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

lmao

actually more of a chuckle

the obsession with thigh gap has inadvertently revolutionized the concept of the butt

asses: how do they work

Filed to: FINE ART

the texture detail looks like a mattress - on purpose?

ban kotaku

Meanwhile his male characters are desperately in need of adequate thigh clearance.

what a crepe

Filed To: FINE ARSE

bingo

even without the problematic thigh gap issue all of those character designs are terrible and embarrassing

actually

https://i.imgur.com/S1LwHCv.jpg

omg

kinda perfect that the position of the cloud in the third panel makes it look like king koopa is vaping

maybe just start killing people

where’s that ‘they targeted gamers! gamers!’ copypasta when i need it

In the wake of the game’s release, people have also done things like releasing a mod that gives dark skin to key character Cpt. Bernard as a joke. The mod is titled “Inclusive Cpt. Bernard,” and it got over a thousand upvotes on Kingdom Come’s subreddit in reaction to Eurogamer’s review of the game, which criticized its politics.

Increasingly, I feel that those who impugn social justice (and, by extension, the basic bonds of the society whose benefits they enjoy) should be forcefully thrown from a very high cliff.

To their deaths, in case my intent wasn't clear.

Having read about the various mechanics in that game I have concluded it is basically the coal rolling of pc rpgs.

I'm sad because I've pined for a real history RPG for years but not with mitteleuropa Nazis as the goodies

i like the idea of all the worst and most incompetent people all getting together in one place. if this gets popular enough maybe online games will become somehow playable.

no need to click, it's all in the headline

Overwatch Pro Called An Opponent A 'Fucking Faggot'; ESPN Reporter Who Broke Story Immediately Caught With Racist And Sexist Tweets

Hello. We've heard all the discussion today regarding the lack of diversity at Eurogamer and thank you for it. No excuses, we are not proud of it and will work harder to improve the range of voices on the site.

— Oli Welsh (@oliwelsh) March 23, 2018

You can actually get quite far down the responses before someone asks for more political diversity.

turns out runescape is still a thing! unfortunately it's full of nazis

Apparently there was a virtual riot/nazi rally on runescape earlier because jagex (the developer) released an LGBT awareness update pic.twitter.com/NcfzEnPjIy

— Tiffany (@immortaltiff) April 5, 2018

kind of lol

also kind of lol: Jagex has the worst gender pay gap in UK gaming

Runescape's british? Huh. Surprised I'm surprised by that.

show me the lie tho

https://i.redd.it/rfhecmajbiy01.jpg

This is interesting:
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/06/06/the-struggle-over-gamers-who-use-mods-to-create-racist-alternate-histories

Seems like devs and moderators are taking a considered approach (or perhaps not doing nearly enough about the problems?) given the weaponising of petty grievances into GG-related conspiracies, though the guy who just purged the Steam message board did a good job

yeah definitely not doing enough! Ted52 is a bit of a hero...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/13/17458286/battlefield-women-star-wars-rick-morty

Typical story these days, but I feel like Ben Kuchera deserves some credit for wading into the filth, clickbaiting the toxic manbabies to this story and engaging with/insulting them in the comments section. I don't know if it's actually worthwhile, but he's got more courage than I do.

pretty amazing that Harmon has been left completely off the hook for raging like a petulant child via Twitter at a low wage employee during that whole fiasco last year

Typical story these days, but I feel like Ben Kuchera deserves some credit for wading into the filth, clickbaiting the toxic manbabies to this story and engaging with/insulting them in the comments section. I don't know if it's actually worthwhile, but he's got more courage than I do.

― Nhex

on the one hand maybe but on the other hand i don't want rian johnson to get his trilogy cancelled for shit he said on twitter, you know?

i dont see how it is courageous to defend Star Wars, Rick and Morty, and "videogames", all massively popular media properties that your employer covers daily. it's kind of getting old. how many stories do we need on the tiny minority of MRA people. do we really need to hear their input on every topic? what is gained from scapegoating them in lieu of actually looking at the content of these properties and why these types of people may be drawn to it in the first place?

these are giant global brands consumed by millions of people, no doubt there are always going to be some lunatics among them. it is annoying to constantly be hearing about the most extreme horrible fans, as if it nullifies anything else wrong with these movies or tv shows.

this is just giving them a platform. if someone is trolling a celebrity for lolz then having a website write them up is only going to make them want to do it more.

even if no one wrote them up in the media, they'd still be (and have been for years and years) harassing any woman with an opinion in fandom, tech, whatever. better to shine a light on these turds and have someone actually stand up for what's right, especially as more women and minorities are included as both fans and creators. I don't see the downside to keep saying "don't act like an asshole, dipshit."

yeah also imo it is good for newly arriving fans to hear often and repeatedly that this behavior is shitty and uncool. like i've said before, arriving on the internet at 11 or 13 or whatever, seeing all these usenet faqs explaining what a flame is and how it isn't cool.. useful training in understanding what the norms of a community are and so on. i like the idea of newly-minted gamernerds knowing from the get-go that you should avoid people grinding axes about the evils women and minorities and social justice, that this is gross behavior and to be shunned. idk.

it's true, we need some universal rules posted

like a little bot that messages you the rules when you enter the door

"It looks like you're trying to post some hate speech. Would you like help?"

<3

sounds like the soul calibur 6 development team is really thinking hard about how they represent women

“I’ve played SoulCalibur games, and I used to play a lot of Cassandra. I was playing Sophitia just now,” I told Okubo after playing a few rounds of the upcoming game. “I noticed that, in this version, her breasts are more prominent. You can see up her skirt. Ivy, still, is wearing not that many clothes. When I play a game like SoulCalibur, I feel like it’s not for me. I feel like it’s for men who might be interested in these characters. I’ve always sort of felt that about SoulCalibur. Is this something you consider?”

Here’s what Okubo said: “Of course, I am a man, as well as many of the people on the development team. That’s something that we should probably consider if that’s the opinion of a female perspective like you in the future. We weren’t necessarily going out to try and intentionally make something sexy for the purpose of being sexy.”

...“It’s interesting you say you don’t set out to be sexy,” I continued, “because SoulCalibur has traditionally had really elaborate breast physics in the game. That doesn’t exist for gameplay, of course.”

“I think, as a result, the characters as a result end up being sexy,” replied Okubo. “That’s not something we can deny necessarily, but in the process of game design, we just really try to go after what we think would be cool actions, cool movement, strong, powerful movements. That is kind of a byproduct of this pursuit of trying to find what we think is pretty cool.”

https://kotaku.com/at-e3-soulcaliburs-objectified-women-felt-like-a-relic-1826929714

what came first, the boob physics or the sexiness

makes u think

after months of months of boob physic development, okubo all of a sudden was like "whoa. i think some people are going to think these boobs are sexy"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/91/1c/34911c61d423d0c23ccc1276b5231e73.gif

Ivy feels like a bit of a relic of a past’s mainstream, like lead paint or cocaine for toothaches.

i'm actually more surprised he even tried to defend it. why not just be shameless and say I LOVE BREASTESES?

and the article even mentions Senran Kagura at the end as an example of this

i'm actually more surprised he even tried to defend it.
yeah, it was such a worthless, transparently thoughtless reply.

i think the first time i can remember thinking about how women are depicted in videogames was back when the first tomb raider came out in 1996. this issue, specifically:

https://i.imgur.com/Q7jJyCZ.jpg

in the interview, lara croft's polygonal hotness came up, and the developer guy was like "we figured if you're going to spend 20 hours playing as someone, they might as well have a nice arse." i think that was also the second time i noticed someone use the word "arse" (after braveheart in 1995).

This is whats good about Destiny - the female characters have booming strong thighs and solid armour and no boobular action going on.

“Before Gamergate I was a pretty standard liberal or even a socialist,” Ralph told me. “I’d write hit pieces on right-wing figures. It was a hobby. But when Gamergate broke out and I got an audience that happened to be more reactionary, I thought, It’s my job to do propaganda for Gamergate. The ethics in video game journalism stuff, I didn’t care about that.”

these lines caught my eye (from: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/lane-davis-ralph-retort-seattle4truth-alt-right)