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

sorry, not "jaden": jalen.
kid posted a video of himself going through a "super saiyan transformation" a'la dragonball z that was just him tensing up and yelling and then taking off his shirt and yelling more
it reminded me of dumb stuff i did at his age
but this being the 201Xs, somebody got hold of it and remixed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mr8bkN_Nk

which reminds me about a thread i wanted to build for youtube videos of people fighting/stage fighting with amateur adobe after effects production added in

what the

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2MKiDHCMAAx_X0.jpg

not just dumb, but also illegible

didnt know gamers were their own gender explains some stuff tbh

do they know the lambda symbol's meaning genderwise

prob got it from revenge of nerds

oh, that's rich.

lmaooooooo

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/532357470963118080

Matt Binder ‏@MattBinder 41m41 minutes ago

gamergaters finally have the gaming site they deserve...courtesy of Roosh of Return of Kings http://www.reaxxion.com

no i haven't gone there. fuckin called this months ago!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Nqx3GCIAA2iVx.jpg

as ever, it's about ethics

Reaxxion’s goal
Our goal is simple: create a safe space for heterosexual males who play video games. We won’t exclude homosexuals or attractive women from commenting on our articles, and we sincerely hope they find value in what we have to say, but understand that this site will be written by male gamers for male gamers.

the sinkhole is full of quicksand

ummmmmmm this is maybe the point where i need to clock out for a good long while, but digging around thru twitter i see that GG has a very committed porn performer supporter

https://twitter.com/TheMercedesXXX

tho if the thumbnails under 'photo and video' don't make you laugh, idk

Am willing to bet someone chose the lower-case lambda as it was the symbol of the Resistance from Half Life 2.

Yes I know how dumb this sounds.

^100% what I thought too :/

Idk what the other significance is? Anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols#Lambda

Still thinking about the "Just" clip from earlier, A+ work there

in that above six social institutions thing:

"Women are not specifically burdened or privileged by the institution of marriage/family"

hmm really

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

Reaxxion’s goal
Our goal is simple: create a safe space for heterosexual males who play video games. We won’t exclude homosexuals or attractive women from commenting on our articles, and we sincerely hope they find value in what we have to say, but understand that this site will be written by male gamers for male gamers.

so... gay men aren't male gamers?

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

ty

And as an ugly woman, not only am I not a gamer but my opinions are of no interest to gamers at all! Surprise.

"Duh women can't understand the oppression of gamers because they don't know what it's like to be spat at for being geeky and weird and having 0 dates and going home and playing video games instead of partying and never being listened to because women are always listened to and it's so unfair"
"oh hi, I am a woman and a nerd and I play(ed) video games and dreamed of writing my own, that is my teenage life you just described"
"please, you are too ugly to talk to and even though you are totally nerdy right down to that indefinable weirdo bully-magnet vibe as soon as you enter the room, you are clearly just pretending to be a nerd for attention, which you do not deserve, because you are ugly. not listening to you"

PS do gamers actually do well in "academic settings"? I mean staying up all night to play Civ 2 and IRC throughout my time at university may not be the only reason I don't have a degree but it's certainly a factor

Real conflation of "gamers" and "nerds" on that one I think. Also as GamerGate has demonstrated, when people with academic backgrounds (or at least in the humanities) show up and want to talk about games, this is seen as a crisis of gaming, I feel it was unethical for the chart to have omitted this

https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/532008472402231297

seriously, the joke not-getting

Great art asks questions. It is provocative, and it empowers. That's what immersive games such as Call of Duty provide for players. Feminised, infantilised, social justice-oriented art sets aside creativity in favour of politics, wallowing in faux victimhood, robbing players of agency and individualism in favour of identity politics and meditations on 'oppression.'

Milo taking next-level trolling to the next level.

http://i.imgur.com/0UH8KLy.png

B-)

which were the great questions asked by call of duty, again?

will u shoot the hostages in the airport or ignore them

i feel provoked, and empowered

Will you press 'X' to mourn?

(Only joking, if you don't press 'X' to mourn you can't proceed)

steyr aug or pkm?
blow up grenade when die or run quietly?
yell racial, homophobic or sexist epithet this time? or more than one?
shoot guy on left or shoot guy on right?

idk that game is chock full of q's you just need to know where to look~

xxxp goddamnit haha

I admire his inquisitive spirit - sitting down at his desk, cracking his knuckles, addressing the question of the day: How dumb are these motherfuckers?

You can regularly hear even mainstream journalists talking about "killing all men"

I must read the wrong Guardian articles.

got to be on the tweets

tho to be sure calling the kill all men crowd mainstream journalists is a bit of a stretch, its more like bloggers and twitter famous ppl, and its a joke

Feminised, infantilised, social justice-oriented art sets aside creativity in favour of politics

for ref: donald rumsfeld insights decorating load screens between predator drone battles = creativity; "there sure are a lot of dead strippers around here" = politics

lol @ the alpha centauri shot at the top of that tho.

trying to remember the last video game i played that wallowed in faux victimhood

i guess that fits bowser

max payne

clickerheroes
you are the victim

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nj6PFaDmp6c/hqdefault.jpg

i loled

PS do gamers actually do well in "academic settings"?

broadly ime the answer to this is "fuck no"

feel like one would need to separate out the sub-classes of gamer to get a handle on that really?

yeah there are too many meaningless generalizations but most of the young people i know who wd identify themselves as gamers are not academic high-flyers, to draw any connection between video games and academic ability in 2014 is patently fucken ridiculous

ya everyone plays bideo games is one of the hilarious aspects of this whole thing

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Bideo games

I think 2/3 of my new coworkers are more into video games than me

one of my coworkers was wearing these long Portal 2 socks as stockings, smdh