Yeah. I feel like she's condescending sometimes because she knows they're watching but it doesn't phase me much.
She's not that bad even. I don't disagree with her. Sometimes I feel like she's being really professional, sometimes I feel like she seems confused about who her audience is and audience members people need to understand that's much, much, broader and it get's tricky balancing which information to include. And I can sympathize with that. There is some extent where because I'm already aware of this and I consciously agreed with it before hand, and I've played and own a lot of those games and know a lot of what's being said, so I don't feel like I'm a part of the audience she's writing for and that's okay. I feel like there's this tricky line I wish she walked but I understand why she doesn't and that's mentioning changes or ways things could be avoided but you have to understand those are questions we've been wrestling with for a while now. And it comes down to. Lazy writing either by design or by sheer obliviousness, and then attempts to mimic the few times it's debatably okayed as emotionally well done like Shadow of the Colossus in my opinion. I can sympathize with saving lives, and if that's a life I have romantic feelings for then of course that'd change the context and create a stronger emotional resonance. But that's not about me being male, or her being female, because that wouldn't change if that was switched or even if just the roles were reversed. It's supposed about the human connection and condition. However that wouldn't change if we were switched. So I guess it just comes down to representation and disempowering no one at all because continuing that theme, would you like it if your girlfriend had to save you from rule 63 fembowser? And I bet she'd do it anyway too. And T.j. kirk had some points with the heroes journey thing; but that's an old, old relic in and of itself anyway. It isn't sacred and doesn't completely hold up quite like it used to. It's changed, I feel new tropes could even be added, the heroes fall, something for the anti-hero and captured villain so it more closely follows modern hero myths like The Dark Knight and Skyfall. Anyway, that's kind of completely off topic.
And you need to respect anyone who can push so many people's button, troll or not it's incredible that she got a reaction this big negative or positive. What's that saying about how there's no such thing as bad publicity? She's a role model for determination and perseverance if nothing else.
But my core issue, my only problem. Is I feel like pop culture while worthy of scrutiny, and for all those would be writers on the Escapist here's a great list of "what not to do" But I feel like there's more relevant, more real, more threatening issues sort of adult real world grown up political, stuff. I'm afraid of someone pulling the link between videogames and gun violence and videogames and domestic violence, I'm a little scared of the potential for even misinterpretation, but that's a valid concern no matter who's behind the wheel. Same goes for many other people's concerns about things like confirmation bias and the general nervousness people get when that kind of money moves from point a. to point .b or get's put in someone's hands. But I mean, that's just it, she's got a huge freaking audience, a lot of eyes on her; and I can't blame her for being so careful and cautious, quiet and slow sometimes. I'd lay low if I was her too. If she like, released all those videos at once, it's like the internet would collapse.
But yeah. Going back to confirmation bias for a second. And drawing that point back to role reversal. A lot of those angry people are going at those videos expecting to be made angry. They have dispositions about this too. The difference is I know what her opinion is, she's a single individual human. The response on the other hand is a massive number of people. That's evidence of real confirmation bias. She's looking for something, that no offense; actually kind of is there. And I feel like she generalizes the whole of videogames a little much when the industry is mostly in the present. She has a huge back catalogue of old games to reference; but I think people recognize that's accumulative and not representative of the current industry right? She mentioned on twitter how glad she was she saw female character and player in destiny. But microsoft was just pathetic in comparison. I'm insulted and I'm a guy, and that's not why but just because I'm a gamer who knew what was happening and how unfair it was going to be when the fight stick appeared. That was just dreadful and painful. I recognize that it seems like because these tropes are there paints the work in a negative light, however, and again, that's only when it's enforced negatively, to evoke an entirely different type of emotional response, that's when we have trouble. The thing is, I'm okay with peach, because she's not sexier when in captive like what they did to my favorite character in video games ever; in the darkness two. God I wish that game was never made. I loved in insane asylum, and it was a brief bit, true. But I really think it was better that Jenny stayed dead and he fought through all that just to say good bye. I would have written it with that in mind, not vengeance but visiting hours in the afterlife. Make it a more complete tragedy. So yeah, I feel like some examples I do disagree with, I really liked the first darkness game a lot. But I respect the point.
And that's what this boils down to for me in thousand different ways. Respect.