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

Scrolling through long ilx threads can be hell to be honest, but I do like seeing the history of posts on smaller ones

ILX is really the perfected internet, there was nowhere to go but down

I just didn't know how FAR down

game forums/blogs i used to read: gaming world (rip), selectbutton.net, the tigsource forums, freeindiegam.es. A few other smaller blogs like zero feedback. Now only salt world. and freem.jp and some russian dev forum. but games are dead so

But I read this news and I'm like, what the hell is neogaf?

Perhaps, but I'd wish instead we could give people a second chance? Or at least accept that when people are teenagers/YA's they say dumb stuff (which 100% of them) which cannot be carried after the person forever. Which is *not* to dismiss his remarks, at all, but the greediness in the search to nail people doesn't sit well with me either.

Oops, wrong thread (or is it?)

The "new neogaf" or "neo neogaf" if you will, Resetera, is live, although registration is initially done in waves https://www.resetera.com/

Some former neogaf people and some others are running it, mostly neogaf users flocking over there right now. Should be the place to migrate to.

Malka (the guy implicated) has opened up neogaf again as a games-only forum, doubling down on his assholery and even checking people's personal messages to censor links to the new place. lol. That place is dead to any sensible user.

"doubling down on assholery" feels like the big trend for 2017

I guess it's in the nature of assholes to do this, and now they have a detourned language of victimhood to help them on their way

fess up, who got into resetera

I got in, via a former gaf community

Pod of relevance:
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https://www.no-cartridge.net/?name=2017-11-03_ep52.mp3

No Cartridge Audio - Episode 52: Better Solidarity: Misogyny, Games, the Left, and Beyond with Christina @Squierzz and Emma @surfbordt

We're lucky enough to have Christina @squierzz and Emma @surfbordt on the show to discuss the recently explosive issue of sexual harassment and misogyny, a topic relevant to gaming and beyond. Absolutely important episode.
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first, this game, secondly, that kotaku is giving it publicity. the screenshot alone is o_O

https://i.imgur.com/Zrnvipc.png

Kotaku's old Japan correspondent Brian Ashcraft was one of the most transparent creepy pervs I have ever read.

Literally every other story he wrote could fit under the heading "Things Brian came across while looking for things to masturbate to"

*Kotaku’s current Japan correspondent

yeah that dude is the reason i never look at kotaku

hahahaha omg i cannot believe he is still there

general rule of thumb is if you ever write the phrase "things get... sexy" you should have your computer taken away from you
oh great see now someone is taking my computer aw

haha. has Ashcroft ever pretended to not be a creep, tbf?

"mein kraft"

About 40,400 results (0.40 seconds)

Jesus

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-07-google-play-launches-change-the-game-diversity-initiative

The survey also pointed to male gamers as a contributing factor. 25% of men surveyed agreed with the statement, "I would spend more time playing mobile games if I knew I was playing with or against players of my own gender," compared to just 10% of women. And while that 10% figure for women was roughly unchanged regardless of how much they played, among the most dedicated male mobile gamers (those who play 10 hours or more a week), 47% preferred to play exclusively with other men. Those preferences naturally produce an exclusionary atmosphere that makes women feel less welcome in the community, they said.

that is just... so fkn weird. and so fkn easy to believe. but still so fkn weird.

surprised the number for women is so low, given what playing games w boys is like

I'm not that surprised actually. The way women compete with each other can be pretty brutal!

that... was not my takeaway

I think Nhex may have chosen one of the more awkward possible ways to convey the sentiment that “it is not surprising that women are not intimidated by competing or playing with men, considering how competitive women can be with each other”

This is also weird because isnt one of the sexist-git arguments about how many women gamers there are, is "no they just play mobile games, and those dont count!".

One quibble with that finding: I'm not sure that this statement is well-phrased:

"I would spend more time playing mobile games if I knew I was playing with or against players of my own gender"

It's ambiguous between "only players of my own gender" and "at least some players of my own gender". It's not clear that the 25%/47% are all saying that they would prefer to play exclusively with men.

thanks tomboto - i was sorta trying to get at that, you said it better

yeah, sorry if i was unnecessarily snarky there; i know you well enough to read that as somewhat ill put and not from a place of evil

i didn't mean that they're intimidatingly competitive i meant that they hate women

"I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away," Bannon told Green. "You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump." ~ Steve Bannon on Milo/Breitbart's use of #GamerGate to boost Trump.

— Erik Kain (@erikkain) December 13, 2017

i don't think this story quite fits the thread and yet i don't know where to put it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/30/why-a-twitter-user-claims-to-have-made-the-swatting-call-that-led-police-to-kill-a-man/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_swatting1231-440pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0b5a633168e2

Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

https://i.imgur.com/prWmq64.png

https://i.imgur.com/skPq3Zw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AmUIEEQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Ou19iH6.jpg

lmao

actually more of a chuckle

the obsession with thigh gap has inadvertently revolutionized the concept of the butt

asses: how do they work

Filed to: FINE ART

the texture detail looks like a mattress - on purpose?

ban kotaku

Meanwhile his male characters are desperately in need of adequate thigh clearance.

what a crepe

Filed To: FINE ARSE

bingo

even without the problematic thigh gap issue all of those character designs are terrible and embarrassing

actually

https://i.imgur.com/S1LwHCv.jpg

omg

kinda perfect that the position of the cloud in the third panel makes it look like king koopa is vaping