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

im pretty good at halo

#notallmen

that doesn't sound like a very like a very scientific study, if i'm being honest

― Nhex, Tuesday, July 21, 2015

gtfo there's a data table and everything

lol

not awesome methodology

our favourite grant morrison cosplayer has released a 'rough cut' of the sarkeesian effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6AibgptNxc

his erstwhile partner has released a response video longer than the video he's responding to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1bTPNdk5FI

i haven't watched either because fuck that but i did find a summary of the response video which includes this priceless line:

Jordan reveals that Aurini originally wanted to structure the doc as a buddy comedy and wanted Him and Jordan to be characters in the doc which he continually pushed for and says this is the reason why they were framed into the interviews.

I seen the best minds of my generation, hysterical

self-clowning ovens, each and every one

Redrumrunner
6:11 AM GMT
The vast (vast) majority of self profesed male feminists I know are very, er, non masculine guys with high pitched voices (and a valley girl twang) that were raised by a single mom.

I think they feel bad because they arent masculine, and who hates masculinity more than feminists? These guys feel comfortable with feminists because they bash masculinity, and if they bash masculinity, they dont have to feel bad about not being masculine.

The sad thing is, not even feminists really want to sleep with them, which will only further their frustrations.

true. we should all aspire to models of rugged masculinity like davis aurini

http://i.imgur.com/wihA02W.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f8/f9/24/f8f92445d3c37c2002776be08e535ae5.jpg

collects skulls/is skull

the degree to which this guy links his identity to Smoking Cigarettes and Drinking Whiskey is kind of tragic.

that's someone's grandma's sofa, too

wow that's remarkable, he really does look like skeleton. which is...ironic.

is he wearing two pagers in holsters on his belt?

prefers masculine signifiers like taut, well-toned abs and lots of leather

i see the "has a family" part of the definition of "patriarch" is slipping away

SPOILER: The big reveal of the film is apparently that Feminist Frequency's address is ... a post office box!! They tracked it down and filmed it. That is, their revelation demonstrates why people use PO boxes.

kinda lol but mostly sad

Do you guys think we could get a good Patreon going for a documentary about their documentary?

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/992/526/601.gif

nice

Jesus fucking Christ: An entire article about the fact that Feminist Frequency can be (legally) quite cagy about the "need" to prove their charity status to just anyone, because the forms have their home addresses on them, which ends up with "Yeah, they're legit (but the documents totally have their home addresses on them)"

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/07/feminist-frequency-leaked-e-mails-reveal-why-theyre-secretive-about-charity-status/

So the big horrible thing they did here was use an artists' work without permission (which is what the ENTIRE youtube videogame economy is founded on) then politely remove it upon request.

And not immediately provide a document with their names and addresses on it to a doxxer's friend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3e850m/voice_actor_troy_baker_supposedly_quitting/

LOL not even going to read that thread right now, I know it's a shit show.

Do you guys think we could get a good Patreon going for a documentary about their documentary?

would watch that documentary about their documentary

it's hilarious that #gg got in such an uproar about femfreq's kickstarter raising so much money because 'who needs cash to make a series of talking heads videos' and now these two clowns are providing a masterclass in how you can raise tens of thousands of dollars but still make videos which look amateurish as fuck

how is that dude's pic not on a leather sofa with a cigar, seems like he's kind of weak on his masculinity

https://hailtothegynocracy.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/the-sarkeesian-effect-starring-lorem-ipsum-bombs-at-gamergate-in-atlanta/

lol they used the lorem ipsum description instead of the actual text.

$8k a month well spent

That's great! They got lorem ipsum wrong. XD

Must have been more people in the film than watching it.

lolllllloollllll

hope ipsum can bounce back from this

LOL

Getting ipsum wrong is next level incompetence.

oh god

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLbKQofWwAAVMIJ.jpg

it's sweet how these benign old gentlemen are trying to get in touch with what the kids are doing

I'm not quite sure where else to put this, but I know we've talked about roosh v itt before. Looks like his reputation is beginning to precede him http://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/roosh-v-chased-out-of-montreal-bar#.noRd8zBZD

bill kristol is into misogyny in all its forms, new and old

lol at that roosh motherfucker getting completely shut down by an entire city

In addition to a speech and Q&A period, Roosh promises time for attendees to “have an intimate one-on-one moment with myself where we can take selfies together.”

huh

This is slightly off-topic I guess

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/11/technology/mens-rights-activist-chic-ceo/index.html

Rava, who also serves as secretary to men's rights organization National Coalition for Men, declined to talk to CNN Money by phone. ("I do not trust you will quote me correctly or in the proper context given your leftwing, pro-female, anti-male bias," he wrote in an email.

Rava said this about CNN Money! Pretty good.

v distant fb friend shared BREITBART link to MILO story about ROOSH in admiring tones and I thought, oh yeah, you've got to be muted right the fuck now

Fuckin' Roosh was on the front page of the National Post, below the fold, earlier this week

http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/13/9149481/violent-video-games-aggression-research-review-report-apa-resolution

What do you think?

I think saying there is a link between violent video games and aggression is kind of duh. Any violent media will attract people that enjoy violence. It is a very easy conclusion to reach.

I think the blame for a lot of racist/sexist/violence tropes and stuff in video games lies on US pop culture, specifically TV and Hollywood movies. The 80s had a weird experimental phase in the beginning which completely collapsed and was saved mostly by games that wished they were James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. But this generation of games was arguably dominated by Japanese developers who took inspiration from US culture. By the time America began to make a serious step back into video games, it was in a post-9/11 world. The games that the US put out were often historical war/assassination simulators and featured violent elements like torture and mass murder at the same time the gov't was signing off on those things irl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7qEn9q2Rc

when the parody of the thing is indistinguishable from the thing itself mostly cause you can't overdo the overdone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_I

that polygon report was pretty even-keeled - i rarely see something so sober said as violence behavior could be an accumulation of various risk factors in these kinds of stories