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

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Just getting through science classes in college is tough for a female. A friend of mine recently graduated and she had to deal w sexist bs. Took it to authorities and they didn't do anything and even tried covering things up. And this was experimental electronics, dealing in a lab, not videogames. I can imagine just going through gaming school is hell on earth.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

There isn't really "gaming school" per se, although some schools have programs with specialties. Mostly you'll find people in graphic design or computer science.

mh, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link

Well yeah i meant sort of like programs. Like I went to the art school in a public college but I didn't go to Art School.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/2kh7f75.png

, Thursday, 2 April 2015 11:32 (nine years ago) link

!!

example (crüt), Thursday, 2 April 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link

omg

DJP, Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link

kinda sad that is not a real site

Nhex, Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link

the man quoted here

https://twitter.com/srhbutts/status/583698049387503617

is david draiman, singer of disturbed

goole, Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link

which will always be funny to me

goole, Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link

oooo ah ah ah ah

goole, Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link

Was he pro GG then got a dose of their anti semitism?

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 April 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link

Apparently

DJP, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link

from what I've seen recently, apparently a bunch of male tweens stalk the twitter hashtag and harass and threaten any woman who dares to use it

mh, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link

that's the movement i thought

difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 April 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link

I think they did have more people, but that's the core, for sure

mh, Friday, 3 April 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link

they're winning!

http://imgur.com/CghI1Ur

goole, Friday, 3 April 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

how long until that dude figures out he installed adblock in the last few months

mh, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link

I could be wrong but in my experience game developers are predominantly male, but not predominantly white. at least not like 90% white or something so stark.

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

well i mean for one there's the entire japanese & korean & chinese industries

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link

anybody want to factcheck anything on that imgur clip?

maybe after I exhaust all the worthwhile things I could do with my life

mh, Friday, 3 April 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

cool, will check back

i guess that gg is losing and the sjws are censoring vital free speech successfully after all?

https://twitter.com/ExcaliburLost/status/584074243048112128

cf their statement on "backer content" here i guess http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75269-update-93-patch-103-important-community-fixes/

the amount of outrage over this is hilarious

creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Friday, 3 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link

Punished Logic ‏@KKMM612 4h4 hours ago
@ExcaliburLost @_WCS_ Sad to say, but I'll be boycotting all @Obsidian games from now on.They were my favorite dev before they became cucks.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link

I could be wrong but in my experience game developers are predominantly male, but not predominantly white. at least not like 90% white or something so stark.

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, April 3, 2015 1:15 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well i mean for one there's the entire japanese & korean & chinese industries

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 3, 2015 1:54 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I got big time into Castlevania last year and was searching the music for the original NES game, which was done by a Japanese woman named Kinuyo Yamashita. The game has joke credits ("Screenplay by Vram Stoker") and she was credited as "James Banana". The composer for every 2d Castlevania from "Symphony of the Night" was another Japanese woman, Michiru Yamane. Konami had lots of female composers, and a composer was not simply someone who wrote music that ended up being imported into the game. They had to know how to code, how to create sound effects and music using the same base-level data manipulation that was used to make the rest of the games.

http://gamikia.com/interview-with-game-composer-kinuyo-yamashita/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/207767/A_classic_interview_with_Castlevania_composer_Michiru_Yamane.php

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 4 April 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link

Oh my god, the commenter who says he lived through Communist Poland is incredible

DJP, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link

xp also notable @ Capcom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Shimomura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manami_Matsumae

Nhex, Saturday, 4 April 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link

Ayako Mori original composer for Ghosts N Golbins arcade and NES versions.
http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Ayako_Mori

Satoe Terashima composer on Castlevania and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Satoe_Terashima

Junko Tamiya composer on Commando, Bionic Commando, and Strider
http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Junko_Tamiya

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 4 April 2015 05:43 (nine years ago) link

Miki Higashino composer on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the arcade version, Gradius series, Suikoden series, and Contra III: The Alien Wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miki_Higashino

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 4 April 2015 05:45 (nine years ago) link

i am curious how so many women composers ended up in the Japanese video games industry at the time, they all started in the mid-late 80s. or maybe it was just Capcom and Konami putting out a call

Nhex, Saturday, 4 April 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link

And then she took her helmet off, and it was a woman!

Auk stay woke (Arctic Noon Auk), Saturday, 4 April 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBwVNPdUsAAhIrn.jpg

Karl Malone, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link

'tis

mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link

=D

Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link

====D

example (crüt), Monday, 6 April 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link

heyoooo

mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link

He'll be a stereotypical guy in the kitchen?

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

he be in the kitchen cooking pies with his baby, yaeeeeeeaheeeeaaah

in the kitchen with his choad.

EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 April 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link

my balls shrivel a little further every time i see that jpeg

8=D ... :=D

Karl Malone, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link

my favorite is imagining the I'm Brian voice

Karl Malone, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

stevie otm. i know i have previously complained about how traumatically awful that is. i am just going to FP anyone who posts it in the future. as stalin said, the death of millions is merely a statistic compared to the tragedy of one individual who thought that was a reasonable communication.

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 6 April 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

seriously, my balls

pretty terrible Gamerscore too

Keith Moom (Neil S), Monday, 6 April 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link

Zone ProFriend

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCAvZM3WEAA1N-A.png

goole, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link

tweet series neglects to mention that chat excerpt is the same person talking into three mirrors

DJP, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SYc_flMnMQ

example (crüt), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link

xp this is the plot of that fake movie from Adaptation

Nhex, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link


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