*facepalm*

Anita Sarkeesian didn't attack anything or any one. All she did was not put out a totally positive shill review. Instead, she focused on critiquing games from a certain perspective. This is a standard thing to do in reviewing. That some gamers then decided to prove all the nasty stereotypes true is enormously embarrassing for gamers everywhere.

The stuff Sarkeesian says is nothing compared to what you hear in other entertainment fields. Somehow readers and moviegoers manage to all get along despite disagreeing violently over which books/movies are the best, or even what constitutes a book/movie!

Are we all so used to fluff-piece paid-for reviews that we can't tolerate any actual critique?

Are you so used to cherry picked out of context examples shown as proof of intention from the devs that they want their customers to hate women? You make a claim, you have to support it with proof.

IMHO from a perspective that doesn't understand the medium (not just games, shows, songs or construction sets)

Sure, like it's not an issue to get a "perverse pleasure" from dragging a needlessly dead body around

"Actual critique" & "Anita Sarkeesian" IMHO don't fit together. Sorry, I've seen to many of her videos

Have you been paying attention to her videos? While at times she may hit upon a valid point, many of her arguments are based on assumptions and are willfully deceptive. One of my favorite examples that I mentioned recently is her video on women as background decoration. In regards to how women are treated as disposable objects, she claims, "Their status as disposable objects is reinforced by the fact that in most games discarded bodies will simply vanish into thin air a short time after being killed."

She does not take the time to acknowledge that games, especially older ones, often have memory limitations and cannot support a large pile of dead bodies on the floor. She also does not seem to mention that in her example clip, Godfather II, men also disappear after being killed. She makes the assumption that men enjoy and are meant to derive perverse pleasure from desecrating female bodies and that players often cannot even help themselves from partaking in such acts.

Personally, I would consider this an attack on gaming. None of this has any basis in reality. She provides no sources to back up her assumption that men are compelled to kill virtual women and derive perverse pleasure from it. She also misrepresents how the game is designed by claiming a feature meant to free resources for better performance is something more sinister and a result of misogynistic attitudes. She appears to be doing everything possible to paint the industry and gamers as negatively as possible.

I welcome actual critique, but it certainly will not be found from Sarkeesian and friends.

Edit: Oops, looking back up I see that Rusty gave a similar example. Sorry for being repetitive x.x

She was critiquing video games before her Kickstarter came into existence, although to be fair they were lower on her priority list compared to film and television. She previously had a video up regarding Bayonetta as far back as 2010 but it was removed by her once others pointed out she never played the game and referred to Bayonetta as a single mother. She also has a 2010 "Too Many Dicks" montage video about games. Thus, during the campaign, it was fairly easy to see how she would be approaching the medium before she released her first KS video.

First... I am never sure what intersectional means. I see the contexts it is applied in, but I just take it literally as meaning some larger thing where smaller things overlap as in a Venn diagram. Hence I'm sure whatever meaning you expect it to carry is not arriving, and I am left wonderign if I should ask, or carry on... because it does not really seem to matter? I think I understand your broader point...

So, what you posted to Kurina is true about me to a large extent: I do not consider the political implications of entertainment media important. Note I say the political is relatively un - important, not that it's absolutely lacking... But I digress...

The values I see as important in participating of GOG have to do with different aspects of the hobby. My interest in the GG phenomena is mainly as an anti anti GG so to speak - by which I mean my defnition of anti GG = SJW, not the anti harassment ideal / propaganda that anti GG images itself as. And the issues I see in gaming journalism are echoes of much more serious issues in journalism more broadly.

In that sense, I suspect limiting myself to SJW and their influences on games / movies / books (journalism or not) is still too limiting. The areas I see SJW activism doing most damage to society are at the roots of cultural products, not in the branches of cultural media themselves: I mean stuff like education / indoctrination. And more directly political topics involving totalitarian impulses... but again, I digress.

That said, I will try to find examples in the areas you suggest as a courtesy (it should also help lower the stakes) and I suggest we move to PM - if nothing else because I selfishly would rather we have a long polite dialogue than see you become eventually aggravated by what I expect will be the usual pile on you suffer - regardless of how tactful you are, and sometimes you are not so much...

So, on books/movies/games, A few points and you can reply here or via PM as I suggest as you wish.

1 - what should I understand from your dropping the boardgame related topics? No interest? No knowledge? Agreement they showcase unwarranted activism?
2 - on the Brad Wardell topic, what do you mean about him not getting your vote? What I thought we were discussing was how and if the SJW driven "engagement" with Wardell was merited by the actual facts of the sexual harassment lawsuit. If you need me to detail what I mean by that I have no issue offering clarification. I find your mention of express firing curious for example, because if we are thinking of the same circunstances the employee at issue quit, without even giving notice, and allegedly destroying marketing assets on the way out - at least that's my recollection.
3 - inspired by something idle ;) I can suggest two more topics: the critical reception to Dragon's Dogma and to the Division and how they are driven by SJ perspectives.

Your move.

PS: how appropriately ludic huh? :)

Indeed. Even fairly recent 2012 games do this and you can often change the game engine's behavior to see the effect more clearly. Example for Dishonored (Unreal Engine 3):-

Edit DishonoredAI.ini, and change m_CorpseAbsoluteMaximumCount=10 to 100 and m_CorpseIdealMaximumCount=5 to 50 to eliminate the "disappearing body" effect (which as you say increases memory requirements). Alternatively, reduce the figures to 1 or 0 to have all corpses vanish instantly (considered a cheat). One example of many.

I dare-say half the people rushing to the tabloids complaining about many frivolous 'OMG this is women hate' "examples" she takes wildly out of context even play games, let alone are genuinely interested in understanding how game engines work. Or even defusing tensions. They have their easy labelled enemy, attacking that label serves as excellent "clickbait", that in turn increases interest in $20,000 per time public speaking fees and as long as that 'easy money' gravy-train continues, that's what they'll keep playing on, facts be damned...

It is not a safe space. W downvote things as someone frowns its face in disgust. We still reply and bring a valid objection.

And that is something I have pointed out before. I noticed some of my posts, specially those in which I pointed certain personal interests or made clear that certain fandoms mentioned were wrongfully seen as on the SJW side, have been downvoted into oblivion, and I do not object that. I just requested that whoever downvoted me made sure to reply explaining why it disagrees with me or check if someone else did. Otherwise the downvote is invalid.

An American who doesn't understand how free speech works? This is unheard of.

It's sad to see. The US is the last bastion of free speech, but so many of its citizens would see that fundamental liberty revoked in order to spare their feelings.

agreed, It makes it tempting to say " You don't want freedom of speech? Then kindly shut up!" to these Anti-1st amendmenters

I am sorry but what you say is a blatant LIE the same way Sarkesian lies, she doesnt love games. She never does, actually is very easy to read how disgusting is game culture for her, and how much she pretend to like the games that are supposed to be in her "line", if tomorrow all games turn out to be "inclusive or feminist" she would find something wrong on them to continue to fill her pocket.

You'd be surprised. There's a great many Americans that think the Bill of Rights is what Cosby says to you before he drops a mickey in your drink.

*yes, that's my joke. You can use it if you want, but please give me some credit for coming up with it*

Quick post since exams are coming and I don't have time to post anything big : https://twitter.com/netscape9/status/719756681962332160

TL;DR ghazi is reinstating a moderator who doxxed a guy. Evidence inside.

Do you perhaps links for that? I'd be very curious to look at an example. What I've seen/heard happening on some US campuses is horrifying so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple of examples. This whole safe space debacle is crazy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92rOsjyLBs <- pretty much the extent of what I've heard.

Luckily I'm not aware of such nonsense going on over here on our campuses. Well, not the same kind of nonsense anyway. We've had some widespread riots, fisticuffs and burnings (buildings, books and art) but under other banners : Rhodes must fall; Insourcing/Outsourcing/Language policy (against afrikaans)
That's horrifying :-|
Do you perhaps have some info on that first article - title&authors or perhaps a link?