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Just Chamber posted:I dont. And every situation is different. And obviously I'm thinking of things with more of a hope that there was a better way to handle things that this, and maybe there wasn't? This is what you're not getting man. It literally always like this. Vic, Soule, people know they're abusers of some stripe every single time and it gets swept under the rug. Sometimes for decades! Just look at how it was an open secret with Vic. Power protects power, and power ESPECIALLY protects male power. There. Is. No. Other. Way.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2019 03:51 |
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Chomp8645 posted:lol i knew posting in here was a bad idea Chomp8645 posted:I flat out don't believe this. Not unless you were doing something to illicit it. loving yikes dude. I agree, posting in here while roleplaying as a Fox News caster was a bad idea.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 20:30 |
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Woozy posted:But that's exactly my point! Music nerds say all the same poo poo, because they have the same set of complaints, which have nothing at all do to with a pathological contempt for women-as-women, and everything to do with wanting their own space. The contempt is for imposters. Imposters? Dear god, you mean someone out there might not only NOT like thing I like...they might like thing I like, but in the wrong way?! Won't someone defend the objective truth of gaming from the
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 00:18 |
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Consumption is not culture and will never be culture, which is why "gamers" are invalid as a social group and should be cast into the abyss.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 00:20 |
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Backhand posted:I disappear from the forums for a bit and this is what I come back to. Not everything is about you.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2019 01:03 |
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Endorph posted:again, even if the tweets are true, what do they prove. Your Honor, the tweets demonstrate that I would dearly like the bad man who made games I like to not be bad, thereby absolving me of responsibility to think thoughts.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 00:45 |
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Abuse can't possibly be going on unless the so called victim looks like they're literally dying of famine, sunken eyes hollow with the things they've seen.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 00:47 |
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muon posted:yes: play video games instead of policing wrongthink Bet this guy uses lots of gamer words
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 08:55 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I have literally never seen the specific term “sex-pest” outside of Something Awful. It's more of a UK term.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 03:01 |
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There is no “both sides of the issue” here because that implies “Sarkeesian didn’t do a particularly good job of feminist critique” is what her opponents are saying. They are not. They are mostly slapping their chests and howling about fake gamer gurls and cultural colonialism. Also ya know, the people reflecting that her feminist analysis was weak aren’t sending death or rape threats. I feel that’s important too.
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 00:29 |
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The conversation had already shifted to the quality of Sarkeesian's critique. Endorph was not the first to post on this subject, nor even close to the first for that matter. You are simultaneously jumping the gun and late to the party, basically. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Oct 8, 2019 |
# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 01:55 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:makes sense. He wrote Durance and Grieving Mother and then left Obsidian before PoE was completed. Which is a shame because Durance is a really well realized character but uh, Chris Avellone has been going off the rails for a while so this is not exactly the first time I've had to distinguish between the man's work and the man.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2020 18:48 |
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Sleeveless posted:Man it's going to be weird seeing the usual chorus of "well I never liked his stuff anyways " posturing people do when a predator gets outed after 20 years of Planescape being hailed as one of the best game narratives of all time and a decade of New Vegas as the gold standard of open world storytelling. Nah. I think there will be a bit more acknowledgement of the fact that his role in a lot of the games he gets Games Media Worshipped for was always overblown though. He has always been a spotlight chaser, in contrast to dudes like Sawyer who always try to correct people when they reflexively attribute everything in a game to him, and points out the lesser known writers. Death to the Great Man theory of game development.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2020 14:22 |
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Does it matter if he wasn't a predator when he wrote X but was later? My personal view is that it's more important to focus on what I can materially do to keep him from being in a position of power to predator again. Buying or not buying games he isn't getting royalties from anyway, from a decade ago, is literally meaningless. Telling people who emblazon his name on their prodcuts going forward to gently caress off seems more likely to have an impact.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2020 17:14 |
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precision posted:God, what a bunch of navel gazing horse poo poo. Lmao. "Why do anything, why not just make long posts instead" I've met paranoid old southern ladies with less developed persecution complexes than this.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2020 15:07 |
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SweetBro posted:Sure, I agree with that, if that was the actual intent of the subject. But the point is that by using the term "manipulation" as part of the discourse you've baked actual malice into the premise of your statement. Which may not be accurate and certainly not healthy to the discourse. Adult relationships are messy and there are plenty non-malicious reasons why one person might believe a hook up would lead to a relationship but doesn't. Anything from honest miscommunication, to simply changing your mind for whatever reason after you've become intimate. It is difficult with certainty to know what someone's intent was. I’m not sure you’re making a compelling case here that intent matters in any way. If they do all of the things Endorph listed, does it matter WHY they did them? Having a delusional self image does not make you not a manipulator. People doing lovely things often have rationalizations or do not consciously acknowledge their behavior.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 19:20 |
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What universe do they reside in that they feel like Vic has been vindicated...? Or that the takeaway from Howolka killing themself was "guess we should never reveal the crimes of abusers then". Literally what on earth. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jul 19, 2021 |
# ¿ Jul 19, 2021 19:30 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:Racist old white people love slavery and try to find historical examples of it where it didn't exist to make it more acceptable That’s…not really what motivated the assumption that the Pyramids were built with slave labor. It has more to do with Biblical associations with Egyptian Pharaohs as emblems of tyranny. “Pharaoh” once had the connotations that “Hitler” does today.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2021 04:59 |