sephirm87

Hear me out. You start the new game as Desmond (very, very briefly) , with the early twist being that you are someone in the Animus reliving Desmond's experiences as an assassin. You then do all sorts of neat future assassin stuff.

People feel the need to ban things when a tragedy happens only because it helps us prevent any serious introspection. Banning video games won't solve the problem. Banning guns won't solve the problem. People have always been violent towards other people. Back in Roman times, people would watch other people kill each other for fun in blood sports, so nobody can say that "society has gone down hill," we have always been this way. The world is a dangerous place, we will have to just deal with it and adapt to the shitiness of other human beings.

@patrickklepek I think that another important issue that really is not being adressed is that IMO, the executives at Deep Silver are not misogynistic per se, but they are under the impression that their customers are. Deep Silver was never interested in any social message from this, they only wanted to make money. The execs think of video game players as nothing but a bunch of teenage misogynistic boys and feel they need to produce this to cater to them. There is a disconnect between what the execs think of their consumer base, and the reality of the consumer base itself. (although, from reading some of these comments, they may not be as off as I think)

@Jaytow said:

Patrick is the main reason i wont be resubbing to giantbomb.

These "mature" articles are an absolute joke. Just talk about the games, sexism is not something i care about, at all.

then you know what you should do? Don't read the article. Problem solved.

@RenegadeDoppelganger said:

I guess we can probably tl;dr this aritcle right now.

Article: Reactions of women to a female statue in poor taste: "It's crude and kinda offensive", "It's just dumb", "It's thoughtless", "It's part of a larger problem"

Comments: "WAIT, did you guys hear something? Me neither. For a minute there it sounded like some women were talking about their feelings. I heard once if a women shares her perspective with you, you turn into one! Scary, right? It's so good that we make all the decisions around here. Also fuck Patrick because I think he's secretly in league with women and wants us to consider their feelings or some crazy bullshit like that. That dude should shut up and write something about video games"

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@WolfHazard said:

@sephirm87: Yes I take it people don't like him? I don't see a problem with the article other than I'm sick of hearing about this stupid statue, maybe it came a bit too late because this thing should have blown over weeks ago, but still calling him a pretentious fucking hipster, saying he's ruining GB etc etc seems a bit extreme because he put together an article you didn't like. I just didn't think people hated on the GB crew this badly if there was content they weren't fans of. Personally I love Patricks work and opinions, hearing him speak about shit and his general commentary on most issues, and an article I'm not interested isn't going to change my view of him as a person, so everyone else just straight up flamming him makes it seem like people here just straight up feel spiteful towards the dude.

I hope there wasn't a misunderstanding, because I completely agree with everything you just said. My intention with pointing out the anti-Patrick trolls was to be derisive of their knee-jerk negative trolling. I think there was also a bit of misogyny in the more severe trolling responses as well IMO.

@CaptainCharisma said:

I don't see why so many people are up in arms about this article. Just don't read it if you don't want to hear what women think about it. Go ahead and complain when there were people that were legitimately offended by the statue. Personally, I just think it's a stupid statue that only weirdos would buy and display. I don't see why people are so offended but I'm not going to verbally lambast Patrick for letting women speak their mind when the issue involves women.

@WolfHazard said:

Whats up with all the Patrick hate?

Unfortunately, I think you know what it means.

@MasturbatingestBear said:

@alibson said:

Giant Bomb is my number one stop for extremist feminist propaganda.

Lets be honest, the statue was kind of moronic on their part.

Your statement is perfectly true except for the "kind of" part.

@Krataur said:

Sega owns Relic now...weird. I'm hoping for some kind of Creative Assembly/Relic collab in the future.

Warhammer 40k: Total War?

The truth that nobody seems willing to admit is that there is no external problem that causes violence. Human beings have been killing other human beings for tens of thousands of years, long before guns, video games, rock and roll or whatever were ever invented. Evolution only has one rule- to survive at any cost. The old idea that we are evolving "toward" some ideal future is an old, tired, and slightly racist idea that came from Victorian society and has no basis in good science. As a result, violence is perceived in our subconscious mind as being a perfectly reasonable option for survival, and this response may be triggered in the mind of the mentally ill even if there is no clear survival benefit from violence.

If you want to ban something that will make the world perfectly safe, ban human beings. Otherwise, accept the fact that living among other human beings is a potentially hazardous undertaking.