So sad.

..lol. Originally uploaded by Kimli.

In associated news, only 4% of the UK games industry is female, according to GI Biz.

Comments

[Lee]

Somebody call the paramedics, this poor lady has a Red Ring of Death.

[Twyst]

I dunno why women feel that gaming is hostile... i mistook that circle for a reticle tho.

[Amanda]

Well I left for the US, so there's part of that 8% drop :)

[bob_d]

I can't imagine it's any better in the U.S.; certainly if you look at the gender breakdown for developers the percentage of women has to be worse. Many companies I've seen the inside of had mostly female office staff but only one or two female developers, if they had any. The last company I worked for had a number of women who were interested in being game developers but took non development positions in the hopes of a lateral move at some point. They quit when they realized that wasn't ever going to happen. It's pretty depressing. I see this as one of the (many) ways in which the game industry damages itself.

[Fangle]

So is this just a flimsy excuse for people to stare at ladyboobs, or is it an insidious way of encouraging people to think of women as playthings...?
Discuss.

[bob_d]

@ Fangle: Since the "joke" is clearly, "Are you ready to play [with this woman's breasts]?" it's both, though it's not exactly an insidious plot if that's already the prevailing attitude towards women in the industry, which it sadly is.

[Mr Tom]

I looked at that thumbnail and thought "Is that a *target*?"

[Kim]

1) No one's commented so far on how bad the photoshop job on her is. They've clearly changed the scale of her face so it doesn't fit on her head. Maybe was someone else's to begin with? Belongs on photoshopdisasters!

2) The juxtaposition with the sausage-case physique of the guy sitting next to the poster is fantastic.

[bob_d]

@Kim:
After poking around looking for other picts of the same model (I think it's a former Miss Hungary), the worst photoshop hackery appears to be related to the shadows on her face more than scale alterations. There are so many ways that use of photoshop ends up distorting images, I have a hard time parsing out which alterations are more artificial, though, since I just expect commercial photos to look "wrong."