Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

it took us a while but we got there eventually

but ilx didn't even provide the madness

madness by proxy syndrome

Senior analyst Stephanie Llamas wrote in a follow-up blog post that the growing popularity of "casual platforms" has helped reinforce the false assumption that women are primarily casual gamers. But the reality, says Llamas, is that half of female PC gamers in the US consider themselves either "mid-core or hardcore gamers."

goes to the self-identifying as 'gamers' convo we had all the way upthread

― Mordy, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:49 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol mid-core shut it down folks

so is it softcore, midcore and hardcore?

mid-core moderates

I'm a normcore gamer

These guys don't like the term mid-core gamer. They want it referred to as half-mast.

casual, casual-core, mobile, retro, mid-core, sonic fan art-core, adult man-baby-core, ethics in game journalism-core

I thought we were finally part of a post-core society.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1I0jDrCEAAQT1H.png

loooool

someone tell Patton Oswalt.

omg

how long til they recruit ian watkins apologists?

is tosh bro still on tv

Dipshit Knight is like a white knight for dipshits

probably would be less surprising re female gamers if female gamers could be visible in online MP games without being harassed for speaking or having a gamertag that identifies them as potentially female

true

oh you all laugh at gamergate now, but when the SJWs descend on ILM and your album with a sheep on it polls and compulsive listmaking excercises lie in ruins who will be laughing then

looks like anita sarkeesian is gonna be on colbert tonight

There's something a bit insufferable about the thought of Colbert making gamer jokes.

had to look up the council of 13

the name of the ruling body of numerous fictional villanous species:
Yeerks, from the children's book series Animorphs

That PCGamer link on stats of women in games is breaking my head with the comments. Do these people live on earth?

Jeremy Alexander NacMacFeegle • 9 hours ago
I'm confused, what is wrong with equal rights???
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NacMacFeegle Jeremy Alexander • 9 hours ago
Nothing wrong with equal rights, the problem is equal rights advocates

oh you all laugh at gamergate now, but when the SJWs descend on ILM and your album with a sheep on it polls and compulsive listmaking excercises lie in ruins who will be laughing then

the inhabitants of ILM, giddy with freedom

i don't play video games but i am crying over anita sarkeesian's nyt op-ed so i mean i guess it reached its target audience

sarkeesian just went on colbert and GG is losing GG it. some good images floating around already.

Lol phone

http://www.themarysue.com/watch-anita-sarkeesian-colbert-segment/

Is that really what the writing for Colbert is usually like? P bad.

You mean the scripted stuff before the interview?

yeah the monologue, pretty groany

oh you all laugh at gamergate now, but when the SJWs descend on ILM and your album with a sheep on it polls and compulsive listmaking excercises lie in ruins who will be laughing then

― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Wednesday, October 29, 2014 7:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Nobody listened to the prophet Mordy until it was too late

finally, the inevitable hitler video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr2JPjhtGZA

Five minutes of Colbert jokes. -_- Then Anita comes on and more Colbert jokes.

It was hardly an interview, but she did well.

hitler vid starts slow but gets p good.

didn't think anything really new could be done with this material but the cut at 3:06 and reaction shot at 3:26 are excellent.

They've done it. They've cracked it wide open.

http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/10/23/gamergate-viewed-right/

this is a fascinating document, a far-right site talking gg (as most of them have been all along)

ignore the overheated writing for the comments tho: lots of self-professed "left-libertarians" chiming in. there's the whole roster of far-right internet bros in there eventually.

i think somewhere in there someone openly admits that their charity giving (esp to that one women-in-games org they like) is pinkwashing advised by the white nationalist types on 4chan to give the whole thing legitimacy

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2ksawe/i_cannot_wait_to_seehow_south_park_takes_on/

I cannot WAIT to seehow South Park takes on #Gamergate (self.KotakuInAction)

submitted 2 hours ago by theclayinyourhands

I have full faith in Trey and Matt, that they will see through the shilling and tackle this issue with sharp satire on both sides. And everyone knows Trey and Matt will not be able to resist. I'd say expect a GG themed episode of South Park within 2-3 weeks.

I can just see it now. Cartman is playingvideo games when all of the sudden a woman on voice chat or something starts spouting off a bunch of feminist shit and he goes out and either a). starts the "Gamergate" movement or b). joins the existing Gamergate movement and when he starts being all misogynist all the other GG people are like "no, dude this is about ethics" at which point he starts a spinoff GG group based on misogyny and then at the end they all learn a lesson and move on. With, of course, all the jokes and shots that Matt and Trey will throw in there.

Needles to say, it'll be a classic.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dBLDirQUFug/SRz97TxTmsI/AAAAAAAAABY/BOLDWVic-3Q/s400/Peanuts+Desert.gif

Needles to say

does ilx have a "post your topical south park fanfiction" thread because if not

Does ILX have a 'needless to say' thread because if not

1) cartman hears a woman saying feminist shit 2) he starts gamergate 3) everyone else in gamergate tells him it’s about ethics in journalism

With, of course, all the jokes and shots that Matt and Trey will throw in there.

come for the ethics in videogames, stay for the south park fan fic

whatever happens it'll just end with Stan going "it's fuckin' video games, dude!" as he flips off the camera

and then at the end they all learn a lesson and move on.

not optimistic abt this

Needles to say

Needles to hay.

south park ep would prbly be just about as funny as that unfortunately