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

There are plenty of comments acting as if this guy rolling a car is hilarious, mocking him but at the same time nodding to the fact he's saying all the right memes.

it's a weird mixture of things... watching that video i get the sense that he's 90% joking/putting on a character for the entertainment and approval of the faceless mass of 8channers he doesn't know but desperately wants that approval/infamy/personal encyclopediadramatica page or w/e -- that's the impression i get from tons of chan/reddit nerds that i've witnessed, not uncommon in internet communities but a lot worse in internet communities built around totally lonely angry boys

but then there's that extra 10% driving him above and beyond and it's combination terrifying/sad as fuck

damned if i'm going to link it, but did you watch that video where he has a "duel of honor" where he and a friend slapfight and nunchuk beat some rando? i made it to the part where he puts a gun to his head and starts screaming about a citizens arrest
genuinely fucking crazy.

hell no, I barely watched the linked video, this dude doesn't need any more of my time

Oops, sorry, yeah, I should have given more background to my complaint upthread

"GG supporters are the majority on twitter, on reddit, on comments sections in gaming news sites, on youtube, on comments sections of MSM news sites. (self.KotakuInAction)"

hmm.

― max, Thursday, January 15, 2015 5:57 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone saw this last fall right, it rules

https://medium.com/message/72-hours-of-gamergate-e00513f7cf5d

The median Gamergate supporter has 67 followers, follows 134 accounts, has posted 1,194 tweets, and joined Twitter a little over two years ago.

The median Gamergate critic has 144 followers, follows 234 accounts, has posted 3,765 tweets, and joined Twitter four years and three months ago.

i guess GG has their own data scientist who says there's like 150k of them and they're all really positive people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6I1VQTkrCU

HA, of course this is on SVU

tsk liberal media

The earrings are a nice touch.

ACTING!

Fan reaction to this should be interesting: Future Call of Duty Game May Have a Female Lead, Says Sledgehammer COO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXGJGuH59qw

comments on that article already almost unilaterally terrible xpost

like that amy schumer clip, also bummed at the likelihood of that tribunal having already happened

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can't tell if [tweet is] serious. can't decide which is worse.

schumer clip was aired well before gamergate started

is anyone watching this svu? i have it on mute cos i'm on the phone with family

earlier tho someone did use the phrase "subthread on redchan"

it's staged pretty badly and one of the badguy kids looks like wes anderson

ice-t is talking a lot about being a gamer

dick wolf

I forgot this was going to be on! Can't wait.

Heh, will have to catch that on demand...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-10-towerfall-is-adding-an-anita-sarkeesian-skin

dick wolf

― goole, Thursday, February 12, 2015

LOL

Dick Wolf has a boat at the Santa Barbara harbor named "Guilty", and he apparently has another boat named "Innocent". Rich people joeks.

i'll give him a pass. his name is Dick Wolf!

this is only tangentially related to gaming but it was a choice between this thread and the "serious discussion about MRA issues" thread and I have absolutely no desire to have a serious discussion about this

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2w6f1a/i_just_sat_through_a_night_of_indoctrination_and/

shortly after this thread was opened and dude started generating a small groundswell of support, people discovered the actual film:

http://www.campusmoviefest.com/movies/37522-loot

oh delusion, you bring such sweet, sweet roffles

omg this is amazing

the guy rolling awkwardly under his garage door in the opening seconds is all-time

"This website is under heavy load" :-(

traffic brought down the festival server but the video bears a watch.
just read the reddit OP first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpY7FxErwRI

No you could take an afternoon, not know how to use a camera, no need for proper ISO, aperture, shutter, or even a fucking color balance, hell your footage could be completely over exposed or crushed in black to the point where the image can't be made out

the white balance changes from shot to shot in this ffs

also, jorts

haha even kotaku in action is like dude your movie sucks

further proof kia has been infiltrated by sjw shills

the joy expressed and dance he does following his acquisition of the sword are surely some sort of anime pastiche, the purpose of which is to, uh, act like he's an anime character

worst heel-click ever

he almost has some decent editing in the chase scene! unfortunately his split-screen stuff has the worst aspect ratio errors I've seen

yeah, it's amazing that he's gone to the effort of creating comic-book style panels and then completely failed to notice that he's painfully squishing and stretching the images within them

or, even worse, he thinks that looks cool

Are film was beautiful

numanesque

the background music was a nice touch

[–]DirkBelig 2 points an hour ago

Thanks for sharing this. I am always fighting the urge to scream, "THIS IS NOT ART!!!!" when I'm at museums and this conceptual manure is proudly displayed. Like this thing in the Fred Meijer Art Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI. There's plenty of dubious modern "art" in that collection like this crap or this Henry Moore butt plug, but this is a fucking BOX.

What I respect about Warhol's work is that he pretty much copped to the fact what he did was kind of a scam as opposed to tarting it up as being some Really Grand Statement; the artifice was the art of it, but the viewer/buyer was expected to be bright enough to understand they're being played.

"this thing" = https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10273719_10152925164451164_354650544822388240_n.jpg?oh=a005d48ca6cb0961a7e32cfd06720bf8&oe=5555A9A5

"this crap" = https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1959232_10152925165491164_9103495906582614225_n.jpg?oh=57d254ee98815b0098438b2f150e7abb&oe=558FF52C&__gda__=1435231100_2cddf131d3f46d58cf97aa542fd1a6ee

and, most alarmingly, "butt plug" = https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10403665_10152925165121164_8943148509649009123_n.jpg?oh=8cddcf08099c0429697da6fb4bd974a1&oe=558CD475&__gda__=1431195658_4be44c0574732f959d96351e602c4dd8

this is the best conspiracy theory i've seen yet:

[–]link_maxwell 8 points 6 hours ago

I very much hate to say it, but welcome to "art". If your script focuses on sci-fi/fantasy themes, then it's already considered to be a "lesser" work than one which is more "realistic" and focuses on controversial topics.

You can blame good old O. Henry for this. He basically shat all over the concept of fantasy (and sci-fi) ever being as good as his own stories, and the critical world has mostly followed him ever since. Even in the SF/F ghetto, the major prizes tend to be won by those people who make the controversial/progressive stuff over the people who make enjoyable works.

O. HENRY.

THANKS O. HENRY

http://www.airmuseum.ca/mag/060603h1.jpg

(yo are those pic links paginated in a fucked up way for everyone else?)

im dying @ o. henry as scapegoat