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

it's hilarious that #gg got in such an uproar about femfreq's kickstarter raising so much money because 'who needs cash to make a series of talking heads videos' and now these two clowns are providing a masterclass in how you can raise tens of thousands of dollars but still make videos which look amateurish as fuck

how is that dude's pic not on a leather sofa with a cigar, seems like he's kind of weak on his masculinity

https://hailtothegynocracy.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/the-sarkeesian-effect-starring-lorem-ipsum-bombs-at-gamergate-in-atlanta/

lol they used the lorem ipsum description instead of the actual text.

$8k a month well spent

That's great! They got lorem ipsum wrong. XD

Must have been more people in the film than watching it.

lolllllloollllll

hope ipsum can bounce back from this

LOL

Getting ipsum wrong is next level incompetence.

oh god

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

it's sweet how these benign old gentlemen are trying to get in touch with what the kids are doing

I'm not quite sure where else to put this, but I know we've talked about roosh v itt before. Looks like his reputation is beginning to precede him http://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/roosh-v-chased-out-of-montreal-bar#.noRd8zBZD

bill kristol is into misogyny in all its forms, new and old

lol at that roosh motherfucker getting completely shut down by an entire city

In addition to a speech and Q&A period, Roosh promises time for attendees to “have an intimate one-on-one moment with myself where we can take selfies together.”

huh

This is slightly off-topic I guess

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/11/technology/mens-rights-activist-chic-ceo/index.html

Rava, who also serves as secretary to men's rights organization National Coalition for Men, declined to talk to CNN Money by phone. ("I do not trust you will quote me correctly or in the proper context given your leftwing, pro-female, anti-male bias," he wrote in an email.

Rava said this about CNN Money! Pretty good.

v distant fb friend shared BREITBART link to MILO story about ROOSH in admiring tones and I thought, oh yeah, you've got to be muted right the fuck now

Fuckin' Roosh was on the front page of the National Post, below the fold, earlier this week

http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/13/9149481/violent-video-games-aggression-research-review-report-apa-resolution

What do you think?

I think saying there is a link between violent video games and aggression is kind of duh. Any violent media will attract people that enjoy violence. It is a very easy conclusion to reach.

I think the blame for a lot of racist/sexist/violence tropes and stuff in video games lies on US pop culture, specifically TV and Hollywood movies. The 80s had a weird experimental phase in the beginning which completely collapsed and was saved mostly by games that wished they were James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. But this generation of games was arguably dominated by Japanese developers who took inspiration from US culture. By the time America began to make a serious step back into video games, it was in a post-9/11 world. The games that the US put out were often historical war/assassination simulators and featured violent elements like torture and mass murder at the same time the gov't was signing off on those things irl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7qEn9q2Rc

when the parody of the thing is indistinguishable from the thing itself mostly cause you can't overdo the overdone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_I

that polygon report was pretty even-keeled - i rarely see something so sober said as violence behavior could be an accumulation of various risk factors in these kinds of stories

that simpsons episode came out like four years before Batman & Robin, forks

yeah, the parody leads to the institutionalized norm was part of my point (though i coulda phrased that better)

http://i.imgur.com/3DrWkti.jpg

https://twitter.com/ZaaackKoootzer/status/638466040045830145

i gather anita sarkeesian put out another video today?

and this 'movement' is still going on! amazing to think of really. here's a decent writeup of the current situation, which is about the same as it's always been. their meetups have received bomb threats on at least two occasions i've heard of, which is really fucked up.

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2015/08/27/play-it-straight-and-theyre-still-irate-year-hostile-feedback

omg the ab dudes

your terrible ideas (gamer edition):

A bizzaro Anita Sarkeesian video that with the help of modded game footage shows a world where you play a female in games like gtav and god of war, and all the men are hookers, slaves and other sex objects. Lots of in game footage of men looking like models and being treated like dirt. Some wear chaps, some wear speedos, some nudity here and there... yada yada yada

oh... and all the dialogue can stay the same, just substitute female nouns/pronouns for male ones and vice versa

Yeah, laughing at the ab dudes heartily

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPdDc5GVEAAlBGj.jpg

I occasionally check in with Feminist Frequency on YouTube. They're good videos and informative. Pretty much immediately afterward, my YouTube recommendations fill up with Sargon of Akkad.

youtube social commentators are, by and large, the worst

what the fuck is that cartoon

"and ralph"

that cartoon is fantastic

It's ironic, right? I can't tell anymore.

Needs an Osama thumbs-up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQk6woIUkAAmtz1.png

at last

It's been a month on the Steam forums and good god I'm taken aback by the sheer percentage gamers who post in forums that are idiot jerks. Never been a member of a gaming-centric forum before and yeeeesh it is ugly out there.

it's such a pain that these kind of places are often the only resources available for info regarding a game you are playing or are interested in. were it any other way, they could be easily avoided

sad to admit it, but gaming forums seem to always draw these sorts of fellows

Lately it's like looking up a wikipedia entry on World War II crowsourced by racist 15 year olds.

feels like gator-overflow (also: ew) : http://www.itworld.com/article/2989588/linux/linux-is-sarah-sharp-a-social-justice-warrior.html

this ran yesterday. good article, kind of dumb headline:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/07/why-social-justice-warrior-a-gamergate-insult-is-now-a-dictionary-entry/

"social justice warrior" was around forever before gamergate

that's what the article spells out yeah