You understand not only is he correct, he’s speaking a fundamental truth.

Which is in the video, for everyone to see. It was a problem of editing more than anything. If she said that and didn’t show that, that would be worse, right? She’s openly showing that aspect of the game and saying “and I’m not talking about just that” because there can be incentives beyond your level score. If it…

I vote for a gender flipped version of Kratos in a God of War adaptation. On the other hand, our health system is going to be overwhelmed by the collective aneurisms:P 

Right? Like, you were 13-25 then. Now you’re 30+ and you... haven’t had any sort of growth or change of opinions in that time? Yikes.

I remember when, for a long time, video game sites and social media outlets were the only way to know what was going on with Gamergate. Seeing what she went through was horrifying and the terrifying. The amount of harassment, threats and doxxing she was constantly bombarded with... It was actually shocking to see how…

She opened every Tropes vs. Women video with the same line:

I was following Feminist Frequency weekly/bi-weekly up until a few months ago. You could see the threads and workload starting to reach its peak. Kat Spada was brought in as co-host of the podcast last year and she’s been doing a lot of heavy lifting, so it should be able to keep going for a while.

idk 15 years is a great run, I’d consider this pretty successful

“There sure are a lot of games that feature damsels in distress...”

“KILL HER!!!”

My heart goes out to all The Gamers(tm) that are still trapped in their own personal 9/11s that her videos placed them in for the last 15 years.

The ideas where *so incredibly* basic, 100 course level, surface-skimming concepts that the fact The Gamers(tm) reacted the way they did still dumbfounds me when I think about it. I cannot think of a single thought experiment more harmless than any concept she discussed.

So, harassment and misogyny win the long fight. That’s depressing, but hardly unexpected... the ranks of bullies are legion and ever-renewing.

Eh, she was doing much more than that behind the scenes. She was constantly busy, and speaking about the systemic sexism and misogyny at every event that would have her AND fundraising.

It really says a lot about the world we’re living in that a woman doing a basic, surface-level feminist reading of video games became such a lightning rod. I haven’t engaged with everything she’s done, but I watched a few of the Tropes v. Women in Video Games videos and it was very mild and friendly. The way people…

I’ve never had the fanciest of TVs, so that’s likely part of the problem. Another issue is that the sizes of the stage elements are often smaller, period, relative to the whole field of play. You end up either with denser platform configurations or a whole lot of empty space. It’s downright confusing at times, even…

I get the sense that publishers stop caring about games once they can no longer be monetized. I wouldn’t be surprised if Activision has lost most of the source code and assets for their older licensed games.

They found what looked like a tape backup, but it turned out to be Laserbeak in disguise. (He was part of a deep cover mission to make Starscream look like an idiot...)

“combat" in most 2d platformers is barely more than giving you another platform to jump on

At the center of the dispute is a widely used voice clip of Fantano saying “it’s enough slices!” The clip originates in a 2021 TikTok that features Fantano reacting to a pizza being cut into increasingly smaller slices. Fantano looks on appreciatively for a while but the slicing just doesn’t stop, prompting him to…

We live in the stupidest timeline.