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Rusty_Gunn: I may be missing something, but why is it "article" worthy? choosing the sex of the Player Char is not a new thing
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YaTEdiGo: The thing is that is IRRELEVANT.

Why every single game should give these options to the players? Some people have serious empathy problems to be a man and play as a woman? be a woman and play as a man?

Using videogames as a way to find the REAL YOU, is in my opinion, far from being a healthy resolution. No wonders people that believe this is good can have such big problems with pixelated representations.
You know, I think it could help coping with self steem issues (as all forms of roleplaying do) However one must remember that the game is not real.
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YaTEdiGo: The thing is that is IRRELEVANT.

Why every single game should give these options to the players? Some people have serious empathy problems to be a man and play as a woman? be a woman and play as a man?

Using videogames as a way to find the REAL YOU, is in my opinion, far from being a healthy resolution. No wonders people that believe this is good can have such big problems with pixelated representations.
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LeonardoCornejo: You know, I think it could help coping with self steem issues (as all forms of roleplaying do) However one must remember that the game is not real.
Mind that "radical constructivism" is one of the most dominant philosophical currents of our time and therefore people making up their own reality and seeing only this one as truth has become quite normal. People like Paul Watzlawick are to blame for this since they made it popular outside of philosophical circles too which wasn't hard since it justifies/stabilizes a very convenient belief system.
Transgender and constructivism go hand in hand.
Post edited February 23, 2016 by Klumpen0815
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Rusty_Gunn: I may be missing something, but why is it "article" worthy? choosing the sex of the Player Char is not a new thing
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YaTEdiGo: The thing is that is IRRELEVANT.

Why every single game should give these options to the players? Some people have serious empathy problems to be a man and play as a woman? be a woman and play as a man?

Using videogames as a way to find the REAL YOU, is in my opinion, far from being a healthy resolution. No wonders people that believe this is good can have such big problems with pixelated representations.
So... you're saying that having options in video games is a bad thing? Am I hearing that right?

Leave it to someone from Japan to confuse the ever-loving shit out of me.
For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the Fire Emblem Fates censorship thing or looking for more information; this is a really great article. Please read it : https://supernerdland.com/fire-emblem-fates-poor-localization-systemic-of-growing-issues/
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YaTEdiGo: The thing is that is IRRELEVANT.

Why every single game should give these options to the players? Some people have serious empathy problems to be a man and play as a woman? be a woman and play as a man?

Using videogames as a way to find the REAL YOU, is in my opinion, far from being a healthy resolution. No wonders people that believe this is good can have such big problems with pixelated representations.
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Emob78: So... you're saying that having options in video games is a bad thing? Am I hearing that right?

Leave it to someone from Japan to confuse the ever-loving shit out of me.
Creativity is about not only add, but to cut. Creators must have the freedom to add or not options in the game, depending on what fits better their artistic vision.

I choose girls tons of times even in games as Baldurs Gate, where I cannot precisely be accused of looking her butt, but still I think is the creator decision, it must not be a MUST option.

Examples: GOTHIC

Gothic is an ¨only pennises¨ prison, where women have almost non appearance, and in some way brings a very realistic atmosphere to a game that takes place, in a prison... I disliked so much the fact that you need to cope with this guy I didnt even liked as a man character from the very beginning of the game, to discover later that the game is simply GREAT, and the character gender and the general man atmosphere fits perfectly the universe.

In the other side, STARWARS BATTLEFRONT

I am sorry to say that I seeing women and several races Stormtroopers just because people in PC America are fans of the EMPIRE too (Because now STARWARS is a thing for everyone... and should be SOFT so being the F... EMPIRE must be also INCLUSIVE xDDDD), so even if Finn is one of the few things that are cool in that crap named The Force Awakens... even if the Clones were all ¨latin¨ in some way, I am sorry, but every time I see asians, blacks and women being fascists soldiers in STARWARS it destroys my suspension of disbelief ... they should be in the other side, exaggerated and crowding the side of the REBELLION, because come on! those are the good guys! with Grand Moth Momma elected as a leader and not an old creepy Emperor...

I cannot be accused to not like GIRLS in games, as I loved CATE ARCHER when nobody else paid attention to her, or Faith in Mirrors Edge, or played LIFE IS STRANGE as one of my favorite games recently. But all those women make SENSE. I should ruin NO ONE LIVES FOREVER with a MALE character just to having the option? Make the developers trick the story for both mediocre characters instead of work in a great one like Archer?
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YaTEdiGo: The thing is that is IRRELEVANT.

Why every single game should give these options to the players? Some people have serious empathy problems to be a man and play as a woman? be a woman and play as a man?

Using videogames as a way to find the REAL YOU, is in my opinion, far from being a healthy resolution. No wonders people that believe this is good can have such big problems with pixelated representations.
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LeonardoCornejo: You know, I think it could help coping with self steem issues (as all forms of roleplaying do) However one must remember that the game is not real.
Well yes, measure is always a good thing. And escape from reality from time to time, it is also a healthy thing.
TJ on his growing conservative audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjndBbLDZc
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Shadowstalker16: TJ on his growing conservative audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjndBbLDZc
Who's TJ?

(I don't watch videos that aren't of video games.)
And this is what SJW and radicals are achieving...

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/noam-chomsky-we-owe-rise-trump-fear-and-breakdown-society

Of course with the help of the other side, as I said, a Sarkesian would always create a Nero.

GOOD JOB
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Shadowstalker16: TJ on his growing conservative audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjndBbLDZc
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dtgreene: Who's TJ?

(I don't watch videos that aren't of video games.)
Don't know this guy either but the video is mostly telling about how modern authoritarians are bringing liberals and conservatives together in our time and how "nuance" is dead mostly in favor of easily digestible information of "friend or foe". I don't like his way of speaking but the content is actually quite interesting.
I never knew the full story about the woman who sued McDonalds for the coffee burns before.

I aggree that platforms like twitter are an important part of the problem since it doesn't allow nuanced and complete information due to the length restriction and that it fits the need for conveniently short bursts of information that is only used for confirming an already existing opinion.
He is explaining this by using statements from himself as a past (bad) example which is quite rare these days where most people need to sell themselves as perfect in order to get any credit.

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YaTEdiGo: And this is what SJW and radicals are achieving...

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/noam-chomsky-we-owe-rise-trump-fear-and-breakdown-society

Of course with the help of the other side, as I said, a Sarkesian would always create a Nero.
It's the same with the radical anti-nationalists in Germany which have supported the nationalists more than anybody else could in this whole immigration mess by turning a blind eye to a lot of things and by this creating the "evidence" their opposition always looked for. I don't like either side and am happy that special shelters for the gay refugees are built in several cities to protect them from the pseudo refugees.

The overall inability to disagree without antagonizing someone is leading to closed threads even on GoG ffs.
Post edited February 25, 2016 by Klumpen0815
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YaTEdiGo: And this is what SJW and radicals are achieving...

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/noam-chomsky-we-owe-rise-trump-fear-and-breakdown-society

Of course with the help of the other side, as I said, a Sarkesian would always create a Nero.

GOOD JOB
Trump vs Clinton. Populares vs Optimates. This two-sided coin has been rolling around for 2000 years. Same old shit. The extremes of left and right are nearly identical. The only real difference they have is the way in which their version of authoritarianism shall play out. The debates and the election itself are a dog and pony show for the water-heads and mouth breathers to enjoy.
Exactly.

Me and Emob78 are a good example of two people from usually opposing sides which are actually in agreement when it comes to authoritarians from either side of which one side often is wrongly refered to as "social justice warriors", although I've encountered quite authoritarian/intelorant traits in him too. In spite of all the trouble I had with him, I'd take him over someone that is more aligned with my opinions but tries to force them onto everyone else, believe it or not.
Post edited February 25, 2016 by Klumpen0815
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YaTEdiGo: And this is what SJW and radicals are achieving...

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/noam-chomsky-we-owe-rise-trump-fear-and-breakdown-society

Of course with the help of the other side, as I said, a Sarkesian would always create a Nero.

GOOD JOB
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Emob78: Trump vs Clinton. Populares vs Optimates. This two-sided coin has been rolling around for 2000 years. Same old shit. The extremes of left and right are nearly identical. The only real difference they have is the way in which their version of authoritarianism shall play out. The debates and the election itself are a dog and pony show for the water-heads and mouth breathers to enjoy.
Yes you are right, and it was always dangerous, but as you also pointed, is pure CIRCUS much part of the time, to entertain us.

And just checking about him, I always admired his ideas, about twisting Science and Language to build your "own vision".

http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/01/03/post-modern-absurdities-chomsky-post-structuralism-science/

Ironic in the other side that some also tried to use this Chomsky words as a criticism towards feminism, when he said not a fucking single word about it during the clip.
Post edited February 25, 2016 by YaTEdiGo
Will I be able to play as a man in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (2)? Anyone know? Anita?
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Shadowstalker16: TJ on his growing conservative audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjndBbLDZc
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dtgreene: Who's TJ?

(I don't watch videos that aren't of video games.)
He's the Amazing Atheist. Probably the biggest atheist / skeptic channel on youtube and I think he's been uploading since 2008. He has like 800K subs. He hosts the Drunken Peasants podcast and is a person who wants to call out extremism from both right and left leaning people.
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timppu: Will I be able to play as a man in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (2)? Anyone know? Anita?
Nein.
Post edited February 25, 2016 by Shadowstalker16