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

Finally, cornhole the way YOU want it

surely GenXSys would've been the better name

roid rage

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-19-ex-rocksteady-writer-asks-for-name-to-be-left-off-suicide-squad-credits

https://www.wired.com/story/retro-gaming-violent-tragedy-rudy-ferretti/

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-30-ubisoft-pulls-black-lives-matter-raised-fist-from-new-tom-clancy-game-following-backlash

Ubisoft pulls Black Lives Matter raised fist from new Tom Clancy game following backlash
Admits it was "insensitive and harmful"

Doesn't explain why they chose to go with the harmful image in the first place. They really can't claim ignorance to the symbolism of a raised black fist.

they can replace it with a facepalm

shocked that a Tom Clancy adaptation could even be insensitive or harmful, what has the world come to?

this is. a real good thread pic.twitter.com/X0zcL7oTmE

— Nunki (@blodhundur) October 20, 2020

https://kotaku.com/for-the-streamer-from-the-last-of-us-bunny-meme-virali-1846183478

She’s amazing!

If you need another reason to avoid anything related to Harry Potter: https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222

this is just hands down the funniest image ive seen in a while. intel is making automated bleep software and im howling at the backend pic.twitter.com/w4fRq9qYIX

— bea (@beesmygod_) April 7, 2021

"Just some misogyny and a few slices of apple servant. Perfection."

yeah that is achingly stupid

I am wheezing

https://www.polygon.com/22538276/five-nights-at-freddys-creator-retiring-scott-cawthon-fnaf-new-developer

I have no appreciation for Five Nights at Freddy's so... yep, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Non-casual republicanism not accepted in video games

Hadn't seen this mentioned (the details of the case raised by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing can be pretty harrowing tbh)

https://kotaku.com/the-activision-blizzard-lawsuit-fallout-is-what-women-h-1847350882

The cherry on the cake is who put out the "nothing to see here" statement

*squints* wait the Bush-era torture lady is an exec at Activision? https://t.co/fiOJ8AnOIl

— 10,000 Motivated Rats (@bombsfall) July 23, 2021

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/female-video-game-journalists-on-what-to-do-when-the-mob-comes-for-you/

https://kotaku.com/over-1-000-activision-blizzard-employees-sign-letter-co-1847364340

https://kotaku.com/back-4-blood-beta-players-think-they-hear-zombies-yelli-1847443163

I mean

https://kotaku.com/boyfriend-dungeon-is-being-subjected-to-tumblrs-messies-1847506425

there's a lot going on in this article, some of it tangential to this thread, i think, some of it not. some of it has to do with Fan Service stuff, and what Fans are entitled to. but also some of it is about how to respond to games where the professor has the hots for a student, or vice versa.

I have a headache now

it's just another flavor of reactionary gamer harrassment campaign against women and queer creators, this time from people who claim to be progressive

xp

i know exactly what you mean lol

i think where i come down on this is that i am

anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-

https://kotaku.com/boyfriend-dungeon-is-being-subjected-to-tumblrs-messies-1847506425

there's a lot going on in this article, some of it tangential to this thread, i think, some of it not. some of it has to do with Fan Service stuff, and what Fans are entitled to. but also some of it is about how to respond to games where the professor has the hots for a student, or vice versa.

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:13 (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this seemed very much to be assuming a thing that is huge in all anglophone culture is actually a product of the specific corner of anglophone culture the writer grew up in to the point i decided to stop reading it before i also got a headache

Just when you think that Activision/Blizzard can't be more of a cluster than it already is: https://kotaku.com/bobby-kotick-actually-wrote-fran-townsends-deranged-co-1848069983

Uh.

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/activision-inexplicably-introduces-tool-to-rate-character-diversity-metrics/

the classic 'try so hard to be woke you loop back around to phrenology'

https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-creator-john-carmack-is-headlining-a-toxic-and-proud-sci-fi-convention-that-rails-against-woke-propaganda/

https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428

The users of that Discord are some of the most pathetic people on the internet

Coverage and (derisive) commentary from the Western Kabuki podcast: https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/gamergate-15/