Gillet sealed it for me.
BTW You can definitely go against a group of people if you're trained.
Gaming Journalists Make No Damn Sense
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BTW You can definitely go against a group of people if you're trained.
Yes. It's so offensive talking about what it is to be a man. Just the worstGillet sealed it for me.
BTW You can definitely go against a group of people if you're trained.
But I understand. Ads keep telling me what Freedom is. Or Turth. Or Beauty. Or Fair. Or pretending a Lamborghini is a good product. They're all pretty terrible and I think we should get rid of all ads because they only lie. Especially the ones where an eagles scream means freedom. They're the worst
I keep getting told that being offended at things is the literal worst. Cant be offended at Mohammed cartoons, cant be offended at Jewish caricatures, cant be offended at people grabbing women by the pussy, cant be offended at Nazi pugs, cant be offended at racial realism or knees in the back of necks etc.
When did being offended at something become okay again?
Yeah, games don't do that. They tend to just be their own thing and we go around putting labels on it so we can hate/like it based on politics
Maybe an exec comes in and demand as sex/skin colour change, but a whole game?
Hey, Houseman. Ever read the Malazan books?
I don't remember telling you that. Be offended at whatever you want. I wasn't offended by gillete. I gave gillette as an example for the "go woke go broke" meme.
Who do you think you're talking to right now.
In a world of martial arts, training physically makes sense in what you describe. In a world of a zombie apocalypse you could just as easily make her into a sharpshooter or a bombs expert or something like that and it would make more sense. There's really no reason that the obsession with revenge and power need manifest in muscle training.
Diversity is not inherently good. It's neutral, and depending on how you implement it it can be good or bad. Making such a character a part of the story is one thing but making em a main char you play as is another and there's difference in opinion regarding the reception of the character either way. Basically, you're taking away a vector for awesomeness that everyone appreciates out of interest for a vector of awesomeness that only some people appreciate for no reason.
And yeah you can think something is diminishing and poor writing and still be fine with it existing. It's not like my opinion is the law of the land. It's still how I see it though and I will express my description based on that while maintaining there's no objective right answer. I think the issue is that people take these things as objectively one way or another too much when it's all subjective.
Just because I say that this thing is this way for me doesn't mean I think it's supposed to be this way for everyone else too.
Ringing the bell is normal mode. Hard mode is Bell + no charm.
I don't think anyone called that ad offensive to men. It was called other things, like untrue or propagandistic, infatuated with concepts such as "toxic masculinity".
You don't need to be offended by something to acknowledge it lying about you and calling out lies is not the same as being offended by them.
Also nobody shot up Gillete headquarters or put out a divine decree guaranteeing heavenly eternity to anyone who took em out as far as I know lol.
She could’ve used strength training as an effective way of dealing with inner anger and angst, and the psychological satisfaction at seeing a return on those efforts that might’ve also helped keep herself in check while waiting for the opportunity of revenge. Killing Joel is also an extremely personal vendetta for her, so being a sharpshooter or bomb expert probably wouldn’t feel as satisfactory as torturing him physically.
Having said that though, chances are the given the history of and influences on the game’s development, the reasoning for it came after the fact that they simply wanted to have a ripped female in the game.
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Even those cherry picked examples aren't even great. Who says Mass Effect got gradually worse? Outside of the ending, the games got better until Andromeda (apparently, I didn't play it). What about Nike and the Colin Kaepernick ad campaign?
You said the ME series got more progressive and the only got worse over time. But the only thing gamers really didn't like was the ending with regards to the trilogy. Thus, unless you're saying "progressiveness" was at least a reason for the ending being what it was, how has "progressiveness" lead to the series getting worse if it didn't affect the one thing (ending) that gamers universally didn't like? No strawman, it's your logic that doesn't make sense. Where's the "progressiveness" leading to the ruination of the series as your narrative claims? Or JUST maybe making a bad game for a series that was "finished" was the reason Andromeda didn't sell?
I'm literally doing nothing but waiting for a shipment of 5 printers at work to add to a spreadsheet.
I think actual diversity (not of physical traits but of char types) when done well is great.
I think in this day and age it's more "diverse" to have a weak female character rather than a strong one. Definitely in western media. The strong woman who don't need no man is more overdone than the tsundere is in anime at this point.
One of my fav games of all time you play as a wolf for crying out loud. If I was anchored to the generic white brown haired dudes as you seem to believe I was I wouldn't care for all these zany games out there.
Sharpshooting or bombs is a more effective way of taking out someone in a zombie apocalypse setting storywise. The gameplay stuff is not an issue. There is no divine decree that Ellie should have the long range gun, that's likely something decided after they set out with the plan of making Abby like how she was. It's kind of an arbitrary thing.
Also, more fundamentally, it's hilarious that you treat feminine women as all being one thing, that Abby isn't. In fact, there is tons of diversity of femininity, much more in fact than the ways in which masculinely powerful women tend to be depicted as. If you care about general diversity and not just one very laser-focused form of it you would see that.
And I dunno where censorship came into the picture. I just think they make bad games or make games that were good into bad ones. Or at least partially so since this is just one component of a larger whole. My initial post was about how we have conflicting ideals and not one ideal that is good and holy like how it is being talked about.
Yet outside of a rushed ending narrative due to development time constraints, ME3 was the best of the series.
edit: Just realized it was Houseman who made the original claim, you were just giving your opinion. My bad =/
I think I have 2 and 3 tied, but I played it such a long time ago I can't be sure anymore.
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