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My cousin told me that she ODed so hard that they had to put her in an institution where she spends all day thinking she's at a rave.
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Honestly, it puts me off completely. I'm a woman and this is what gaming used to be: women are sluts. The ad isn't even trying to be clever or anything. Like wtf is this this trying to say?
I’m a woman and this is what gaming used to be: women are sluts.
Why is this saying the woman is a prostitute?
What is wrong if she was one?
semi trolling.
No, the imagery was supposed to invoke the rave culture at the time. Lots of men, women, boys, and girls doing X, and the pills usually were white like that.
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It was a serious problem for a long time. Late 90's/early 2000's E3 and game shows were greasy.
I remember gaming magazines running whole sections just on the "best booth babes" of the season.
Late 90’s/early 2000’s E3 and game shows were greasy
I posted this elsewhere, but people pretend like that just ended abruptly in 2005, but I want people to always remember this shit. That's 2009, not 1999, gross.
Oh yeah, the culture was toxic af. Lots of folks never grew out of the toxicity. Granted it was preexisting toxicity coopted and reinforced in the gaming culture, not created by it. We're in a much better place in that regard these days.
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I don't think an ad with this kind of imagery would fly today