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

sorry but I can't get past "I think I'm at the objective"

"is that my man hannity!?"

This is what they want to turn gaming into ... people enjoying themselves.

this has to be a parody account... surely

#MakeGamingStraightAgain https://t.co/piI7rULTFs

— HeteroGamingVet (@HeteroVet) September 18, 2017

didn't notice the twitter handle of the guy he's responding to there, urgh

veterogaminghet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKLrgt_WkAABV7f.jpg

this fkn guy

he is remarkably stupid

Next week's tweet is gonna be

"@JamesADamore
I am now in the kkk"

wouldn't want to be moralizing the KKK

We don't have to give online Nazis the attention they crave imo

Like I'm all for exposing Nazis but this guy is looking for a social media influencer career as an aggrieved racist I don't need to see his shitty face

I couldn't read all of this in one go. Gamer culture needs to be cremated.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/21/16341458/pewdiepie-racial-slurs-online-gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAA-MGIyjc

nice to see Disney animators from the 40s are still getting work

i wish South Park wasn't in part, so terrible

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.yhYqLlxJ1d#.jj404Jwn8e

ffs

imagine seeing the words "no more nazis" and reacting like this pic.twitter.com/5L9b8CPm3s

— Vylash #TeamKICK (@MiraVylash) October 6, 2017

Fuck these idiots forever

did people do this shit on usenet? no I'm not searching google groups

good work bethesda.

i just can't process the thought that there's a group of people out there, posting presumably from some form of western democractic society, for whom the idea of villainising the nazis is beyond the pale

what the actual fuck

seem to recall this wouldn't be the first time in US history where being anti-Nazi is regarded as a bad thing

Henry Ford be born be born

www.theonion.com/amp/10670

I don't even like the Wolfenstein stuff that much and yet this still may be enough to first day buy it as a fuck you

spending money on things you don't like is the most american form of protest

wolfenstein: the new order is one of my favourite games of the last few years, will enjoy playing the sequel while savouring the thought that nazi snowflakes are getting all bent out of shape about it

why not a multiplayer choose your sides battle royale mode?

I honestly can't get over how stupid this is

look, adam's idea is not THAT bad

hahahaha

next let's find out what a nazi thinks of schindler's list.

who the fuck cares what they think? did we interview them when the last 10 Wolfenstein games came out?

now we have these stories actually giving them more of a media presence. how is that helping?

the idea is not that these tweets show us what nazis think about wolfenstein

the idea, i think, is that these tweets show us how many unassuming nazis there are out there

http://www.tcj.com/shine-a-light/

There is only one side. #NoMoreNazis #Wolf2 pic.twitter.com/7Ctu265Mus

— Wolfenstein (@wolfenstein) October 15, 2017

ingenious marketing campaign tbf.

Wow

in 2017, it's a bold move to take a stand against nazis

Look at the comments at any news article about the Wolfenstein ad campaign and you'll quickly see that it IS actually a bold move to take a stand against Nazis in 2017. which is all kinds of pathetic and scary.

using a chaingun and power armor against nazis irl isn't suggested, but I'm not discouraging it

xp, that was what i meant!

RIP.... neogaf?

ffs

Prolific and popular gaming forum NeoGAF (formerly the Gaming Age Forums, founded in 2006) is currently offline at the time of writing, and it might not be coming back this time.

In the wake of some very serious allegations of sexual harassment (captured here on Imgur, with names removed) levelled at site-owner Tyler 'Evilore' Malka, at least 11 site administration and moderation staff have stepped up and walked out in a show of solidarity with the accuser, taking many of the site's regular users with them.

The allegations against Malka carry additional weight, due to claims from the man himself, posted on NeoGAF back in 2012 that he has treated women in a far less-than-gentlemanly fashion. Joining the admin/moderation stuff, NeoGAF's community is scattering far and wide, with some other major games forums seeing mass sign-ups in the past few hours, with Waypoint in particular seeing a large number of arrivals welcomed with open arms.

Huh

https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/22/16516592/neogaf-tyler-malka-evilore-allegations-shutdown

huh. my wife lurked on that site. i told her about it and her reaction was "ugh, now am i going to have to go to ign to find out what's happening in gaming?"

weird yeah that was a big forum w lots of industry posters. it could be a very censorship heavy place, run by some power mad Holier Than Thou mods. towards the end it seemed to get more and more social justicey (the Weinstein stuff as well as a bunch of videogame-related stuff getting a lot of attention). of course this kind of thing would collapse such a place lol. out with the creeps.

fwiw i was permabanned from that place for reviving a 5 year old thread on Yoko Ono when i should have started a new one. no warning, just a ban w a smug message about getting rid of me forever.

i lurked to catch gaming news that i might have missed, was never interested in posting there. amazing really how such a big site can crumble overnight though. like rushomancy’s wife i’m wondering where to quickly get my gaming news now!

no warning, just a ban w a smug message about getting rid of me forever

fyi this should have been posted to Ideas for ILX - slip up like that again and you're through