Barothmuk

What? No. Man just wants to bring Fallout to life. No other candidate has a better platform than that.

Band-Aid Vs. accelerationism? I support a 3rd way. BURN IT ALL DOWN

Yeah someone on RPGCodex summed my feelings up pretty well "Zero expectations. Still disappointed". Oh well, hopefully the hype surrounding the game will encourage me to finally find some time for Wasteland 2.

Bethesda hasn't released a good game in 13 years. Hype level: 0

Are you contending the existence of State backed rewrites or merely the quality of their intervention? If the former, offhand I recall the Avengers sought and was denied subsidies for not being propagandistic enough (significant details obviously underwraps but the issue was with the presentation of SHIELD). Another would obviously be that Seth Rogen film that NK had a hissy-fit over. Which is ofc subject to their own ideological bias.

Yeah. If you don't mind something more blog-articley here's a serviceable rundown of the U.S military's attempts to boost enlistment via Superhero films (it takes a pretty neutral position).

Oh, wow. Thought this was just something we were all aware of and just went along with. Huge blockbuster actions films will usually get heavy subsidies from the American military so long as the script gets the approval of the government (i.e. the script can be subject to state directed rewrites). Obviously not straight up Stalinist control but it does serve similar ideological functions. You would not do well in any humanities course, I'm guessing.

Well in that case you would be wrong. Everything affects everything. In this instance videogames are subject to the same ideological biases as all media and thus will reinforce certain ideological views, be it consciously or unconsciously (for an explicit example there is a reason why the American military funds billions into the COD or Battlefield series or why the U.S. government dictates how things be presented in superhero movies and whatnot) This of course doesn’t mean videogames are the sole or primary cause of such views but neither are they free from them. Aside from perhaps the age of the average GGer I’m not sure why they get so butthurt about these criticisms, it’s hardly something uniquely targeted at videogames. Is it? I’ve only actually seen people quote it maybe once or twice since the thing started. It’s popularity, be it positive or negative, is not because of its quality (or lack thereof) but its symbolic value. Like I said before she only really became a thing b/c of the massive backlash against her.

My computer's **** so I won't be able to judge for quite a while. 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.

And surely one could point out which one is Anita's and how its been "scientifically and statistically" disproven? Because that just sounds like you're repeating some kind of GG dogma rather than any kind of concrete facts. I don't really dwell in GG circles that much, have they too fallen into the cult-mindset?

I heard they completely butchered Phillipa's characterization by reducing her to a revenge mad moron. EDIT: Hold on What's this? Feminism has been "scientifically and statistically" disproven?

It's quite a bizarre phenomenon. Even the most reasonable GGer (lol) seems to portray Sarkeesian as some kind of Machiavellian mastermind orchestrating the downfall of 'fun' and the rise of the matriarchy. She wouldn't even be a thing if they didn't get so butthurt when she was running her little kickstarter.

Nor did you condemn it. Instead you gave an elementary ebulushunary byologee explanation that is frequently used by self-confessed ‘anti-feminists’ to condone and/or justify sexual harassment. Now of course you could just be a sweet simpleton who articulated themselves poorly but the rest of your post went on to condemn feminists who advocate for the depiction of women who don’t conform to societal expectations of beauty, with you saying that this is tantamount to shaming attractiveness, being horribly ideological and that it is just so gosh darn impractical as no one will buy a product if its next to some disgusting normie.

Another fun tangent: Did you know you don't have to comment on a woman's arse and can in fact keep such comments to yourself.

Rebel.

I have already answered the question. i.e. my response was to Bruce's question "what problems still exist in the world?". It's time to calm down man. You've got too much negativity.

I'm pretty busy but from a quick skim it seems like it's stating the opposite of what you said. I.e. The cost of living is in fact increasing while the price of consumer goods is decreasing. Sure are a lot more people choosing to be poor.

- Wealth inequality - Doesn't matter as long as the base needs are already met and nothing stops you from self-realizing yourself. Cheer up! - Unsustainable resource exploitation - That's why we are already planning to mine asteroids and establishing permanent bases on the moon. Cheer up! - Poverty - We are richer than we ever have been. Cheer up! - Racism - Don't hang around racist people. Cheer up! - Sexism - Don't hang around sexist people. Cheer up! - The continued erosion of our civil liberties - Nothing has happened yet. Cheer up! You forgot to add (◕‿◕✿).

As someone who hates most of what Bioware does I thought Cassandra looked genuinely cool.

Because the other thread reminded me of the Simpsons

I can't believe this is 19 years old.

Bruce said everything is great, I posted a derisive image, he asked what I disliked about the modern age, I answered. Not sure why it was my post that triggered this little melt-down.

Should I only care about the curbing of civil liberties once they have directly effected me? Should I cease caring about the impact of racism and sexism too?