Journalism and bias in the gaming industry

[Malcador]

 

to deny that there are objective measures in video games is dishonest and a pathetic excuse or justification for failing to do ones job.

Could you give an example of an objective standard by which we can measure video games?

 

You can examine the technical aspects of it, a good game shouldn't be a bug ridden mess even if the developers are 'visionary' but don't know how to design software or what QA stands for. I suppose other things like the capability of the engine used or even how the game runs under low-spec hardawre are some other ways.

 

For all the nonsense people talk about games as art, there's a lot of good old software engineering at play.

[Meshugger]

Why does this sound similar? https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Why does this sound similar? https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3

Because it accurately describes who we've been opposed to for (at least)the last 8 months?

 

I do admit, whenever I see another self-hating white male nerd I must laugh at the cuck. Anyone else pick up on how SJWs are composed of the groups they dislike the most?

[BruceVC]

 

Why does this sound similar? https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3

Because it accurately describes who we've been opposed to for (at least)the last 8 months?

 

I do admit, whenever I see another self-hating white male nerd I must laugh at the cuck. Anyone else pick up on how SJWs are composed of the groups they dislike the most?

 

 

 

Yaaaay, I knew you guys would get this topic back to what you really enjoy discussing the most  " questioning  SJ causes and finding contradictions in the SJ narrative " 

 

And thats fine, personally I prefer it as well. So lets not pretend we want to really discuss '" bias in the gaming industry " ...that was been discussed to death 

 

@ KP 

No I have never noticed that and I have to say that makes no sense as it would be a counterproductive to have people we criticize in the movement. And consistency is important to get a message across and to get that message to resonate with people 

 

[Meshugger]

The patriarchy strikes again: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abstract

 

No wonder gaming-journalism is in trouble, just look at the staff at Polygon!

[HoonDing]

Penthesilea furens, mediisque in millibus ardet,

Aurea subnectens exertae cingula mammae,

Bellatrix, audetque viris concurrere virgo.

Edited April 14, 2015 by HoonDing

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

The patriarchy strikes again: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abstract

 

No wonder gaming-journalism is in trouble, just look at the staff at Polygon!

Patriarchy is convincing women to do all the work while we stay at home and drink. Well played patriarchy, well played.

[Longknife]

I'm just so jaded and sick of all things SJW. Yesterday I watched a video by that Laci Green girl where some disabled woman was telling people that "disabled," "handicapped," and "crippled" are offensive terms and that the proper term is "people with disabilities."

 

 

I'm going to challenge that woman to a cripple fight, in which I am a blackbelt.

[Meshugger]

I'm just so jaded and sick of all things SJW. Yesterday I watched a video by that Laci Green girl where some disabled woman was telling people that "disabled," "handicapped," and "crippled" are offensive terms and that the proper term is "people with disabilities."

 

 

I'm going to challenge that woman to a cripple fight, in which I am a blackbelt.

 

Check your privilege, you white cis-het ableist scum!

[Longknife]

 

I'm just so jaded and sick of all things SJW. Yesterday I watched a video by that Laci Green girl where some disabled woman was telling people that "disabled," "handicapped," and "crippled" are offensive terms and that the proper term is "people with disabilities."

 

 

I'm going to challenge that woman to a cripple fight, in which I am a blackbelt.

 

Check your privilege, you white cis-het ableist scum!

 

 

I'm disabled. :U

 

OH WAIT IMSORRY, I'm a person with a disability. Almost offended myself there.

[Meshugger]

 

 

I'm just so jaded and sick of all things SJW. Yesterday I watched a video by that Laci Green girl where some disabled woman was telling people that "disabled," "handicapped," and "crippled" are offensive terms and that the proper term is "people with disabilities."

 

 

I'm going to challenge that woman to a cripple fight, in which I am a blackbelt.

 

Check your privilege, you white cis-het ableist scum!

 

 

I'm disabled. :U

 

OH WAIT IMSORRY, I'm a person with a disability. Almost offended myself there.

 

 

I know, thus the joke

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

 

 

I'm just so jaded and sick of all things SJW. Yesterday I watched a video by that Laci Green girl where some disabled woman was telling people that "disabled," "handicapped," and "crippled" are offensive terms and that the proper term is "people with disabilities."

 

 

I'm going to challenge that woman to a cripple fight, in which I am a blackbelt.

 

Check your privilege, you white cis-het ableist scum!

 

 

I'm disabled. :U

 

OH WAIT IMSORRY, I'm a person with a disability. Almost offended myself there.

 

You've internalized ableism.

 

Also, watching Laci Green? Why torture yourself man!

[Meshugger]

Oh dear, the amount of sass: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/14/im-sooo-bored-of-being-gay/

 

 

 

I’ll never forget the precise moment I chose to be gay. It was the endpoint in a process of rebellion against my white middle-class parents that climaxed with me smuggling a black drug dealer into my bedroom at 3 a.m. on a school night aged 15.

 

On a more serious note, Usher has a new article out: http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/04/games-journalist-complains-about-gamergate-while-more-corruption-surfaces/

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Like Milo could ever be a straight male.

 

[Fighter]

Journalist:

 

[Blarghagh]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/131231-liefeld-campbell-chin-others-call-for-stand-against-artists-being-crucified-in-wake-of-frank-cho-spider-gwen-controversy.html?utm_content=buffer093af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

Another Comic Book controversy and comic artists are sick of it. It describes a lot of things we see.

 

 

 

I spoke up about the absolutely appalling behavior, and the senseless outrage, and got a bunch of crap for it, because apparently women who want women to speak out, only want them to do so if it's the same opinion they have about it.

 

- Joyce Chin, Marvel pencil artist and Asian-American woman.

[BruceVC]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/131231-liefeld-campbell-chin-others-call-for-stand-against-artists-being-crucified-in-wake-of-frank-cho-spider-gwen-controversy.html?utm_content=buffer093af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

Another Comic Book controversy and comic artists are sick of it. It describes a lot of things we see.

 

 

 

I spoke up about the absolutely appalling behavior, and the senseless outrage, and got a bunch of crap for it, because apparently women who want women to speak out, only want them to do so if it's the same opinion they have about it.

 

- Joyce Chin, Marvel pencil artist and Asian-American woman.

 

Okay that does seem unreasonable...good example of unfair  SJ criticism 

 

How would you guys feel if all comic book characters just looked like stickmen...would you accept it 

[Blarghagh]

Hm, I do love XKCD.

[Zoraptor]

Stickmen are an unreasonable and unattainable representation of physical appearance and subliminally encourage anorexia and bulimia in their readers. They should also be referred to as 'linepeople' rather than stickmen, since 'stick' and 'men' are respectively a phallic codeword with intimations of the sexual act, and a sexist term that marginalises 51% of the population.

 

And, of course, while linepeople on the face of it have an excellent proportion of lines of colour and properly low representation of privileged white lines this is only because the background- usually the largest proportion of the comic- is disproportionately white.

[Blarghagh]

I liked that because I thought you were being ironic, but the stuff I find browsing Twitter is making me doubt that. You were joking, right?

 

[ShadySands]

Poor Andy

[Meshugger]

"Creating safe space at Game Events", presented at GDC2015: https://imgur.com/gallery/RJYEj/

 

*sigh*

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

"Creating safe space at Game Events", presented at GDC2015: https://imgur.com/gallery/RJYEj/

 

*sigh*

I'm sure segregationists are kicking themselves over that they could've gotten their way if they sugar coated "separate but equal" with safe spaces.

 

Any news on the FBI investigation? Have they found the dank memes?

[Meshugger]

 

"Creating safe space at Game Events", presented at GDC2015: https://imgur.com/gallery/RJYEj/

 

*sigh*

I'm sure segregationists are kicking themselves over that they could've gotten their way if they sugar coated "separate but equal" with safe spaces.

 

Any news on the FBI investigation? Have they found the dank memes?

 

 

*crickets* so far.

 

And in other news, Zoe Quinn has appeared in a congressional briefing on online harassment against women. It's only time before we will see the first bills on ending internet anonymity.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Meshugger

[Meshugger]

I just need to point out with a separate slide from the earlier link:

 

 

"Do you think that you can stop me?

You better think again

Because my name is eternal terror and my quest will NEVER end"