Jade Raymond blow job comic

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:14 pm 0

I've pulled this out of the hitting refresh thread because it is "relevant gaming news".

Someone came up with this comic strip :

And it has resulted in :

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... genumber=1

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:18 pm 0

Soooo...

Is it wise to post that?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:24 pm 0

I'm amazed they haven't figured out who the original artist is yet considering everyone is just hotlinking to the original picture

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:30 pm 0

Yeah, I'd like to buy Jade's game!

Gus · Post by **Gus** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:35 pm 0

The comic isn't that funny, but Lowtax' reply to the lawyer has given me a serious case of the giggles

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:39 pm 0

Jonesey wrote:Soooo...

Is it wise to post that?

Well I honestly don't see why not. It's going on, it's happening.

It's an interesting topic isn't it, sex sells, and is there not a touch of hypocrisy here?

Ubisoft *have* been using Jade as a publicity tool tool to sell Assassin's Creed to us sad male geeks... haven't they?

And now a well observed comic pops up highlighting this, itself portraying Jade Raymond as a sex object (because that is exactly what Ubisoft have been doing!), and so Ubisoft bring in the lawyers.

It's ok for Ubisoft to use her as a sex object to generate sales and to further Jade's career, but it's not right for any of her fans to do it.

AlbertKatraz · Post by **AlbertKatraz** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:40 pm 0

Doesn't this fall under the umbrella of satire?

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:45 pm 0

AlbertKatraz wrote:Doesn't this fall under the umbrella of satire?

Yeah it should do. I can't see it's any different to the Fallwell vs Hustler case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Ma ... v._Falwell

Depends under what juristrisction they sue though.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:02 pm 0

disciple wrote:
Ubisoft *have* been using Jade as a publicity tool tool to sell Assassin's Creed to us sad male geeks... haven't they?

I don't think so, not even in the slightest. She's not been more visible than, say, Molyneaux, Kojima, Dave Perry (the ex Shiny one) or Miyamoto. It's really cynical of you to suggest otherwise.

I think that comic is pathetic, whoever did that should be ashamed of himself. Imagine how the woman in question would feel about that and the suggestions that she's a PR tool? Fuck's sake. And yet people wonder why there are so few females working and taking part in gaming.

arron · Post by **arron** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:05 pm 0

If I want to buy a copy of Assassin's Creed, do I really have to stick my penis in a place where everyone else seems to have relieved themselves? The public urinals in that train station I went to once were bad enough..and I think The Donkey might get cross..

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:08 pm 0

disciple wrote:Yeah, I'd like to buy Jade's game!

Yeah and you would to.

I bought Jade's game yesterday. I didn't get a free penis clean but it is a very nice game indeed.

Mqark · Post by **Mqark** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:00 pm 0

FAIL!

Poor attempt at humour gone very wrong. It has turned what could have been a topical piece of satire in to an unfunny and horribly demeaning personal attack.

Not funny - quite disgusting. I'm as far from being a prude as possible, but this isn't humour - it's a depraved attack on someone.

So fucking what if Jade is an attractive woman. Big pigging deal!
It makes no difference to the game whatsoever.

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:14 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
disciple wrote:
Ubisoft *have* been using Jade as a publicity tool tool to sell Assassin's Creed to us sad male geeks... haven't they?
I don't think so, not even in the slightest. She's not been more visible than, say, Molyneaux, Kojima, Dave Perry (the ex Shiny one) or Miyamoto. It's really cynical of you to suggest otherwise.

I think that comic is pathetic, whoever did that should be ashamed of himself. Imagine how the woman in question would feel about that and the suggestions that she's a PR tool? Fuck's sake. And yet people wonder why there are so few females working and taking part in gaming.

But isn't anyone who does an interview about a game a PR tool?

TBH she's pretty average looking.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:17 pm 0

skweek wrote:
Rod_S wrote:
disciple wrote:
Ubisoft *have* been using Jade as a publicity tool tool to sell Assassin's Creed to us sad male geeks... haven't they?
I don't think so, not even in the slightest. She's not been more visible than, say, Molyneaux, Kojima, Dave Perry (the ex Shiny one) or Miyamoto. It's really cynical of you to suggest otherwise.

I think that comic is pathetic, whoever did that should be ashamed of himself. Imagine how the woman in question would feel about that and the suggestions that she's a PR tool? Fuck's sake. And yet people wonder why there are so few females working and taking part in gaming.
But isn't anyone who does an interview about a game a PR tool?

TBH she's pretty average looking.

I would say that depends on your definition of "average".

I agree with this bit (in particular) of Rod's post:

Rod_S wrote:Imagine how the woman in question would feel about that

Because, although people are saying this is attacking Ubisoft for their marketing, it isn't. It's attacking this one woman in a particularly horrible and personal manner. Not nice, and even if it was intended as satire, I can see why she might be upset enough to have her employer's legal division look into it.

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:26 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote: I would say that depends on your definition of "average".

I think she's really quite pretty but has a habit of doing a quite evil looking exposing of teeth instead of smiling.