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Grinning Goblin posted:It is kind of like when I post a dumb opinion on something, most people will ignore it or call me dumb and then ignore it. I don't know you better have some swatches ready just in case.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:26 |
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Grinning Goblin posted:Good thing I have a white penis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVJpe1qbfb0
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:28 |
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Yikes, that is bad. Though, for some reason I imagine most MRA folks probably aren't glomming onto this as much as her video game critiques.quote:
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:39 |
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Veskit posted:The best analogy I can give is how the Reverand Al Sharpton is a loving a moron but he's on the right side of human rights. His message is good but god drat the guy is a loving idiot. I kind of look at anita like that. Sure she's fighting the good fight for women but sometimes she says things that are so inexplicably dumb I can't help but dislike her. She's pretty insufferable as a person so the loving stupid MRA guys have tons of ammo to dislike her for both nefarious and legitimate reasons. I mean this happened which I'll laugh until the day I die how loving dumb this is Anita does not run the FemFreq twitter account, or write the videos. These are all written by a man named Jonathan McIntosh, who is a big dumb idiot baby as I have previously posted.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:45 |
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Nanomashoes posted:Anita does not run the FemFreq twitter account, or write the videos. These are all written by a man named Jonathan McIntosh, who is a big dumb idiot baby as I have previously posted. Wait, a guy is having a woman speak on his behalf to talk about feminism? the gently caress?
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:50 |
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Grinning Goblin posted:It is kind of like when I post a dumb opinion on something, most people will ignore it or call me dumb and then ignore it. Congratulations!
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 19:55 |
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axelsoar posted:Wait, a guy is having a woman speak on his behalf to talk about feminism? the gently caress? As I understand it, the two of them work together on the videos. And I'm pretty sure Anita'd take the blame for anything that gets said regardless even if all she did was make sure the camera didn't spontaneously explode.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:00 |
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Nanomashoes posted:Anita does not run the FemFreq twitter account, or write the videos. These are all written by a man named Jonathan McIntosh, who is a big dumb idiot baby as I have previously posted. I'm pretty sure the twitter account is run by both of them, since many of the recent tweets are photos she took at E3. https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/611229178596233218?s=09
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:01 |
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Nanomashoes posted:Anita does not run the FemFreq twitter account, or write the videos. These are all written by a man named Jonathan McIntosh, who is a big dumb idiot baby as I have previously posted. lol and? Motto posted:I'm pretty sure the twitter account is run by both of them, since many of the recent tweets are photos she took at E3. so? axelsoar posted:Wait, a guy is having a woman speak on his behalf to talk about feminism? the gently caress? I mean, RIGHT?!?1 Either way I'm just saying some people are actually mad over these two women for being lovely people. It fuels the hate flames way hotter when they're not good people.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:20 |
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Veskit posted:
It's literally totally irrelevant. You don't threaten to kill people.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:22 |
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axelsoar posted:Yikes, that is bad. Though, for some reason I imagine most MRA folks probably aren't glomming onto this as much as her video game critiques. Everything you could build in three was about killing stuff. New Vegas made it slightly less killy in that you could craft various consumables and poo poo.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:27 |
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axelsoar posted:Yikes, that is bad. Though, for some reason I imagine most MRA folks probably aren't glomming onto this as much as her video game critiques. Seeing as that was posted 6/15, the day after Bethsoft announced Fallout 4 and showed the crafting system doing... exactly what she said she wishes it was (you get to build a town basically), saying that it's just to kill things is preeeeeetty silly.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:34 |
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Pick posted:It's literally totally irrelevant. You don't threaten to kill people. It's irrelevant to why people dislike her? Should we just fit the discussion to the box of you don't threaten to kill people because I mean I think we all agree on that one
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:45 |
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axelsoar posted:I have no familiarity with the Fallout crafting system off the top of my head despite playing 3 (which probably speaks to how 'good' It was) but I actually agree with this point. Games, especially AAA ones could stand to be less about killing. It's almost like big budget games that tend to be over the top male-power fantasy kill-a-thons tend to attract the sort of folks that react like this to basic critique. And about non-conventional games, the industry used to have a relatively large number of great middleware companies who provided that kind of "not entirely centered on murdering people" niche games from time to time but most of them either went under during the last decade or were forced into the quite Hollywoodian "TRIPLE AAA or BUST" philosophy, in order not to be brought and destroyed by the bigger publishers. "Make a less violent game instead of the last sequel of AAA game" in the current economy would be similar to saying "Hey game studio who may or may not be either all about profit or risking your survival on your next few projects, could you make a less violent game? You know instead of a male fantasy that's guaranteed to sell?" And it's even more funny when you see what happened to Sunset, which was litteraly made to be that kind of anti-violent progressive feminist game*. Also you can play a pacifist whatever skin color whatever sexual orientation female character in most of the Fallout games, so it minds blowing ignorant to make that kind of remark with that particular game. *You play a black women in a South American country in the 70s. So of course the game-play involves cleaning a house for an always absent male too busy freeing his country from a right wing dictatorship. 4 000 games sold, bankrupt inde studio. vvv No, it only had tunnel snakes. AND TUNNEL SNAKES RULE! Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jun 24, 2015 |
# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:50 |
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Wait, Fallout 3 had writing?
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 20:52 |
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People are passively aggressively playing the "Anita is no saint" card. We get it. You're so nuanced. Go pat yourself on the back.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:02 |
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Veskit posted:It's irrelevant to why people dislike her? Should we just fit the discussion to the box of you don't threaten to kill people because I mean I think we all agree on that one Yes that's the whole point. Women on the internet get a disproportionate amount of harassment and threats, irrelevant to what they're actually saying. When nerds start going "actually she's dumb and stupid" or whatever, it's implied, intentionally or not, that she somehow deserves it.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:07 |
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Krowley posted:Women on the internet get a disproportionate amount of harassment and threats, irrelevant to what they're actually saying. When nerds start going "actually she's dumb and stupid" or whatever, it's implied, intentionally or not, that she somehow deserves it.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:13 |
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Krowley posted:Yes that's the whole point. You're saying I'm implicating that she deserves death threats because I think she's a very dumb person.....??? Echo Chamber posted:People are passively aggressively playing the "Anita is no saint" card. Someone was confused why people hated her so much which is a combination of A) her being a woman on the internet and daring to use words and B) Her being a bad dumb person. There are legitimate reasons to dislike her.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:15 |
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The fact that Sarkeesian does really basic, surface-deep feminist criticism of games and gets a shitload of hate for that says a lot about the mindstate of the community. There's much better commentators in games journalism, and any time they mention race or gender they get accused of making controversy where there is none in order to create views. It's fuckin' dumb. Feminist Frequency lacks a lot of nuance but apparently that's where the community needs to start if you want more diversity in games.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:16 |
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Toplowtech posted:There is literally no real crafting system in most previous fallout games (or at least nothing compared to what they want to add in Fallout 4), just some weapons mod systems and minor player made mods. And Fallout 3 is arguably the less well written of all the Fallout game compared to 1&2 and New Vegas. You know independent gaming is at an all time high right? There is tons of experimental poo poo going on right now even point and click and choose your adventure games are getting to be big sellers for larger companies. Farm Sim and Truck Sims also sell like crazy. Hell there is a Train game on Steam that makes tons of money selling digital model trains.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:21 |
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Veskit posted:You're saying I'm implicating that she deserves death threats because I think she's a very dumb person.....??? Yeah and its so simple to ignore, she's only famous because children and man children lost their minds at the very idea criticism by a women. Oh and how dare somebody make a game like Gone Home or whatever.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:26 |
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The best thing for me, about the whole affair is that her twitter account is @femfreq it's too close to femfresh for me not to laugh
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:26 |
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socialsecurity posted:You know independent gaming is at an all time high right? There is tons of experimental poo poo going on right now even point and click and choose your adventure games are getting to be big sellers for larger companies. Farm Sim and Truck Sims also sell like crazy. Hell there is a Train game on Steam that makes tons of money selling digital model trains. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Toplowtech posted:And it as more to do with some new way to finance your development cycle for smaller teams(Kickstarter and Patreon mostly) and new platforms to publish them (even if the non-curated aspect of let's say steam created a tons of shovelware and content thievery) than anything else. Streamers and Youtubers as much as they are obnoxious also played a part in some of those indies game success. If those new ways to finance and promote games weren't there the industry would look horribly grim as gently caress. Still, the industry went from small, many medium and some big companies to mostly small indies VS big publishers owned studios and there is a lot of "diversity" that went into the trash. A lot of poo poo games too but still. Lot of those new smaller indie kickstarters are also made by former members of those dead middleware companies. You know its funny I don't think I have a game loaded right now where I can't play a female(though unloaded ones there are like Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood)
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:36 |
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This entire conversation and all the 'controversies' surrounding it is making me aggressively not care about video games even more than usual.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:42 |
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Zythrst posted:Yeah and its so simple to ignore, she's only famous because children and man children lost their minds at the very idea criticism by a women. Oh and how dare somebody make a game like Gone Home or whatever. I think it's lovely the best representatives from the GG controversy are two assholes. It makes you disillusioned from the whole thing because it's hard to back a bad horse. I felt the same way when my two best black leaders were loving Hymie town Jackson and Al Sharpton and those two were loving assclowns. Yes, I can talk poo poo about Al Sharpton even though he had an assassination attempt against him.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:42 |
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Toplowtech posted:Irish Joe isn't posting here anymore, can we please not turn this TV IV thread into another Charlie Hebdo thread? You're right. It's my own fault for keeping up with a TVIV thread for longer than three days since an episode aired Seeya all on monday!
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:44 |
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Knorth posted:This entire conversation and all the 'controversies' surrounding it is making me aggressively not care about video games even more than usual.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 21:45 |
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You've got to admire South Carolina's sheer dedication to assholery. They knew that their flag was dumb and offensive, so they doubled down by requiring any changes to it to have two thirds of the state legislature behind it, and then affixing it to the pole so you'd need a ladder to even try doing anything to it.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 22:35 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:You've got to admire South Carolina's sheer dedication to assholery. They knew that their flag was dumb and offensive, so they doubled down by requiring any changes to it to have two thirds of the state legislature behind it, and then affixing it to the pole so you'd need a ladder to even try doing anything to it. In the wake of VA's governor calling for the removal of the confederate license plates, I'm waiting for my high school to change its name and mascot. its long overdue. My redneck classmates would call African American students "Canadians" as a code word. Lee-Davis High School Confederates.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 01:56 |
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geeves posted:In the wake of VA's governor calling for the removal of the confederate license plates, I'm waiting for my high school to change its name and mascot. its long overdue. My redneck classmates would call African American students "Canadians" as a code word. holy poo poo I need to see this through to the end: What's the mascot? The Lee-Davis Racist?
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 03:20 |
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There's a confederate mascot for a highschool team in loving Oregon. Like, what the hell?
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 03:25 |
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Pick posted:There's a confederate mascot for a highschool team in loving Oregon. Like, what the hell? Romanticization of the Confederate South was pretty wide spread in the 20th century; that's how Gone With The Wind became such a big deal for a while.
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 03:39 |
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Speaking of awful things in the south
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 04:10 |
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Veskit posted:It's irrelevant to why people dislike her? Should we just fit the discussion to the box of you don't threaten to kill people because I mean I think we all agree on that one I mean, you know that, I know that, I would hope everyone here knows that, but like hoards of angry manchildren that can't stomach basic critique and are terrified that women are going to take away their little boys toys? not so much. Toplowtech posted:"Make a less violent game instead of the last sequel of AAA game" in the current economy would be similar to saying "Hey game studio who may or may not be either all about profit or risking your survival on your next few projects, could you make a less violent game? You know instead of a male fantasy that's guaranteed to sell?" And it's even more funny when you see what happened to Sunset, which was litteraly made to be that kind of anti-violent progressive feminist game*. Also you can play a pacifist whatever skin color whatever sexual orientation female character in most of the Fallout games, so it minds blowing ignorant to make that kind of remark with that particular game. I think it is a weeeee bit hyperbolic to say that calling for games to focus less on killing people means I want developers to make un-fun educational games purely focused on educating people about privilege, and you should loving know better. And saying Fallout, a game where there is a perk that is focused on making bodies explode in unrealistic and ridiculous ways for no other reason than 'it looks dope when the blood and limbs fly everywhere, man', is unproblematic because there is the option to play as a pacifist is missing the point entirely. Fallout is very much about killing people, look how much effort goes into poo poo like the VATS system, the various gun skills, different gun types, ammo management, etc. it is very much a game about shooting dudes with some token 'stealth' and 'persuasion' thrown in. And I'm not taking issue with Fallout as an individual game, it is the TREND that is problematic, forest, trees, and whatnot. edit: I mean gently caress, if there was a game that let you violently rape someone it does not stop being horrific just because you can choose not to. Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Yinlock posted:holy poo poo That school is in literal west bumfuck Virginia, and everyone from the school board level on down I have dealt with has been exactly who you would think would have confederate flags on their F350,000,000s. This is my constant mental image when dealing with them:
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bobkatt013 posted:Speaking of awful things in the south Well, John Brown was a insane murderous terrorist who literally believed God spoke to him and ordered him to end slavery.
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pentyne posted:Well, John Brown was a insane murderous terrorist who literally believed God spoke to him and ordered him to end slavery. You did read the whole thing?
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bobkatt013 posted:You did read the whole thing? No, no I did not. My bad.
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