err, you might not have experience with people who believe that chem trails are a Real Thing, but they're still definitely idiots

Fair enough.

I'm not sure I understand. So Ken Wantabe's character isn't racist because he's always being cast in effectively racist roles and this film is a cartoonish parody of that?

1) use an overdone joke format

wow shit, Mojara's Mask is underrated? who doesn't like it besides the brain damaged and sociopathic? It's basically one of the best games ever made. Anyone who hasn't played it has experienced a cultural deficiency bordering on human rights abuse. Okay maybe I like this game a little more than most.

Your point that people scrutinise women protags more isn't wrong, but I'd suggest it's less overt sexism against women in games and more a reaction to how badly they tend to be written, or marginalised, or exist purely as a plot device, etc. People are understandably bored of replaying these tropes.

You know. The enemies appear to be HD redoes of the OOT-era designs. I'm a little in love

I'm sticking with my previous argument that it's because people expect it from Mortal Kombat. It's an ultraviolent campfest that lives in a world somewhere between cheesy old kung fu films and Heavy Metal. Although I do kind of appreciate that the new game seems to be straying away from the swimsuit bondage party…

that's why i used "comparatively". There have been plenty of hammy characters but they were usually based on gangster stereotypes from movies. Boob nuns are a bit west even for Absolution.

It's a context thing again. Resident Evil and Dead Space are supposed to be gore-lead horror games. And Resident Evil 4 had Ada Wong who got her lion's share of nasty murders. Don't think anyone had a problem with it there.

because a woman who hates men could do the same? It's not necessarily what the game is designed to do, although the MK setting plays itself unconditionally exploitative and is proud of it. Whereas the sexy murder nuns are an exploitative selling edge in a game that made no sense to have them. That were also shitty…

I would presuppose that a lot of those people would have either written off Mortal Kombat for what it was already- or, like I do, enjoy the game for doing exactly what it does without remorse. Hitman's nuns were designed to sell a trailer. It's the difference between using a hot lady to sell a car, and using a hot…

all art forms need their small pocket of brutalised hypergore. Artistic mediums seem to me to be very much about invoking (sometimes complicated) emotions in safe environments. Just so long as it doesn't become facetious or a standard of design, then its very much a fun thing to engage with once in awhile

The implication is somewhat different when one is in a world where everyone is scantily clad, sexualised and can be brutally murdered with equal share and the other is a really out-of-character series of boob nuns in a world that has otherwise tackled comparatively down-to-earth characters.

I know nobody's banning anything. I just find the game/not game debate to be as empty as the whether things are art or not debate. At best, its a pointless way to write off new ideas.

can we have a debate on why that debate doesn't need to happen?

screw all the game of thrones jokes, David O'Reilly is

it's depressing that people have paid jobs in journalism while being completely incapable of even basic research

"Assassin's Creed is developed by a multicultural team of various faiths and beliefs and..." is an interestingly brand centric version of the old "I'm not racist but..."

you know, if Nintendo went third party and just produced their fantastic games for xbox or sony instead of expecting me to shell out for a machine of theirs which, outside of their games, is mostly just a bunch of bad ports- I'd be quite happy with that