also
https://thezoepost.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-19-at-7-07-56-pm.png
is astonishingly asinine and self-serving bullshit
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link
did i ever talk about how i went to my brother's convocation from college (diff in Canada, college != university, actually not 100% sure of the american analogue to this -- technical college? junior college? you can take anything from a 6mo bartending course to a 4y PR course) in this thread?
he convocated (sry not a word) with the entire media division of his school, he was in radio but i also saw the kids go up for tv, PR, advertising, etc etc etc including game design. as someone working in that field my heart was mildly warmed to see the bright new faces of the industry get their diploma-certificate-things. i was significantly less warmed to see more fedoras worn with gowns (2) than women (0). :( always reminded that the overwhelming sameness of the people working in the industry doesn't just start at the corporate level, it starts super super low. i was hoping, i guess?, that at the age newly graduating, the gap would be decreasing -- after all, everyone, not just boys of families with means, have had computers and internet from... almost birth at this point! and yet, something is still happening where the culture even at the education level is still homogenized. i dont get why the priv sector doesn't see this as a problem. of course tho investing in scholarships and grants for women would be seen as an attack on MENS RIGHTS or something idk. the whole thing BUMS ME OUT. :(
― Neckbread (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
i meant to say something a day ago re: "bitchmade" and didn't. it's an ugly coinage when unpacked even just a little. so, yeah.
― goole, Friday, 22 August 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
in the '90s bitchmade meant 'awesome' (probably?)
― polyphonic, Friday, 22 August 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
some good news:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/female-adults-oust-teenage-boys-largest-gaming-demographic/
― Mordy, Friday, 22 August 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
have not investigated much beyond headlines but apparently a couple internet creepo types made a 'documentary' 'exposing' anita sarkeesian (sp)
just a heads up i guess
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
or 'are making' more accurately
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
why can't any of these be as entertaining as "In Search of Bigfoot"
― Nhex, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
re: the documentary, I liked a lot about this piece:
http://badassdigest.com/2014/08/26/video-games-misogyny-and-terrorism-a-guide-to-assholes
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
But it’s hard to self-identify as “a gamer” when there’s also a large swathe of that community apparently committed to presenting us all as a bunch of hateful sociopaths. It’s like being a moderate Muslim in the middle of the continuing ISIS takeover and oppression of Iraq.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
heh
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Maybe the ISIS dudes met on 4chan.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
since even relative-anonymity on the internet makes ppl act like assholes, obv the answer is:
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/panopticon-diagram.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
haha why didn't i watch this before
these guys are amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHvvtUcp8I
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Watched some of that a few days ago and it took me three minutes to figure out it wasn't a parody. The 'tasche dude is unreal.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
*'tache*
oh god i'm terrified of that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
the standy-up guy likes some Ayn Rand too so y'know
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
Wow, have you looked at mustachioed guy's channel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdkB2-kqbrw&list=UU6TJdRrZR_WacbxJWiRZ5_g
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
god, they're so fucking boring
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.funnymemes.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mOtVh6v.gif
― polyphonic, Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
He's like a dozen different kinds of creep all at once. I'm dreading this video titled 'The Jewish Question'.
― jmm, Thursday, 28 August 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
^interest peaked^
― Mordy, Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Unless the answer is "Try the rugelach, you'll like it," run
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, Feminist Frequency's new video is good stuff. The scene she shows from God of War III is incredible.
― jmm, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah having tuned out AAA games for the past 5 years or so (except for skyrim) i was amazed/horrified by that god of war clip
― ciderpress, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
is it notably worse than the fucking QTE from gow 1?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
That isn't even the worst scene in God of War III, btw, it's just one that fits the parameters of Anita's theme for the video. There's a scene that isn't a background detail that is sooooo vile.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
AAA games are absolutely rife with this shit and it's not even a little bit of a secretit's part of why i'm more forgiving of the mawkish indie variety of mopey games where the sexism is more fedora'd a'la Braid
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Braid wore a trilby iirc
― mh, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
lol wtf
https://twitter.com/dankmtl/status/505101945976422401
― goole, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
needs more game informeralso notable lack of joystiq and kotaku, must mean something
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Lolling hard at Jim Sterling being on there, the guy who called any woman who dared to disagree with him a "feminazi slut"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
It seems he had a Damascene moment at some point in the last 3 yearshttp://www.gamingaswomen.com/posts/2013/06/an-interview-with-jim-sterling-about-sexism-in-game-culture/
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
why is there a kotaku uk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
most 15 year-old nerds too lazy to learn japanese
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I've been watching the feminist frequency videos over past couple of days (specifically the damsels in distress trilogy). They are seriously good/depressing.
Watched that one about women in background and sadly that bit from GOW 3 is typical. The first two games were cert good but with a fair amount of uncomfortable moments like that (not just against women).
― hyggeligt, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
Well, let me know if I'm seeing that scene the way you are. I haven't played this game, so I'm basing everything I know about it on that scene alone. The player gets an achievement called "I didn't do it... but I wish I did." I think this is meant to read "I didn't rape her... but I wish I did." The only alternative reading I can think of is "I didn't kill her, etc.", but that doesn't make sense, since he did kill her by jamming her into the door mechanism. It could be that the game designers are such morons that they think this wasn't really killing her, because it wasn't the entire and essential purpose of the action or something. I won't credit them with not being morons.
If the first reading is most plausible, then the idea of a rape achievement goes well beyond uncomfortable. I really didn't think mainstream games had stooped that low. And this is the shit that gets 9/10.
― jmm, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
do all AAA games have boobs in them now? did the esrb throw in the towel?
― ciderpress, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
i mean what the everloving fuckhttp://www.theverge.com/2014/8/27/6075179/anita-sarkeesian-says-she-was-driven-out-of-house-by-threatshttps://twitter.com/femfreq/status/504718160902492160/photo/1
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
feel kinda like "casual" needs to be removed from the thread title
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
just watched the FF episode; good work
― Nhex, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
They are seriously good/depressing.
― Nhex, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
lol
https://twitter.com/MichaelToole/status/503576805169586176
― goole, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Huh, there's some serious overlap between anti-feminist vloggers and atheist vloggers.
― jmm, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Almost find the hundreds of people lining up to post variations on 'I don't support death threats but isn't the real problem how this overshadows Sarkeesian being wrong' creepier than the full-bore psychopaths.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
it's weird, you'd think minds unfettered from primitive superstition wd be less fucken stupid
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
apparently doesnt help too much
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 August 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
was thinking like 90% of video games is just killing the hell out of thousands of human beings which is irl considered as bad or worse than sexual assault, and studies have tended to show that video games dont make people actually do murder, the defenders of said sexist imagery cld at least attempt to defend themselves by arguing that its an amoral symbolic landscape that doesnt operate in the same way as the real world, except that then they go and behave as exactly a literal projection of that same subhuman sexist garbage and completely discredit their whole scene and make life miserable for those just trying to get a word in edgewise
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 August 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
and these dudes being like "stop insulting 'gamers'!" right after someone has pointed out that a near-hegemony play video games, but people who feel the need to self-identify in that way are gutter trash who are acting like shitty games targeted to trash males is a way of life and not just a segment with disproportionate marketing budgets targeted to their shitty whims
― mh, Saturday, 30 August 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link