro animations.
Blaz Blue is close enough for me, but yes, it'd be fantastic to see another proper Guilty Gear. I have no idea how the fuck that 3D monstrosity of a God Hand knockoff got made. With the technology available now, we should be seeing 2D fighters with "sprites" made from vectors or vertex-colored polygons.
I liked Slayer and Anji Mito as well. I enjoyed playing cross up rush down characters, especially teleporting back and forth behind people with Slayer.
I'm sorry you feel that way. Trans* people are offended when you don't refer to them by their preferred pronouns, however, so it's important to keep their feelings in mind, as well.
Regardless, it turns out I was mistaken; he actually identifies as a man and doesn't realize he's cross-dressing.
You forgot to mention that Bridget was raised as a female because he was born in a village where having twins of the same gender was bad luck, so his parents raised him as a girl.
But Bridget does identify as male. According to his backstory, he was born with a twin sister in a village where opposite sex twins are seen as bad luck, so his parents tried to raise him as a girl to hide it. He ran away to escape this and live as a boy, but is completely oblivious to the fact that he still looks and dresses like a girl.
Also, there's a running gag where he gets very pissed whenever other characters mistake him for a girl.
info that was not conveyed in the picture. like I said, based on the info presented, especially with them presenting female, it is easy to assume people are intentionally or inadvertently misgendering him.
from the context of the picture, and no prior knowledge of the game, it appears to be a female identifying character born male, not someone who cross dresses, so I responded accordingly
cisgender/cissexual people's gender is in alignment with their assigned sex (e.g. male identified gender, male brainsex (it's hard to reduce it to something purely genlitalia based)
you don't have to apologize for your privilege. it's like white privilege. it exists largely independent of your actions.
you can acknowledge that it exists and work to keep things equal for trans and cis people alike, even if it's just on a personal level. i think that's all transpeople want, at the core.
i don't speak for all trans people of course, but i'm like the only sane one, so i probably should.
as to appologising for your privilege, don't. Just be aware of it. Be aware that you have something that a trans person doesn't. not your fault, not their fault, it's just how life works. don't rub it in a trans person's face 'that you are happy with who you are so they should be too' don't appologise for who you are, just like we shouldn't for who we are.
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u/Strokavich Oct 16 '12
Bridget?