Angel Dust on 18/6/2012 at 10:03

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She's made a new post on the Kickstarter page - you can look at it (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games/posts/248956?ref=activity) here if you're a backer. Since it all happened so quickly, her and her team are still brainstorming on what to do with the additional funding but one thing that is going to go ahead is a beefing up the website's infrastructure as she assumes, quite rightfully, that the abuse is going to be ongoing throughout the project so they best be prepared.

Koki on 18/6/2012 at 12:23

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So dethtoll not only is a raging vagina but also has enough sand in it to be bothered about trash talk on the Internet?

Talk about character development! Then again I think "development" has far too positive connotations to be used fairly in this case

Koki on 18/6/2012 at 13:46

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So once you win the fight for gay marriage will you marry Kolya?

faetal on 18/6/2012 at 14:17

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Part of me sometimes wonders if Koki is a sock puppet of Dethtoll's to make him look more measured and reasonable. But if not, then well done Koki, because that's what just happened.

In fairness though, I agree almost entirely with Dethtoll about games being quite sexist. It's harder to notice because the variation in the amount of insensitive gender stereotyping varies around a central average of sexist content, so the centre point of sexism in games is wayyyyy more fucked than e.g. in films, music, books etc... but it is harder to notice because the human brain automatically runs stats on observations, determines the norm and then treats the residuals as being the anomalies. So stuff like Postal 2 which has people burning women alive and urinating on their corpses or even Duke Nukem with its strippers dripping bank-notes will stick out as the percentage of games which treat gender poorly, when in fact it is a far larger proportion, but we're not treating it like that because of a simple cognitive bias.

This is why cultural change tends to happen via punctuated equilibrium. So the variation drifts about until we get something like this kick-starter and its accompanying scandal, which focusses all attention on new content, which will rightly be more scrutinised, lest some developer be labelled the douche-bag one. It's very much like sexism, racism, homophobia - they all became less and less acceptable as the attitude was focussed on and the light shone on it so it could be seen for what it is. Vile, unproductive, backwards, harmful etc.. So men should VERY MUCH be also pitching in and supporting feminism, because human group think will only drift towards enlightenment if enough people start to appreciate that something is not cool. This is just how we function as social animals.

faetal on 18/6/2012 at 14:44

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Sometimes alter egos take on a life of their own.

Besides, I wasn't being at all serious. Which you probably knew anyway.

I enjoy most of what you post, but that doesn't mean I won't take a pop when you're acting up.