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I tried to give it a chance but gave up when it was clear she was arguing in bad faith. She begins by complaining about a "one-sided argument" in response to a video essay presenting an argument. Fuck sake. Do all essays have to be debates where people are paired up with a contrary viewpoint? Less than 2 minutes in she's trying to imply that Anita is the real problem for believing that a character being kidnapped is disempowering of women. Right, because media is meaningless and never suggests anything other than what's in your mind? Although Georgina doesn't take it this far, I've seen this argument as a lead in from GGers who say that Anita is the real misogynist for seeing sexism everywhere. Stopped watching when she tried to argue for Zelda's and Peach's damsel status because it is justified by the fiction, and it was clear she had completely missed or ignored the point of Anita's videos.

Cheers. The sophistry of these Cultural Marxists as they invade our chosen hobby to essentially stop us from killing prostitute sluts is essentially a gamer holocaust of Entryism, essentially. Q.E.D. OH LORD WHAT HAVE I BECOME.

It's a valid point. The comic - without the context in which it was created - leaves it ambiguous enough to interpret it both ways since it doesn't show the motives behind any of the characters. I don't know, I guess it shows how a single comic with a cute metaphor can't always succinctly sum up your snarky opinions.

The backwards leaps in logic they have to make to justify their outlandish conclusions just seems so totally exhausting. To be a GamerGater, MRA, chan troll - whatever they are - they just seem like that guy you knew from high school who always put more effort into avoiding homework assignments than it would to actually do the homework. For a while I gave them the benefit of the doubt that most were just insecure bullies who didn't truly believe the GG rhetoric and just wanted to lash out to feel good, but to actually believe this shit and consider it as logically consistent is completely baffling to me. Is it because I don't own a fedora? Do fedoras just have a supernatural ability to erase cognitive dissonance?

I don't want to go on a tangent since this is the Feminism thread, but this is a thing. Shooters: How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers

I think it was on Isometric podcast a few weeks ago someone brought up the possibility that the sex workers - seeing as they are hired by pimps - were affiliated with gangs, and if you killed a sex worker then other sex workers would refuse to serve you and you would get heat from gang members. I'm not sure that it would make it wholly acceptable, but I think it's a more interesting and less arbitrary way to mitigate the problem mechanically rather than just getting rid of sex workers or making them invulnerable.

I guess he's going independent now? I don't know, I'm recalling the Bombin' the AM episode a month back with Jim Sterling where they talked about Patreon for like 40 minutes. I don't know in much detail but Patrick appeared to be heavily responsible for networking with other people and getting them in GB site content. The podcast guests, the E3 panels, his interviews etc. I hope someone can pick up the slack there. I've become pretty bored with Giant Bomb (mostly Dan) so the times where they get other rad people have been the most entertaining for me this last year.

I didn't meant that in defense of Dan Savage as a columnist, he definitely appears to be missing that part of the brain that thinks before it blurts out shit, but after 2 decades of this I just don't have the energy anymore to get worked up every time he says something tone deaf that he thinks is funny. Maybe it's cynical, but this is progress from some of his past remarks about trans and non gender conforming people.

Yeah. I know he's being a flippant and snarky about it, but Dan Savage gonna be Dan Savage.

If you have Origins you must have whatever DLC gets you Shale as a companion. Best Dragon Age companion ever.

This year was pretty weak. A lot of good games but not many great ones. Divinity: Original Sin, Alien: Isolation and The Colon: More Colons are the only games I would even consider. I am looking forward to The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne more than anything that came out this year. :/

Eh. Dan coming to Giant Bomb and the controversy around it is pretty much the reason I stopped listening to Bombcast and started listening to Isometric. Maybe I'd still be listening to it if Ryan and Vinny were still around, but I think over the years I have grown tired of their company culture of talking about wrestling and fast food for 3 hours as if it was the peak of Western civilization, and Dan is just the bete noire of that. I wish there was a podcast with just Drew, Brad and Rorie being nerds without Dan and Jeff shitting on them all the time.

^ That's it. Close down the internet. We have achieved perfection. Also, this is a thing.

Yeah I don't like the tone of voice. If they were nicer then people might agree with them. Also some or most of them talked to each other at a thing somewhere. Definitely collusion.

Men say smart things about a game or some thing... now it's over to our panel of experts to comment on their physical appearance! Chris is handsome, but OBJECTIVELY less handsome without beard.

Awkward. Brad Wardell is also president of Soren Johnson's new games studio. :/

I know zero about the story. Is the stormtrooper supposed to be the main hero, or among the core group of heroes? If so it's a really interesting way to reveal him. Meanwhile the villian looks like another boring anrgy voiced sith dude in a black bath robe.

So InternetAristocrat (originator of the pre-GG "Five Guys" controversy and premier anti-intellectual assdouche) has quit gatergate and pulled down his YouTube for the foreseeable future. Apparently for finally discovering what the rest of us have known for months, which is that gatergate has turned into everything that it has been protesting against: a sheltered denialist community that has been hijacked by profiteers who only want to exploit rage culture for their own selfish goals. It also appears his Twitter has been taken over by a GG faithful trying his damnedest to make him like stupider than before, although it's hard to tell. In other news, InternetAristocrat also just discovered that humans landed on the Moon. Seriously though, it seems as if he has had a falling out with other YouTube GGers before this. They suspect this is just excuse-making from him, and he will return with a different alias once he gets bored. Whatever the case, GG is tearing itself apart from the inside and falling further into obscurity.

Katana lightsaber. George Takei holding a katana lightsaber. A Seven Samurai (in space) with George Takei holding a katana lightsaber.

Ugh this game has the same annoying FOV problem as FC3 where it changes to the default super narrow FOV during cutscenes, opening doors, and other first-person interactions. It even happens while in a vehicle. I don't remember that being the case in FC3. Flying a helicopter is almost unplayable while looking through a cardboard tube, and it makes me nauseous. Even worse it seems to change depending on the speed you are moving and which direction you look! What the hell were they thinking? I can't even see if there is a way to fix this because all the search results are about how the pirated version has no FOV slider at all. I have a FOV slider, but the game seems to ignore it whenever it feels like.

Yeah the benchmark tool doesn't even seem to work properly for me. It runs through it at an erratic pace (something to do with using a 144hz monitor maybe?) and it doesn't even appear to be rendering anything in the correct detail settings. Whatever, the game runs fine when I actually play it.

I agree. It's all well and good to play the game "the way the designer intended" but I've never forced myself to play a game that way when I did not want to. I don't see it as the "right" way to play a game. It assumes that the author is infallible and that the way they intend for me to play their game is what is most rewarding. To me the whole point of games as a medium is that they can exist as a conversation between the player and the text, not a one-way didactic lecture with only a single correct interpretation. The social link stuff in Persona is a good example. The dating-sim aspect of agonizing over which decisions will compromise me for the rest of the game when it comes to friend and school commitments is not the fun part of the game for me. The whole gamification of social choices actually really pisses me off in games. It cheapens the actual role-playing experience by changing the motivation of the player from wanting to express themselves through choice to just trying to power-game the systems.

You could perhaps replace his backstory as previously being the chaplain from Oz who's daily experience dealing with a prison full of the worst people on the planet caused personal trauma that he then used for research on his PhD.

Dinosaurs are rad so I'll watch this. I don't care if it is dumb. Could it be worse than JP3? Possibly but not likely. Also I kind of like the idea of a franken-dinosaur. Some of the dinosaurs were not very scientifically accurate in past films (especially Velociraptor) so this seems like a more honest appeal to the rule of cool. I think the first film used a loophole by saying they were spliced with other animals because the samples had missing genetic information or something.

When I studied economics in highschool people often shortened it to "econ". Maybe you could start calling it "econs".