Totilo passes fewer moral judgements, and is generally better informed on the subjects. Anita tweeted just yesterday that the Fallout Shelter game was sexist because pregnant female characters are programmed to flee from fires and raiders instead of grabbing weapons and getting their hands dirty alongside male…

But Roger Ebert tended to review films for what they were and what they aspired to be, rather than comparing them to things that aren’t even in the same genre. It’s idiotic to knock a Fast and Furious movie for being car-obsessed, as much as it is to call attention to gender roles in a Mario game, as much as it is to…

Lack of diversity from the bottom up has done a hell of a lot more damage to very real people than the perceived hammer that is coming down on “neckbeards”.

Now if only that advice could rub off on Sam Biddle...

If you go to a place like /r/KotakuInAction, the unofficial official home of Gamergate on reddit, it’s nothing but hatred and bile and smear pieces.

It makes me wonder if he’s played a Batman game before. Every character who isn’t Bruce Wayne is marginalized, and most aren’t priviliged enough to have Batman devoting an entire game to protecting them above everyone else.

Yes, her death was irrelevant to the piece at hand, the fact that he talked about it in the piece is just an accident. Evan probably has no idea how it wound up in the article, because he certainly didn’t mean to include it and publish it to be read, discussed, and analyzed by the public. Technical snafus happen.

Azrael’s intentions weren’t to kill him. That was the Order’s programming... which, in my playthrough, Azrael fights off and disobeys.

Well, you probably shouldn’t recollect things off the top of your head. Nightwing is rescued by Batman in Arkham Knight. Azrael spends most of the game befriending batman as part of his secret plot to kill him. Lucius Fox gets kidnapped by Hush. And Alfred doesn’t get kidnapped in the games, although he was kidnapped…

In the case of male NPCs, they exist more as a game mechanic than a plot device. They’re just extra collectibles to give you extra acheivement points and XP, the male kidnapping victims don’t have backstories, personalities, or characterization of their own. The game has paramedics and cops getting kidnapped and…

No, it’s entirely relevant. Your main defence of Evan is that his impromptu writeup is no different from the weekly episodic reaction we hear from our idiot coworkers. When that’s actually the biggest issue. We hold different expectations between our dumb friends and professional writers. We also don’t expect people…

No. You can. People’s time is finite. And given the abundance of streaming media and games available, it’s no shock that we find ourselves all reaching different spots in the story at different points. Especially since not everybody is playing/watching the same thing at the same time.

You assume he has time to sit down and finish playing immediately. Perhaps he will only have 10 minutes every day to sit down with it. Perhaps he can’t get to it due to family/ real life.

The fact that he’s aware of how likely he is to be wrong is probably the worst part. The article isn’t a good preview, it’s not a retrospective, it’s not a review, it’s literally the stuff you jot down on a notepad and then throw away once you have enough information to write a complete piece.

Believe it or not, strong and intelligent characters can and often do get thrown into dangerous situations as a way to highlight the massive nature of the threat. Which is why Batman and/or Robin have been depicted as a tied-up hostages on the cover of a hundred comics. Readers care about them, so the stakes instantly…

Speaking of hostages, do you remember how many male civilian NPCs Batman has to rescue over the course of the Arkham trilogy?

Virtually every male character in the Arkham games either gets rescued by Batman at some point or is a villain.

You’ve never stopped watching a TV show, given up on a comic book series, or skipped out on a film’s sequels because you didn’t like how it started?

Actually, google’s a pretty great way to find articles, even if it’s not as thorough as some academic databases. That said, what are the problems you see in the studies I posted? Impact factor is just one attribute determining a journal’s quality, dismissing them simply because they didn’t get cited enough times is…

Inconsistent enforcement is a problem, you are correct. Although it’s separate from the larger debate about the merit of dress codes.