Bought this for my Mother. She really likes mystery games, and with the added fact that it is FMV, I think it will be a special experience for her. I really love how the 'Contradiction' cast and crew embraced this video series (Fantastic bit on the 7/24 Beastcast btw). You all created something special and nostalgic. Also, it struck the perfect balance of acting in something like this.
I can't wait to see another game like this from Baggy Cat! All the same actors, different characters. Maybe an anthology detective series...
On the record. I relinquish the idea of ownership and/or rights to it... Please use it...
@dreffen: TB qualifies as more of a professional than Jeff for the most part, doesn't mean you have to like him for it. Obviously Pewdiepie is the embodiment of the apocalypse.
In what world does he? This one?
No one should take Total Biscuit seriously. Or, really, any youtuber.
They do the EXACT same thing as GB does. They put out MST3K style videogame commentary. I know it's cool to hate on popular people, but get off your high horse. You're delusional if you think the GB guys are "better" than these guys just because they have a website. I like GB a lot, but your statements are asinine
No, they are. Or at least in this case better than Total Biscuit, noted 155 IQ haver. He's seems to consistently come off as a massive shithead. No one should take him seriously. The only reason someone should vote for him is for the fact that his asshole was bleeding for a year before he went to the doctor.
To take it one step further I don't really understand how anyone really watches any YouTuber, but that's me.
@dreffen: Dude wears a suit. A suit! Also he's bald. Hell he just sounds like a businessman; which is kind of odd for what he does. Calling Jeff a "Professional" is ridiculous, no one would like him if he was a professional.
Here let me put it this way: One is an individual who has his head incredibly far up his own ass and is an MRA douchebag, the other has been doing this enthusiast press thing for a long time.
@dreffen: TB qualifies as more of a professional than Jeff for the most part, doesn't mean you have to like him for it. Obviously Pewdiepie is the embodiment of the apocalypse.
In what world does he? This one?
No one should take Total Biscuit seriously. Or, really, any youtuber.
I think that part of what murderbunny might be getting at is that, if someone is getting basically universal praise from your peers, then writing a piece which is positive towards them seems "safe" and kind of like the writer is just joining the choir. I totally get what you're saying though - that you get a lot of flak for some of the pieces you write from readers (I heard you ruined GB singlehandedly! ;)), so they're not at all "safe" in the sense that you're writing something which will get you nothing but props from people who read it.
The other thing I think murderbunny is saying is - if you look at someone like Anita Sarkeesian, one would generally think that at least someone who writes for a game website would disagree with her arguments (and write about that), just by sheer probability. But that hasn't really happened (not on any sites I follow, at least), which makes it easy to start writing off the people who praise her work as being a chorus of yes-men simply because you haven't seen any dissenting opinions. I think that your point is totally fair that as a writer, you're going to write from a perspective that is colored by your own opinions on things. It's unavoidable, and I don't think it's any writer's fault that they do so. But I also can understand the frustration that can result from feeling (albeit unfairly) that "man, all these writers are tripping over themselves to agree with Anita, and nobody actually critically examines her arguments and points out the flaws in them" (or any other controversial figure, of course, not trying to single out one person in particular here).
I think you see mostly unanimous praise for Anita's work because it's largely unprecedented. It's A New Idea. That takes time to sink in. I hadn't uttered the word feminism in a serious context until a few years ago. My views on many things will probably change a few years from now, once I've learned more and had a chance to process more. I mean, there's already plenty of challenges to Anita's viewpoints about Bayonetta. Lots of women view Bayonetta as a strong, sexually-empowered character, but Anita doesn't. That seems pretty divergent!
Uh, I'm sorry, but Anita's work isn't a new idea, much less a New Idea. I don't care if you agree with her or not, saying so just shows a profound ignorance of the past and ignores the accomplishments of many women writers who have come before her. I mean, Simone de Beaviour, Julia Kristeva, Teresa De Lauretis, Sontag, Virginia Woolf, Camille Paglia, scores of people from the earlier waves of feminism in the 60s, and so many more have laid and established the framework. So, it hasn't been applied to games, but Anita largely takes a preexisting framework and looks at games through that lens. I'm not saying she wrong, or that she is right, but calling her work unprecedented is just wrong. It may be new to you, but her work is firmly situated on the shoulders of giants.
You're right. Women were uploading videos talking about gender tropes in video games since the 60s.
@patrickklepek: To me, it mostly just felt like a guy venting and trying to make sense of everything that happened. He was definitely angry, but he avoided slurs and tried to back up all his claims as best he could. I didn't really get a slut shaming vibe from it at all. I'm not saying I agree with his decision to make it so public or the way the public responded to it, but I'm curious why you feel it was slut shaming. There's a good argument to be made about him posting it in multiple places to ensure people would see it, but the content of the post itself really did just feel like an ex ranting.
As for "the journalistic impropriety questions," I haven't followed any of that to the point that I'm not even sure what questions came up. Eron deals only with his relationship in those posts.
Again, I'm not trying to say that anything that came of this was warranted, just trying to make sense of the post itself. If it's true (again, big if) then that colors my opinion of Zoe (who I had nothing but respect for before). It's the kind of thing that had no real reason to ever grace my screen, but it did, and I can't pretend I didn't read it.
I don't doubt part of the reason the Eron post garnered sympathy was from people who have been wronged in a relationship in the past. That's natural. It's empathy. But that assumes that post was true, or that post made any sense in a public venue, or that we should take his accusations seriously given how many of them have been proven full of holes and falsehoods and hyperbole. He posted it to 4chan. Why?
You write a several thousand word screed typically to fuck someone back.
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