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Its the fanbase that is changing and therefore the product needs to adapt. Because not all the new fans will be happy with the status quo which is understandable in some cases

I don't even understand what he is trying to say. IMO what he is really saying is that the original target and fanbase of development companies consisted of a certain demographic, white males. This is now changing as the target audience becomes more inclusive and there is a resistance to this change as games evolve to cater for this new audience He makes some valid points..and I hate to say this but haven't I been saying this for ages?

He do just what Russian people do want be doing. Actually he has been criticized for too cautious actions, people do want more warlike ruler than Putin. In other words your problem is not Russian ruler but Russian people. If you want solve this you must do want total extermination of Russians, but i fear you not to hardcore for such things. Anyway nobody has possibility to do this and this means foreigners must shut up and stop interfere in events on our territory (all ex-USSR space), all what happened there is our internal business... If they want to live of course. You see that's where you misunderstand the Wests intentions, the West isn't interfering. The West is trying to guide Russia to achieve its full potential and continue to work to become an important member of the international community, because we live in a global world and you don't want to end up ostracized like North Korea

Volo to be honest you are generalizing now, remember we discussed this and there are different definitions of feminists. The more militant type of personality, like Anita, has perhaps hijacked the normal definition of a feminist which just wants gender equality in society and in the eyes of the law

Guys no need to stress, I can guarantee you the game will have very few bugs in the next 24 months and all of this concern will just be a bad memory

No, I'm an English South African

*Sigh* Suggesting that the "Ban Bossy" and Anita 'n' Kotaku brands of activism belongs in the same category as human rights groups is a bit delduded, and frankly a bit insulting to the latter. I would wager most of us who show distaste towards SJWs are referring to the highly antagonistic folks who subscribe to the former groups mentioned in the previous sentence. I'm don't mean to lecture you but maybe you should be more specific then when you make statements about groups of people you dislike , for example if I say "I don't like Chinese people " because of the rude Chinese people who run my local take-away it makes me sound silly and uninformed because I'm allowing a personal dislike of a small representation of an entire nation to shape my overall opinion of that nation. Even if I didn't mean it the perception that gets created about me isn't great. Just something for you to consider .... Comparing dislike of internet activists to racism is stoopid. And being lectured on racism by a White South African is funny. Well I would think my opinion of these matters carries more credibility because of my countries past and Apartheid, I believe I emphasize more with people who are victims of discrimination on numerous levels exactly because I am a South African who does believe in a multi-racial and free society where no one is a victim of any kind of discrimination

*Sigh* Suggesting that the "Ban Bossy" and Anita 'n' Kotaku brands of activism belongs in the same category as human rights groups is a bit delduded, and frankly a bit insulting to the latter. I would wager most of us who show distaste towards SJWs are referring to the highly antagonistic folks who subscribe to the former groups mentioned in the previous sentence. I'm don't mean to lecture you but maybe you should be more specific then when you make statements about groups of people you dislike , for example if I say "I don't like Chinese people " because of the rude Chinese people who run my local take-away it makes me sound silly and uninformed because I'm allowing a personal dislike of a small representation of an entire nation to shape my overall opinion of that nation. Even if I didn't mean it the perception that gets created about me isn't great. Just something for you to consider In my experience SJW refers exclusively to the belligerant online activists and not the legitimate IRL activists, so there's really no need to specify Okay fair enough because lately the general criticism and "dislike" from some people hasn't just been about SJW but people who are concerned about SJ issues. But I'm glad you can differentiate between the two groups because there is a difference

I do have sympathy for the Ukrainians but they are exaggerating a bit, they are saying this is a full blown Russian invasion and the fate of Europe is threatened. I know they are saying this as they are obviously emotional and concerned but we need to keep things in context. This is not a full blown Russian invasion

*Sigh* Suggesting that the "Ban Bossy" and Anita 'n' Kotaku brands of activism belongs in the same category as human rights groups is a bit delduded, and frankly a bit insulting to the latter. I would wager most of us who show distaste towards SJWs are referring to the highly antagonistic folks who subscribe to the former groups mentioned in the previous sentence. I'm don't mean to lecture you but maybe you should be more specific then when you make statements about groups of people you dislike , for example if I say "I don't like Chinese people " because of the rude Chinese people who run my local take-away it makes me sound silly and uninformed because I'm allowing a personal dislike of a small representation of an entire nation to shape my overall opinion of that nation. Even if I didn't mean it the perception that gets created about me isn't great. Just something for you to consider

I don't think its sexist to make an informed decision to not play a certain game because of a certain game design decision? Aren't we allowed to play the games we want to?

EU is totally controlled by US and because of this they acted hostile anyway. Really interested regions for us is Latin America, where many countries stay friendly with us, Asia (Iran, India, China, IndoChina etc), Africa. Sweden has no influence in these areas also. We really don't have reasons for worrying about Swedish politicians. Why you personally so hurted by Russia? It's because South African president is quite friendly with us? Yeah its a bit of a sensitive point our president going on a 5 day trade visit to Russia. But we are friends with everyone. 2 weeks ago we went to the USA for an African and USA trade summit and we always seeing the Chinese. We are always looking for investment Just to be clear, I have no issues with the Russian people. My issue is with the aggressive political policies of Putin. I think is a destabilizing factor for the whole region

Sweden is where? I imagine how Russians become sad after blaming by Thailand or Turkey or Finland (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Catalonia, Israel, BRICS etc), but it's totally don't important what Sweden talk about us. Really, you don't care what Sweden thinks? I would imagine that Russia wants every ally it can get? Sweden does have influence in the EU and I think that is significant ?

We are peaceful people " we are peaceful people " I would hate to see what Russian belligerence looks like if these are the actions of a peaceful nation

Ok, that's what I call a goddamn liar, anyone who played FNV knows this is bull****, and any obsidian fan should be pissed about this. I'm sorry but she's a bad person, a liar and manipulator, I have no sympathy for her at all and I don't care about the alleged threats, I don't belive a word from her without hard evidence, period. Wait, what? Fallout New Vegas got called out as treating women as decoration? The game with 3 very fleshed out female companions, many well written female NPCs, and that lets you play as a female character? Wow, that is ****. Not only is it lazy, but it is a lie. When someone spreads false information like this, they need to be called out on their Bull****. Calling someone a liar when they have lied is the just course of action. KP I want to ask you something, what exactly is your issue with people who espouse SJ values? I'm genuinely interested because you often seem to mention how you dislike SJW?I dislike them because of they are ineffective keyboard warriors who ignore real issues in favor of sensationalist tripe, and insult and try to silence or discredit anyone who doesn't share their opinions. But you obviously realize the SJ movement and campaigns consist of millions of people throughout the world. You've only experienced the views of a few small percentage of the total number of people who support SJ causes. How can you make such a generalized statement about such a diverse group, surly you can see what is wrong with that type of blanket statement?

I have just watched an interview on BBC from Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, about the Russian troops in Ukraine. He is a very articulate, intelligent and reasonable man and he was critical and scathing about the Russian troops now in eastern Ukraine. Russia needs to realize that these actions are making it very unpopular from the countries in the world that matter, they should pull out completely from Ukraine to avoid further economic punitive measures

Okay isn't this a good thing? Its the type of realistic reaction you expect when you buy your girlfriend or wife a present?

What the **** is wrong with sex cards? They were a fun little gag meant to stir people's desire to collect things and to give some nice visual feedback for the romps in the hay the game offered. And **** had nothing to do with 'romance'. (Unless you consider casual sex romance, of course.) Remember those cards in W1 after the threesome with the group of Vampiresses, those ladies were smoking hot

Ok, that's what I call a goddamn liar, anyone who played FNV knows this is bull****, and any obsidian fan should be pissed about this. I'm sorry but she's a bad person, a liar and manipulator, I have no sympathy for her at all and I don't care about the alleged threats, I don't belive a word from her without hard evidence, period. Wait, what? Fallout New Vegas got called out as treating women as decoration? The game with 3 very fleshed out female companions, many well written female NPCs, and that lets you play as a female character? Wow, that is ****. Not only is it lazy, but it is a lie. When someone spreads false information like this, they need to be called out on their Bull****. Calling someone a liar when they have lied is the just course of action. KP I want to ask you something, what exactly is your issue with people who espouse SJ values? I'm genuinely interested because you often seem to mention how you dislike SJW?

No that hasn't been confirmed, in fact Russia is denying it. But it does appear that Russia is becoming more visible in its interference in eastern Ukraine

I was a little disappointed, not as good as the previous two. But I did the enjoy seeing what happened to Jessica Lange. She deserved that fate, she was a nasty piece of work

Nice One of my favourite series, yaaaaaaaaay

The West knows what's best for Russia, it makes sense you just accept this irrefutable fact Oby

Why are you responding to people like myself - who provide perfectly valid criticisms and reasons to dislike her - by throwing us in the same category as people who are obviously scum? Listen in my last post I left this out cause it's irrelevant to the feminism cause, but the woman is dishonest and opportunistic. She's lied about her past and has - on multiple occassions - used misleading representations of games to promote her agenda. Obsidian's very own Fallout New Vegas got targeted by her as an example of "using women as decoration and not as characters." It doesn't get a long explanation mind you, but you'll find female hookers from the game appearing in a montage of "guilty parties," along with a claim that using violence against women or such sexually objectified characters isn't discouraged and in some cases rewarded. Nevermind that you can walk in the Gomorrah and quickly discover male prostitutes aswell, nevermind that the very example clip she showed CONVENIENTLY cuts off before Freeside blows her head off for killing a hooker, and doesn't even address the bad karma alert. She's a child. If she's serious about making a point, don't be a lying snake. Mind you I'm not referring her claiming to have grown up on games; I think while that's certainly relevant it gets more focus than it warrants. The misleading citations though? GTFO. Girl is clearly proud of her college life, she should know not to have sloppy citations. I legitimately question what her motive is. I personally think she knows damned well she's misleading people, but she's just sloppily tossing together the videos to complete her kickstarter end of the bargain so she can enjoy the money. So yeah, she's a joke. She's not someone that ANYONE should be taking seriously, and as such anytime I hear her say something like that I can't help but wonder if some commentator on the internet said "fk u bish go make a sammich before I slap you" and then OMG TIME TO CHANGE THE LOCKS ON THE DOORS!! Welcome to the internet Anita. I can log into any multiplayer game with voicechat right now and randomly get called a **** just for talking. Pro-tip: don't take that stuff serious and ignore those people. If you really care about feminism? You'd be wise not to defend her. She's a liability to the cause. I do care about feminism and its objectives, but I don't always agree with what Anita says. Or rather I question how effective her strategy is as it alienates certain moderates. But none of this is justification for her detractors threatening her with physical violence or saying things like " she needs to be raped, that will sort her out " The level of misogyny and vitriol directed towards her by some is appalling and unacceptable

I still think you get your hand amputated and replaced with a hook, now that would be really cool