Truth.
The ‘‘corruption’’ that is being spoken of is, as far as I can tell, just the same old problems the Taliban (and other deep thinkers) have always had with women having talent, opinions, and success in order to spite men, specifically of course, who lack these things but are obviously entitled to them.
It’s not a puerile control drama, not at all. heh.
I haven’t taken a look at the new game yet, but this woman’s opinion was that Bayonetta was a self-aware parody of the usual treatment of game heroines, taken to a ludicrous extreme. Like in the way the “most powerful” female game armors are usually the skimpiest, her clothes literally disappear when she attacks.
I thought it was hilarious, and pretty darn good.
I’d like to encourage everyone to not link to identifying information.
clock cycles, the oscillation of quarts quartz…timing is everything when executing instructions off of the heap stack. 
Shhhhhh…that is the less fun alternative. (that is what i assumed too though.)
Oh, is it Happy Hour already?!!!
Agree.
For others of us, though, it was 2-3 whole weeks ago that games were a shelter.
Thank you Felicia.
6 months from now, people will be like, gamergate what?
Have you never had conflicting feelings in your life? Just curious.
I read the review and it seemed to me that the reviewer enjoyed the gameplay but had some concerns about sexist imagery. These are not mutually exclusive views.
LOL. might as well be. i should go oscillate some coffee. 
One of the pieces Jerwin linked in another thread, an essay by Herbert Marcuse, had me thinking about ways I could draw on Critical Theory for some writing about games, particularly a more nuanced version of the critique of mass media as escapism. On the other hand, games are a novel medium. One of the things that’s long interested me is that, because games are interactive, and multiplayer games are social, that there are social conflicts that play out through shared fantasy constructions. All parties aren’t equal; game developers have enormous power over those spaces. But, resistance and reinterpretation are possible.
Good point.
Much like this space. I prefer BB to *chan for good reason. I also prefer MUDs to Warcraft, because I have an active imagination and I like to use it myself, rather than have it used. It’s all a matter of taste, of course, and taste is not worth getting pissed off about
(caveat: unless one is insecure, has bad boundaries, and is prone to stalking, then any ‘‘reason’’ will do)
And it’s worse than that, since many of those “corruption scandals” very clearly aren’t. They’re thinly veiled excuses for attacking women and their supporters. If we take those out, and only keep those that might reasonably be considered legitimate issues, there’s almost nothing left. And, of course, there was no outcry about journalistic ethics from these people before they could attach the issue to female developers and writers, which shows the real area of interest.
Side note: regular, two percent, one percent, and skim taste different. Pick the sort of milk you’d like to drink (or add to your coffee, or tea) or cook with, and ignore the “Woohoo, reduced fat milk is healthier” aspect entirely.
I’m still trying to figure out why if #gamergate is really trying to be a real thing about ethics and integrity in gaming, haven’t the ‘real’ gamers set up a website (even on tumblr or something free), post their manifesto-type-thing, even go so far as to specifically distance themselves from the ‘crazy minority’?
Some of the saner elements have tried to get traction with that idea, but the ‘crazy minority’ has been arguing in very emotional terms that it’s counterproductive to split the hashtag, or “all gamers stand together as one against the menace” sort of stuff. They know damn well that if they lose their earnest and naive supporters, they will have lost their human shields that provides the barest whiff of respectability.
Further side note:
Do you know? I miss the milkman and bottled milk even this long after they disappeared. You got unhomogenised milk with the cream floating on the top. You’d skim the cream off the top for whatever you needed it for (e.g., coffee, desserts) and stir in the rest, so you actually controlled the matter to your own taste. And when you had finished with the bottle, you placed it on your step to be taken back for reuse.
We have come a long way since the '50s and '60s in a lot of environmental matters, but this sort of recycling was normal back then, and we have since, for the most part, substituted disposable materials.
Perhaps it would also be appropriate to add:
F) an excuse to criticize female journalists and critics
Or maybe that’s really an entirely separate issue, only tangentially related to the question of journalism in ethics. I’m coming from the perspective of having just listened to On Point with Tom Ashbrook on the radio, and hearing three panelists and the host discussing this situation. I was astounded to hear one of the panelists, Milo Yiannopoulos, say that rape and death threats are “part of the job” when one chooses to be a “provocateur”. He also suggested–although that might be too polite a word–that at least some of the women receiving threats are exploiting the situation to their advantage.
I wish there was a transcript. It would make it easier to quote some of the appalling remarks.
Well, to be fair, I’m only talking about how people defending GG do so by hand-waving the violent faction away.
This tactic can only mean one of two things, the commenter is a troll or is willfully ignorant.
Well, this is more like having the KKK talking about civil rights (for white people). If you’re interested in having a real conversation about civil rights you don’t jump into their conversation, you ignore it - except insomuch as you avoid talking about the issue the way the KKK does. The entirety of “gamergate” is that small group of assholes. People interested in talking about actual gaming journalism efforts have done so and continue to do so by specifically talking about the actual issues. This is easily distinguished from the gamertaint trollies by the fact that they don’t actually get into real ethics issues. So yes, if you bring up issues of journalistic ethics within the context of a discussion of gamertaint, that’s problematic; it’s not problematic to actually discuss the issues within the appropriate context, however.
There are still some doorstep deliveries of unhomogensied milk. Depends on the area you are in, but it’s not completely dead yet.
The supermarket whole milk has actually had some of the cream taken out- It’s standardised to 4%, which allows more profit as the cream can be sold separately. The best milk is of course Gold Top from Channel Island cows*, which is extra creamy. It’s almost yellow!
See, you can get something interesting from discussion about Gamertaint!
I can’t wait until we live in a world where someone can say, “This game is fun. Also, it would’ve been fun without all the stupid sexism. The sexism sucks.” I mean, we can already say, “This game’s stealth mechanics are fun. Also, the game’s story is hastily crapped out. The story sucks.” Genders are one element of the thing. Sarkeesian seems to do this pretty well, though she focuses on the oft-ignored gender part of the review. It’d be like if someone started a web series just reviewing the storytelling in games.
That said, Bayonetta always read to me more of a parody. But I’m a straight dude, so I’m hardly an authoritative word on it, 'cuz, y’know, dat ass.
And part of this conversation on sexism in games (that has been missing, even from the smarty-pants) is that Japan has a very different context for its misogyny than us here in the West. Race, too, though the publishers tend to be a little more careful about throwing that around. Japanese culture plays into the representation of women in gaming in subtle ways sometimes, and in some ways Japan still gets to define it.
But having this conversation and being conflicted > ignoring it > “hur hur bewbs,” so it’s a step in the right direction!
