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

4chan had way more to do with that than reddit

8chan is literally just the shit that gets you kicked off other sites

not gonna be capn-save-a-reddit cuz that site is a cesspool in its own way but there's a pretty distinct difference there. Reddit is huge.

it's like comparing the Bronx to a single serial killer's murder dungeon in Flushing or something

i'm sure the comparison was made in good faith tho lol

please note that i ahve no idea what flushing is, i just heard it once, no offense to flushing, i'm sure you don't have any serial killer murder dungeons

point is, yeah, people get killed in both, but one's like... all about it

the bronx is not "all about" murder what the fuck kind of thing is that to say?

awww beans misunderstood on the internet again

lol at will getting a hotter reply from tres misunderstanding his analogy than whiney did from his artisanal provocation why even bother trolling if this is the way things are

Oh sorry i thought 4chan was the bronx here, not the dungeon. My bad

I thought reddit was flushing and the dungeon was the bad subreddits

There was no infographic

is flushing in "brownstone brooklyn"

does anyone remember that argument

me neither

Flushing is where the mets play

flushing is where the joker hides out in mask of the phantasm

^ best Batman movie btw.

you’re all wrong, flushing is where fran drescher was working in a bridal shop until her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes

Why did no one care when like, Obama and Sleater-Kinney were doing AMAs on paedo/creepshot hub Reddit

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten)

love when whiney starts up on his "all geeks are pedophiles" high horse

"actually we're ephebophiles"

in one of those crushing scenes

hey now this isn't 8chan

"actually we're ephebophiles"

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten)

i'm turned on by absurd overgeneralizations

you're making me so hot right now

take the L whiney

hahaha oh shit i didnt realize you legitimately didnt get my bad metaphor

it was a pretty poorly laid out metaphor i guess. for posterity reddit is a city and 8chan is a tiny bad room where ghosts live

L is down on weekends

My fault will. I should have known you weren’t saying that the historically black and latino bronx was like 8chan and the majority asian flushing was like reddit, even if there are a few dungeons here and there, because tjat would have been super racist and out of character.

And not related to the general discussion

i know so little about nyc that i didn't even know flushing was historically asian/that the bronx was historically black/latino! i just picked "place that is big, i think" and "place that has a funny name like toilets"

also is it weird that i'm happy that you thought this was "out of character" for me because that means i, uh, have posted enough on these boards in 12 years to have a character now? i mean, i'm also happy that you don't think i'm racist. but that was the second thing i was glad about and that is definitely weird

As a bottom-tier ilxor I envy Will’s reputation.

to me you are a tier 1 ilx operator leee

Aww thanks, u r 2kind!

I owe Leee a great debt for taking over the rollout of my animation poll, I'm pro-Leee. Will M. also a hero for being the coint+plick steward.

Wow, that was 6 years ago! Just helping out with something you kicked off.

leee also did the star trek poll which makes them elite tier

I did the Trek poll just for the thread title tbh.

jfc: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/axwjh9/days_gone_hands_on_preview_ign/

Anything I should be searching for in particular?

seems to be a lot of whining about the lack of gruff white male protagonists in video games

Yes, it's the "the reviewer is the real racist" talk.

xp I'm not seeing that? Or rather, I'm seeing a lot of that, but a lot more of people pointing out that it's a dumb generic cliche - it gives me a little hope tbh.

Leee yeah but that particular line gets shouted down over the rest of the thread.

Does it? I didn't read closely enough before my rising BP/eye twitch made me close the thread.

there's some turds in there but not above normal internet discourse levels

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-03-04-valve-under-fire-as-sexually-explicit-game-glorifying-rape-is-listed-on-steam

https://kotaku.com/valve-removes-rape-day-from-steam-with-vague-nonsensic-1833104632

the game was listed on steam but not yet available to buy, has now been taken down by steam

is it valve's lack of corporate structure that makes it so no one there can ever make the call on whether steam is a normal moderated storefront or a libertarian madhouse? this is like the 20th story on them waffling about allowing or removing problematic content in the past half year

seems like they just let whatever go on there and then when complaints come in they take action, which doesn't seem like a super robust system

its gone the other way too, they decided to crack down on anime porn games a couple times and then backpedaled when the usual suspects got mad

So, last week Zoe Quinn was one of a group of developers who had tweeted about allegations of abuse in the video game industry (new ones, for them).

https://www.comicsbeat.com/zoe-quinn-alec-holowka-sexual-abuse/

Yesterday, the person they accused apparently committed suicide.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/01/night-woods-developer-alec-holowka-dies-10665276/

Prepare for a second wave of Gamergate, probably.

Nah, guy was a self-declared feminist. I saw someone point out the irony that a lot of gamergaters all of a sudden were using Zoe and taking her at her word, after her being their biggest enemy for years.

Do you have any evidence at all of Gamergaters taking her at her world, Fred?

*word

uh yeah Fred you might want to search the Twitter hashtag

particularly #ZoeQuinnBodycount

If the last outbreak of gamergate was based on nothing whatsoever (it was) then I fear for what they might be able to inflict with this new ammunition, even if it means lying about everything (it always does)