Totally. Coins. I'm all about coins because I don't care about getting along in the real world. But hey. I'm not a scared alpha. I'm not "TheSaint", what a delight that dude is. Good commentary dude!
Awwww. Can't be a big tough guy with loose armor. Totally agree with you!
This is not "Gamer Gate all over again". Stop it.
I like your argument here and I agree. But what if the context is that the way that characters have been portrayed is limited by the fact that they have been portrayed in a limited way? Obviously there's social considerations here, e.g. some people would be upset if a character is written as gay, so the developer doesn't even consider it. Now that it is more acceptable (Bioware games, etc) to write gay characters doesn't it make sense that the options available for writing have be...
I'm so tired of hearing people use that term as a pejorative. Don't read articles like this if you have a hard time relating/understanding. Just don't armchair indict an entire group of people you simply don't relate to. That's lame.
That's awesome she hasn't experienced any harassment based on her gender. Games (and related social interactions) should simply be fun/enjoyable. And congratulations on teaching her to hate!
And bruce755: NiteX's comment is EXACTLY why you need to hear about it. Of course you don't have to pay attention if it bothers you to think about it. I just wouldn't expect someone else to censor their struggles with name-calling, harassment, marginalization, etc. I would hate to be part of a group of woman in our culture called a "whore" generically by some empathy-less commentator. I shouldn't have to point out the fact that this article was written by a MALE so y...
You must consider yourself a true "alpha". It's a good thing human behavior isn't actually so simply reduced.
You actually exist in the world like this? Or is this just your cool internet simplified point of view?
A relatively pro-Gamergate perspective and the author is still afraid of retribution. What does that tell you? He tries to be unbiased, measured, and still recognizes that Gamergate has done nothing substantial, has no concrete goals, and started ugly. They've been trying to deny it ever since. Losing battle, because them's just the facts. You know what though? He points out the problem with media as a whole. That's the issue worth fighting for; That news media is based on profit....
Funny you phrased it, "the sexist and misogynistic claims used to slander it" when there were actual sexist and misogynistic activities that slander it. The reality is sexism/bigotry and internet threats/abuse is the REAL issue and THAT's why the media covers it. It's not a conspiracy, it's simply the more important issue. Exemplified perfectly (and sadly, shamefully) by a bunch of turds in the gaming community. Confirmation bias is a scary thing. It keeps people from h...
Way to miss the entire point. You are speculating that she slept with people to get products praised. You have no idea. Even worse, you completely ignore that a bunch of people are speculating to a obscene degree about her sex life and calling her a whore and a slut. Says a lot about how we let people talk about women in our society. Truly what is a more important issue? I think you're burying the lede.
Oh seriously, LINK IT. I thought it was free to play? Raise money for charity? Jesus. You have made a mountain of the the tiniest molehill. Most of it is based emotionally in this idea that she slept with people to "get ahead" somehow. People have sex. Gamergate hasn't accomplished anything but giving a little protective cover to the idea that it didn't start out as a vicious rabble with severely touchy ideas about women. All your assertions and timelines ultimately mean no...
Just stop it you. You're going down a really scary paranoid path. The fact that you tied sensationalist media (motivated chiefly by profit, mind you) with a political stripe shows you don't understand the issue of media in our society at all. Just because you think you understand something as a conspiracy doesn't make that the reality. Sometimes you're just not getting the actual picture.
You sure SEEM to care. Regardless, a lot of people do care (in very aggressive ways) about her sex life, her role in the video game industry (trivial). Those are the people who need to seriously shut the hell up and move on with their lives, jesus.
I don't think "Equality" means what you think it means. It's not a math problem. It's a social term used usually to protect and elevate the status of a disenfranchised or threatened minority. Also not everyone has a "right" to whatever they want. Think, believe, sure. Take action by say publishing, publicizing hate-speech and violence? No. Think of laws and how they work. Simple statements like yours are so compelling to use and think with because they are just...
This is what happens when two people are being a**holes and neither of them realize it in time. This happens a lot.
Of course there's hype. I'm so confused by the idea that this game isn't being hyped. Did you even watch the video? The release announcement? There was hype EVERYWHERE. Blizzcon. There's music, flashy graphics, cut-scenes, applause, cheering. This video is hype. But yeah, integrity in gaming journalism. You just denied objective reality (because there is hype, obviously) to try and score a point. Note that I'm not defending hype here. I don't like it, e.g. Titanfall, b...
No, truth is great. Wherever it may be. The bigotry is not so good. At least you're not a lying weasel? You can probably aim higher than that.
Meh. You got something more than this? You're boring me. You're boring. You bore me. You're boring "TheSaint". Are you trying or are you just a blocker? Baby.