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@thefriend said:

@patrickklepek said:

@NMC2008 said:

2013 the year the female gender became taboo.

Seems like any and everything with a woman in it will be eye'd and then scrutinized, it's way past ridiculous as it seems like you can't do SHIT! to a woman in videogames these days.

Kill a woman brutally - let's discuss this

Design a sexy woman in a sexy outfit - let's discuss this

A woman isn't in a position of power - let's discuss this

A woman isn't a main or optional playable character - let's discuss this

A woman is talked to or about in a harsh manner - let's discuss this

I couldn't imagine the reactions we'd see if Team Ninja went ahead and made another DOAX or Konami made another Rumble Roses, or Grasshopper made another Lollipop Chainsaw, it seems like whenever a woman is center stage we have to have a discussion about it.

Now you notice that I didn't make male comparisons here, well, that's because if I did I would get yelled at and told that's not the point, so I won't do it, I would have but I won't, i'm sensitive and don't like being yelled at. -_-

If I could cut my addiction to NeoGAF and Giant Bomb I would and just stop visiting but I can't. I guess we're entering the "No Sexy Fun" age.

Rumble Roses, really? C'mon, son.

I'm sorry Patrick, but there was more to that post than HURR RUMBLE ROSES. You clearly either didn't read his post, or are just trying to dodge the real content of this post.

He has nothing to explain. Nothing that Patrick has ever written has ever been so exaggerated as what that user posted. Maybe that thing with the FGC, but the quoted user diminished what was happening there so much that it's really fucking insulting to her.

I'm am just fucking angry that I have to defend Patrick for all this bullshit. I cannot stand the prick in so many ways, but this time he's totally in the right, and yet still a bunch of people refuse to read the article and attack him or exaggerate his position to the point of absolute absurdity.

Almost no one here is arguing the points the people in the article have made. They're just arguing semantics and principle without any basis for either of the items BECAUSE THEY GLOSSED OVER OR HAVE OUTRIGHT NOT READ THE PIECE.

I read the article in full and took the time to read most of the comments up to about 150.

I'll preface by saying I've hated on Patrick in the past. I'll continue to do so, when I feel it's deserved. That's my right to my opinion and expression.

Now's not one of those times.

You went out of your way to actually speak to women in the industry on a growing topic. They were all indeed on the same side, but they all approached it differently, and with valid reasons. They all had their own explanations as to why this thing is shitty, and posited their positions frankly and with meaningful purpose. They were not aggrandizing; they were not soap-boxing (most of them); they were just sharing perspective. Each point felt valid to me, with maybe minor quibbles here and there, but for the most part, I felt any of these thoughts could have justified not putting this bust out. That probably speaks to how shitty the damn thing is. It really is indefensible from all sides.

Like you, Patrick, I knew the thing was bad, but I didn't know how to express it. In your last article you misappropriated women and equality for the sake of attacking an argument, when it was better to concede to it so as to use that as proof, just as one of the women in this article had.

Your ignorance and malformed opinion is generally why I shit on you so much. Your opinion is "sexism is bad" and your reasoning is "women are different", and then you go and use that as if you're championing women's rights. All I've wanted is for you to do your job as a journalist and get the opinions from people who've had the time to form them or are in the best position to. I get that you want to share your opinion, but you don't have to have an opinion on everything. It's OK to admit that you don't know everything about something. That's a valid opinion and position.

What really bums me out is all the people who posted immediately, without reading the piece, just so they could shit on you blind. This is a good piece, because it's researched, and it grabs from those in the thick of it. Some people are willing to dismiss this on the notion that it's contentious and they don't want that in their entertainment (being this website). I sympathize, but this is the one that you people should read, that you should take the time to look at and think on.

No offense, but your other articles on this similar topic, Patrick, were trash. I've stated my reasons why in those articles, so I won't go into it again, but people are justified in their disdain for these types of pieces, because they have been so juvenile and "college-level" in the past.

That's why I urge everyone who is shitting on this article to at least actually give it a read. This one has the counterpoints to your arguments. This one comes from intelligent people in the mix.

This one is better.

Why don't you go out and interview these women, @patrickklepek ? Get their side of the whole story. If they're too afraid to confront these issues internally or are being blocked from doing so, doing so publicly might give them some ground. Then interview the men in question. Label them specifically as the evil villains in all of this instead of generalizing an entire gender.

"We can do better." Stop saying it and actually do something. Be better. I already do what I can with the women in my life and the ones I love (I ain't perfect, but I try to be better). I even try to confront my colleagues if I feel they're misrepresenting the opposite sex, but I don't have a fucking pulpit to preach my fucking bullshit out to hundreds of thousands if not millions. You're an investigative journalist with one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Investigate for fucks sake instead of being a sensationalist and then reveling in that sensationalism by blithely calling it out for the records your breaking with it.

Also don't be so damn dismissive, yourself. @EnduranceFun summed it up for you:

@EnduranceFun said:

Most of the discussion from the comment section ignored. Thanks for the misinformation, because the discussion you perpetuated was 'discouraging.' Yes, yes, sexism bad, Patrick good.

You also posted the same tweet twice...?

To sum up the comment section:

• Faith is not a memorable character at all and it's insulting the way you talk about her female writer
• Virtual boobies in Dead or Alive DLC is not equatable to real world problems
• Secretaries are largely female and gamers are largely male, thus the stereotypes
• Twitter is not a good sole sample for a 'news story'
• How about some coverage on social issues in games other than sexism?

A lot of people were picking apart your arguments due to the irrelevance of your examples. Maybe these are insignificant, but your poor choices lead to a poor argument. This doesn't matter that much to me, however, as sexism is in fact a world-wide issue and we do need to touch base on it.

And I am okay with touching base on this shit. I am of course bothered that a source of entertainment and escapism for me is being occupied by real-world problems, but I'm a fucking adult so I've got to deal with it. I should deal with it, and I try my hardest to. But I'm tired of hearing the same damn thing over and over and over from this place, and I'll bet you are tired of saying the same damn thing too.

You can do something Patrick. You have all this fucking power. You're reveling in those 1600+ comments, right now. Quit hoisting your platitudes on me, dude. There may be people out there who just don't fucking know or get it, but the problem is not them so much as it is ignorance. Use your fucking talent for investigation to dig up hard truths and facts about this industry instead of doing the same regurgatory opinion articles that every other me-too website scrapes together in a few minutes. This site is better than that. You, I believe, are better than that.

Every month, it's the same damn thing. Well DO SOMETHING ABOUT. You proclaim that you started an original Game Jam. Make good on all that pomposity and start a new movement by breaking this industry wide open, and thus breaking the whole societal world as we know it open.

I'll put your own damn onus on you, Patrick:

YOU CAN DO BETTER

So do.

That concept art looks like something out of the snow levels in Killzone.

Fuck me in the FACE THAT'S A GOOD GODDAMN STAND.

Makes me want to get a new PS3 and a whole new entertainment center just so I could have the room to STAND.

@SomeDeliCook said:

Wow, Spark Unlimited? They are really getting involved in some huge projects.

This was my first thought. I saw them hiring up like crazy like a year and a half ago, but I didn't think they were actually working on this kind of stuff.

They must have gone out and said that they'd help do the brunt of development for dirt-cheap.

@Maginnovision said:

Most of those games work fine, you just have to transfer from the PS3, it's not a big deal. Except for those games you can't transfer, like FFV, and Grandia. . . . Instead no grandia for me. . . . not grandia.

NOT GRANDIA

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Alright. That's it. I'm officially changing my name's color to green.

@Soulblitz said:

So I downloaded the 1.80 patch and went to transfer my PS1 games from my PS3 to my Vita, and nothing comes up. Gone into the Content Manager on the Vita and that's all fine, but when I go into the PS1 section, nothing is there to transfer. Am I doing it wrong? I've got like 15 PS1 games installed on my PS3 ready to transfer over and none of them show up. Do I need the file the PS1 file in it's pre-installed form to be able to copy it?

Yes. It's in the instructions. I know we're predisposed to not reading them, but do all us folks in the customer support field a favor and read 'em sometime. You never know how much time you might save!

@MiniPato said:

No, he's complaining that there aren't any new and original games for the vita. When your most anticipated game for your hot handheld is a remake of a game that came out in 2008, then you have a problem. Not that there's anything wrong with Persona 4 The Golden.

What if the PS3 was just a device that could play PS2 and PS1 games with only barely a handful of PS3 titles? Does that seem fair or right to you? Do you think if the PS3 had only 2 or 3 original, exclusive games worth playing and then all the sudden gained PS2 and PS1 games, we should celebrate saying "yay, more games on the PS3!" Just cause the Vita is a handheld doesn't mean we should lower our expectations for it.

PS1 games are welcome on the Vita and HD remasters are nice, but I expect more than remakes and releases if I want to feel justified in my vita purchase. Currently, the only game I'm playing on my Vita is Tactics Ogre and Sound Shapes, and I don't even need a Vita to play those.

I always feel this is blown a little out of proportion. To say that there is nothing is a bit of a stretch. There are several games that aren't ports or remakes, like WipEout 2048, Hot Shots Golf: World Tour, Gravity Rush, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Resistance, and more. Those are all original entries in the series, or in the case of Gravity Rush, it's a completely new and original experience. I really like those games personally and I believe they justify the purchase of the Vita. The icing on the cake is that I can then also get games like Virtua Tennis 4, UMvC3, BlazBlue, Mortal Kombat, Sound Shapes, Motorstorm RC, Super Stardust Delta with extra features to take with me and load up for some quick play. It also doesn't hurt that I can play the PSP games I own digitally, and now the PSOne games as well (though Sony is really taking their Goddamn time rolling that shit out).

If the complaint is that you don't want those "big TV" games, then I understand. The Vita is not your for you. You could probably stick with an Android Phone or iPhone or maybe even a Windows Phone. I personally sometimes want a little something more out of a portable experience, and the Vita offers that. Real fucking games that aren't tethered to a TV and couch. That's what I like, but I have seen and acknowledge that not everyone wants that.

I'm just personally tired of the argument that there are no games: original, good, or otherwise. There are quite a few.

This is the exact same method to get PSP games on your Vita that aren't officially supported. I don't believe you can really say it was Reddit users who discovered this, when this function was found by NeoGAF and others not associated with the social gatherings so many months ago.

And it's not work. You just download the game on your PS3 and transfer it your Vita. Done. It's not fucking rocket science.

I would like an explanation as to why there's such a disparity though.