Flash Game Makes Players Beat Up "Tropes vs. Women" Creator

johnnnny guitar

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Come on guys I fucking hate Anita Sarkeesian and I do think that she received more money than she needed for the project but if you make crap like this she will use it against you and get even more support and also it's kinda mean
 

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It is a flash game, god knows how many porn games there are out there and that is only the tip of the iceberg! Games like these do not have a budget/developer or anything else related to production and go to an extremely niche audience, heck not even an audience at all sometimes. The only reason this would bother me is if the game actually had a company backing it and was making many, fortunately neither of these are ever likely to some true.
 

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I'd buy this game. Especially if there was an option to reskin it with other equally annoying people. I've got quite a long list actually.
 

Nexxis

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Jooooooy. Oh yeah. Rape in a game is considered no big deal, but heaven forbid a woman speaks an opinion about video games and other media. Keep it classy.
 

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ElPatron said:
blalien said:
I'm going to assume it is until I've seen evidence otherwise.
The smallest asteroid in the universe is made of mushed peas and speaks French.

Prove me wrong.
I'm going to make some assumptions about you as a person, and please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm guessing that you are academically successful, and you're especially good at math or physics or something along those lines. I'm also going to guess you're fairly young, either high school or college age. And I have a hunch that one day you're going to be very successful in your chosen field, because you have a strong analytical mind and there aren't enough of those. And I respect your way of thinking because I used to think the same way. So believe me when I say this is friendly advice, and I do not intend to insult or demean you.

Logic is a very powerful tool for deriving conclusions based on given premises. But like all tools, it is only useful in situations specifically designed for that tool. Life has too many variables, most of which you can never determine, to observe it using only strict deductive reasoning. Over time, you notice patterns in how the world works and assume these patterns are consistent unless you have reason to believe otherwise. For example, you can't prove with 100% certainty that the sun is going to rise tomorrow, but you live your life around that assumption, and you don't run tests every night to make sure the sun will rise, because this is a pattern you've observed your entire life and you have no reason to believe the pattern has broken. In situations where you don't have enough data to use pure logic, you need to decide what is the most likely explanation that fits what you know about the situation, at least until you're given reason to believe your explanation is wrong.

Let's look at the facts here. Anita Sarkeesian spoke out in criticism of the video games industry. In response, a large group of people sent her violent threats, vandalized her web-site, revealed her personal information online, created pornographic images of her, etc. This pattern has repeated itself many times, the most recent high-profile case being Jennifer Hepler. If you expand out from video games, this scene has occurred throughout most of human history. There are places in the world today where a woman can be publicly beaten for speaking out against her husband. Note that it does not work the other way.

The most likely scenario here is that the people attacking Sarkeesian are motivated by misogyny. They believe women are meant to be controlled, and they are frustrated that Sarkeesian refuses to be controlled by them. Since they cannot physically attack her, they take every effort to threaten and dehumanize her until she shuts up and stops saying what they don't want to hear. You are correct that I can't prove this with absolute certainty, and I'm sure some people are motivated more by general hatred than by pure misogyny. But this explanation fits the pattern, and it is the best way to describe what is going on, so it's the explanation we should assume until something contradicts it or a better explanation comes along.
 

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This is the internet. The same internet that has equivalent games involving punching or killing the president (no matter which president), or punching and killing Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or any of a billion other famous or high-profile people.

This isn't newsworthy. It's equivalent to a Fox News piece detailing the 'horrors' of 4chan in order to cause as much controversy as possible.

Is the maker of the game a twat? Almost certainly. Giving him extra attention certainly won't help matters, though.
 

Knight Templar

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CosmicCommander said:
OK, this is dumb.

But it still doesn't exclude the fact the woman is a hack. Coincidentally, I was just watching this:
I've said it before but I think it bears repeating.
If you feel a video is necessary to make your point you need to find a better one, because anything coming from somebody so attached to 4chan (/v/ to be more precise) and trolling will only undermine your point.
It's like a video on the downsides to affirmative action coming from stormfront. It may well have good points but it has no credibility.
 

DingoDoom

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A poorly made flash game as well as in poor taste. If anyone is curious, just google the name to play the game or go to swf chan if you're curious :)

I have to say, as a "beat em up game" it is possibly the most poorly designed one I've seen. If you want to play a good one, an oldie from about punching K-fed was much much better. The game just adds poorly photo-shopped superficial damage to a stock image.

I also must disagree with the use of text on gradient background as well, especially since the accompanying ms paint designed next button obscures the already rather hard to read Times New Roman font.

I give this game a 2/10 for being functional at what it does but performs poorly for the genre it represents.
 

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Are you guys really mad at this? That's kind of sad. It's strange, and kind of bizarrely childish, but it's a publicity stunt either way that only further polarized the opinion on the whole fucking fake issue; she's either someone who's bullshitted her way into making everyone give her money for something that should be free and is basically useless for all humanity, much like the rest of her inane videos, or she's an innocent girl that only wanted to make a $15k video series about women in video games and was "attacked by the internet".

Yes, the game is weird, yes it's childish, but it's also nothing but a big attention grabber for the person's message that no one is quite reading into because the game itself kind of detracts from the message; "Anita Sarkeesian has not only scammed thousands of people out of over $160,000, but also uses the excuse that she is a woman to get away with whatever she damn well pleases. Any form of constructive criticism, even from fellow women, is either ignored or labelled to be sexist against her."

Of course, if you wanted to read into this issue by someone who doesn't make retarded videogames that do nothing but to build up this fake controversy, you could watch Foreverpandering's video or Instig8tiveJournalism's video. I'm a little disappointed to see a large amount of the Escapist forums defending her so blatantly.

Oh, and did she deserve this stupid game thing? It's fucking insignificant, it's a meaningless insult to her that will end up being the representative for all criticisms or fake hate or hate levied against her. Would a rational person care if someone made a stupid game about beating them up? Maybe so, but if you're a celebrity like Ms. Sarkeesian is right now, it's beyond her fucking concerns. Placed above that in her concerns is how it's going to earn her more money on top of the $160k if she exploits it.
 

Danzavare

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He doesn't represent us.

Other than that, I really don't know what to say. I mean, like the article says, they're basically doing a big part of her job for her.
 

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Buretsu said:
electronicgoat said:
Nexxis said:
Rape in a game is considered no big deal,
I sincerely apologize for double posting on top of my somewhat repetitive rant, but this is so utterly wrong.
Your sarcasm detector appears to be malfunctioning.
No, I think that was supposed to be the "straight" example and the "wacky double standards" one was "but heaven forbid a woman speaks an opinion about video games and other media." Unless I'm missing some kind of joke here.
 

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matrix3509 said:
That's it, I am making it my personal mission to wipe out the entire fucking Hominid family.
Can i join at this rate i'm starting to wonder just how excatly anybody could do this in this day and age what the fuck is this the 50s?
 

orangeban

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Fluoxetine said:
Game of the year.

And to everyone who is saying that he proved that idiot youtube bloggers point, Newgrounds proved OUR point by blamming the game. This whole thing is about censorship and silencing anyone who disagrees with your opinion. Free speech has become a great inconvenience to the left wing, and there is a massive global push to be done with it in the name of security and "just being nice", and its gotta stop.
Newsgrounds is not the United States. The internet is not the United States. You have no right to free speech on Newsgrounds, they have no responsibility to let you say whatever the fuck you want to say.

Also, free speech does not allow you to encourage violence.