You had me for a minute with that - for the title and a few sentences in, I thought maybe this Arch dude was a reasonable guy who was just respectfully disagreeing with, and protesting against the decisions of CA. Then I read the bit about SJW’s, which is just an immediate red flag for pissboys and triggerbros. The…

This Arch Warhammer guy does seem to be quite a Knobhead.

“Arch Warhammer is a dickhead. Goodbye.”

“Total War Community Manager Correctly Calls Youtuber a “Dickhead” on Final Live Stream”

You’re right. The space stuff with the Starjammers and the Kree vs Shiar was good.

Blame Ike Perlmutter.

That is such a good miniseries. It's so disappointing how much that show fucked them. Now we'll probably never see those characters on screen.

This has been my case for years, almost all of his most popular work was adapting other people’s shit.

Yeah I can see that. Disney buying Fox would be the best thing for the X-Men then.

The 1998 Inhumans miniseries by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee is fantastic. I never read or cared about the characters beforehand, but it made them compelling and gave enough context about their history to understand the story. It mostly keeps them separate from the Marvel universe, and actually tells a complete story…

To be clear, I completely agree with your take. The Inhumans always felt like knockoff mutants with the serial number filed off. The relatable parables of racism and the feelings of being the ‘other’ were replaced by nonsense royal melodrama. Outside of a couple of exceptions, like Karnak and (if you count her) Ms…

My view on adaptation is that while you aren’t required to adapt the text verbatim, you should have an appreciation of the text that shows you understand it.

Alan Moore created Watchmen as a work for hire for DC Comics and he can read and understand contracts. (It’s also made him rich enough that he and his beard can do whatever they want for the rest of their lives, including no longer create comics, which he recently announced was his new career direction.)

Nearly all of…

Completely agree. I’m a long time gamer, I’m a woman, and I’m a social science researcher, so I have some... thoughts... about this kind of study.

From personal experience and knowing a great many cis-male gamers, I’d say it does.
Especially for the type of cis-male gamers who’s had very few real life interactions with real women.
They tend to judge women based on stereotypes from video games, and likewise judge women’s bodies based on what they’re presented with…

This is actually exactly what I was thinking of - how porn tends to rewire the brain and lead to unrealistic expectations in regards to a partner’s appearance (among other things).

I didn’t think that the discussion about sexualisation in video game was about womens self image. I don’t know any woman who likes video games who longs for looking like a pre-teen looking dragon girl who is secretly 1000 years old or having breasts so big that they take up the vast majority of their body.

I thought it…

I’ve always found this topic to be interesting — I’m a man with some sever body issues around weight and general fitness. Most of the male characters in video games are just as ridiculously idealized as women in games are, and I don’t recall ever feeling worse about myself for playing as those types of characters. I’m…

I would be curious to see an off-shoot of this study that attempts to measure how the sexualization of female characters impacts the cis-male gamer. Does looking at and playing as overly sexualized females change how real-life women are viewed?

I have a friend who constantly decry the fight against sexualizing women in video games as “censorship”, he argues that art should not be censored.
Also throw in the whole “look! Kratos is ripped and barechested too! OMG double standards”