It's always tricky to nail down who knew what and when they knew it, but in the absence of actual evidence suggesting that the FF guys willfully dodged Gray's efforts to contact them, I think we have to take them at their word. There's quite often behind-the-scenes stuff going on that "we" never hear about, and that can sometimes lead to the appearance of skewed timelines.Davroth said:
Never heard the term "casual gamer"? My problem is exactly that you keep using the blank term.ultreos2 said:
This post seems a bit overly defensive...Bara_no_Hime said:
There is sexism in games, they need to be talked about, and I went in without making any presumptions about Sarkeesian. But when Anita classified Bastion's Zia as a damsel-in-distress, I started doubting whether she actually plays through the games she critiques. When news surfaced that she used other people's LP in her video (along with the one ShakeSilver posted), it neatly fit into my doubts.Bara_no_Hime said:
I am sure you are. It seems like you are pretty often sorry for the behavior of people other than you when you have an opportunity to be sorry for what you have done.The Lunatic said:
Then why did you dismiss the free samples- and elevator holding-examples, if it's so absolute?The Lunatic said:
I think I made it pretty clear that my complaint is with your attempt to claim some sort of moral authority you haven't earned, not with the concept of paying people for art.The Lunatic said:
I don't care for Arkham Horror, but I still keep playing it because the rotten little fuckbag of a game does not get to win sorry. Bit of residual fury there. Not aimed at you.ShakerSilver said:
I assume you have proof that the image was taken from Google and not from the website the official statement referenced.Sonichu said:
I'm fully aware that there is a reasonable debate about the meaning of the word, but until there is a clear definition, we go with the simplest.ultreos2 said:
You forgot one very important protagonist. Can you guess?ultreos2 said:
How the hell would I know? I read the same statement you did.Sonichu said:
The claim you have just made is both massive and essentially unprovable, which leads me to wonder why you would make it except to justify a preexisting judgment.Sonichu said:
I am unfamiliar with that website, but I assume it's some sort of search engine for images. Your argument seems to be, "I have looked in two places and haven't found the image, so I'm right." I don't buy it. You've taken an enormous burden of proof on yourself, and I am not inclined to be permissive of your attempts to assert an absence of evidence as evidence of absence. It may well be that Ms. Sarkeesian's statement is a lie, but I have seen only assumptions and inferences, not evidence.Sonichu said:
The ones I've already said I have no more information about than you? Please. I am not Ms. Sarkeesian's advocate or defender, and I do not choose to spend my time searching for evidence of a claim I've never made. My only objection, which I think I've made four times now and I am running out of ways to rephrase, is that you are claiming something unprovable to be fact, thereby putting a burden on the community (rather than the person you are accusing, who is almost definitely not reading this forum to respond herself) to disprove your position rather than accepting a burden on yourself to prove it. That is a dirty tactic, and one that I feel compelled to condemn.Sonichu said:
I do not use Facebook, nor have a Facebook account. Facebook's policies creep me out, and I find the way people change after joining that site to be unsettling. Your request is no enticement for me to change my mind.Sonichu said:
That she benefits from my argument (to the degree that anyone is capable of benefiting from an argument they never hear) is a side effect so incidental it means basically nothing to me. I'd be just as annoyed at your dishonest and manipulative tactics if they were being used to argue against Adolf Hitler.Sonichu said:
Yes, I have never seen a thing I've never gone looking for, an image of a game I've never played and have no interest in. I have also never seen an image of a Malaysian soccer match, but that gives me no basis to call someone who claims to have seen one a liar.Sonichu said:
