Yes, you can judge a game by its cover but you still shouldn't.
You should if you want to assess how covers communicate ideas about games.
This is clearly suggesting something about what the appeal of the game is:
See, but you would have to play the game to understand the underlying message against cheating and for faithfulness, along with pushing the idea of making a commitment instead of being an idiot about it.
And the game is a puzzle game, with the tiny bit of TNA you see coming from a horrific, disturbing monster that makes you question if you even like the idea of sex.
ZeroAX wrote:but if we took her "extreme" logic about something that's "bad" being always "bad"
She never says anything like what is "bad" is always "bad". Where are you getting her "extreme" logic from? She never says anything like these games shouldn't exist or these tropes shouldn't exist.
Please don't take my use of the word extreme at face value, that's why I'm using quotation marks.
sigh....I really need to watch all her videos, cause my memories of them are fuzzy and I guess it's only fair since I got myself in this debate that I watch all of them. In 2 weeks I'm going on a trip to Poland, I'll download them and watch them on the plane, since I don't have time till then.
Anyway I was talking about the CONTEXT of a situation, and she taking things out of context to prove her points. She was talking about a Hitman game where you kill a mobster who runs a human trafficking and prostitution ring (or something like that), and well if the player WANTS he can kill the victims too, but the thing is that is NOT the purprose of the mission, it is the decision of the player to do something so horrible, and yes she goes on a rant how it's degrading to women (next I'm going to hear that 12 years a slave was degrading to black people, and it didn't just show what monsters white plantation owners were). Anyway she got the context wrong and I just feel she wouldn't be making such silly mistakes if she had played the games
Anyway honestly I'm out of this discussion, and I'm not saying this in a petty way, it's just that we are going in circles. We'll just have to accept that I dislike her work, some people here like her work, and there are bigots out there who don't like her because they have issues. Fair enough?
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
She was on the Colbert Report recently, just kind of rehashing everything she's gone over next to Colbert's wit. Nothing really new, just thought I would mention it.
Whatever happened to just enjoying video games? Does everything in this life need to be cross analyzed? Isn't there other problems in the world that should be addressed with research other than whether or not a female is or is not treated poorly in video games? I'm sorry, I'm just done with all this retardedness as of late, when I was a kid I played video games cause I enjoyed the world in which they created for me to leave reality for awhile. To this day I still play games like that. All this crap is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.
Kidpanda wrote:Isn't there other problems in the world that should be addressed with research other than whether or not a female is or is not treated poorly in video games?
Probably but that sounds like too much work. It's much easier to make money by becoming a click-bait whore.
Kidpanda wrote:Isn't there other problems in the world that should be addressed with research other than whether or not a female is or is not treated poorly in video games?
Probably but that sounds like too much work. It's much easier to make money by becoming a click-bait whore.
I don't care for her approach and methods much, but comments like this tend to serve to validate some of what she is saying...
Kidpanda wrote:Isn't there other problems in the world that should be addressed with research other than whether or not a female is or is not treated poorly in video games?
Probably but that sounds like too much work. It's much easier to make money by becoming a click-bait whore.
I don't care for her approach and methods much, but comments like this tend to serve to validate some of what she is saying...
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the freedom of speech, and she is certainly free to do whatever she wishes. But to spend money and research time on tropes in video games? Seems more superficial to me than trying to better society. I've just never really understood agendas such as these, I would would much rather fund research to get us into space and colonize somewhere else.
