Search results

See I would have agreed with that, except we've now had three years of people throwing constant harassment her way and calling her all sorts of creative variations on "dumb lying dishonest hack" sooooo yeah, I guess it ain't that obvious to those folk and what she's doing is needed? Ugh.

Yep, that sure is a good example of the kind of character assassination Crni Vuk just talked about.

I'm not even going to touch those misrepresentations of her statements. None of them correspond to what she's actually said, in the contexts of which she's said those things. I would advise you to approach her critiques with less of an adversarial stance, because you are taking the worst...

Sorry, I didn't see the edit before. Sarkeesian notes that Krystal is "one of two playable protagonists," which is correct. Your contention that the main character was a male fox is not -- he was one of two main characters. Her point was that Nintendo turned her from a playable character into...

I'm trying to explain why I think what she does is not lying, at least in the example of Hitman: Absolution. What part of my argument do you disagree with? You've yet to actually present an example of her lying, by the way. This is the example I explained because that's the one people often...

Because your arguments bear more than a passing resemblance to his, and he's probably Sarkeesian's most-watched critic. Perhaps that's a coincidence and you came to these same criticisms yourself, or perhaps you absorbed those criticism elsewhere (he's certainly not the only one making those...

Yes, male characters are also treated poorly in specific ways -- but in different ways from those of women, which is why that's not the subject of her videos so far, although she has made a few small comments about the way male characters are treated. Her complaining about the treatment of...

Once again, Walpknut, I am not contending that damseling of male characters never happens, nor is Sarkeesian. The argument is that it happens far more frequently to female than to male characters. That's all. And yes, Sarkeesian's analysis is very basic and surface-level -- she's not trying to...

Walpknut, the difference between how male characters and female characters in disempowering situations are often treated comes down to a difference in their agency in these situations. Male characters are often disempowered, but immediately given power to escape. They also usually don't serve...

@cronicler, @Walpknut: I agree: it would be pretty awful if you couldn't put a female character in distress, or if women characters had to be perfect. Thankfully, that is not what Sarkeesian is advocating. Instead she is pointing out that the Damsel In Distress trope is used far, far too often...

People have always critiqued violence in video games on many different grounds, especially Grand Theft Auto games. There's a reason why the European versions of Fallout didn't include kids, and it's not that no one cared about violence. Not that all of those critiques were equally valid, but I...

God-fucking-dammit I thought this thread had died. Yes, more proof that TotalBiscuit does not understand the cultural critiques made by Anita Sarkeesian. Specifically, and she explains this, that a Damsel In Distress is not a character attribute, but a plot event. Here she is explaining the...

No, not guilt by association. Guilt by your agreeing with alec, which you did in your last post. And guilt by your long history of making black-and-white statements, including in this very thread. Your indignation whenever someone challenges you is fucking hilarious, though. Please keep it up.

Ah, you're right, I worded that poorly. I did not mean to say that those terrorists weren't motivated by a rejection of Western culture, but rather that they weren't motivated by a desire to destroy Western culture wholesale. And that specifically in the context of "immigrants" into Europe...

No one's giving anyone a "free pass." Just pointing out that a lot of these "critiques" are actually little more than veiled bigotry. And I wouldn't even say that the spread of a specific ideology is really the problem here, because a lot of this violence is a reaction to structural issues...

Game developers are closer to gamers than ever, with social media accounts and...well...social media accounts. One of the more active social media guys associated with Fallout is Josh Sawyer, the lead designer of Fallout: New Vegas and one-time lead of Interplay's Fallout 3 project that never...

People produce the craziest things on the internet. Like a fight between Fallout 3's Lone Wanderer and Skyrim's Dovahkiin? I don't know if that's the word for their player character. Never played that game. Made by andrewmfilms, who apparently make this kind of stuff all the time. In my...

While we're all waiting on news on Fallout, any kind of news really, inXile keeps on chugging. The latest news: they're going to make a real Bard's Tale sequel. Not the comedy version inXile released over a decade ago, but a proper Bard's Tale 4. That's what Brian Fargo told IGN. The Bard's Tale...

There's a lot of historical debate over how and why anti-black racism specifically came to be. It certainly sometimes functioned to keep poor European settlers and indentured servants from sympathizing with black slaves, and it also functioned to dehumanize black people, create an ideology of...

That violence was not caused by cartoons any more than Roger Elliot's killing spree was caused by women not having sex with him. It determined at most the direction of violence. That's my point. What are the areas mentioned, exactly? You only talked about "that part of the world" as a...