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

not to insist that a specious parallelism is the same thing as equality, but for what its worth acc. to pcgamer there was list of things you could say was wrong with dudes also

Female friends got to be called out on “awful make-up,” “annoying laugh,” “strange odour,” “muffin top,” or “small tits,” among others. Male targets, meanwhile, could be chided on their “bad hair,” “big ears,” “hairy back,” “big gut,” or “small penis.”

not included: "plays videogames"

what happened to the girls vs video game tropes project? It's hard to tell from the reddit men's movement.

She stole all the money, and lol at every dipshit who donated to that crap

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7274/7619451560_2371b4cffb_z.jpg

that looks a LOT like someone I know

that looks like $5 of gamestop credit right there.

I have that IKEA desk lamp

http://i.imgur.com/ZkAq3.jpg

jfc

http://i.minus.com/ib0B4pIriu03PJ.gif

good use of that gif

tom chick on this. he's got blinders on. http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/01/16/dead-island-or-bust-the-case-for-tasteless-horror-tchotchkes/

yeah... sometimes that dude is just straight up wrong. it's a shame because the use of horror and unrestricted content in games is totally worth defending, but the actual bust - the thing we are talking about here - is just idiotic

rmde at that guy.

His response to 1) basically boils down to "the objectification of women in horror appeals to the people who should be watching it, i.e. MEN, so therefore it's fine". Great reasoning!

You can only claim it objectifies women if you also concede that Pirahna 3D objectifies women. You might not be wrong.

*steeples fingers*

the first dead island was the worst game i played to completion in 2012

http://i.imgur.com/aOVFa.jpg

kind of lol but mostly sad

But I find it disappointing that Deep Silver is caving on this issue for two important reasons. No, not those reasons. I’m going to be mostly serious.

After the jump, two important things. Not the ones you think I’m thinking of.

^^^what a knob

But did you realize it was also a joke?

shutters fall, new understanding is achieved

http://gameological.com/2013/01/it-belongs-in-a-museum/

This is probably the best reaction to that thing yet, which talks about it like it was a deliberate piss-take of the worst excesses of early 21st-C vidja game marketing

You could argue that the figure doesn’t deserve consideration as art, because it wasn’t created by an “artist” per se, and Deep Silver didn’t mean to send up the worst impulses of big-budget game studios. But that only makes it better. You’ve heard of outsider art? This is insider art, crafted by forces deep within the beast. The fact that it was meant to showcase the most appealing aspects of Dead Island is the cherry on top of the depravity sundae. It’s rare that we get to bear witness to an expression of awfulness this pure—it’s perfectly ugly. I hope to see it in a museum someday, as a relic of a bygone era.

that last paragraph you quote especially is tops

it BELONGS in a MUSEUM

haha

It BELONGS on EBAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q

most of the way through this, seems pretty women's studies 101
weird that they're not talking about japan v US takes on this stuff tho

this fucken guy is hysterical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfkS9YS_T0k

oh man i need to not look at youtube responses like ever

argh what a fucknut

"We, the audience, are not allowed to have an opinion, it seems"

Except by, you know, MAKING A RESPONSE VIDEO OF YOUR OPINION, POSTING IT ON YOUTUBE, THEN POSTING A LINK TO IT ON YOUR BLOG.

dude is very angry that he wasn't offered a chance to express his dissenting opinion, but has assembled a 9-minute video about the video which... does not express a dissenting opinion

I mean I'm sure he has a very cogent and rational counterargument to why this might be a slightly regressive trope, as must all the people going "lol rape" and "lol show tits" under his video, and am very sad that I didn't get to hear it, obv

MAKING A RESPONSE VIDEO OF YOUR OPINION, POSTING IT ON YOUTUBE, THEN POSTING A LINK TO IT ON YOUR BLOG.

You forgot "blogging about your opinion, making a response video reading out your blog post, posting it on youtube, then posting a link to it on your blog". Don't forget to put some purchase links for random you-related merchandise in the video description!

Yeah her video is pretty damn spot-on, and it's a testament to how big a problem sexism is in the culture that dudes are getting up in arms about something that has nothing to do w the content. That bit about them taking a female-centric game, scratching it, and demoting the lead character to a damsel in a new Starfox is pretty ugh.

that's the guy who did the /v/ga bit on her, right? that was a terrible fake awards show.

xp Yeah, that was definitely the most interesting bit of the video for me. I've never played any of the Starfox series and don't plan to start, but I'd love to play that original game.

Shigeru Miyamoto is a hero to most but he never meant shit to me so I'm kind of bummed out but she seems to have a reasonable case in calling him out in particular, too ;_;

This guy thinks his signature is worth $30 on top of the cost of the $19 for an unsigned copy of his book? Kind of the icing on the 'privileged white male just doesn't get it' cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXDNg7scyU

Awesome

See, I watch that and can only think "why were the second and fourth screens switched?" and "since when can you win the level by coming up to the left of Kong?"

lol i was thinking the same thing. also, how much i hate Donkey Kong deep down

http://www.themarysue.com/pax-tomb-raider-cosplay/

What happens when a game journo dude decided to play the "cosplay is consent" card with a group of Lara Croft cosplayers

Wizemann had been interviewed in the past and said everything seemed normal. That is, until the interviewer asked his first question, “How does it feel to be at a convention where none of the men could please you?”

meanwhile at GDC this week, "scantily clad female dancers" at developers association party
http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157266/igda-gdc-party-brenda-romero-resignation

these guyz :-( http://yetizen.com/

good thing they're a strategic keystone with an innovation lab

feels like it was only yesterday that "do you come with the car" "OH YOU" banter was pretty much the norm. when did that stop? when E3 was last open to the public?

i'm pretty sure it's still the norm at these international weapons dealer conferences except it's "do you come with that surface-to-air missile?" and "get out of my dreams and into my amphibious assault humvee"

flashbacks to http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_McI_KJIXOq0/SwYQrHIVgaI/AAAAAAAAGQ0/0OrqMYy9Q-Q/s1600/DealCentury1.jpg

pretty much the most disheartening week ever for me. this whole thing is just disgusting. meagan is a friend and former colleague and frankly some of the stuff that happened to her was things that happened when i worked with her that i was unaware of. this shit is terrible and i'm not sure it will ever change. a hobby filled with mean, angry little boys. the comments she's been dealing with on her blog and various comments sections and facebook this week have just been unreal, i can't even fathom people anymore.