LiquidGrape said:
And as for the Double Dragon point, Thunderf00t's video (which I'm assuming is where you found out about it, pardon if it isn't) takes that 20 second sight-gag and tries to argue that it somehow contradicts the hours of gameplay prior to it wherein the female character is very much reduced to a reward for the player to attain. It doesn't really work that way.
I never understood why would ANYONE consider rescuing the girlfriend as a reward. Sure, the story WANTS US to save her, but if we save her, then the game would be over and the fun would end, after all people are there for the game not for whoever they have to save.
And even if people cared about the story, its clear that you are rescuing a LOVED ONE and not an object. If women are soooo disposable to the males, wont it make sense to have the option to just not give 2 fucks about her and find a replacement? I mean why not? she is supposed to be an object (not an unique human being) and objects are everywhere for the males to pick up and go on with their lives because they are replaceable, right? There should be a gameplay implement where you walk to the left instead of to the traditional direction of right, so you can visit different places to pick up women to replace the one you lost. Why not? games are made for males, so CLEARLY there is plenty of innovation in the area of gameplay around shopping for your next shiny object for you to show off to your buddies, and much as the innovation of desensitize us around the loss of our loved on-SORRY I MEAN- objects, right?
Uhura said:
REZNoR_greed said:
she pretty much brought that on herself, really; spamming her videos on places like 4chan. unless you're new to the internet, you can't say you don't expect that kind of reaction from those people. or maybe she did legitimately think that place would be a good outlet to get viewers.
Do you actually have any proof that she did this?
Sadly, no. It may even be possible that her followers wanted to "help" her by posting the videos themselves on 4Chan so she can get leverage to push the Kickstarter. The only option available was to compare the time where the videos when the videos of 4Chan were posted to this graphic of her Kickstarter:
It may not say it was her, but it may imply that attracting the trolls to her video on Youtube was certainly helpful to make everyone believe that there is mysoginists in gaming culture IN SPADES, and that the Kickstarter is a worthy cause against the eeeeeeeeeeevils of males, rather than being just a small fraction of assholes that EVERY SINGLE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE ALWAYS HAS, EVER. Her comments on the TED talk where she mentions that the attacks were "organized" may even alude to the fact that she KNOWS of the sudden torrent of people insulting her video, but not that it may be the videos being posted on 4Chan that attracted in the first place when nobody even noticed she existed (as the graphic may imply with the low numbers, at first).
The last step would to confirm how many negative comments are there compared to the ones giving constructive criticism pointing out the flaws on the project, and to take note in what date were those negative comments made. After all, if the videos on 4Chan lured those people that will eventually be used as "PROOF" of mysoginism in gaming, then it should be after the videos were posted on 4Chan and not BEFORE them, where constructive criticism may have existed at first but were ignored in favor of focusing on the negative comments as the ONLY kind of comments she received.
But sadly this cannot be done anymore because the Kickstarter video closed ALL comments permanently. She didn't make the comment section restricted to "Comment Pending on Approval of Video Poster" as her previous videos, instead she CLOSED IT down with all the comments gone forever.
We may never know the truth anymore.