Any of you guys born as non-gamers? (I don't even fucking know anymore..)
I think I'm good. I was born with an NES controller in my hand.
Any of you guys born as non-gamers? (I don't even fucking know anymore..)
y do they meow at eachother?
Well, of course. It's the game least connected to any actual ethical concerns whatsoever today.
Movie Bob done a video about censorship:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...st&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all
TotalBiscuit is commenting:
That was not directed to Movie Bob.
I love how video games are the only industry to operate on a functional review scale of 5-10.
The fanbase ties their identity to games so tightly that giving a game a 5 or less is seen as a direct, personal insult, and the death threats start going out. So the scores are shifted upwards to soften the blow.
Now the "virtual" 5, 7.5, is even viewed as an insult. They're going to have to move to a scale of 9-10, with 9.5 being the "virtual" 5.
I love when #GamerGaters stupidity is on display without women being harassed and abused. I can safely laugh at them without feeling guilty.It started when GamerGhazi posted a word cloud of the most used words on the subreddit and KiA thought that if they continually included the word meow then the word cloud would be messed up. They didn't realize that you could excludes words in the word cloud.
I don't really get the people that fall back on that score thing for Hitman. It's not the be all end all of the game. By that logic, you should only ever kill the target right? Yet the game introduced mechanics like Splinter Cell's "Mark and kill a whole room full of bad guys." The game's design purposefully allows you to circumvent the scoring system to play how you want. There's entire weapons and ideas throughout the game that go against the score system. You're also discouraged from fucking around in Grand Theft Auto because the police will likely come kill you and you'll lose money. Does that mean GTA encourages acting like a law abiding citizen? No, because that's stupid. They're sandbox games. Most of the things you can do in sandbox games are encouraged.
Sadly, as the reactions to that GameSpot review of GTA V showed, even 9 is far too low.
so wait the moviebob video apparently had little or nothing to do with anita and/or GG, someone just positively mentioned her in relation to the whole "censorship" thing and TB creepily poked his head in, removed his top hat to reveal three fedoras stacked up on top of each other, and posted, "actually,"
A petition to EA/DICE that asks them to fire Anita from her consultant job on Mirror's Edge 2
https://www.change.org/p/ea-games-remove-anita-sarkeesian-from-mirror-s-edge-2-game-development
I was previously unfamiliar with this "Moviebob" but I love his big picture video series.
This thread really introduced me to some interesting media critics.
Amazing isn't it?
An entire video dedicated to asking folks to stop using Jack Thompson as a comparison figure and TB walks in and compares Anita to him instantly, because of course he does.
Also have folks seen this?
A petition to EA/DICE that asks them to fire Anita from her consultant job on Mirror's Edge 2
https://www.change.org/p/ea-games-remove-anita-sarkeesian-from-mirror-s-edge-2-game-development
sexist douchebag said:We need to remove the toxic influence of radical feminism from the gaming industry and media. Anita and her ilk are not passionate about games and they're not interested in helping women in any capacity
Amazing isn't it?
An entire video dedicated to asking folks to stop using Jack Thompson as a comparison figure and TB walks in and compares Anita to him instantly, because of course he does.
Also have folks seen this?
A petition to EA/DICE that asks them to fire Anita from her consultant job on Mirror's Edge 2
https://www.change.org/p/ea-games-remove-anita-sarkeesian-from-mirror-s-edge-2-game-development
http://www.p4rgaming.com/book-report-super-mario-bros-3-brick-by-brick-by-moviebob-aka-bob-chipman/I was previously unfamiliar with this "Moviebob" but I love his big picture video series.
This thread really introduced me to some interesting media critics.
I was previously unfamiliar with this "Moviebob" but I love his big picture video series.
This thread really introduced me to some interesting media critics.
Third game in well-regarded series gets good reviews? Better get GG's best/worst reporters on this!
Today a thousand sea lions got up and left a pier
They had successfully invaded and secured for 20 years
Some said it was the food supply or shifting weather patterns
Truthfully a whole community of scientists are baffled
In '89 maybe 10 showed up at the wharf
As if guided by the trident of poseidon to cavort
Each a lumbering and boisterous glutton
Like a half-ton annoyance til the heart-warming story went public
You'll need a montage, animals arriving in droves
A bottom dollar turns a nuisance to the pride of your cove
Which bring us back up to this morning when the colony dove
I got a couple unsubstantiated thoughts of my own they go
Maybe it'd feel more majestic and less fatty
If a 12 year old wasn't beaning it with salt water taffy
Every 5 fucking seconds, sounds like your basic
Liberating moment of collective "fuck fame" shit
so wait the moviebob video apparently had little or nothing to do with anita and/or GG, someone just positively mentioned her in relation to the whole "censorship" thing and TB creepily poked his head in, removed his top hat to reveal three fedoras stacked up on top of each other, and posted, "actually,"
Dragon Age is about as well-regarded as Sonic.
Dragon Age is about as well-regarded as Sonic.
well they did both have just one good game
sonic has more than one shitty sequel tho
pretty sure this is satire
front page of kia: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAct...not_just_about_ethics_in_game_journalism_for/
it's also about fighting skeletons wherever they appear because otherwise we might have to have safe spaces and expressly forbid rape
Hmmm I enjoyed 1 through 3 (and Sonic and Knuckles, the Genesis era was pretty solid)
Kotaku takes an ethical approah to Embargo issues:
http://kotaku.com/regarding-post-release-review-embargoes-yesterday-i-1657482663
Not sure if it's entirely GamerGate related but I really think it is. Some commenters on Polygon would like to see some coordination between outlets to make the policy about not excepting post-review embargoes a standard. What they don't realize is that would mean...
MAILING LISTS!
Hmmm I enjoyed 1 through 3 (and Sonic and Knuckles, the Genesis era was pretty solid)
Kotaku takes an ethical approah to Embargo issues:
http://kotaku.com/regarding-post-release-review-embargoes-yesterday-i-1657482663
And literal collusion.
front page of kia: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAct...not_just_about_ethics_in_game_journalism_for/
it's also about fighting skeletons wherever they appear because otherwise we might have to have safe spaces and expressly forbid rape
Hi You all don't know me. I've been afraid to comment in general here overall, but I wanted to toss this out -
This post in KiA literally just turned me from a 80ish% anti-GG to a full 100% anti-GG. They can go fuck themselves. They want to talk about how it's all about journalism, then stop throwing out that shit.
I've been reading Neogaf, KiA and Gamerghazi for a bit now, trying to wrap my head around it all and trying to be relatively fair... But after this post, that, for me was like, REALLY? You're RIGHT NOW admitting it's not about "ethics in gaming journalism"! They just stabbed themselves in the foot, and I think if a lot of the #NotYourShield people read this, I think they'd feel the same way I do. I never really took up the #NotYourShield mantle, despite being a gay dude myself, but I saw what they were trying to do with it and now I'm like "oh hell no."
So.... fuck 'em.
And thanks - I hadn't really gone to any of the subs lately - so I missed this post. But I'm glad it was pointed out here.
Is that an aggregator of GamerGate pieces?i got it from a gamergate_txt retweet: https://twitter.com/gamergatetxt
it's a good account to follow generally if you want to see some awful stuff
Is that an aggregator of GamerGate pieces?
Hi You all don't know me. I've been afraid to comment in general here overall, but I wanted to toss this out -
This post in KiA literally just turned me from a 80ish% anti-GG to a full 100% anti-GG. They can go fuck themselves. They want to talk about how it's all about journalism, then stop throwing out that shit.
I've been reading Neogaf, KiA and Gamerghazi for a bit now, trying to wrap my head around it all and trying to be relatively fair... But after this post, that, for me was like, REALLY? You're RIGHT NOW admitting it's not about "ethics in gaming journalism"! They just stabbed themselves in the foot, and I think if a lot of the #NotYourShield people read this, I think they'd feel the same way I do. I never really took up the #NotYourShield mantle, despite being a gay dude myself, but I saw what they were trying to do with it and now I'm like "oh hell no."
So.... fuck 'em.
And thanks - I hadn't really gone to any of the subs lately - so I missed this post. But I'm glad it was pointed out here.
Oh yeah, I meant to post in regards to TotalBiscuit dropping the hashtag, that he's rarely ever actually used it. So him saying he'll stop using the hashtag means next to nothing. As far as I can tell he's still supportive of this shitty movement, he's just trying to be sneaky about it.
Any of you guys born as non-gamers? (I don't even fucking know anymore..)
His 155 IQ gives him a brand of cunning to which the rest of us can only aspire.
I mean he lives in Goobergrape, GA.
The video is pretty clearly inspired by Gamergate, but it tackles the problem from the broadest possible level which makes it nice and futureproof.so wait the moviebob video apparently had little or nothing to do with anita and/or GG, someone just positively mentioned her in relation to the whole "censorship" thing and TB creepily poked his head in, removed his top hat to reveal three fedoras stacked up on top of each other, and posted, "actually,"
futureproof.