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

What if casual racism/sexism in games has been bugs all along?

i get the appeal in soul calibur but street fighter characters don't even look good anymore in 4 and 5 it's such an ugly art style

the appeal of wanting to see close-up upskirt shots during character intros you mean?

hmm no not that

speedrunners exposed as altright nazi scum, Games Done Quick refusing to disinvite them saying it's "not our policy to ban people from our events for differing opinions"

Here we have the biggest nazi in speedrunning, @RWhiteGoose linking and quoting Jordan Peterson, then posting some hateful anti-woman propaganda along with famed GDQ Runner @graviton29 spewing extremely transphobic garbage in a safe-space nazi speedrunning discord pic.twitter.com/soO76NaeGK

— 🏴 Antifa Andrea 🌹 (@pizzaparty531) November 27, 2018

the phrase "the biggest nazi in speedrunning" just broke my brain

I like how it ends up with "ha ha yes well I'd probably still meet up with an attractive trans person just to check. say if they were hot irl then it would still be a good story. ha ha imagine, I guess I'd probably sleep with them if they were nice lol, good story to tell, gooooood... story."

"not our policy to ban people from our events for differing opinions"

also the opinions shared in that discord chat are probably also shared by a huge chunk of their audience

There’s more than a couple trans women who run at GDQ and at least one who I think is an organizer, fwiw, I will look for some individual reax

After receiving additional information on the situation that was brought to our attention today, we were able to confirm the authenticity of the screenshots we received. As such, the people in question will not be representing us at any GDQ events indefinitely.

— Games Done Quick (@GamesDoneQuick) November 28, 2018

I guess that’s that, then. I’m glad they made the right call eventually, but let me be clear: it shouldn’t have taken this much additional information and blowback. I won’t be forgetting this.https://t.co/cKJW54buHM

— the eevee respecter respecter (@princessproto) November 28, 2018

communication has never been their strong suit, and i really want the day to come where they're more put together, as opposed to the weird state they've been in for the past 6 years where they've never rly changed

— Kaitlyn (@orcastraw) November 28, 2018

Anyway always get a sensitivity read on your PR and don’t put out a statement if there’s a chance you’ll change your mind an hour later!

And do what Proto says and watch https://mobile.twitter.com/PwerUpWithPride between rounds of Smash Bros next weekend

gaming was a mistake

gaming's fine, fan culture is the mistake

scared little boys trying to outmacho each other is the mistake

gdq has always had drama issues, which is why i tend to keep my distance, but i'm glad they usually wind up doing the right thing eventually. i don't know if i'm being ageist about it but i sort of attribute it to so many of them being young.

there's a lot of horrible transphobic stuff in gaming but the flipside of that is that trans people are more _visible_ in gaming, which is a really awesome thing that's been incredibly helpful to me personally. role models are cool.

also, i've seen my fair share of the quiet transphobia of people who have never actually seen a trans person in their lives, and i feel like some, though not all, of those people would be just as big assholes as the gamer nazis.

Pretty sure the average age of GDQ runners is around 17 and if the organizers are older it’s only because they’ve stuck around a few years

problematic imo

https://i.redd.it/ye67rs0mk1221.jpg

we've all had a video games period

The average age varies by console. More older people run on 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.

I used to watch a handful of RWhiteGoose’s videos about speedrunning Goldeneye. They were really well made and informative.

Please tell me someone nuked that account.

If we were allowed to discuss IQ differences between populations, there'd be fewer conspiracy theories. https://t.co/hXSXEnIJcL

— Notch (@notch) December 6, 2018

lmao

Then I already am silenced. https://t.co/Pmv69e7wlP

— Notch (@notch) December 6, 2018

if money is free speech, then i am about 1/100000000000000000000th as loud as him

imagine going through life looking like the mascot for a discount brand of liverwurst thinking your a stupendous genius because you made a videogame

A bad video game

money really can’t buy you a fucking clue huh

mein kraft

man, I finally played Minecraft after that website called it like the 3rd greatest videogame of all time and I'm not really into it

just looked, it was Polygon and it was the 8th greatest

i liked some of the games that ripped it off later in different ways - dragon quest builders, terraria

imo the placement of Minecraft is more of a statement on its legacy/influence, not on how fun it actually is to play these days.

Space Wars and Adventure are some of the most important games of all time, but they also suck ass these days

also the best way to play minecraft imo (at least it was in 2013 or whenever i played it) was on a persistent server with a bunch of ppl you know, all building cool things in your own little corners of the map, and then going and visiting other people's shit and getting jealous/inspired ot build your own cool shit

https://kotaku.com/gogs-community-manager-was-fired-for-offensive-tweets-1830922081

also on kotaku: Steam Is Banning Sex Games With Young-Looking Characters

that GOG clown has since been hired by drumrollllllll a rightwing gaming site
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/gog-transphobic-tweet-gamergate-website/

this looks fun

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/

wow, I never really got a bead on that guy other than he was deeply, deeply phony and full of shit every time I had ever met him, gross

uh

don't tell us you sang with him?

lol

Full headline worth posting: "Amidst legal battle, Gearbox CEO says he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times."

so much to unpack

Minecraft is great video game I don't think we should all turn on it because its creator is a douchebag (and he has not been involved for awhile now)

god talked to this fella once at a talk here and... man i had a bad vibe but not this level of bad vibe

actually maybe it was that level and i just forgot lol

There's a comma missing there!