Recent content by Mysnomer

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    Avengers, Represent

    I concur, it's really disappointing how people, desperate to appear progressive, are so quick to put blatant pandering on a pedestal. PT Barnum was right. Only time will tell if these story lines turn into well developed stories, but that is for hindsight to decide. At this point, the best...
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    On Geek Privilege

    *slow clap* *clapping intensifies* /thread. We can all go home now; I'm not even joking. This cuts through a lot of the irrelevant crap that has been clogging up the true issue, which is that you don't get people on your side for social change with heavy-handed accusations and belligerent...
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    On Geek Privilege

    I'm not saying Anita and Bob can't criticize, I never said they couldn't. I'm saying they aren't credible, and shouldn't be given the time of day. I'm also pointing out that their criticism has an end goal of stigmatizing certain things to paint them as sexist or anti-progressive. This more...
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    On Geek Privilege

    You are fond of saying this, but my ability to read, and recognize sentence structure is what led me to point out how your post contradicts itself. If anyone should learn something, you should learn to construct a post that conveys your message properly, instead of just loading it with...
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    On Geek Privilege

    ... ... You literally just said: They didn't attempt it. Thompson didn't attempt. But he attempted it. This is inane. Thompson tried to outlaw violent games. His tool was the legal system. That's an infringement of free speech. There's really no contest, unless you argue that videogames...
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    On Geek Privilege

    I don't think attaching the social stigma of an anti-progressive to someone is much better than calling them a potential criminal. And while Jack Thompson tried to infringe freedom of speech through the legal system, it's hardly better to infringe it through peer pressure and browbeating...
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    On Geek Privilege

    But you can't say that for sure. Trolls generally don't care about the subject matter, they just take contrary positions to waste people's time and exasperate them. I mean, I guess that's bad in it's own way, though I tend to view it as mischievous, because of how easy it is to ignore them. Some...
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    On Geek Privilege

    I wish he hadn't used an actual figure, as he had a point before exposing himself to being derailed by making a claim he can't prove. HOWEVER, the target demographic is not misogynists, it's people who are enticed by T&A. So unless you want to argue that a majority who find attractive videogame...
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    On Geek Privilege

    4chan is home to the scum of the Earth. While you could call it "No True Scottsman," if you want to start slinging rational jargon, you should understand and accept that the unknown quantities of trolls make a determination of the actual intent of the masses impossible. Thus, you can't really...
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    On Geek Privilege

    Please note that we're talking about 4chan. The comparison to animals was not coincidental. Don't be obtuse. The point of the sentence was to drive home that Anita Sarkeesian manipulated people into fighting one another over her content. She literally started the fight by playing two sides...
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    On Geek Privilege

    That is a very disingenuous act of misdirection. The costume is a bonus, specifically chosen for it's outlandishness. In the same game, Chris can wear a Mad Max style spiked-shoulder outfit which exposes his muscled torso, or a zebra-striped jacket and pants with a purple shirt. Additionally, he...
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    On Geek Privilege

    Yes, all those made up lies, like video evidence from her own presentations. Instead they should be addressing her ground-breaking thesis behind TvWiVG: Mario and Zelda are nostalgic retreads that stick to a formula. Video games (which don't influence the real world when it comes to violence)...
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    On Geek Privilege

    Well, I'm only allowed to give constructive criticism on these forums, but I find that I can't. That's like asking for child rearing tips when your baby has major congenital birth defects. The best advice I could have given you would be to not have had the child in the first place. When content...
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    Jimquisition: When The Starscreams Kill Used Games

    Jim, please petition the Escapist to let you post this video to Youtube as a video response to Total Biscuit's "Devil's Halibut- Used Games". Your charisma and self-assurance is powerful, and you are the ideal to counter to TB's similar traits. Reading through the comments on his video made me...
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    Critical Miss: Top Five Games of 2012 #5

    The only way SpecOps succeeds is if you go into in the mode, "I will play this like a game, and listen to what they have to say." As soon as you try to play it as a reasonably upright or moral person, the game falls apart, and the only good bits that are left were stolen from Heart of Darkness...