aluminiumtrioxid

I don't think you understand the point. Cry all you like (and personally I think Transformers is terrible movie) this IS mass mainstream culture. It's popular that's the point. This is what they put big juicy dollars into. So lets not lecture gaming using this "wider culture" thing. And it's still widely considered to be garbage by basically any movie critic! Yet if gaming reviews dare to speak anything other than praise about similarly popular video gaming franchises, they're automatically "pushing an agenda". I think you're the one who missed Enoch's original point.

...Right.

Yeah, unlike the earlier TFYC gig, this one actually looks legit. Oh, right, because Transformers is totally considered to be the height of cultural achievement.

Not to my knowledge. Which makes the "she's out to take away our vidya gaems!" screaming all the more baffling.

See post #65. Meh.

I'm pretty sure liberal arts count as academia, however ridiculous any self-respecting scientist finds the idea. Also, if we really want to scrape the barrel for crappy research methodology, evolutionary psychology has to take the cake.

Is how you put it, while I prefer "a rather large number of gamers objecting on principle to any kind of academic discussion about games". I mean, if you feel your opinions and priorities don't match that of games journalists', therefore their articles offer nothing of value to you - by all means, refrain from giving them money and exposure. But decrying games journalism as "corrupted by the leftist agenda" which therefore has to be torn down leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Why can't we just let the free market decide whether there is enough demand for gaming websites with a SJW outlook to make them profitable? Except that is not what happened. It was just not any academic discussion with panels discussing the merits of online gaming, communication and building communities, or workshops about knowledge-building in gaming and interactive environments. You know, what academia usually does: having a platform to increase the overall knowledge of given subject. Instead gaming magazines told the readers as it was a normal form conduct that they are culture, and that it should die (granted it had been brewing with all kinds of similar articles before that, but it was the tipping point). Not only that, leaks showed that they were all collaborating with a common agenda, you know, a conspiracy. Of course all discussion about this on their forums and friends forums were quickly silenced as well. If they had been open about this with honest and frank language, like adults do, this gamergate would've never happened. But instead they were planning and reacting like mentally stunted teenagers, and thus everything developed in an organic procedure. So now your problem is censorship, not "politicizing games". Make up your mind already.

Well, it's not like if she does play it and uses her own footage, she wouldn't get accused of "purposefully playing the game in the way that wasn't intended". While if she uses other people's footage, it's obviously "she didn't even play it, how dares she talk about it like she knows anything".

Is how you put it, while I prefer "a rather large number of gamers objecting on principle to any kind of academic discussion about games". I mean, if you feel your opinions and priorities don't match that of games journalists', therefore their articles offer nothing of value to you - by all means, refrain from giving them money and exposure. But decrying games journalism as "corrupted by the leftist agenda" which therefore has to be torn down leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Why can't we just let the free market decide whether there is enough demand for gaming websites with a SJW outlook to make them profitable?

Yeah, he's back on my ignore list now. I don't want to waste even the tiny amount of time and energy required for scrolling through his posts on him and the meaningless noise he provides. Disagreement doesn't necessarily = noise. And I wasn't dissing him with that comment. I like watching him smack stupid posts around. So answering with a "l0l" to pointing out that there are games outside of the ones that appear in Sarkeesian's videos is now "smacking stupid posts around". That's some pretty impressive mental gymnastics.

Look, dude, if pointing out that there's no inherent contradiction between a person saying she's been a gamer since forever, then responding to a question specifically asking whether she's actually playing the games she's criticizing with a no (which, by the way, is a rather dumb attitude, but that's beside the point) is wrong, then I'm not sure I want to be right. Also, you were asking whether #GG has MRA contributors, I've provided you with the first example that jumped to my mind. I can dig around in the early 4chan logs for similar sentiments, cuz I've seen plenty, but... really, it's not an argument I want to waste any more of my precious energy on. I'm not saying #GG is solely comprised of MRAs, but going like "nah, no MRA has ever been associated with us" is also blatantly wrong.

Yeah, he's back on my ignore list now. I don't want to waste even the tiny amount of time and energy required for scrolling through his posts on him and the meaningless noise he provides.

She's been playing games since she was a kid. She also doesn't play the games she usually mentions in her videos. I fail to see the contradiction. As for the gamergate's association with the MRA crowd, I'm pretty sure that whichever clown tweeted this has to be quite close to them.

C'mon, dude, that was totally uncalled for. I hate to admit it, but I lol'd.

Well, this was pretty stupid. I want those 10 minutes from my life back.

In all fairness though, anything actually resembling to criticism, or trying to analyze games as an art form has received a similar response. It's a mind-boggling thing, given that the same group of people often firmly espouses the opinion that "games are ART!".

"Asshat" is also a favorite of mine. OH MY GOD IT WAS ME ALL ALONG. ULTIMATE PROOFZ!4!!

Translation to English from Liberal Arts Major: "but memes are ART, don't you see?".

Zak S's reimagining the Ankhegs.

Yeah. Constantine's supposed to be a con-man, trickster and probability warper, not an exorcist. Edit: also, there's the issue of making him straight and non-smoking because REASONS. I've only read the early Jamie Delano run of HELLBLAZER, along with a few sprinklings of Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. He seemed to like women just fine. In my understanding Constantine is bisexual in comics as he sometimes has sexual relationships with men. Although all his serious relationships has been with women. Yupp. Also worthy of note is the fact that the character originally appeared in Moore's Swamp Thing, and IMHO the incarnation closest to that original version of Constantine is Azzarello's (where, tangentially, he was openly bi and quite enthusiastic about BDSM). Which is, strangely enough, widely despised among the fandom.

If I remember correctly, the dude has an infraction history longer than my arm on RPG.net (a place where sexist comments are heavily sanctioned). I'll look into him.

Explores Dark Places is a Focus that, essentially, means "you're sneaky and accustomed to the dark" - so it's not really about exploration. "Obsessed with the past" would match Sees Beyond (on higher Tiers, they get an ability to view events that happened in the past), Consorts With the Dead (essentially necromancy, but you get an ability to communicate with dead beings, and later you can ascertain what happened some time ago in a given place), or Travels In Time (exactly what it says on the tin).

James Desborough? Also, Milo dude and his "you get your t*ts out for a living" comment?

Much better, thank you

22:00 is a bit late, dontchathink? In my experience, even short sessions take 3-4 hours, and Numenera's system requires players to assign different connections to each other, which can take quite a lot of time.