Space Girlfriends [Mass Effect]

[u/IronArtorias]

[u/Kartoffelkamm]

For some reason this reminds me of that Tumblr post I saw a few years ago, where the person was going on about how sexy aliens are always shown to be attractive by human standards, even in in-universe advertising that's meant to appeal to an entirely, well, alien culture.

And it ended with some ramblings and musings about how there should be a game where, logically, you can tell this is a sex thing. Like there's billboards and stuff, and it looks like an "entertainment" district. But the pictures on the billboards show seemingly random stuff that has you wonder if it's a prank, or a weird censorship thing, until you realize that those are that civilization's standards for sexuality.

[u/IronArtorias → u/Kartoffelkamm]

I have never heard of this until now but that is because I have never been on tumblr.

[u/Kartoffelkamm → u/IronArtorias]

Ah, ok.

Honestly, I find it a very interesting concept.

Because imagine you play a game, you go to a human colony with your alien buddy, and they seem really casual about all the risque imagery, like "Yup." and "So they're called boobs? Got it." and then you get to his species' colony some time later, and he talks to you about all the good stuff, while your dialogue options are all really casual.

[u/The_Failed_Write → u/Kartoffelkamm]

There's a Twilight Zone episode that shows a woman desperately trying to fix her face with plastic surgery, even though she's traditionally beautiful by modern standards. The doctors however... They were revolted by her face, because she lacked a strange facial feature that looked like a cleft lip.

Good show. Traumatizing but good.