Glad you prefaced this with "conservative", just like Polygon did. Nice attempt to shape the narrative right off the bat, especially considering folks reading this site are more likely to be socially liberal and therefor have a huge set of preconceived notions about her from the conservative label. Especially…
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Again, people fucking demanded that it be sold at this early stage.This was not something that just "came out". This was something they were working on that fans of the mod begged for access to, despite it being nowhere finished. As a company, are you going to turn down the opportunity to sell a game that there is a…
Nope, no. Fuck no. If the product is clearly labeled all over the fucking place, "THIS IS NOT A FINISHED GAME, THIS IS STILL A VERY EARLY BUILD!!!" set expectations accordingly, i.e. that the game won't be finished and may not be "fun" for a very long time.
Please, buy our console. Seriously though, we really need to move units and would really be grateful if you buy our console. We'll even give you a game for free, just buy it.
Glad I've been waiting!
Sure. I've found plenty of groups of folks across various forums/blogs/games that are filled with reasonable folk.
We're no worse than hardcore sports fans. We're no worse than hardcore comic fans. We're no worse than hardcore fans of various TV shows or movie series.
That's not why though. It's in response to all this latest bullshit surrounding Anita and Zoe and the horrible clusterfuck it spawned. Journalists are firmly in the Zoe/Anita camp rather trying to look at it from the outside, so while it's absolutely fucked up that those two are being harassed and all, journalists are…
The worst part is that this article isn't coming from some mainstream media joint, I could handle that idiocy...it's coming from a fucking gaming news site/blog. Somewhere where the writers are supposed to be fellow gamers.
Great real world comparison to this situation. You don't treat all football fans as terrible and call for them to abandon their identity because there is a rowdy group of assholes making a bad name for everyone else. Give them their own identity so that everyone else can continue to love theirs.
Note they're not talking about everyone who plays games, or who self-identifies as a "gamer", as being the worst. It's being used in these cases as short-hand, a catch-all term for the type of reactionary holdouts that feel so threatened by gaming's widening horizons. If you call yourself a "gamer" and are a cool…
Cool. As much as I like Valve/Steam, I'm all for more consumer rights in terms of digital goods.
Many of the "doxes" have strong evidence to show they're fake.
If you say so, whatever.
Her not playing the games she cites, especially despite claiming that the money was needed so she could play and record the games is a lie within itself. Remember, her Kickstarter asked for money to buy the games and recording equipment, and thus far I think just about all of the footage used is uncredited Lets Play…
Indeed. How many articles have there been from gaming journalists about the negative impact of the SJW crowd? That's my point in another comment on this article. Media covers one side only, which is painting a very incomplete picture of the broader picture.
Oh, I'm very well aware that this is her livelihood. She needs to reinforce her arguments so that she can continue to make money, backtracking and being reasonable doesn't do her any good.
My issue isn't that she makes casual mistakes. Casual mistakes are fine. It's the gross misrepresentations and massive lies that bother me. Saying that Hitman encourages players to murder innocent women and then drag around their bodies? Yeah, that's a flat out lie given the penalty for doing so and the fact that the…
1. No, I do not "take it back". I use that word to deride those who sit there writing on their Tumblrs about social justice and proclaiming that we all need to treat each other better and then launch twitter attacks on someone for saying something they perceive as bad (See the SJW attacks on Justin Timberlake for…