I'm angry that people don't care about the philosophical and design principles of the medium, and instead are all arguing over minute details like the love of the player character. Nobody cares about gameplay any more.
Ok but how isn't the love of the character and the resultant repurcusions in society (within the model of that game and and externally) a philosophical discussion?
Except that there are many fantastic females in gaming who are positive role models, but Anita seems to brush these off as "male dressed a female".
Yes I was distressed in some of these comparisons, however the concept of the "smurfette" is very much ingrained into our society. The female is only accepted if she is the exclusion within her own populace, maintaining her identity as the outlyer and thus distancing the presented social "norm" from that girls can do stuff too.
I disagree.
Good, this is acutally an interesting point of debate because it brings into question whether publically presented media has a duty to the public or a catered individual. When you try to make games more public then you have to accept your roles in society. If you want to release your game targeted only at hardcore masculine whitesupremacists, all the more power to you, just understand that people in society do not like white supremists...
But games actually entail you in the experience, and teach you lessons. Gamers feel as though those experiences are part of their overall life experiences. That's why it matters to them; that feeling of the game being "real", even though they know it's "just" a game.
And this is what makes the above mention so relevant. If you are experiencing the majority of your life through games, thats how you see the world. It trains your brain to respond to the reaction forces present in games, if those are "beat women: get money" then that is the correlation your brain develops.
I don't see that at all, because not one has made even a broad comment on any theories about the psychological impacts of games.
Ok I will try finding some fun articles for this topic.
Your example is looking at things completely the wrong way.
You are right, to be more accurate would be to include that most of the people making the balls are recruited from the population buying the green balls, and when people who want to make red balls try to speak up, the green people complain they are being difficult, and are ruining balls.
They're not "progressive", though. They are people with little interest in the medium itself, instead attempting to derail it since it doesn't cater to their very slim interests.
Most of the people I know who are most vocal about this are game developers and players themselves, because it affects them. I don't know who you are referring to that is butting in, if you mean Sarkeesian because she didn't play games as much before? Regaurdless of their affiliation with a good or service, it is important to get varied opinions on that good or service as it will help you identify trends that people within the industry may be too entrenched to see.
The thing I love most is that these anti-gamergate people are so thick in the head, they can't even realise that games exist in other forms, **like board games, sports*, ***card games etc, and yet nobody is complaining about those.
*There is still ongoing discussion about the equality of gender in organized sports.
**Lack of digital distribution of this medium makes it more difficult to become quickly affiliated with social media escapades, that said In my many wanderings through eurogame outlets, I hadn't seen a single pair of boobs plastered on a box to cater to my loveual whims enticing me to buy a product wherin I simulate the injustices placed upon women with complete disregaurd to their realworld consequences. Maybe I just havent looked hard enough
***While there hasnt been as much recent debate I remember hearing stuffstorms about how much loveual imagrey is perpetuated in modern fantasy card games, but I honostly would like to hear more about this, yes
I swear a lot of these things are staged.
You swear it?
You, like wholeheartedly, with out a doubt, can attest to the invalidity of the threats these people are recieving?
