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Awesome. I'll take two of each.

I liked Vanquish. Yes, but you can purchase all the free games while you're a subscriber, let your subscription lapse and sign up for another month a year later and download and play anything you've purchased previously.

I wouldn't want to make a detailed response in this thread if I were a woman, either. Unless she's going to be an Uncle Tom.

Oh, sure. Now you like the current generation. When it's pretty much over.

I have no idea how you got that from what I said.

She should have made a video about Baby, It's Cold Outside instead. Though that's more rapey than sexist. Can't it be about sexism and the way society operates? But yeah, there is a lot of sexism in society. And racism and gender roles and blah blah blah. I don't see what's wrong with challenging that. You could make a similar video series about the lack of black main characters in Hollywood blockbusters or the perpetuation of traditional gender roles in toy catalogs. And then the next time you buy a toy for your niece maybe you'd stop and think, "hmm, that person in that video series made a good point, maybe my niece would prefer a truck over a doll." Or maybe you'd buy her an Easy-Bake Oven and tell her that women belong in the kitchen.

And people have a right to want better representation. I mean, since we're just stating facts now...

Remind me to never support any of your business ventures. :p Just because something is good business, that doesn't make it the right thing to do. If I started selling little dolls with blackface that were really popular with racists and made me hundreds of thousands of dollars, that wouldn't make it not racist or less morally bankrupt. And rom-coms are sexist all around.

If Hamish says that Atheist guy promotes rape I'm going to believe him, simply because that's more interesting. Video games should be aimed at anyone who likes video games? Instead of being stuck in this endless cycle of *makes video games aimed at males* "oh, women don't play our video games" *makes more video games aimed at males* Clearly the market is there, as series like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Tomb Raider and The Sims have a lot of female fans. Just because more straight, white men play video games than any other group doesn't mean they have to exclude everyone else. It's like how BioWare included gay relationships in Mass Effect 3. Would it have been better for them to only include straight relationships because that's their biggest demographic?

I generally try to pay as little attention to Jonathan Blow as possible as to not be put off his games. :p

It's male power fantasies created by men for men, as opposed to female sex objects created by men for men.

Oh, it wasn't even the same book! No wonder I was confused. Okay, I'm all caught up now.

Everyone keeps talking about the death of Damian, so I looked up a summary of the issue to find out what was going on, and it was like, a dream inside a dream and then there was another dream and everything was fine at the end when there was yet another dream? I have no idea.

I hear ONM gave this a 9/10. Edit: This made more sense before Madeinbeats deleted his post.

That's not a very flattering picture.

Based on your story, I'd say you bid on it and won the auction. Now you just need to pay another ~£50 for a decent-sized memory card.

I haven't watched the video, but I think there's a difference between shallow and sexist characters. Just because Mario is a shallow character doesn't make him a sexist one.

I think we should base everything in modern society on stories written in the 12th century.

I think that would be a pretty boring video series, though. Also, I think it's worth bringing up bad examples because I honestly don't think the average straight, white male gamer realizes how casually sexist a lot of games are. I saw someone tell a story that explained how privilege works about a long-haired dog and a lizard or something who lived together. The thermostat was high up so that only the dog could reach it and he set it to a temperature that was comfortable to him, not realizing that that was way too cold for the lizard. From the dog's perspective, the temperature was just right, so why wouldn't it be right for everyone else? It's the same with gaming. We're all painfully aware of how sexist Dead or Alive is, but sexism is so much more than that, and a lot of it isn't immediately obvious if you're not part of the group that's being marginalized.

Well, now you're just making her sound worse. :p It sounds like she's going to bring up positive examples as well, so that's something for you to look forward to, then! Though generally I think it's more fun to point out the bad examples, so I can see why she started where she did. The issue isn't just with Dead or Alive-style breasts-everywhere-oh-my-God-how-come-they-don't-pop-out games. It's being a female gamer when there are almost no female main characters. Or how women in games are often reduced to just being 'the love interest'. Or when you're playing Mass Effect 2 and you're ready to kick some butt and the game zooms in on Miranda's butt and you become painfully aware of who the game is aimed at. You've got to love straight, white male gamers who think women should just get over it because it's not a big deal, then refuse to play games that star female characters and kick up a fuss when there's optional homosexuality. And then you realize that those are the people video games are aimed at, and it's not so funny anymore.

And yet people always wax nostalgic about the tank controls in Resident Evil. :p The controls certainly take some getting used to, but I love how accurate they are and how they're designed to work perfectly with the level design. Once you learn how the game works, there's never a question of whether or not you can make that jump or if it's possible to get over to that ledge. Lara always jumps exactly the same height/distance and she can grab any ledge within reach, unlike in modern games, where characters will adjust their jump distance whenever necessary and you'll just slide off ledges you're not supposed to jump to.

You're right, that was a terrible example in retrospect. That's not how privilege works. But surely you can see a problem with saying that it's okay that Krystal dresses like a stripper because she's supposed to be attractive? That makes it sound like that's the only way a woman can be considered attractive. How about a girl who knows just what she wants and always speaks her mind? Would she be less attractive if she wore a shirt and had a great sense of humor? (I have never played Star Fox Adventures, so I have no idea what Krystal is like.) The problem with video games is that when you're a straight, white male, you have the luxury of choice because you're in the majority and most games are aimed at your demographic. It's a much bigger risk to release a game starring a female character because a lot of male gamers won't play a game like that (because they can't relate to female main characters, apparently, which makes them sound like sociopaths). If you're a female gamer, it's a lot harder to vote with your wallet.

Could she have picked a less sexy cancer?

Surely the fact that sexism occurs both ways doesn't make it okay? The Dead or Alive girls aren't less sexist just because the guys on Days of Our Lives are always walking around shirtless. :p The problem is that most games are aimed at straight, white men, so every other group ends up feeling marginalized to some extent. Imagine how you feel every time John Black takes off his shirt for no reason - that's how women feel whenever they play a video game with an oversexualized woman.

Sounds to me like they were contacting him through a glass of water. :p