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1:03Hey, Bose here. When your next track starts, listen for the decisions that the artist makes. The vocal push right up front. The base that waits half a beat. That sample from a 70s underground gem. Every choice. Celebrate. With Bose, you'll hear it all. Your music deserves Bose. So I watched a video the other day from a content creator that had 3,000 subscribers. She now has 63,000 subscribers. That's a pretty big, sorry, 300. I meant to say 3,000. She did not have 3,000. It was 300. Was all some video? Yep. There's a lot of people to watch. And she made a response to it.

2:03I'm going to be real. She cooked like I've never heard of this girl talk before or say anything. I completely agree with everything she said. Oh, wow, look at this. She only has. She only has 300 subscribers. Holy shit here. I'm going to link you guys your video. Uh, all right. So I was not expecting that. First of all, a huge thanks to Asmond Gold for somehow finding my video and then react to it. Thanks everyone. Everyone who's here now because of that. I'm legitimately like brand new to YouTube. And I genuinely did not expect this video to get really any attention, much less blow up now the way that it has. But here we are. So before all this, it really was just me and my 300 Spartans holding the line in the comment section. And now it appears we've been overrun by roaches. Which by the way, you guys, some of the nicest roaches that I've ever met seriously. Thank you so much for all of the encouragement and support. If you're not one of the original, I think a lot of people

3:05always try to act like my community is like one dimensional. Like the fact is that there's a lot of people that watch the streams and like honestly, uh, you know, we just want to support people that we agree with. And that was it, right? I mean, shit. No 300 that means that you're new here. So hi, I'm very glad you're here. I'm just somebody who grew up loving games and who's been watching the industry slowly start to feel very hollow. And the spark that I fell in love with that made these characters unforgettable or stories emotionally rich. It's missing and a lot of what we're getting now and it doesn't have to be that way. I really just made this channel to have a place where I unpack that and I talk about games and storytelling and character writing anime soon and overall fantasy. It's just all through the lens of someone who deeply cares about how these worlds are built and how their stories are told. So let's talk about Asmons reaction. Oh, there we go. I kept crazy that I'm even saying that.

4:05Uh oh, I discovered his channel at the end of last year and the fact that he actually somehow saw the first video I've ever made is something that's truly blowing my mind. But he had a lot of really great things to say and there were a few things, especially that he brought up that I really appreciated. I think the problem is that I think this is this is my opinion is that I think a lot of female writers try to write female characters in opposition to what a female character has traditionally been. Yeah. What ends up happening is that you're not creating an it's I kind of like a card, right? And so like a card. Like can't stand up by itself. It has to be leaning against another card. So they write this this personality to lean up against the old personality of one dimensional boob characters. And that's it. And so if you take one of these away, they both fall apart. Essentially here, it seems like he's saying the industry over corrected. And I thought that was spot on because really overall the

5:09point that I was trying to make with this video is that gamers do not hate female characters. Actually, gamers really love female characters. We just want. Yeah, people just want good characters that don't feel like they're patronizing to the audience and they want female characters and not male characters that have female names. That's also a big difference to it's a huge thing. And the issue here is how the AAA industry has tried to somehow fix the old just, you know, I do also think that like a big part of it is just the fact that a lot of it is bad writing at a base level. That's really what it is. It's just bad writing like like Expedition 33 is a great example of this is like my L and CL and Luna are like all are all written in a very, very, very good way and they're attractive characters. They're not overly sexualized. But that's I think the way to write a female character.

6:13And they're also the reality is that the entire rest of this story was good. Everything was good. But usually when you see characters that are written this way that's one dimensional. There's a lot of other reasons for it happening to. Actually, I used our empty female leads. We used to get by swinging the pendulum. Yeah, so far in the other direction. And now we're just getting female leads that are very flattened and defeminized and honestly, it seems like the message they're trying to send is that somehow it's inherently shameful or bad if you are just a feminine woman. And they've really just stripped these characters of everything that once made them so iconic. And I don't think this part was in the reaction video. But like I said in my original video, anytime I get the opportunity to play a game that has a character creator, I make my female character like as a theory or as possible. She's glowing and unattainably beautiful because my.

7:13Well, yeah, that's. Wow, what a surprise. And this is this has been this has been obviously well documented by multiple people that this is the case is that all the women that talk about they want, you know, like these characters. This episode is brought to you by PayPal. You know how a mom's bag has everything sunscreen snacks. A stapler. The new PayPal app is like that. But for your money shop pay manager account and earn rewards all in one place and with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security and past keys, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started. See PayPal.com slash protection terms. This episode is brought to you by Nordstrom. For 125 years, Nordstrom has been part of your story. The stylist who found the perfect out for your big interview, the first pair of walking shoes for your one year old, the tomato soup you shared with your sister at the cafe.

8:13These are the moments that make Nordstrom Nordstrom bigger small. We're here for all of it celebrating 125 years with new moments still add discover it all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com. Hey, both here. When your next track starts, listen for the decisions at the artist's makes the vocal pushed right up front. The base that weights half of the that sample from those 70s underground gem every choice, deliberate with both. You'll hear it all. Your music deserves both. Look this way. If you look at the way that they have their final fantasy 14 character, they're always very attractive. Like this is never like people say they want something and then they don't want it.

9:13That's it. All is really to aspire to the character that I'm playing. Yeah, something about her should feel larger than life, especially in a fantasy setting. And I just don't really want to play as someone who's super realistic. I can just an average looking or tired or worn down character. I have no problem dealing with that completely on my own in every day. I don't need it in my game. Yeah. And he also brought up Ripley from Alien who is in fact the OG, honestly, because I just don't understand how we can have someone that complex maternal beautiful and strong in a movie that came out over 40 years ago, but somehow in 2025, we're like back to struggling to find that balance. And it's not the reason why is because the people that are writing the stories don't have the depth to be able to tell a story like that. So I think the best example of this is order the rings. So the reason why Lord of the Rings blew up and it was so popular

10:16is because I think the J. R. R. Tolkien wrote word of the rings after he went to World War one, which like World War two was really bad, but World War one was like apocalyptic. Okay. You had mustard gas. You had people cavalry going up against machine guns. This was some straight up brutal shit. Trinch warfare. Yeah. Like and so anyway, like characters like Samwise is probably the best example of this is like characters in War the Rings are built off of that experience. Right. And so like again, I think you can have like people that have, I think tremendous struggles in real life, it can inform them on how to make video games that can communicate struggles like that in game. And I think that with a lot of video games that does not happen. It does not happen at all. And that's the problem is because these people don't have any

11:17struggles. They don't have any issues. They don't have any sort of insight into the world. They're just like annoying millennial theater kids that think that they know better than their parents. I don't know we don't have cool female characters. We absolutely do. But the number of women in games who feel truly iconic like they'll stick in your head for years after you beat the game. That list is just getting really short. Also, I did not expect the Trist lander or Trist who is clever and compassionate and absolute thought who literally got with Geralt after he lost his memories knowing that her friend that she had known for decades was his girlfriend does not matter. She's still doing it. The biggest generational hoe. They crazy. Like I didn't even play the game and I learned about this. That's um. Hot take, I guess I actually really like the Trist room.

12:19And so I don't know. Yeah, sure. She nice. It's great. But I mean, she did snake in there. Right. I mean, she definitely did and like that's that's some roach behavior. That's about me. She still. Oh, yeah. I mean, you guys asked what it is. But I'm standing by it. Now, to be clear, there are some really amazing female characters out there right now. And I didn't even get to touch on the women in Boulder Skate 3 like Shadowheart or Bezel, just a very intense emotional strong and just really beautiful realistic woman. And I'm still playing. What I find to be funny is that if you want to hear the best stories about women nowadays and female characters, you have to go and play gotcha games. Because gotcha games, obviously all of the stories are about female characters because that's what the majority of the people that play video games by or are right by those. And so like you have a lot of these characters in like these gotcha games

13:21that actually have great stories and they're really well written. But nobody knows about it because people just click through the whole story. Skewer, but so far I am just loving the story and the characters. And even though it seems like we have a majority female cast in that game, what I love most is that none of them feel one dimensional. They're allowed to be feminine, beautiful and powerful. That's another really good example. Like I go back to Expedition 33 is that I mean, in a way it's almost a hair. I'm anime. But it's not. Is that Gustaf or verso, right? They they're the only real male character there. Like Monoco is a dog basically, right? And like I mean, I'm not going to give any big spoilers, right? But it's like a never on. He's like a robot. And S.K.A. is just like some big fat thing, right? And so like what is this?

14:23And a curator doesn't say or do anything. So it's basically one male character, all the other characters are female. And nobody's complaining. How does this happen? Everybody knows how it happens. Everybody knows why. It's because it's good. All at the same time. And they're written with complexity, but they're not being defamed to feel safe. They're emotionally rich. This episode is brought to you by PayPal. You know how a mom's bag has everything? Sunscreen, snacks, a stapler. The new PayPal app is like that. But for your money, shop, pay, manage your account, and earn rewards. All in one place. And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security, and pasquies, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started.

15:24See PayPal.com slash protection terms. Bigger small. We're here for all of it celebrating 125 years with new moments still add. Discover it all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com. Hey, those here. When your next track starts, listen for the decisions that the artist makes. The vocal pushed right up front. The base that waits half a beat. That sample from a 70s underground gem. Every choice, deliberate with both. You'll hear it all. Your music deserves both.

16:27And visually, just a very attractive and magnetic. And it proves that it can be done and it can be wildly successful. We just need more of it. This video wasn't meant to list every single exception that we have. It's more to just highlight the bigger pattern and the way that so many AAA games have lost the confidence to write women with texture and flair and just overall presence. Well, it's because the characters are attractive too. That's another really big important thing that a lot of characters, a lot of people don't understand Western developers, especially American developers. Nobody wants to cosplay and ugly. So yeah, thank you so. Hey, hey, nobody. You know, people go they say, hey, you know, you an asshole for saying that, but ain't nobody saying I'm wrong. Much as men, thank you for shining a light on Lolo me. And this is honestly all just very surreal,

17:27but I'm glad that it's coming from someone whose audience seems to really vibe kind of with what I'm saying. And it seems like for the majority, everyone is kind of agreeing on the same page. So that's great. But ultimately, the original video was made not because I just wanted to harp on the state of current games, but because I love games, I do. And I love what they're capable of of doing when storytelling is done correctly. And when a female character gets the opportunity to be all of the things bold, weird, funny, beautiful, complicated, and still feel like a genuine and real human being, I just want more of that. Because at the end of the day, I'm just a lifelong fan who wants to feel something again when I pick up my controller. And I think that we all do. I think that she broke it down in a way that was really healthy and it was intelligent. And it was accurate and fair and just really well done and respectful. Yeah, refreshing. Absolutely. There you go guys.

18:28Give it a light, give her a sub. And yeah, let me see here. 386 subscribers. Not very much. That's insane. There's a thousand three hundred easy. All right. And now I see guys. I see guys. Good job. Yeah, keep doing keep going. There you go guys. Yeah. No, yeah. I mean, it's my pleasure to support content creators that I think are making content that I think is good. I mean, shit. I mean, really, I mean, it's a thank you for me. I mean, you make content that I think is good. I can use it and that's great. Yeah, there's the video right there. I'll link it. Then honestly, I feel like there needs to be more voices like this out there that are not toxic or hostile. Like, I'm very much like the fact is that I am a very abrasive person. I know that I am a very abrasive person. I'm fully fucking aware of this. But that being said, I think that I toxic. Yes, I'm like that.

19:28That's just the way it is. But I think also you need to have people out there through as partens. Yeah, here from Asmon Ball. Yep, there you go. As you know, Roach, I also want to play sexy female video game women and video games because I want to be like them. Yeah, of course, right? Obviously. And so I think people appreciate that and they want that. Yeah, and they've wanted that really for years. And so it's really great to see that. And it's great to see more people talking about it in like an honest and direct way. That's not patronizing or rude or hostile or anything like that. It's just honest, direct, fair and good. And yeah, that's really it. So there's the video give it a like. And yeah, I look forward to see what she what she makes in the future. But yeah, this video blew up at 272,000 views. So like that was crazy. So yeah. And yeah, there it is. No, you I don't know. I mean, well, I'm I mean, like I do things the way that I do things. Okay. Like one thing that I've learned is that the way that I do them is really like I, you know,

20:32Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, Oh God. Oh, G's. Okay, guys, give me a second. I got a yeah. Yeah. Just give me a minute before we get to this. But yeah, I'll link you guys the video again. I, I think that a lot of people really appreciate this kind of commentary and the more, the more attention it gets, the better. I don't know how it happens every day. How does it keep happening every single day. So anyway, let's see if I can get a video. I'm not going to get it right here. I'm not going to get it right here. Let's see if I can find it. There it is. All right, I'll be right back and then we'll look at this real quick. Okay guys

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