faetal on 29/7/2013 at 13:15
I do love DT's fixation on physical attributes. Like when Neal Stephenson gets mentioned and he gets a spike in associative beard rage. It's similar to watching someone take ecstacy and become obsessed with the texture of corduroy or something. Fascinating. That said, I'm all for slagging off hipsters.
Malf on 29/7/2013 at 16:42
Regarding depictions of gay and lesbian people in games, somewhat surprisingly Guild Wars 2 is a damn good example of this handled well, although it does kinda stumble at the last hurdle.
The newest race to be introduced in Guild Wars 2 are the Sylvari, a young race of sentient plant people.
To conform to the standard tropes, these essentially genderless plant people come in 2 forms, noticeably male and female.
However, subverting this somewhat, there are a plethora of lesbian and gay relationships amongst the Sylvari, none of which are forced down your throat and ranging from unimportant side characters to one of the central NPCs in the game.
The major stumbling block I allude to is that ArenaNet weren't brave enough to have human relationships depicted with such nuance, instead wimping out and using another race entirely.
Still, a step in the right direction.
Oh, and to wind dethy up, the way he depicts a lot of these indie darlings bears a striking resemblance to the face of "modern" metal :p
A bunch of over-privileged, middle-class white boys with short brown hair creating technically outstanding music with no soul.
june gloom on 29/7/2013 at 19:55
If you're calling Isis or Rosetta soulless we can't be friends and I'm going to pee on your old denim vests.
Sulphur on 30/7/2013 at 05:26
I'm just stepping in to say that this little storm in a teacup shall heretofore be called the BlowFish Beer Incident.
Muzman on 30/7/2013 at 11:31
I have this delightful image of Fish taking a bit of a work out sabbatical and "bro"-ing up. Baseball cap askew. Arm wrestling Jase Hall.
Briareos H on 30/7/2013 at 11:51
Not really. He starts his article well, introduces the events and people properly but right when the meat of his write-up should start and an analysis should happen, he ends his article with a few almost irrelevant paragraphs of "welp, my own skin is tough" and "internet ain't all bad". That's not really journalism.
Anyway, lol@CliffyB
henke on 30/7/2013 at 12:06
Good read, thanks Starker.
Starker on 30/7/2013 at 12:14
Quote Posted by Briareos H
Not really. He starts his article well, introduces the events and people properly but right when the meat of his write-up should start and an analysis should happen, he ends his article with a few almost irrelevant paragraphs of "welp, my own skin is tough" and "internet ain't all bad". That's not really journalism.
Anyway, lol@CliffyB
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Giant Bomb is known for its alternate method of video game journalism, described as, "not looking to take over the world, they've got a very small editorial team that's very focused on covering the things they want covered and that's it." This concept is based on focused, personalised coverage and wanting "the byline to matter," as opposed to the accepted industry coverage that generally exists.
