Yeah, I’m confused with the responses to this as it seems Heather is simply pointing out a moment that is potentially homophobic or transphobic and her disappointment with it. Those forms of prejudice aren’t Western, they’re universal.

This taps into another issue, though: if you tally up every trans-LIKE character who appears in a game, versus characters explicitly described as trans, you’ll probably end up with far, far more of the first kind. It’s kind of embarassing how many games like Persona and Ace Attorney will have a character who’s been in…

And now 10,000 comments about different cultures not being hung up on gender like the americans are as if the issues trans folks face is unique to the states.

Maaan, this is the least interesting route they could have gone down, story-wise. I thought John Marston was a great character, but I’m not interested in the slightest in seeing what he was doing before the events of the first game.

Not everyone aesthestic sense will be the same as yours. She looks dashing and elegant while dangerous. Its a powerful puppet like design balancing strength and frailty.

not even kinda funny, tbh.

doesn’t seem like a very funny guy to me.

How soon before he and JonTron are running Breitbart’s Gaming section?

When you play the game, he has a charming personality. I’m not thirsty for fictional characters myself, but I see the appeal of a relentlessly positive and chipper dude with a shiny smile and an eight pack.

I’m hesitant to classify this as hesitant and pathetic. These are just internet memes, not necessarily indicative of real world behavior.

Well, I think it’s pretty simple — they think he’s attractive and they enjoy his relentless positivity & kindness.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to drop a no true Scotsman fallacy and the term SJW. Thanks for giving me a 2 for 1. You can keep your head in the sand, it doesn’t change the fact that gaming has a massive, overwhelming problem with sexism, misogyny and sexual violence. I know the excuse for…

You ignored the part where he tried to rape a child. You saw the article and thought, “how can I defend this wannabe child rapist?”

So, when does the girl start getting rape and death threats? This the gaming community after all. Then after a concerted harrasment campaign, they can all claim it’s “just some shitlords” and gaming can go back to ignoring it’s massive misogyny and sexual violence problem.

The ol Biff Tannen playbook

Quite the leap of logic there. You enjoy playing games competitively? You’re a rapist!

Glad to see that they’re not going all “boys club” and trying to ignore or defend these actions. It’s far too common that these sorts of problems pop up and everyone just wants to sweep it under the rug.

I don’t think their point is “this was 100% better in the good old days”. Their sense is that in the last few years they feel that anime and such has gotten a bit stagnant and perhaps the same sort of stories are oversaturated. Most of it stars teenagers, and the lack of relatable adult protagonists has gotta…

I tend to be instantly turned off by the “things used to be better” track of logic, but the creators here shore up their reasoning with arguments that go beyond nostalgia, and the line of thought serves more as a supplement to the core, which seems like an interestingly constructed and presented game. I’ll be…

A lot of things that a lot of people pay others to do are things they could probably do themselves, but for lots of reasons they’d rather not. It’s probably an issue of time, for most people.

I can change my own oil, but not as efficiently as a shop, and I’d rather pay the money for someone else to do it. On the other…