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

i think the former? kinda missing the forest for the trees there tho 'pixel knight'

Let us remember all the shit Jade Raymond(who just split Ubisoft for Occulus?) got 7 years ago when AC was first released.

otm

the eurogamer story i read on her announcing her resignation was still filled with oafs commenting on her appearance

Pixel Knight @uur0w1 · 16h 16 hours ago
#Gamergate hates women, despite loving games like Uncharted, Legacy of Kain, Jak and Daxter, Assassin's Creed, and King's Quest.

all of those games have what passes for "strong female characters" in video games

i'll bet dollars to doughnuts pixel knight's never played king's quest and is just boosting his pro-women cred by mentioning it

fuckin fake geek boys smdh

hey, king's quest 4 and 7 had women protagonists!

i take it all back i am now on board with #gamergate #notyourshield

*casts a throwaway primary vote for Herman Cain because not racist*

Amy Hennig wrote the scripts and was creative director for all the Uncharted games (recently departed now making unannounced Star Wars game at EA)

I *think* they may think that Amy worked on Jak & Daxter, which she may have a little but certainly wasn't one of the main ppl behind that, she would have still been at Crystal for a lot of that

Amy was one of the principals on Legacy of Kain back at Crystal in the day

Jade Raymond was lead on AC

I don't know that much abt King's Quest

seriously tho, back to topic, fuckin a

https://twitter.com/mrconnorobrien/status/525238071441100801

perfect

i see those ads on like every gaming site these days

yah they are google ad served i think, it sucks you often don't get a lot of control over what goes up on those

UMS, am I wrong in saying that there are "strong female protagonists" in all those games though?

yes in uncharted
AC kinda there was the Vita one set in New Orleans w/female lead
Legacy of Kain, man it's been awhile there were a few of those maybe?
Jak & Daxter kinda but i dunno you're really scraping the barrel to find one in that case
king's quest is a blind spot for me as i said

either way the point that the game industry has often had sexist, hyper-sexualized/objectified, and dumb portrayals of women -- and that by and large protagonists have been white males, is so completely objectively TRUE that you'd have to be some sort of moron to argue otherwise

i mean ppl are bringing up Lara Croft as a counter example, she is literally a female because when they were developing the first one, a programmer thought it would be more pleasant to stare at a hot female butt than a man's butt

King's Quest games suck

Also as though there being a handful of popular female protagonists makes a lick of difference in re the severe harassment of women who criticize gaming culture or get "too uppity" or something

KQ1 was Roberta Williams

Oh man, I'm disappointed they didn't mention Phantasmagoria

i have misremembered the lead in one of the Kain games being a woman. go figure. there was a rush of female protagonists in the wake of Tomb Raider's ridiculous success but not many characters that have hung on till current gen systems.
for non-gamers, it is perhaps instructive to recognize that Sony, the creator of the Playstation and arguably the most important company in console gaming, has claimed "Fat Princess" as their signature female character for the past five years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHjQzBwawNM

and she's not even playable!

I just remember with Jade Raymond, Ubi put her right out front for the promotion of the game and boy did she catch shit for it, even to the point of the horrible nsfw cartoon somebody drew

corey cole who co-created the quest for glory games was talking about gamergate recently, and he mentioned that roberta williams got hate mail for making a woman the protagonist of king's quest 4. the more things change, etc.

speaking of the more things change, here's jay smooth otm in 2012 and sounding like he posted this yesterday
http://vimeo.com/44117178

https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/525314068870336513 aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

who cares about rape/death threats women get FREE IMAGINARY SWORDS

#notyourchitinshield

man I can't laugh at any of this shit at this point no matter how blinkered and childish it is, people are getting hurt out there and these fuckwits need to have their oxygen supply cut off

(their metaphorical oxygen giving them voice in the twitterverse/tumblrverse/blogosphere, not advocating the suffocation of teenagers)

Philip Burkhill ‏@philyburkhill 1h1 hour ago

@Sargon_of_Akkad My guild went out of its way to accommodate women, no rape jokes allowed etc

I sat across from someone on the bus this morning with a Social Justice Ranger pin on their backpack and I showed them my Social Justice Wizard pin that's on my lanyard right now. We had a moment. It was reassuring.

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Warlobster ‏@Gossenphilosoph 2h2 hours ago
@Sargon_of_Akkad Don't forget they would also see this as sexism. "You can't buy a womans love"-type of shit. You can't win.

war.......lobster

FREE IMAGINARY SWORDS

everyone heard this like that cure song in their head right

women. can't threaten to kill them, can't purchase them like commodities. amirite fellas.

lol biscuits

#winfail

this argument is exactly backwards from "journalistic integrity"

https://twitter.com/johndurant/status/525145389687910400

otm

Flipped through my roommate's GameInformer and found a pleasant, to-the-point Sarkeesian interview. Wonder if this is raising hackles or if the GG types have already long since checked out on GameInformer.

otm was to s.clover above, but goole is also otm

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yeah that guy is a trip

why are all these dudes so certain they understand perfectly how the world and everyone in it works?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

so much facial hair, so many greasy locks

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