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

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

anybody want to factcheck anything on that imgur clip?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'tis

=D

====D

heyoooo

He'll be a stereotypical guy in the kitchen?

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

in the kitchen with his choad.

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

8=D ... :=D

my favorite is imagining the I'm Brian voice

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.

seriously, my balls

pretty terrible Gamerscore too

Zone ProFriend

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

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

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

xp this is the plot of that fake movie from Adaptation

What is sad puppies?

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-award-nominees-sad-puppies/

And yes, they did choose that name for themselves.

I was about to ask.

http://www.icshi.net/sevagram/images/other/john-c-wright.jpg

Sad Puppy favourite John C. Wright, earlier today

classic m'lady from wright there - textbook form and poise, 10/10

in case anyone didn't read it linked from the daily dot piece, wright's thinkpiece on the syfy channel and 'homosex activists' is amazing/awful:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d17/starkeymonster/johncwright_gaypanic.jpg

what a rancid choad

jesus fuck

welp now i know about sad puppies

i spose it makes sense so much of gaming's troublesome politics are pretty much handed down from sci-fi/fantasy/comic books anyway

"homosex advocates"

"handed parallel" more like

Handed parallel? Idgi

i think forks is saying it's not "handed down" so much as they're on the same level, the sf/f and vg chuds are kinda pooping back & forth forever

Oh I didn't mean now I mean the larger "nerd culture" from which video games evolved out of has always has problematic elements historically

i basically think they're basically the same guy but one has a wizard cloak, one has a 1/64 scale lego deathstar and one has a realdoll

obligatory #not-all-nerds note of course

tbh I think it's just any culture that is or has become male-dominated

I think I had a long ranty bit on this thread or another about how, as a medium becomes more mainstream or interesting or profitable it becomes more colonized by men who consciously push women out. Like these pissbabies try to pretend video games have always been misogynistic shitfests but there are obvious counterexamples they don't want to acknowledge because it was before their hegemony came into play

Blaming the "mainstream" feels like a way of letting a whole bunch of ppl off the hook, also the core of gamergate isn't CoD fans it's like pissed chronotrigger dudes w anime twitpics.

that's a good that was lost on me before; the fratty guys who play CoD are gonna largely end up with women in stable relationships, but the pissed chronotrigger dudes, who knows

Did those dudes exist when Chrono Trigger came out, though? Maybe they were just as misogynist and shitty, but they didn't have a social platform to pretend their views were the same as the people creating games.

I guess what I mean is that their personal views were irrelevant because there wasn't a community. I guess by "mainstream" I mean "public dialogue" where they could assert their supposed norms.