jonnybob

@dr_mantas said:

@jonnybob: People of a certain gender entering a space that is primarily composed of people from another gender can be problematic.

I think girls getting harassed online is not okay. But this is the nature of the medium - online multiplayer shooters are primarily played by males. If a girl enters the space and is identified as a girl, she gets treated differently (one could argue that EVERYONE gets harassed online, and horrible people employ any means to do so - being a girl just makes assholes use that for a harassment tactic, same as calling someone with a high pitched voice gay).

The same thing happens when a man enters a space that women consider their own - say a diaper changing station at an airport. There was a huge uproar in Australia, because women didn't allow men with babies to enter those rooms next to the bathroom, that are meant for ALL parents (dads and moms) to use. Now they have explicit signs that say men are allowed there.

This is a universal problem.

I very much agree, so I guess I ask why you take issue when women are allowed to speak about the biases against them? It happens in video games as we both acknowledged. So there is no reason it shouldn't be on this site. As Patrick said, he only used the statue as a jumping off point.

As a new dad, being able to change my daughter is kind of important, so the issue you mention in Australia is pretty close to my heart. When Patrick starts working at Airport bomb and writes about sexism, I'll happily support him there too.

It's a universal problem that we need to universally find a solution to, video games included.

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@valrog said:

Patrick, stop white-knighting and trying to protect those fragile beings from something that isn't even there. They will not have sex with you, no matter how hard you try to defend their honour like that. What a joke, seriously.

Its not the same, and they're both disgusting.

How are they not the same....?

If you're asking that question, you're missing the whole point of all the discussion that's been going on for like a year now.

if you don't understand why this is the same, you are not for TRUE equality...

I'm curious who created this picture and labelled the penises (penii?) as a "quirky advertising campaign". I didn't see this RE6 ad and I would be just as disgusted with it if I had. Brodehouse, dr_mantas et al, can I get your opinion to see how you feel about a disembodied penis? Seriously, write me up a little excerpt about how sexism is affecting you in video games. Below is fine.

See, the thing is, it doesn't matter ONE IOTA what I feel about about the dismembered penises. My feelings don't matter, neither do anybody else's. By the way, the point of that picture is that neither of those is offensive, but if it's a woman, as Patrick said, it's different. You seem to have missed the point.

I don't believe it's different. And I don't believe that one poorly made promotional item is a cause to rally against.

You might think different, and apparently a lot of people do.

And sexism isn't affecting me in video games. It's not affecting anyone, male or female. Because there's no sexism in video games. There's just people arguing against things they disagree with.

Everyone's opinions matter, if we sit in an echo chamber on the internet you will never have any idea what's going on around you and you will only deepen your own biases. Your feelings do matter, obviously you feel they do as you commented on this post. If they didn't matter, you wouldn't have.

I assume based on what you are posting that you are male, correct me if I am wrong. Have you ever played halo or COD online with a girlfriend, sister, whatever? The second they make themselves known as female a slew of immature retarded comments are directed at them. And this is true in many places where anonymity is possible.

Sexism is an issue in the world, not just video games, and video games are a part of said world. Seems to me Patrick is simply trying to open a few extra eyes to this bullshit. You don't want to read about it, so don't. Did you really think an article titled eight women and a boob statue would be anything other than what it is? It takes up 100 or so pixels on that main page. Just skip past it.

@Shaunage said:

It's briefly handled in Paranorman.

Ya but in Paranorman it felt forced and out of place, like they just threw it in there to either cause a stir with anti-gay bastards or fox news. I think homosexual relationships should be shown in tv shows as long as it's approached in a normal way. If you try to force it, kids are going to pick up on it and think that those two men (in real life) just met and went on wacky adventures. I have three kids, I took the two older (10 and 6) to see paranorman, they were asking questions about it, but not because the brother is gay but why it just came up at the end of the movie and they made it seem like he was into girls the whole time.

I believe this is local co-op only.... unless you want duders in your house.

@Jams said:

@jonnybob said:

Taken down by EA

just like the game in 6 months

BOOM!

Taken down by EA

I had this problem and assumed it was because I wasn't running on the higher settings. I'm running a quadro FX1800 video card

Hey Branthog, thanks for doing this again this year, I spent way too much on steam games this year so I can't see any I'd like to enter for. If you need any more games to give away let me know, I have a few (I mentioned them in a PM but also have a couple others).

@MiniPato said:

I read every post in this thread pretending that the word "juggle" is a euphemism for sticking things in your butthole.

AHAHAHAHA 3 balls.... mills mess.... how many objects.....

I just bought Secret of the Magic Crystal for a friend of mine, 60% off right now, act fast lol