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Nikki From Obsession Coming To Fortnite Is The Endgame Of People Not Getting It (kotaku.com)
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Fortnite, the gaping maw devouring pop culture as we know it so it can feed it into an AI-driven pipeline that cannot resist another skin to sell to its millions of players, is finally bringing Nikki, the titular obsessor, to its battle royale so she can snipe Sabrina Carpenter and a robot who looks like Sonic the Hedgehog and then dance on their corpses. Almost like she’s a puppet with no control over her body.

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This article reminds me of this short analysis: Love Magic and Mixed Messages - Pop Culture Detective

If you’re gonna criticize a game for undermining the horror of the wish itself by turning her loss of autonomy into a spectacle… it sounds like (through retelling, since I haven’t seen it) the movie committed essentially the same sin.

If anything, puppeteering her body to make her do the same actions every other character does… might be less misogynist than directing the actress to portray the “crazy girlfriend” stereotype as the focal point of a horror movie.

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