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Actually that's from when America rebuilt their country. They decided to try to take on our morals so it became pure obscenity to even show anything like a human genetalia in any context other than religious ones. Thus that story, and the creation of tentacle porn (because as long as it's not actually human you can show phallus) The panties fetish came about the same way. From what I've heard, they introduced panties during the reconstruction as something a "modest" woman would wear, so they became all the rage, but were only available at extremely high prices. So if a woman had panties it meant she was well off for a while.

Dems Jiggle physics doe!

Do we really think that a culture that's relatively open about their sexuality, especially in comparison to America, wouldn't produce somebody who derides the viewpoints of his detractors in verse? The same culture that produces the Kanamara Matsuri, and only has laws surrounding the display of human genitalia (and from what I've heard, a thing for panties) because of American involvment in post WW2 restructuring of their society to bring it more in line with "our" western sensabilities. Bruce, the guys point is that he prefers busty lasses with nice asses and if you've got a problem with that you're not his audience. The guys behind Onichanbara are probably the same. If you think it's disrespectful for him to say "**** are life, ass is hometown" realize he's making a game that's built on eye candy and humor. Similar to Onichanbara:Bikini Samurai Squad (yes it's a real thing), or even Bayonetta. Would you have preferred him capitulate to american media demand and stop making these games? To self Censor because *gasp* somebody might get offended!? I'm not entirely sure what you want from a guy who's series produced this image.

Most relevant bit from that article is the last paragraph

I'm not entirely sure Something Awful is a devs forum

I realize that this is probably going to come off crass, but why on earth do they put panties on everyone who's supposed to be nude? I'm fine with them shooting "modestly" so you're not getting pornograpic shots, but it just kicks me out of the world when I see a group of people in a sauna, or post coitus, with their cotton bloomers on when technically they're supposed to be nude.

Agreed, and it was basically the system they had in the first game, simple and elegant. Bring a smith a number of rare ores and he will forge the sword you desire, without all of the pointless junk cluttering up ones inventory. From what I've been seeing, it's more the Alchemy than the actual crafting that's the issue. The Alchemy is literally "gather 100 of random common herbs, and then find like three special herbs to make a potion, then it's upgrades" Honestly it would be so much better if they went with classifications rather than with unique plants. Like swallow requires 3 green plants instead of 19 different unique items to make.

So... apparently Rand Paul is going to use the Patriot Act to try to catapult himself in the polls. Trying to Filibuster it against the republican party to prevent it's extension.

Talking to Rand Paul about dat.

There probably is. I set it to Story for my first play through so most of the enemies operate at two levels below me. The annoying thing is that no matter what they always seem to do the same damage to you no matter what. Some peasant with a pitchfork? he just nuked out 1/4th of your hp with two swings... unless they're higher level where they do double damage.

Also I get the feeling only the bigger monsters like Dragons and such are the rarities. Everything else can be dealt with by Peasants (who don't really know everything but wahey!

No ****, that's because the circumstances of Muslims is in no way comparable to that of gamers. Muslim's exist in a culture of islamophobia where they can be subject to state sanctioned harassment, detainment and murder. Articles demanding an "end to muslims" in such a culture would not be tongue-in-cheek or mere hyperbole but instead contribute to the actually existing violent status quo. You cannot simply replace one group with another and treat it as if the implications are exactly the same. That said, who the **** cares that some random websites wrote some melodramatic articles on 'gamers'. I've been playing games all my life and quite frankly couldn't give a ****. Until we live in a world where employers are not hiring gamers, people are running around murdering gamers or the state itself has "declared war on gamers" you are just another tumblr generation kiddie desperate to be "oppressed". The reason you should care about those articles is because it demonstrates that a system that was catered to you, that was built for your enjoyment, to help edify you and make decisions about your entertainment, has declared that you're no longer worth their time. It'd be more like Playboy showing up and saying that men who look at naked depictions of women are worthless human beings. After all, the world is still out there and filled with women, therefore they should be able to find and examine a woman of their own, not retreat into the pages of Playboy to see the unrealistically airbrushed vagina that that very publication released. The reason that these articles are bad is because if there was no reaction to them, if there was no call for change, then you'd slowly see things like Witcher 3, Duke Nukem, and even LA Noir disappear because of your "tumblr generation kiddies" getting their way within the media and becoming the primary voice for the industry to listen to about wants. I don't want a "VideoGames Code Authority" that takes everything that might be released and makes it "PC". If we don't say **** and let this entire thing pass then we're looking at post "Seduction of the Innocent" comic book industry in Video Game format.

...Except that article was published on a website aimed at developers, and I'm pretty sure Alexander openly states she doesn't think of the particular subset of gamers she's writing about as her audience, so I'm unsure "demonizing your core demographic" is an accurate description of events. The thing is however, that it was posted, VERBATIM on websites like Kotaku, which is a tacit approval of the piece by that organization. And if you read through the other articles mentioned in conjunction with this one they're all praise for Alexander and Anita for their "brave stand" against the mouth breathers and neckbeards that are part of the gamer community. None of those that are linked mention that "We don't condone or agree with this person" or try to argue against her points, instead they're agreeing with it (or the pieces they pull from it if they don't post the entire bloody thing) It did? I mean, I've never even heard of the thing up until now, so I severely doubt its ability to "give people hope". I'd be grateful if you could provide me with links to the discussions that sprang up around it back in '12 (or so?). It was mostly on Neogaf and I'm not a community member there. That said, I just remember that even back then people trusted the reviews (although not the scores) of different publications because ideally the reviewers were giving the score for the money, but what the reviewer said could contradict the score. The important thing about "Gamers Are Dead" Is that it took the very people who'd be reading that article... and said that they were worthless ****slingers. Even if she was aiming it at Developers, she posted it on gamasutra which also has fans who browse it for things like post mortems and such to learn more about their favorite games, and what to expect in the industry. It'd be like saying "I think corvette drivers are pieces of garbage and should all go die so REAL people can buy corvettes!" on the official GM message board and saying that it wasn't meant for the Corvette Enthusiast.

First off, GG has been blind to years of journalistic abuses due to being nonexistent, unless time travel has been invented while I wasn't looking. You could argue that the people who later become gamergaters weren't, but that's a statement impossible to prove or disprove (although we can point at the circumstantial evidence of their prolonged silence, which doesn't seem to support your statement). Second, you're basically just reinforcing my point. The straw that broke the camel's back wasn't Gamespot firing an editor for the oh-so-horrible crime of handing out scores lower than 8 to AAA games (a perfect encapsulation of what's wrong with gaming journalism), it was people "preaching at you" (read: discussing feminist issues in articles you're in no way forced to read). It's a ****ing temper tantrum over the SJ equivalent of TotalBiscuit's weird, but essentially harmless obsession with graphical setting options. Except that that particular article is when things went from simple lack of ethics, to openly demonizing your core demographic. Like I said, Doritos-gate happened, and it gave people hope because somebody within the industry was saying "Yeah, the amount of merchandising here is Bull****" rather than passing it off when called upon it.

Yikes Alu, as far as hostile misrepresentations of another's argument go, this is pretty bottom-barrel. You didn't use to be such a nasty poster - what happened? I don't think it's a misrepresentation at all. People are still whining about Grayson not disclosing the fact that he had intercourse with Quinn when he mentioned her game (a grand total of, what, two times? three? invariably in contexts where it was easily overlooked?). Hence the accusation that she somehow "stole" exposure from "more deserving" developers. With her vagina. Obviously. I mean, if we're talking about hostile misrepresentation, we could bring up the whole "Sargon of Akkad doesn't know jack **** about statistics but is sure as hell feminists are purposefully lying to us" thing, or "a coordinated attack of 12 articles declaring gamers 'dead'" (more like three articles, none of which appeared in gamer-facing websites, distinct lack of the phrasing "gamers are dead", etc.) all over again, but really, why bother? You picked two issues out of a list. Misrepresentation aside, what are you trying to prove by pointing out that you don't consider these two to be the "biggest" problems? They're what kicked off the entire movement. Depression Quest receiving three sentences that could vaguely be seen as undue praise, and Leigh Alexander calling 'gamers' bad names. Not the fact that gaming "journalism" has been **** for decades, not the fact that most of the content is vaguely-rephrased marketing talk about games that aren't even out yet, not the fact that journalists can be fired for giving a bad score to heavily-advertised games. Not, y'know, actual issues with lack of professionalism that have been present for at least a decade before GG even existed. Gamers have been fine with those. Just how much of a shortsighted fool does somebody need to be in order to fail to notice how the entire industry of gaming journalism has consistently been terrible since forever, but cry bloody murder over the fact that it now also publishes feminism-flavored crap alongside the regular crap? I think GG is just the people really pushing with the unrest that had already been there. It's just that the 'other side' kinda lept on this train rather than others sepecifically because it's so easy to derail. 2 years before the Zoe Quinn thing popped up there was another article, this time from within the industry that kicked off a minor kerfuffle at Eurogamer, but didn't become hyper major because many of the media that allows GG to flourish, and shoot itself in the foot, hadn't been as firmly entrenched as it is now. Doritos Gate (yes, that's a bloody thing...) It didn't have the sex, and obvious industrial-incest found within the Gamergate thing. Or the direct attack on the cultural definition of "Gamer's". You bring up the Leigh Alexander piece and how it was only released in three spots. Which might be true, the specific language from Alexander's piece was only limited to a few spots, but the overall narrative that "HAW HAW we're an industry built on you guys buying our ****, but we think you're scumbags and want you to go away!" And served to seriously push the idea that Anita and her ilk were "the future" that we should all listen to if we "want to be taken seriously as an art form". Ars Technica's article called her Tropes Vs Women series "well researched" as part of this blitz play to try and push the narrative to one where the predominant culture of gaming (and their audience) was ignored or declared as "bad". It's really easy for you to make the otherside seem like **** when you deliberately change the subject and whine when they try to change it back. I'd stopped watching him because I got overall tired with some of his consistent outrage, but Thunderf00t's video where he picks apart the Gamergate thing seems pretty good. He used to just do young earth creationists, but he switched to feminists recently and well, this was the result of part of it.

No I don't think Volo is that deep. I think he makes these misplaced comments of hyperbole because he is jaded and frustrated with criticism from SJW that he feels is unnecessary This is a good post by the way, I appreciate the way you wanting to understand the core reasons for this dichotomy between GG and anti-GG So yes these are all reasonable objectives, I fail to see how anyone would object to these...if this was what GG was really about. Or rather I should say " if GG was about for all its members " Now maybe you right and the constant criticism about SJ initiatives is a symptom for people who see SJ campaigns as a form unethical behavior. But this thread is a good example of what is fundamentally wrong with GG ( and for the record I see the people on this thread as moderates where GG is concerned ...with the exception of people like Luzarius ) Most discussions on this thread are about SJ people and SJ ideas, people literally trawl the internet and look for this Twitter comment or this blog and then this gets ridiculed and attacked. How does this really help with unethical behavior in the gaming industry? I think this is more a case of how the entire situation has been covered and grown over time. I mean the entire thing came out, in part, because of the fact that Zoe Quinn cheated on her at-the-time boyfriend and yet her cheating was responded to with "Does it matter?" by the journalists who, as I stated before, changed the narrative to push the fact that GG was anti-feminist and so on. Understand, I'm willing to bet my meager life savings on the fact that if the Zoe Quinn thing had been gender swapped you would have seen a much different conversation and narrative created by media. I think this is partly because the GG movement is only a year-ish old at this point. Most games that have been released since were heavily in development at the point that it started so the devs and publishers can say "to late in the cycle to change it". And even if they say that in one form or another they still get yelled at about it in the worst ways. (Assassins Creed Unity and female assassins for example). What people are more upset about as a direct consequence of this "feminist" movement is that the entire gaming media is grabbing your hand if you like something akin to the Witcher, and telling you that you're a horrible person for looking at pixel ****. People are fine with SJ, but personally I'm not fine when one person is given the power of creating the labels. Anita is the most focused critic because it's REALLY easy to annihilate her argument because she doesn't understand anything she's talking about. But because of this focus from the GG supporters, the Anti-GG crew create just as much pressure saying that her points are correct. The problem with the feminist/SSJ movement in general is the same one with any political campaign, much of what is publicly heard is from their most fringe element of it. It's like when you ask your black roommates "Yo, you seen my phone?" and he immediately turns around stating "You asking because I'm black ain't ya?" The sheer level of "Woe is me, everything is horrible to be a woman/gay/non-white" while not acknowledging A) the fact there have been massive strides in this situation and B) There's discrimination on the societal scale towards your 'prosecutor' in other fields, tends to drive many people up the wall. Understand, I'm not saying 'It sucks to be a white male" or anything like that. Instead I'm saying that "being a woman probably isn't journey-to-rapeville without any money because men take everything!" I mean, look at the common Social Justice response to the critique that "You probably shouldn't go to the club wearing a slip on dress, no panties, and 6 inch platforms..." of "Teach your sons not to rape, don't tell me what to wear!" To me that screams not "I want equality", it's instead "I take no responsibility for my actions and expect to be protected no matter what happens." It's akin to living in a low rent area, writing "Get Meth Here" on a sign, and sticking it on your lawn, and then telling the cops that it's not your fault an addict broke in and destroyed your stuff looking for his next fix. The other major problem that GG has, that I've gone over before, is that ultimately there's very little we can do to change the dynamic within the industry. The entire industry is built upon itself in a sad way, where the media relies upon the publisher for ad revenue, and the developers/publishers rely on the media to be an extension of their marketing department. If developer snubs the journalists, all of a sudden their game ends up on a blacklist of things that are either smeared or ignored by the media. If a journalist snubs a publisher all of a sudden they don't get review copies of games and ad's are pulled from their site. Developers are left out in the cold and sniped at by the media, but if the media gets to snarky at a dev the publisher admonishes them. The only way to break this cycle is to figure out a way to make the media not reliant on the publishers and vis-versa. Ideally by spreading the media to points so that the NY Times would be taken seriously if they had a games critic or four on staff.

lol, what a dumbass. All I got from that article is an overriding sense of "Ha ha ha! I have a PHD and am an ACADEMIC! HA ha ha!"

I feel like they handwave a bit and say that every time you collect loot, what you're doing is grabbing all the random crap, and stuffing it into saddlebags on your horse, rather than just down your breastplate. Figured out my quest... And finished the first major quest of Valen. If Anything I expect that Ciri would be the playable character over Vesemir given she's been given different powers etc.

http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1038 Was patched today. I got stuck on a story mission (finding a certain wife) where it just tells me "review what you know and find her!". Mildly annoyed at that, also got the issue of playing it and using my gamepad, and the damn thing keeps randomly flipping into detective mode without me hitting squat.

According to Slate, the RNC is saying "Aw hell naw" to picking favorites from within the party, leaving that fun little job to the Kind folks at Fox. Because that's not gonna bite them in the ass.

And yet the RNC are having Fox pick the candidates going to the various debates.

I don't know what that group even is honestly, but if I were a FemFrequency type person I'd probably do my best to ignore and keep the Postal devs out of the picture given that they made a game where win, and the cutscene implies your main character shoots and kills his nagging wife. Personally I find the game hilarious if in that "horrific taste" sense

...and just when i thought that things were cooling down. Honestly, if I were going to be fighting this "social justice" bs and wanted it to be an adult conversation, the last people I'd probably want to invite is the guys who let you use a cat as a silencer for your gun.