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@Vigil80: If you found that content cherry picked to offend, I wonder just what kind of content would not offend you. That article is plain as day; It presents the elephant in the room in simple, direct language. It doesn't blow it out of proportion. It simply shines the torch on it.

If you don't think a thing is worth reporting on because "it's obvious", you are failing to see the difference between correlating evidence to build an understanding, and simply telling people how it is. The latter, done right, is more valuable than trusting public intuition, which is generally speaking pretty shitty.

No, it seems to me you are Quixoting your way through this. The article is, in actuality, fairly respectful of every party involved, and leaves you to draw your own moral conclusions. The purpose of it, I feel, is to make us discuss guns not as a FUCK NO GOTTA GET RID OF THAT SHIT and rather observe the debate on gun control in the light of the industries that perpetuate their popularity; Both games and gun manufacturers are equally complicit in this.

It is not sensationalist to simply report. Nothing in Parkin's writing is blowing anything out of proportion.

@Vigil80: If you read that article as "sensationalist" you either didn't actually read it, or you don't know what sensationalism is.

I reckon Simon Parkin is about as good as games journalism gets these days. Every single time that guy gets published it's fantastic work, even when I don't agree with him.

This is what happens when the games you make simply aren't good enough. I really wish Epic Mickey had been something special, but it wasn't. I hope everybody involved goes on to greater things.

I reckon Alex is the single best writer on Giant Bomb's staff right now. This kind of content almost seems out of place, considering how much better it is than most of the editorial content that gets published here. Bravo, seriously. This article was up there with the best of Rock Paper Shotgun quality

Thanks for reminding me how many kinds of dead dubstep is.

Dante in DmC is objectifying men. I think it's fucking cool that games dare do that nowadays. We need more of it.

@JoeShadows: This is not a conversation. This is pontificating.

If the goal is to engage the community and industry in dialog about solving issues of sexism, a post of 8 female points of view creates exactly one thing and that is an "us and them" mentality. When I saw that statue I was just grossed out; I've seen more sexist things, so to me it just looked dumber than a sack of farts. I did not feel the need to raise a flag; It's not like we haven't been told plenty about sexism in gaming the past decade. It just made Deep Silver look stupid, and they were rightly shamed for it.

So, problem solved right?

Not when you bring up an article like this. For one, the issue has already been beaten into a pulp by the collective games press. We, the readers, are fully saturated with this topic. We know about the statue, we know it's dumb, and we know concerns have been raised about sexism. Yet you feed us, a predominantly male community (let's be honest), even more about it, presented by panel of industry women that we already respect.

At this point it ceases to be reporting and becomes shaming of the community. Are we supposed to be extra extra outraged now? Should we feel super bad that there are stupid men out there that make bad decisions? How fucking rotten is this industry, you guys? We need to be extra super more pissed off because we obviously were't properly outraged.

You've set "the women" up against "the men". It makes both sides go on the defensive. It makes dialog stupider and it makes no progress. If you took the effort to request these opinions you could have gone the extra mile and solicited male developers as well. You could have, but instead you made a gimmick article that, effectively, cheapens the topic it sets out to discuss and shames the community enough to make much further dialog fruitless. Well done.

@ajamafalous said:

yes, this statue was obviously a bad fucking idea from the start, but it didn't deserve two news articles and one where eight women said exactly the same thing about how offended they were. Blown way out of proportion to make a story out of nothing.

Seconded.