@elixirbronze: You're taking a very small slice of her Twitter posts and claiming her harassment is overblown. "In this very particular moment in time, everyone was behaving" doesn't somehow excuse prior or future harassment. Those dots do not connect. And that Twitter post is 100% accurate so long as any single person out there thinks it's okay to make ANY sort of harassing comment. She's absolutely right. Game culture as an entirety needs to grow up and mature. That's an absolutely valid and truthful statement so long as crap like this continues to happen.
@elixirbronze: Your intrinsic assumption that she's only "claiming" to be harassed is pretty much what I royally dislike about this argument. You jumped to an immediate conclusion in your own mind that she's not really a victim, that it's some inherent conspiracy or some made-up bullshit. That's immensely frustrating and it's largely impossible to talk you out of, because it's an inherent, ingrained belief. If someone says they've been harassed, the logical, decent thing to do is step back, examine what happened, and above all else, keep the individual's protections in mind.
@ikramit: If demanding people be good human beings, express their opinions in a friendly, non-personally invasive way without harassment of anyone regardless of gender, then I'm King Asshole of Turd Mountain and damn proud of it. Enacting or defending any campaign of harassment is very much the antonym of being decent.
@elixirbronze:You're justifying harassment by saying the "real" harassment happened a year ago. "Oh, something's okay now because people were REALLY bad last year" is not a valid excuse for chasing a woman out of a job. In fact, there's no excuse for chasing a woman out of any job, conversation, or any situation where weight can be thrown around by a vocal juvenile few. If Nintendo really had a problem with her comment they would have fired her back when she made it. This is clearly them kowtowing to a shitty squeaky wheel effort to trivialize and impugn her points simply because she has breasts and a vocal opinion.
@jakelshark: That touches on a problem with a lot of this - maturity. If we could cut off the Internet until people are decent human beings, we'd circumvent half the damn problem.
This game has never looked more than mediocre at best.
I'm inventing a new ratings site called MetaTacos, which converts game reviews into how many tacos each game is worth. This saves the user from wasting a precious five minutes of having to read confusing words and instead hands them an arbitrary number that means absolutely fuck all in terms of education on a game's content... and it gives them pictures of sweet tacos! It's perfect! And users will never have to go out of their comfort zone and read reviews on multiple sites, because that's for crazy people. I mean, c'mon, are you really gonna want to spend time going to WhoGivesAFlyingBurrito to read their reviews as well as ICanUnderstandThingsOnlyInNumbers.ru? Just come to MetaTaco for straight up meaningless numbers. And tacos!
And read the review. If people are that worried about Metacritic scores, point them in the direction of well-written reviews and have them read them too. The way to cure Metacriticitis is with words, not encouragement of the behavior. Use your words to tell people why you think a game is good or bad, and barring that, use someone else's. Maybe even two or three someone else's.
Good article! Don't really know a lot about "hacking" and all that, so it's kind of neat to read about some of the specifics in an easy-to-understand way.
@buzz_clik:I'm both glad and disappointed it's not just me missing something stupid in the controls to get that UI to reset or go away. Hopefully they get that fixed soon.
I've been playing tons of Fallout 4 again recently and this is such a breath of fresh air after that soulless-but-proficient game. It's too bad it's missing some of the insanity from the PC versions of past Trackmanias, but they get the soul right and that's enough for me.
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