Bhaalspawn said:
"Did mean old EA close Bullfrog?"
Old or new, its the same entity using the same tactics. Why fix what isnt broken?
"Are you not allowed to swear at Anita Sarkesian without someone calling out your asshole behavior?"
You are assuming that those people complaining about her are: A)Gamers, B)Males, C)Mysoginists.
In order for that to happen you will need know if (AND ONLY IF):
1)Those werent people that knew her stuff looong before she decided to open her comments in that video alone, and wanted to make an statement (that will eventually be ignored in favor of the "get in the kitchen" ones). Because if you havent noticed, she does the same as you, where you control what comments are worth staying on the video. And just like you, she has some twisted sense of what is "trolling" and what is "legitimate criticism".
2)Those werent people who dislike her for her pathetic "research" of OTHER medias (music, tv series, movies, and so on) compared to the few videos that she had on videogames. One was for Bayonetta (and she took it down. It was rescued by other people), one was for Non violent videogames, another for "too many dicks" on games, and the kickstarter. So only 2 videos of videogames before the infamous kickstarter video out of 33 videos in total. There is a larger chance that it was other people rather than actual gamers.
3)Those werent females that were (and still are) pissed off at this feminist for consider even the most minute thing sexist regardless of context. And for "defending" them in the worst way possible like if women were childs incapable of having opinions or free will.
4)Those werent trolls that were lured by the video spamming in 4Chan of her Kickstarter. Trolls troll everyone, religions, people, ideas even themselves. They use any way nessesary but most of them are so pity that even The Grinch would laught at.
5)All the comments on the video were harmful from the VERY BEGINNING. After all, if the audience of that video really is going to try to stop her for ulterior motives, rather than using logic and arguments to ilustrate how stupid the whole ordeal is, then we would all be assholes that have nothing to do but to flame and troll a video on videogames. Infact, i would like to see a full video (i dont care how long it takes, 20 min? 40 min?) of someone scrolling EVERY COMMENT on that video to make it visible for everyone what it was said and what date they have. So we can also compare if its the same date as the videos posted on 4Chan. Lets see how depraved are the gamers that posted on that video and how many comments are there that CLEARLY shows that the mayority of commenters are mysoginists!
But hey, i guess its more easy to use a "poison the well fallacy" and say that all gamers are assholes right?? and that is why you and Bob are mysoginist assholes.
Hmm..?? say what? you are not an asshole?? but.....i dont understand, you say that all gamers are assholes and you and bob are gamers, right?? there is clearly nothing in between.
Just as how Anita cant generalize a whole medium as sexist without context or proper research, and nor can she said that all the "attackers" of her Kickstarter are mysoginist male gamers....
...you, Bhallspawn, also cant generalize and call ALL gamers assholes or "entitled" as you did in this video:
Sure, take the worst of something and make it the center of attention until it can be discredited or outlawed. That is how you solve a problem, right?
"Are you torn between being a fan of something and a supporter of something else that is only related to it in a broad conspiracy theory?"
I dont see how me being a fan of books relates to my observations of the gaming medium. Games are art, right? doesnt that mean that one must analize them for that? or at least see if they are worth my time and money when its a new medium that i am experiencing?
Also, when crap like the "Adverticement during the gameplay" that Sony wanted to do was about to be greenlighted like it was just another day in the office, i doubt that its a crazy conspiracy.
"Are a bunch of pretentious fuckwads using games to express the fact they're pretentious fuckwads?"
Are you talking about Movie Bro CIRCA "Heavens to Metroid" or the creator of Fez??
"Is the reality of "Supply and Demand" and "Free Market" skirting by your infant mind?"
You mean this? at 10:57:
Is that supposed to be a argument in favor of people wanting better writing in their entertaiment? because if Bioware doesnt care to bring the quality that it was expected since Baldur's Gate or even Dragon Age Origins, then other people in the market will take care of it. I dont see the problem when the system works just fine. But we do see a problem when we get a malfuctioning product that doesnt acomplish its primary function but we cant say anything about it because "that is what it was intented all along".
When i walk into the street and get robbed and punched in the face until i bleed, i am not entitled for protection from the goverment?? i am a whiny person for demanding security for me, and by extension everyone else? I CAN get over it but whatever emotion i have over the issue doesnt change it at all because, and this may come as a surprice to you, getting punched and robbed........is bad.
I know, quite shocking indeed. And that is terrible.
Same for being exploited by an industry that not only is so incompetent in making decent products, but also PROUD of their fuck ups that its quite an bafling. Here is an example:
The original model of the PSP had buttons too close to the screen, so the Einsteins at Sony moved over the switch for the square button, without moving the location of the button itself. Thus every PSP had an unresponsive square button that would also often stick. Note that the square button is the second-most important face button on the controller, right before X; in other words, it's used constantly during the action in most games. Sony president Ken Kutaragi confirmed that this was intentional. ACTUAL QUOTE:
Ken Kutaragi: I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that.
http://kotaku.com/111634/ken-kutaragi-misunderstood-or-just-nuts
http://www.industrygamers.com/galleries/video-game-executives-say-the-craziest-things/14/
http://www.gamespot.com/news/gamers-report-psp-malfunction-6116985
How about dear old EA?: The process of installing Battlefield 3, for example, can be used as argument as to why EA should ditch its Origin platform (which people have accused of acting like spyware in addition to its design flaws) and go back to Steam, or copy Steam blatantly. The first is that Origin treats installing from a DVD as "downloading" the game, which feels kind of odd when you can't pause and resume it. The second is you cannot quit Origin while downloading and installing an update, which is something Steam can do. If you want to run the game, you also need to logon to their Battle Log website. And lastly, if this is a clean install, you have to install a plugin for your browser so the website can launch the game (which sounds kind of fishy). But overall, you do not launch Battlefield 3 from Origin, you launch it from the Battlelog website. Which also has the side effect of "you don't have internet connection? Too bad! You're not playing BF3".
They KNOW they can get away with it, it happened before and will happen again, and I am an entitled conspiracy theorist?? Sure little Bhall. Go sit down over there >> and think on what you did, young man!
If i were you, i will abuse the fact that you look like Orlando Bloom and make a carreer out of your looks rather than your......arguing talents.
