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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 21:38
That's a lot of vitrol for asking basic questions about this woman's point. I notice Hooker can never mention me without usin the word "classic", do you keep some journal on me? Maybe one of you can make a game about murdering me at some point.
Strike the Christian values analogy. What about Jack Thompson's call to end murder in games? How was that any less valid than Anita's goal? Did any of you care about the tons of Flash murder games made about him? |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 21:34
Serious question: if this had been some neckbeard making the same point instead of an attractive woman, or if 4chan had never gotten involved, would people still the points? Or would you honestly be queuing up to post VIDYA GAMES or declare this a first world problem?
Second serious question: what was your reaction to all the flash games that had you violently murder Jack Thompson when he was still a headline? (there were tons of them)
Second question part 2: Why is farcical princess kidnapping and female sexuality a greater issue than extreme violence? How is one accepted as a harmless fantasy that doesn't carry over to the real world and the other a real threat to society? Hasn't everyone here made a joke at some point about kids ripping out their friends' spines thanks to Mortal Kombat?
Question 3: Do you think the 4chan and Xbox Live troglodyte mentality is born of womens' portrayal in games, or rather some real life disfunction? Would Halo kiddies be any less horrible if the series didn't star a sexy hologram? Before you answer that, remember the Jack Thompson (a man) murder games. |
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Avengers - UnHulked
03/08/13, 16:40
The end saved it from 1 star. |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 01:34
That's very patriarchal of you, associating scrotums with a specific gender. Check your privilege. |
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Lloyd Kaufman assaulted on Morton Downey Jr show
03/08/13, 01:25
I honestly think Troma has done its best work in the last 15 years.
In order of quality:
1. Terror Firmer
2. Toxic Avenger 4
3. Poultrygeist (available on Netflix instant!) |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 01:12
Do people really care about vaudeville damsel tied to the railroad track game plots though?
Remember all the Metroid: Other M videos submitted here? Half the comments were disgust in turning the protagonist into a subservient ditz, the other half asking who cares about story in video games. Either they're dishonestly jumping on the anti-4chan bandwagon (not a bad goal by itself) or nobody really realized that Zelda needed saving before this amazing video showed them the way. |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 00:55
People who still shop at Gamestop deserve that though. |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 00:39
At this point? The Bo-news levels of righteous indignation she's inspiring in the comments here. Everyone has turned into John Holmes to her Boxxy.
Honest question for everyone: What if a religious figure had started a campaign to get God and Christian values back into movies and was met with a 4chan art campaign of him being gangraped by Satan and alter boys? Would you be just as outraged?
Here's my favorite take someone wrote back in December:
"Let's get this out of the way up front: I get sent loads of free money all the time, I've never released any videos, and everything I know about feminist theory could fit in an A-cup. In every respect that matters, I am Anita Sarkeesian. I guess that's why I have so much trouble understanding what anyone could possibly have against this woman. I mean, who is more deserving of scorn: the thieving gypsy who scams 150 G's to address the crippling lack of videos on Youtube and comes back with nothing, or the anonymous developer - let's call him "American M." - who scams God knows how many G's, probably at least 50 judging by the screenshots, to produce a playable computer game and comes back with American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns? Before you make up your mind, remember that you could conceivably get drunk enough to accidentally torrent the computer game (a possibility made frighteningly real by American McGee having the porn directoriest name outside of Jonathan Blow and "Returns" just being a fancy English word for "Cums Again"); meanwhile, no one is ever going to be unwittingly exposed to Anita Sarkeesian's videos because they don't exist." |
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games, Episode 1: Damsel in Distress
03/08/13, 00:22
AND the giant stack of video games to pose next to for a promo shoot, following the Angry Video Game Nerd trend of impressive collection = hits |
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WW2 Bombers - 1943 color footage documentary
03/07/13, 18:26
Can't help but think what an ineffective massive waste of lives and resources strategic bombing was. |
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The Avengers - Hulk vs Loki
03/07/13, 18:12
Also that actual characters beating the crap out of each other is more entertaining than generic cgi alien jetskiers. |
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Lloyd Kaufman assaulted on Morton Downey Jr show
03/07/13, 13:23
His account of why the audience scared him: "Here I was this little jew in my little jew suit." |
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Lloyd Kaufman assaulted on Morton Downey Jr show
03/07/13, 13:22
Kaufman swears he knew nothing about it. By his account he didn't get off the stage simply because he was scared of what the batshit crazy audience would do to him. Claims they dislocated his shoulder and that it still hurts to this day. |
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The Sega Genesis Aisle at Toys R Us, Circa 1990
03/07/13, 03:20
What I'm saying is comparing development costs, that sales...dying on a lonely hill? Jesus dude. |
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The Sega Genesis Aisle at Toys R Us, Circa 1990
03/07/13, 03:01
Battles? Chill the fuck out fella. |
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The Sega Genesis Aisle at Toys R Us, Circa 1990
03/06/13, 22:56
Counterpoint: games were a LOT cheaper to make back then and had less competition. Advertising costs? We paid Nintendo for ads (Nintendo Power, The Wizard), not vice versa.
Super Mario 3 sold 18 million copies worldwide, more than any Call of Duty game. It was $50 in 1990. Take a second to imagine the pure hooker snorting blow profit Nintendo was milking everyone for back then. |
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The Sega Genesis Aisle at Toys R Us, Circa 1990
03/06/13, 22:46
The original Phantasy Star game also retailed for $80, and that was back in 1988. I think the 4th game released at $100 in 1993.
I definitely remember Final Fantasy III being $80. $60-$70 was your average SNES price.
All this talk about inflation makes you realized how especially insane Neo Geo prices were, and god help the poor souls who bought a Saturn/3D0/Jaguar. |
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Combat Shock Ending
03/06/13, 17:10
Terror Firmer >=( |
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Frank Yang BBC workout
03/06/13, 15:30
Yang chug |
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Ulillillia - Final Fantasy 12 - final near-perfect HP and MP powerleveling results
03/06/13, 13:30
Really? I remember having a bitch of a time beating the Sith guy on the bad guy's star destroyer right after Lando turns you over to the Empire. Then I gave up entirely trying to beat the giant bird boss guarding the temple to the artifact your party decided it needed to get in order to prove the princess' identity even though it had only been a couple of years since she was a public figure and she had dozens of former knights to vouch for her fuck why am I wasting time on this crap. |
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