bobdole1979 said:
Which also means the developers actually programded the game so you can do exactly what he does in the video so when Anita said
"Players are meant to derive a perverse pleasure from desecrating the bodies of unsuspecting virtual female characters."
She is NOT Lying she is telling the truth.
Shes not lying, shes also not telling the full truth if that is what she stated, she is misrepresenting facts to make a conclusion that she has already decided on (making the facts fit the fiction)
Why do i say this, because I can also truthfully say the following about the game
"Players are meant to derive a perverse pleasure from setting up a situation in which the target kills themselves, meaning the player never has to go near a body at all"
This is also "true" (the classic replace the fake gun prop to be used in the play with a real gun scenario in one of the games), but is evidence that is counter to the conclusion YOU are trying to make, since it has bugger all to do with desecrating bodies, male or female.
The simple fact of it is that you can play the game how you want, they are not "meant" to derive pleasure from anything particular in the game, they can choose.
So I wouldn't say that she was lying.I would say she is making a ill informed statement using selective reading of evidence, that what is being said is inflammatory and designed to invoke reactions based on inaccurate information and that the statement is inaccurate at best and totally separated from reality at worst.
MaddKossack115 said:
You can't claim disorganization as an excuse to just ignore the sexist lunatics dragging GamerGate's name through the mud; if the GamerGate community is going to be anything beyond a social punchline, its members NEED to openly say that sexists and misogynists are not welcome, and that their criticisms of the gaming business has nothing to do with anti-feminism, end of discussion.
Its weird, its almost as if this is bought up a lot and the people that are part of the community are getting fed up of repeating the same thing, that they are against harassment and support women in gaming.
Its not like its been part of the ethos since early on, its not like pictures that are used like a badge of admission say this sort of thing. Oh wait hang on it has been something said since very early on, there's even a picture made that was used as a like a badge of admission by some!
https://secure.static.tumblr.com/74215e1e92ae46b32c8445ef1e9b2f2a/scg7vrr/Zh4nbf4i2/tumblr_static_4sivkg4cy2kgcss4kws0s4gc4_1280_v2.png
But hey, keep parroting the inaccurate narrative. The condemnation of the harassment happens daily, but because while one side understand that if you don't feed the trolls they go away, the other side hasn't seem to have got this sodding message and so keep feeding the damn things under the bridge so they keep coming out into the sunlight.
Once you stop throw food under the bridge for the trolls they will starve.