Imagine admitting to spending 300 hours of your life on a garbage game

What's it to you how other people enjoy their recreation?

And literally most things in life outside of work. What's your point?

I’m getting that way with Crafting Mechanics in general. Final Fantasy 16 was a big offender for me of “why the heck can’t this just be me buying/finding a better sword?”

Oh, what? I read the article and thought weirdos were like becoming obsessed with the video game’s version of Mary Jane and stalking her real life physical basis. I thought that was weird but I guess reality was weirder.

Gamers were a mistake.

Their whole shtick is that she’s “unattractive” which is completely bonkers, especially coming from stinky-ass Gamers, of all disgusting people.

How hard is it to just not be creepy? No one does things like this without knowing what they’re doing is creepy.

“Gamers Please Stop Being Weird Creepy Assholes Challenge” [Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE]

I used to work in the fitness industry and would regularly have photo and video shoots of the talent using our equipment.

• “How often are negative traits like betrayal, deceit and untrustworthiness applied to American characters vs foreigners?”
  
  *General Shepherd from MWII has entered the chat*

The article also seems to misconstrue a lot of the media it’s describing in order to make its point. It talks about “Tony Stark proudly standing in front of a backdrop that is immediately recognizable as the Middle East” as if that scene is supposed to make us feel positively about Stark and his casual attitude about…

You seem to be conceding Kalassynikoff’s point — that you were incorrect in suggesting there are video games where you kill Arabs solely because they are Arab. But you didn’t want to say so, so instead you made a little dig about Israel that I’m sure was a big hit in your college seminar.

We already had the right melt down over shooting American Nazis in Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. Isn’t that basically the same thing?

It’s great for games to have humanizing moments that add depth, and I certainly encourage that when it comes to Arab characters as well as others.

Oh come on. I am not a call of duty fan but nowhere does it say shoot the arab cause he is an arab. There are plenty of civilians you aren’t supposed to kill in those games. You are just trying to get a rise like using a bad clickbait headline.

i mean....Far Cry 5 was exactly that.

Yeah that is a dumb argument cause there are TONS of games where you shoot Americans. Payday series, that one Far Cry in middle cult America, Grand Theft Auto... it goes on and on. If anything the only real idea the author makes that is correct is we continue to portray every terrorist as Arab.

Ugh. I struggled reading this. I think the author is a talented writer, and I know she wrote with the best intentions.

But there’s a few problems, here.

First is the scope. The article paints this as a video game problem. But you could write the same article about any fictional media that is created to appeal to an…

One of the interviewees would “like to challenge anyone reading this to count the number of times they pressed a button to take the life of an Arab character, and compare it to the number of times a game invited you to sit down and eat with one instead. That ratio should scare you.”