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    No humans can tell reality from the false, even babies are capable of doing this, and actually show disgust for the unreal and are made uncomfortable by it. The virtual does not affect the real.  What a person brings to a medium, that is allready present and cannot be accounted for by that artform, or controlled by it. The individual will choose whether certain information reinforces his point or not, and still nobody can predict this. Thus there is no point to the Tropes vs Women series, it is just cherry picked content reinforcing the idiot McIntosh's biases, and does not apply to anyone but himself.

     

    I've seen it quoted numerous times in the crusade against gaming, and McIntosh's sock puppet has leveraged quite some publicity out of her alleged victimhood, and the manufactured false narrative that Gamergate is behind it.

     

    Edit: I agree that the backlash against McIntosh's idiocy was one of the only things that gave it prominence, as it certainly holds no scholarly value, that and the game journalists championing it.

     

     

    This.

     

    However, plenty of people see problems everywhere.

    Reminds me of this:

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  2. I was stating that McIntosh's Feminist Frequencies main raison d'etre has been disproven, games do not and never have had a negative effect upon those playing them.

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    That's quite an absolute statement.

     

    Nevertheless, have you actually watched her series? All it does is point out sexist tropes in videogames and explain why they're sexist. Honestly, from what I recall, I didn't think she went far enough i.e. examining the how's and whys such tropes manifest and continue and the societal implications there of. Given the butthurt it's probably for the best she didn't.

     

     

    Have you forgot that she claims her views as absolute truth, caliming scientific studies support her (she never provides evidence, and the one single time I recall her mentioning an actual study, that stupdy showed the exact opposite of what she said)

     

    People don't like her because she's a con artist full fo s***.

     

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    I will let mr. Nonek answer that himself.

     

    As for dogmas and cults, it has been quite difficult when everybody is mostly anonymous on 8chan and there's little to no moderation. I've tried to tell them what they should think, but they are only telling me to **** off; either because i am a shill, a femi-nazi, statist, authoritarian, jew, goiym or corporate shill. It quite difficult to shame someone into submission when they have no identity, only arguments :(

     

    Maybe Bruce can help me to make people think and argue as i like them to.

     

     

    Greeting, my gamergatehq brother

     

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    My heart is filled with opressive joy when meeting fellow compatriots outside of the Cathedral of Mysoginy.

    Please remember to pray at the altar of Patriarchy every day.

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    I'm saying they weren't gamergaters back then. Given that GG itself is about six months old, it seems quite impossible to me that GGers were kicking up much of a fuss about those issues back when they were recent (ie. years ago).

     

     

    Nine months.

    Nice fact checking there....

     

    Also, you seem to miss the concept of critical mass. Gamers have been raising a fuss about crappy journalism ages ago too, but it never reached the boiling point.

  5. B.t.w alu, no one cares about Zoe.

     

    What started GamerGate was the coordinated censorship and vilification that happened afterwards. (are we imagining that one?)

    Had people been able to just normally vent and moan about it, it would have blown over in a few days. But no, the journos and the incestuous clique overplayed their hands and the Streisand effect took off in full.

    Now the industry is burning and it is GLORIOUS.

    It was a long time coming.

  6. to ss

     

    you are told, without equivocation, that if you take a quest, you will anger factions A & B.

     

    you take the quest.

     

    the player expresses shock that he cannot align with faction A & B.

     

    am having difficulty expressing our lack o' sympathy.

     

     

    for folks who missed the warning 'cause they got tired o' reading...

     

    *shrug*

     

    as soon as you get warning, it is on you to do due diligence and explore what each faction offers and stands for... and that info is readily available. 

     

    again, there is some quirks that Could result in getting too much rep before speaking with a faction head, but such stuff is rare and doing so excludes you from one faction.  the results is reasonable. 

     

    HA! Good Fun!

     

    ps added clip that captures our reaction.

     

     

    Gromnir, thou can go stick thine holier-than-thou stick back in yon ass, if the only thing thou aims to add to this thread is insults of others people intelligence.

     

    I played a lot of PnP and RPG,s and I read well, thank you very much.

    The entrie thing felt forced as a point of no return.

     

    FFS, the Dozens quests give you options to LIE to them, or never give them those weapons!

     

    So no, the game DOES NOT communicate the choice is final well. Plenty of people obviously missed it.

    Faction X will not like it?

    Faction X does not have to like everything I do. Is what I did that big a deal? Am I useful to them? Is a little bit of clarity on that matter too much to ask?

    I talked to a guy from faction Y - just like I did before that for the previous quest - is that a crime? Is taking a paid job to fetch something from a ruin a crime?

     

    I don't like it. It doesn't feel organic at all.

  7. That is a strange reason to stop playing...

     

    How is "this killed my playtrough" not a valid reason?

     

    Think of it in BG2 terms.

    Suppose I was playing BG2, the Order of the Radiant Heart loves me, and I decide to take a side job for the thieves guild that involes exploring ruins (not stealing). There's something they want there that might hurt the OrH, and I agree to retrieve it.

    I can keep it for myself, I can LIE about the items to the Thiefs Guild. (the only option lacking is giving it to the OrH)

     

    So why is the OrH so mad at me over this?

     

    So yes, being declared hostile or an enemy to a faction without actually doing anything really hostile is vexing.

     

    Exploring ruins is what I have been doing all this time anyway.

     

     

     

    Did you not have a save from earlier?

     

    I make saves often and keep several saves, but since I activate a lot quests and since I was doing OdNua, my oldest save is already after that "choice".

  8. I kinda just did. PoE is on hold, as I do other stuffand play other games.

     

    The breaking point was the faction "choice" that locked me out of my perfered faction.

    I don't want to play from the start again and I don't want to go further with the other 2 factions either.

    After that I wasn't able to bring myself to continue playing.

     

    Does aynone know if I can console cheat to get around that?

  9. I wanted to hear a lot of things in these discussions from you Bruce, but you never delivered.

    So why should we now?

    As someone said eariler - I'm not convinced you're posting in good faith anymore.

    You want? Why should I even care what you want at this point?

     

    As for SJW influence - it did ruin quite a few games with pointless pandering. It is possible the games would have sucked without it, but I guess we'll never know.

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  10. Anime spring season has started. Haven't seen anything that is overly interesting yet.

     

    Shokugeki no Soma is good, but I'm already reading the manga. It's still fun to see it animated.

     

    Plastic Memories had a ok/good pilot and it's an original anime so that's a plus. It really depends with how they develop the story, has potential.

     

    Seen a couple of more series but other then those 2 nothing really sticks out yet.

     

    Unlimited Jizzworks.

  11. I'm a bit confused by this thread. When I did the first quest for the knights, the guy said, "here's a second quest but HEY IF YOU ACCEPT YOU'RE LOCKED IN WITH US." So I held off, then I did a quest for the dozens, and they also said, "do the next one and YOU'RE WITH US." I mean, it's as clear as it is in BG2, or wherever else. 

     

    Or are you guys saying you seem to get locked in when you accept quest 2, and not complete it? That's a more reasonable complaint. I didn't even accept those quests because I thought the dialogue was pretty clear that accepting locks you in, but it's good that Obsidian will address this in the patch.

     

    That's not what he said.

     

    He said "they wont' like it". Someone not liking what you're doing and becoming your enemy, and you doing an errand for someone and declaring your eternal allegiance are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

    You keep saying it's clear. Yet the sheer fact that so many people complain it's clear indication that it is not.

     

    And yes, the second thing is also a problem. I did not complete the quest, I just said "Yeah, I could do that".

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    You are demanding censorship, because you're directly comparing people who disagree with you to murderous lynch mobs and the nazis, and thus putting them outside the range of acceptable conversation, characterizing them has indulging in hate-speech (which is censored).

     

    You also don't understand what intellectual integrity means. It means being able to back up your ideas, and sticking to them when they're rational, and dropping them when they're shown to be irrational. Anyone even using the phrase "feminazi" has already given up any claim to "intellectual integrity", because he's using crude, offensive, propaganda-speech, which compares fairly harmless people to a massive evil army (bordering on a death cult) which took over Europe by violent force and exterminated millions of people. There's no intellectual integrity there.

     

    It absolutely does not mean mindlessly sticking to your guns, or worse, someone else's guns, as you seem to think it does.

     

     

    Yeah...no.

    Comparisons along a certain point are valid. Always. Regardless how much you dislike them.

    Ever heard of a term "grammar natzi"? Whay don't you go on a crusade against anyone using it?

     

    could it be that you realized that the point of comparison is blind/zealous obedience to a strict set of rules that MUST be enforced?

     

    I'm gonna use femniatzi if I want and you can cry "no intellectual integrity" all you want. Maybe you should look in the mirror b.t.w.

     

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  13. It makes little sense and the warning is barely there.

     

    I played RPG's since the early MUD's, so no, I wasn't skipping on reading.

    I SHOULD be able to join the knights, since I did nothing aginst them.

    Heck, I didn't even do the job, nor did I promise any sort of loyalty to the dozens.

     

    And how would the knights magically know anyway? LOGICALLY, it makes no sense. I made no direct move against them, it's ntohing taht cannot be cleared.

    Regardless, it seems poorly implemented/written.

     

    And this makes me raging mad.

    Friggin ruined my playtrough...

    Hope the patch fixes this. Otherwise PoE will get aquineted with my recycle bin. I don't have neither the time or will for many playtroughs.

  14. Doesn't everyone straight out say when you ask about their second quest that if you do it the other two factions won't be very fond of you?  It was pretty clearly conveyed as an exclusive choice for the Knights, at least.

     

    They pretty much said "the cruicible Knights won't like it". That's it.

    So no, it's NOT clear. Not in the least.

     

    Why am I, a neutral mercenray, suiddenly personana non-grata? Why the hell id it an insourmantable obstacle, when I have a excellent relations with the Knights?

     

    A fetch/exploration job is treated as a decelaration of utter loyalty. How can one expect loyalty out of me when I was never invited to be part of the group to bein with?

    there never was a "Do you want to join us?" with the knights.

    And the Dozen seem like a loose group. They organize contracts and expeditions, so how is "Hey, do you need a extra hand on one of the expeditions?" the same as "I'm loyal to you and only to you!"

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  15. How to improve it?

     

    1) Have fights take place all over. Not always in the same room.

    A proper siege with a proper army attacking, and not 5 skeletons!

     

    2) Give buildings proper functions. Not the stupid rest bonuses.

    Training grounds - all your hirelings get a might buff

    Tower - removes fog of war or adds a ballista or something

    Hedge Maze - all enemies start slowed?

     

    3) The ability to rest from the main grounds, wihtout having to suffer troug 4 loading screens as you go into the building, to the top floow, rest, go down, go out.

     

    4) Genereally more life to it. Invite people to your stronghold

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  16. Keep is luckluster. NWN2 did it A LOT better.

    Proper sieges.

    Proper choices.

     

    The entire Stronghold seems rushed and not well planned.

     

    All fights take place in the same room, half the upgrades are pointless or have weird effects.

    How about the training grounds giving a permanent buff to my troops?

    I'm building a tower to get +1 PER for resting. HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK?

    Shouldn't a tower have proper tower-like functions? Like extending FOW durin sieges/defenses? Like mounting a ballista?

     

    And to do something as simple as rest, one has to go trough 3 loading screens! (not counting the way back)

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