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I almost went to school for massage therapy. Then I realised it was for people too dumb to get into physical therapy.
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Seabhac posted:I read this as "massage the rapists" and was just so confused God found the strongest women and made them MASSACRE THE RAPISTS
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Oct 17, 2014 01:33
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Seabhac posted:I read this as "massage the rapists" and was just so confused 
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swampland posted:God I was in a tabletop roleplaying game once where this was pretty much the plot. It was kind of an interesting group.
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Small Frozen Thing posted:I was in a tabletop roleplaying game once where this was pretty much the plot. It was kind of an interesting group. I want to hear more!
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“One side wants to discuss issues they think they are important and the other threatens them with violence, rape and death! Both sides are equally wrong!”
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Alright, that's 66 million votes for Obama, 61 million votes for Romney, and 15 write-in votes for the abstract concept of not being asleep.
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mng posted:I want to hear more! I can't type much right now due to one of my hands being busted, but it was pretty much due to our GM having been a self-effacing "i'm not like those fake nerd girls, i like the same things you like and don't rock the boat! plz accept me" 4channer type who'd recently found feminism and wanted to burn down some thinly-veiled grognard/Japanese porn game fantasy world. We figured out we were acting as her ad hoc therapy session relatively quick, but we humored her 'cause she was a good GM and we were all 4chan expats ourselves so we could get where she was coming from.
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Small Frozen Thing posted:I can't type much right now due to one of my hands being busted, but it was pretty much due to our GM having been a self-effacing "i'm not like those fake nerd girls, i like the same things you like and don't rock the boat! plz accept me" 4channer type who'd recently found feminism and wanted to burn down some thinly-veiled grognard/Japanese porn game fantasy world. We figured out we were acting as her ad hoc therapy session relatively quick, but we humored her 'cause she was a good GM and we were all 4chan expats ourselves so we could get where she was coming from. This post fits this thread pretty well.
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It was lots of fun. A++, would massacre the rapists again. I had a similar reaction when I got over being like that myself, but I had a psychiatrist to talk about it with. I Killed GBS has a new favorite as of 03:37 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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I just want to say that my favorite part of Gamergate is that they've proven, over the last couple days, that they can't really figure out Twitter. They especially have trouble with bots. It's pretty common for them to claim that #StopGamerGate2014 is solely trending because of bots (completely missing, or possibly ignoring, the fact that bots scrape trending topics all the time), but I think my favorite part is that they're constantly getting into arguments with ur-chatbot Eliza.
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here's their image gallery if you want to see gamergate idiots more often for some unfathomable reason http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate/photos 1521 images full of whiny gamer babies. kill me Tetracube has a new favorite as of 04:09 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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 This guy is just a sports writer who makes the Breaking Madden series and he's been getting threats for a few days after mentioning gamergate recently.
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Lblitzer posted:
I'd really love to see him write an article about it, dude cracks me up all the time.
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The gamergate thing is mystifying. Some dude went nuclear last night on imgur over Polygon's review of Bayonetta 2 which mentioned how the T&A was distracting. Like, the imgur guy wasn't offended that the game is constantly sexualizing Bayonetta, he was upset that the Polygon dude mentioned it at all because, apparently, if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The gamergate thing is mystifying. Some dude went nuclear last night on imgur over Polygon's review of Bayonetta 2 which mentioned how the T&A was distracting. Like, the imgur guy wasn't offended that the game is constantly sexualizing Bayonetta, he was upset that the Polygon dude mentioned it at all because, apparently, if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? The entire problem is that these people don't get that reviews are opinions about the game, and they want their game reviews to be "objective", which is the most ridiculous loving idea I've heard this past month.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The gamergate thing is mystifying. Some dude went nuclear last night on imgur over Polygon's review of Bayonetta 2 which mentioned how the T&A was distracting. Like, the imgur guy wasn't offended that the game is constantly sexualizing Bayonetta, he was upset that the Polygon dude mentioned it at all because, apparently, if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? The Gamergate party line on that is that a review should only ever focus on the actual game, and not on the message, concepts and ideas behind it. So it's out of line for Polygon to have given Bayonetta 2 a bit of flak for the fact it's very, very sexualized, because a review of Bayonetta 2 should only ever focus on the gameplay, graphics and sound quality. Gamerate only wants you to think they care about the quality of videogame journalism, but even their views on videogame journalism are pointlessly broken.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Alright, that's 66 million votes for Obama, 61 million votes for Romney, and 15 write-in votes for the abstract concept of not being asleep. I don't know the awake option would probably weed out lots of people voting high.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? It's more of a concern for Platinum than it might be for other studios, because they have a history of making technically solid games that just don't do very well in terms of sales; as Clover, they make Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and God Hand, all of which were incredible games that basically bombed. After Capcom cut them loose, they turned into Platinum and made Mad World, Bayonetta, Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising, and Wonderful 101, most of which are incredible games that bombed. Bayonetta 2 is in particular kind of a wonder child, because the original game was boatloads of fun to play (although yeah, it was full of T&A) and naturally sold like crap. The only reason it got a sequel is because Nintendo put up all the money for it to get an exclusive on the Wii U; the end result is that you have a sequel nobody expected for a game lots of people love, on a platform that basically nobody owns. So naturally it's probably going to sell like crap and Platinum could desperately use a hit. That's all to provide context for why somebody might be worried that the studio would close if Bayonetta 2 doesn't sell well; in no way does it justify going ballistic on somebody for daring to mention that Bayonetta is incredibly sexualized because the character is basically nothing but tits on legs who occasionally gets naked. I haven't read the polygon review but you could basically describe Bayonetta as softcore porn and you'd be right.
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Inco posted:The entire problem is that these people don't get that reviews are opinions about the game, and they want their game reviews to be "objective", which is the most ridiculous loving idea I've heard this past month. Yeah, and I tried to explain that to the dude, and even provided the helpful tip of "find a critic whose opinions you agree with and don't worry about the people whose opinions you think are garbage" and the dude just kept on about "fighting" the "unethical" insertion of "ideology" into what should be "objective" articles. Then he mentioned imgur is full of beta bluepillers because all his comments were being downvoted into oblivion. They don't even show up on the gallery post anymore, so I can't screencap the conversations 
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Some video game drama that's not gamergate Facebook games ruin friendships. Not even once.
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Cleretic posted:The Gamergate party line on that is that a review should only ever focus on the actual game, and not on the message, concepts and ideas behind it. So it's out of line for Polygon to have given Bayonetta 2 a bit of flak for the fact it's very, very sexualized, because a review of Bayonetta 2 should only ever focus on the gameplay, graphics and sound quality. Best part about gamer views on game reviews is going through user reviews on steam/metacritic/etc. Every game is either a perfect 10/10 or the worst game ever 0/10.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:apparently, if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? Of course, smaller studios tend to self-publish (and if developed in-house, obviously they aren't going to put a rock-and-a-hard-place deal on their private studio), meaning that Metacritic scores are all but meaningless except for to a very specific type of consumer, so I know you're being a little sarcastic, but you're definitely right in cases where Metacritic isn't used as a goalpost incentive to screw developers.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The gamergate thing is mystifying. Some dude went nuclear last night on imgur over Polygon's review of Bayonetta 2 which mentioned how the T&A was distracting. Like, the imgur guy wasn't offended that the game is constantly sexualizing Bayonetta, he was upset that the Polygon dude mentioned it at all because, apparently, if a game gets a not-great score on Metacritic, the studio might close down or something? Unfortunately there have definitely been cases where publishers gate how much they'll pay developers behind Metacritic review marks. Of course, if you get mad at anyone in that situation it should be the publishers, not the poor schmucks writing reviews.
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Saying that you shouldn't give a game a bad review because it might deny the studio money and lose people jobs is like saying that you shouldn't avoid lovely restaurants for the same reason. In a way it's a nice sentiment but if you think about it for more than five seconds it just doesn't makes sense on any logical level.
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Can we make anything to do with gamergate bannable outside of threads dedicated to it? This one can't seem to go 10 pages without a massive derail. If it was one or two posts, fine, but people immediately gets up in arms and it is making the thread into gamergate thread #2153
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RFC2324 posted:Can we make anything to do with gamergate bannable outside of threads dedicated to it? Well, most people seem to be agreeing with the same viewpoint. Usually problems come up when people are disagreeing like crazy, and I assume that's why people haven't been getting banned. Gamergate is lovely, and most people in PYF seem to agree.
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trapped mouse posted:Well, most people seem to be agreeing with the same viewpoint. Usually problems come up when people are disagreeing like crazy, and I assume that's why people haven't been getting banned. Gamergate is lovely, and most people in PYF seem to agree. Maybe, but it does derail this thread regularly. I want to want idiots who AREN'T posting on this forum when I come to this thread! Content:  I don't have many idiots on my FB, so this is the best I could find on short notice.
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Coca Koala posted:It's more of a concern for Platinum than it might be for other studios, because they have a history of making technically solid games that just don't do very well in terms of sales; as Clover, they make Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and God Hand, all of which were incredible games that basically bombed. After Capcom cut them loose, they turned into Platinum and made Mad World, Bayonetta, Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising, and Wonderful 101, most of which are incredible games that bombed. They also made Infinite Space which was their best work and also their least problematic from a feminist perspective. Of course that one bombed worse than all the rest.
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Cleretic posted:The Gamergate party line on that is that a review should only ever focus on the actual game, and not on the message, concepts and ideas behind it. So it's out of line for Polygon to have given Bayonetta 2 a bit of flak for the fact it's very, very sexualized, because a review of Bayonetta 2 should only ever focus on the gameplay, graphics and sound quality. But remember, video games are art and should be seen as high art. It's just art where you can't look at message or delivery and just on functionality. I want to see a similar "movement" for actual art. "The painting is pretty big but not unwieldy, but sadly not much can be said for the colors which the creator could have used more of given the asking price, and the frame is fairly sparse. Overall, I give Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon a 4/10, worth a rental but not much else!"
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DrProsek posted:I want to see a similar "movement" for actual art. "The painting is pretty big but not unwieldy, but sadly not much can be said for the colors which the creator could have used more of given the asking price, and the frame is fairly sparse. Overall, I give Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon a 4/10, worth a rental but not much else!" God damnit, now I want to see Utilitarian Fine Art Reviews too.
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Cleretic posted:
The funny part is they want a "pure" videogame journalism, you know, like back in... never. Literally since the inception of the concept it has been people given free games by companies who then pay them to write good reviews about them. Some publishers literally won't give out games to reviewers unless they sign a contract saying they'll say nothing but good about it (or at least never ever ever mention a single negative). But let's ignore that basic fact of the industry! All game journalism should be 100% unbiased, objective, and ignoring anything that might possibly hurt the manbabies' feelers!
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RFC2324 posted:Maybe, but it does derail this thread regularly. I want to want idiots who AREN'T posting on this forum when I come to this thread! Yeah, that's pretty idiotic. Missing the whole point that "I don't care if you're trans but this is just a man dressed as a woman" precisely is caring that somebody's trans and not accepting that it's a real thing. A+ creepy find.
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RFC2324 posted:Maybe, but it does derail this thread regularly. I want to want idiots who AREN'T posting on this forum when I come to this thread! What a fuckin' goob. "I DON'T CARE IF YOUR TRANS BUT IF YOUR TRANS I'M GONNA WHOOP YER rear end" Unrelated: How the gently caress are people able to publicly buy and sell food stamp benefits using Facebook? I don't mean via private messages--I'm talking about typing "Selling Link (Illinois's food stamp program)" as their status, which is visible to everyone, and then hashing out a deal with any takers, right there in plain sight. That poo poo's illegal as hell, and as dumb as they're being about it I'm really surprised nobody's gotten his or her poo poo wrecked for doing it. Our local Department of Human Services office has a Facebook account. What's next? Standing across the street from their office with a big sign reading "SELLING FOOD STAMPS?"
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RFC2324 posted:Content: you shouldn't beat your niece half to death for being insensitive when a trans person doesn't pass very well, treat it as a teachable moment.
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Octolady posted:Clearly the solution for these Gamergate dudes is for them to all become video game journos and become the change they want to see. I mean, if women want more equality in games they all have to pursue careers in development, seems fair to me Some of them consider themselves game journos by dint of making 'reviews' on Youtube and yes, it's as horrible as you'd think.
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Octolady posted:Clearly the solution for these Gamergate dudes is for them to all become video game journos and become the change they want to see. I mean, if women want more equality in games they all have to pursue careers in development, seems fair to me No you see, men journalists are all sold-out shills who give good reviews to women-made things which aren't games because they are enticed by their womanly ways!
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