Star Wars Battlefront was gorgeous, and that game still isn’t worth the hard drive space.

It’s not a strawman at all. The entire premise of this fiction you guys are spinning is that the general populace is going to be negatively affected by another form of violence in entertainment media, which within the research is roundly defunct.

No, my argument is that it’s fucking ludicrous to generalize experiences based on personal anecdote.

Gonna call bullshit on that one. If the masses can differentiate all the other violence in games media and not come away with a negative behavior change, as the bulk of research in the area suggests, why on earth would you make the jump now that it’s a different form of violence.

“video games aren’t real, get over it.”

That’s your personal experience generalized to everyone. It’s always a terrible argument. N=1 is not an adequate reason to advocate changing anything in entertainment media.

N=1 applied to potential general experience is ALWAYS a terrible argument.

/v & Twitter are not /pol.

“I love the idea of “leak marketing”. It seems like a fun way to include the gaming community in the process making them feel all ick about it.”

Let me guess this straight. You honestly believe they simply asked her politely?

Lolk. You tell yourself that.

Nosureifsrs.

These game makers have every right to tell their stories.

I’m gobsmacked that you just tried to legitimize Iran forcing a female foreign citizen/sailor to wear a head cover.

The presumption in your post that the boats in question where violating innocent passage is ludicrous, and certainly tin-foil hat.

Easy answer, people who buy games do not pirate them. People who pirate games, never buy them.

Gotta agree with herogear... Dragon Age has about as much nuance as Trump ranting about how he’s going to prevent Muslims from entering the country.

“But it will do something useful if it can help a few gamers see them as a little more fully human and complex.”

“There was, of course, always Princess Leia; tough and able to fend for herself, she was hardly a damsel in distress, but she was ultimately a passive player subject to the larger forces that defined the Star Wars universe.”

Chris “I’m going to mention that members of my former team molested a teen but I didn’t do anything to stop it and I still won’t actually do anything about it, like name names or contact police authorities” Kluwe.

Yeah, he’s a real fucking gem.