So...Statesman's Crotch

Last time i saw that much of a statesmans crotch, Anthony Weiner had to resign from the house of representatives.
city of heroes ...FREED0NG!
otherwise its a pretty awesome picture.

Wow...

Pretty much this same thread cropped up in the Beta forums. What, you have so much time on your hands waiting to play you're going to criticise the login screen?

I mean....

The LOGIN screen?

Seriously?

Like anyone else, I can take umbrage if something is blatant or overdone, but I spend maybe a second at most logging in before I go to play. If I'm allowing myself to be distracted by an image that somehow offends me or I consider troubling because it's interpreted to be somehow sexual, then I'm dealing with issues that have nothing to do with the game.

It's a heroic pose. It's a dramatic pose. Do any of you complaining about this think for a moment that the intent of this picture by David Nakayama was to provoke sexual thoughts about the character in some negative way?

No. It's your interpretations of what you see in that picture that is the issue, not the picture itself.

Grow the frak up and play the game, people.



S.

Statesman's crotch is not the first thing I want to see when I log into the game. I don't think it would be a big issue if you only saw it once, when you logged in, but you see it every time you load into a mission or a new zone. People were complaining about this loading screen during the beta, so why did they still use it?

Just think of it as very rare salvage

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Statesman has no "package". Is this aside effect of the Well's power?

If so, I want to tender my resignation from the Incarnates club, while I still have one of my own.

(Personally, I hope he just tucks)

I think that the Elvis pose by Statesman is a bit silly. I call it the SPT Statesman Pelvic Thrust.

Having to login to that is annoying and all I can think is that Statesman is doing the Time warp.

You know, I've had images ruined for me by people pointing out flaws I didn't see, like perspective errors or misdirected nipples. I didn't really notice, initially, that Statesman had no package; I thought it was weirder that they put a dead man on the cover.

Then someone points it out on one of my chat channels and now arrrgh it's all I notice every time I login. @.@

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker Just think of it as very rare salvage

So is the KIR trial going to drop Statesman's Wingwong or is tucking the Forbidden Technique?

This whole thread is making me laugh. Maybe States just uses a dancer's belt?
I've seen many spandex cosplays whose only major flaw was the lack of one.

Seeing that picture I feel sorry for him

Do we know how he lost his thingy?

I believe it was being held captive by Ghost Widow.

Statesman has always been a tall pillar of justice for paragon city.

I just want to say that I am happy that this community is divided between "ah!! crotch in my face!! It burns!!!" and "hmm, there's nothing in there... that's odd..."

and my question still is, why are his legs so skinny. he is supposed to have a muscular physique, but his legs , either due to the pose or angle, seem skinny.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

First thing that came to my mind.

Why couldn't it be Foreshadow's butt?

Okay. I'm going to try to treat this topic as seriously as possible. I am an actual artist, not a great one, but I do have some training. Much about this image pulls your eye to Statesman's groin. That seems to be inadvertent artistically.

If you look at the art almost all the lines go to Statesman's Star chest, the intended focal point of the piece. So the image can read as the star exploding in rays. This is enhanced by the lines of the cape. Unfortunately the saturation of the light is changed slightly in the screen (at least on my comp) and the man's crotch is better lit than it should be. Two very powerful lines (the legs) could be read to emphasize the Star, but unfortunately also emphasize the crotch. Which is no longer shadowy, nor is the star as bright (exploding!) as I have seen in some concept art for the image. So, competing point of interest. Since the groin is not in shadow, Statesman's "problem" becomes apparent. He has no bulge. None. We are talking Ken crotch here. Once seen, it cannot be unseen. And in the way of the human mind, anytime something is "wrong" it grabs your attention. So, the star loses in the focal point battle. Statesman's well illuminated and physiologically improbable missing genitalia win.

So, look forward to that jarring image glaring at you until i23.

I'm still surprised that no one has come in with a replacement method. Weren't we once able to change the default load screens?

If I could replace the actual Statesman start-up screen with the rainbow version.... I would absolutely do it. It makes me grin.