Posted June 29, 2015

dragonbeast
rusher
Registered: Jul 2009
From Belgium

Fever_Discordia
Don't Panic
Registered: Nov 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted June 29, 2015
low rated
I'm not saying it wasn't, I was referring to Shadowstalker comparing the two back here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gamergate_news_thread/post4218
That Gone Home is as leftist as that other game is rightist or whatever he was on about...
"Because then Gone Home and kill the f** are both ''your(ie enlightened man hating leftists)'' games because GH pushes a radical leftist agenda and the other pushes a radical rightist agenda, both being political."
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gamergate_news_thread/post4218
That Gone Home is as leftist as that other game is rightist or whatever he was on about...
"Because then Gone Home and kill the f** are both ''your(ie enlightened man hating leftists)'' games because GH pushes a radical leftist agenda and the other pushes a radical rightist agenda, both being political."
Post edited June 29, 2015 by Fever_Discordia

Shadowstalker16
Jaded optimist
Registered: Apr 2014
From India

RWarehall
Ja'loja!
Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015

Hells, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record, look who the OP of this thread is! go ask jefequeso if he thought he was pushing a radical leftist agenda when he made 'walking simulator' 'The Moon Silver'
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329830/
In regard to the second part, as I said, I suspect that they're taking the bait on purpose because the war has turned out to be profitable for them...
First off, which of these games have you actually played? This is important because you were arguing for weeks about the Witcher series and had played none of them nor read the books.
So these games...
1) Gone Home
2) Dear Esther
3) The Stanley Parable
4) Tales of Tales games
5) The Moon Sliver
Now, onto the subject of your post, I see you wish to "strawman" again. I don't see anyone here claiming that games without mechanics inherently are pushing a radical left agenda. Now, Gone Home itself does have elements that some might call leftist. Specifically, the entire theme that somehow because a teenage lesbian feels her parents are discriminating against her life choice, this somehow justifies stealing a bunch of items out of the house and running away. All seemingly to a fairy tale ending...

zavlin
New-ish User
Registered: Nov 2008
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015
low rated
I didnt like GH. I didnt like it because it was boring and its story-telling misses the mark for me.
But the claim that its "leftist" in any way shape or form because it portrays a gay relationship, is mind boggling and sad.
But the claim that its "leftist" in any way shape or form because it portrays a gay relationship, is mind boggling and sad.

Shadowstalker16
Jaded optimist
Registered: Apr 2014
From India
Posted June 29, 2015
I was the one who said it was leftist, and I say it again; it was a mistake on my part.

RWarehall
Ja'loja!
Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015
By media depiction, gay rights and marijuana legalization are concepts of the left, like it or not. Probably because Christian fundamentalism is right-wing. By the same token, these primitive depictions of "left" and "right" are rather silly. By that token, with "patriarchy" and "misogyny" and "third-wave feminism" on the left, they seem to paint every white male as right-wing...

Fever_Discordia
Don't Panic
Registered: Nov 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted June 29, 2015
low rated

Hells, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record, look who the OP of this thread is! go ask jefequeso if he thought he was pushing a radical leftist agenda when he made 'walking simulator' 'The Moon Silver'
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329830/
In regard to the second part, as I said, I suspect that they're taking the bait on purpose because the war has turned out to be profitable for them...

1) Gone Home
2) Dear Esther
3) The Stanley Parable
4) Tales of Tales games
5) The Moon Sliver

RWarehall
Ja'loja!
Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015

1) Gone Home
2) Dear Esther
3) The Stanley Parable
4) Tales of Tales games
5) The Moon Sliver

Even the three "so-called" puzzles are revealed almost immediately after you encounter them following the same protocol. If there were any real "house hunting" at all, I don't think Gone Home would've had as bad a rap as it gets for being a "non-game". In retrospect, I guess there was a first puzzle I forgot about, which is the "find the key" puzzle. If the rest of the game would have had any more of that, instead of endlessly clicking and reading pieces of paper, the game would likely have been better received.
Again, it's strange how you seem to pick fights over details of games you have not played...

HiPhish
New User
Registered: Oct 2010
From Germany
Posted June 29, 2015

Children's author denounces trigger warnings and emotionally unstable people who need them. Ban Gone with the Wind; some people say. Grow up I say! If maintaining emotional equilibrium requires other people and art to jump through hoops for you, just shut off the world and live alone. It'll be better for everyone.

RWarehall
Ja'loja!
Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015
What bothers me is the way these Social Justice Freaks will even attack art/games/movies whose morality aligns with their cause. For example, the Witcher series has always said a lot about prejudice by example, yet the SJW crew then attack the words used in the examples! Has anyone ever seen the movie Shallow Hal? The whole point of the movie is to not judge people based on weight, but I'm sure most SJWs are offended because it contains "fat jokes" to prove that point. Just strangely ironic and hypocritical...

LeonardoCornejo
Magic researcher
Registered: Jan 2013
From Mexico
Posted June 29, 2015
high rated

Children's author denounces trigger warnings and emotionally unstable people who need them. Ban Gone with the Wind; some people say. Grow up I say! If maintaining emotional equilibrium requires other people and art to jump through hoops for you, just shut off the world and live alone. It'll be better for everyone.


zavlin
New-ish User
Registered: Nov 2008
From United States
Posted June 29, 2015
low rated

Itd be like if every piece of media where there was a hetero relationship was automatically interpreted as being a political statement. Its just sad.
For "the right" just saying "gay people exist and theyr people too" is a controversial political statement. To me, thats poison against the culture of what right wing politics *should* be.

Emob78
jack and coke plz
Registered: Dec 2012
From United States
Posted June 30, 2015
high rated


Itd be like if every piece of media where there was a hetero relationship was automatically interpreted as being a political statement. Its just sad.
For "the right" just saying "gay people exist and theyr people too" is a controversial political statement. To me, thats poison against the culture of what right wing politics *should* be.
Social concepts and relationships (especially in games) have become a battleground because a handful of demagogs and fifth columns have shoved those questions into the public conscience. It would be like going back in time 10,000 years and asking a cave man to question the morality of stabbing a deer to feed his family. Had that question been asked and answered, the human race probably wouldn't be here right now. Same goes for modern social issues. We're arguing over the placement of deck chairs on the Titanic, while at the same time denying the existence of icebergs.

HiPhish
New User
Registered: Oct 2010
From Germany
Posted June 30, 2015


With that said, I believe a good chunk of Tumblr SJWs are just trolls make absurd stuff up. On the internet anyone can be anything. But then you have things like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XuwM844bY
No joke, I wanted to skip gym today, have a lazy day and go there tomorrow. So I went browsing random nonsense, came across this video, and decided to pack my stuff and go to the gym today. I guess this is natural selection at work, people like her will not live for long. For all we know she might have already been dead on the stage, but the death hasn't yet worked its way up to the brain yet from all the body mass.