Recent content by Vanilla_Knight

I don't understand... aren't we supposed to be trying to get away from these arbitrary numerical review systems? I know that it serves somewhat of a purpose, but I mean it does the same crap that MetaCritic does where it makes a 5 star review = 100/100. What's the point of uselessly aggregating...

Yeah, let's assume that these asinine premises are true so that my argument is somewhere nearing logical coherence. Let's also just assume the conclusion before the argument so it can fit into my interpretation of skewed data. Don't be skeptical of spurious correlations, just accept them at face...

You can do that for books and movies sometimes, but you can't as easily do it for games. To remove all context of why the consumers are purchasing those games is to build your conclusion on a false premise. Why did people buy The Witcher 3? Because of the story about Geralt being a dad? Did the...

OH of course, I didn't know that a handful of games that are tenuously connected by one measly, ill-defined character trait are THE ENTIRE MARKET, and that they were marketed SPECIFICALLY for being stories about dad characters. You're going to argue that the reason why people bought The Witcher...

Now I want to offer up this short anecdote about my biology professor. We're sitting in lab one day about to start, and he begins to talk. He says, "You know how I know that society is not valuing science as much anymore? Because of the increasing trend in fantasy/magic shows that have come up."...

I should clarify that when it comes to political values and labeling, deconstructionism actually does its most productive work. As opposed to derailment in a science field where terminology needs consistency, it is important to ask questions like: What do you mean by "equality"? What do...

Of course nobody can deny that the meaning of the word "cat" doesn't change when the word is "snarf" or something else; we aren't robots and we understand context with empathetic communication, but there are huge issues when social-constructionist theories get applied to society...

Feminists: "Women are being raped because of rape culture that permeates throughout this patriarchal society in the western world. Men are instilled with the value that treating women like sex objects only for their pleasure is part of being a man. Toxic masculinity ruins the lives of...

Social-political pandering with a side of bias. Focusing on a gender "winning a movie year" being pretty childish, especially when a lot of these sorts of articles carry the notion that women haven't had many good characters in movies and shows over the years. Generally they focus on "women who...

I don't know if any of that will happen. It might just linger on in perpetuation.

Too late. Maybe it was worth it, just for the ironic nature. I now have no idea why I bothered paying 20 dollars for a subscription if that's what the money is put towards.

You can't directly address anything here apparently. The CoC fully encourages the passive aggressive behavior that allows mods to abuse the subjective rule enforcement. Someone can come into a thread and selectively read one part, focus only on the fact that it's a shortened clip (because that...

Wow. I hadn't actually watched the rest of that. Did he actually try to say that misandry doesn't exist and that MensRights isn't an actual legit movement? So the #killallmen and "male tears" responses to men having nearing the same rates of domestic abuse against them yet being arrested when...

The game is called Volume. http://store.steampowered.com/app/365770/

As an atheist existentialist I find this theist existentialist argument pretty weak. It places entirely too much weight in the subjectivity of morality and "inwardness" or gut-feeling. Acknowledging the fact that people act of their own accord based on their subjective perspective is not an...