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

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amilia st. john otm

the controversy/reactionary treehouse keeps on going. as always, david futrelle digs into it so you don't have to

the latest turn is just totally bizarre

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/04/20/social-autopsy-founder-candace-owen-channels-gamergate-in-bizarre-attack-on-zoe-quinn/

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/04/24/socialautopsy-turvy-candace-owens-twitter-trainwreck-part-one/

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/04/25/in-furious-post-socialautopsys-candace-owens-attacks-a-washpo-story-that-isnt-there/

Yeah, this has gone over the line to making fun of someone with definite mental problems, IMHO.

somehow she went from a social campaign to stop bullying to reacting so harshly to the first person that questioned her methods that she allied herself with white supremacists and proud misogynists

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-hugos-puppies-20160427-snap-htmlstory.html

When Tuck Bingle receives and email explaining that he’s been nominated for science fiction literature’s most prestigious award, he’s left utterly confused. On one hand, Tuck is a successful writer of gay, science fiction erotic, but on the other, this email is addressed to someone by the name of Chuck Tingle.

Tuck replies, but his message is not delivered because the recipient exists in another layer of The Tingleverse, a revelation that will take Tuck on a journey into the deepest realms of his butt’s heart.

Soon, Tuck is breaking fourth-walls and anal limits, pounded hard by a handsome sentient Hugo Award nomination named Kelpo and learning the true meaning of homoerotic love!

This erotic tale is 4,500 words of sizzling human on prestigious award nomination action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, cream pies and gay interdimensional love.

Is Chuck Tingle this year's "no award" vote? Time will tell

Well played:

https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/728252133003272193

bwahaha

chuck tingle for president

i feel like this should be redundant by now but just in case: don't read the comments

Read the comments. Always read the comments.

Reamed in the Ass By the Comments

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/16/why-thailands-military-coup-is-great-for-the-countrys-mobile-gaming/

um

That’s a really grim silver lining, and Pedersen — who lives in Thailand — laughed through that description to indicate he was making a dark joke.

a dark joke worthy of a speculative marketing post about an untapped market

man....

man.

can't wait for the conflicts of the future strategically targeted to raise app sales

Early on, Jakob decided to stop university and a good job for SPAMfighter in Denmark so he could move to Thailand instead and start his own business.

Right, that's what every cybersecurity guy I know moved to Thailand for.

tbf I know of people who have moved there for non-illicit reasons but it's usually "hey I saved a bunch of cash, don't feel like working, and I can live way on the cheap for a year or two"

in other words, the complete opposite of entrepreneurship

oh no at least two of the guys I'm talking got legit married and are going full family man
but also what you said

dang

ok I know I said I was intrigued by Overwatch, how it's so all over the place and has too many ideas, etc, but I'm now saturated by the marketing & ad push and never want to hear or see Tracer again. "Cavalry's here!" ARGH STOP

NBA Playoffs...

Ugh, there goes Notch.

http://www.destructoid.com/minecraft-billionaire-feels-opressed-by-women-363094.phtml

Sad

http://download.gamezone.com/uploads/image/data/1099413/Notch.jpg

ok good job destructoid, hearthy chuckle at the Quake Live burn

aw my little brother who has grown up playing minecraft was a bit heartbroken about this

he posted some pro-GG bullshit a few months back iirc then backed off and claimed he was being ironic

Why do I read the comments? It's a sickness.

ogmor, at least he's heartbroken and not thinking "hmm, if notch says it..."

he posted some pro-GG bullshit a few months back iirc then backed off and claimed he was being ironic

― Noodle Vague, Monday, May 23, 2016 6:37 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup, discussed upthread.

xp oh indeed, he's a freakishly good kid and deserves a better class of celebrity

http://coyohti.tumblr.com/post/145784887693

Ugh, this is kinda the other way around, but shows how net harassment can spread to other media. German tv-channel RTL has been showing revenge porn images of Danish woman Emma Holten without her knowledge. And they seem really unresponsive about it. It's incredible that major tv-channels would violate people in this way.

this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toap7iPpTbs

https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7238/28081612611_93158831b6_z.jpg

cool that capcom is finding new ways to be dumb as fuck with a seven-year-old game plagued from the start with accusations of racism

feel like i'm missing something

I'm with Will, someone please translate that cover image for me

yeah what am i looking at here

spot the difference

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O2C-VpAABH8/TNoK1-qzGqI/AAAAAAAAAok/cjhSOtm-Uzc/s1600/Resident+Evil+5+-+Gold+Edition.jpg

lol I don't know if I should be more annoyed by the palette swap on the female character or relieved that I have successfully ignored the RE franchise to the point where I didn't notice it

yeah, I've never really gotten into the series, is it that she's not supposed to be super white lady

my first reaction as someone who leaves television on to clean the house while movies play was "well, that's not milla jovovich"

lol same

Ah, it's more that they've replaced Sheva with Jill Valentine though? I mean, she is in the game, but she's not the co-star and Sheva is.