AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Being content to sit back and hope that things get better is the reason devs still have this shitty boy's club mentality and it's the reason guys still get away with blubbering about how men are objectified just as much as women are. If no one calls out the bullshit, no one is going to realize that hey, maybe we should do things differently now.


Inaction is foolishness.

Well Kootra got swatted during his stream, all their past stream broadcasts are gone for some reason which is upsetting. Apparently somebody called 911 and claimed there was somebody with a gun holding people hostage, some already shot or something. I wasn't watching the stream but holy shit that sounds terrifying. Luckily nobody was hurt, I don't know who was in the office besides Jordan though.

Have you made extensive economic studies about this subject? Because that's what billion dollar companies do. They don't make giant business decisions based on assumptions. However, "that's what sells" is a reason, not an excuse. The issue is still problematic. The thing is that the problem lies just as much with what the consumer is buying as with what the producer is making.


In your other posts you talk about taking action. However what action do you propose? Being vocal and telling the devs what you want is a good thing, but there is only one action which has actual effect. Buy games that you like and don't buy games you don't like. This is the only way you can actually influence anything. Shareholders don't give a daisies about sexism (or any morals for that matter), but if they see something sells they will push it. This is already happening with the LGBT angle in EA and Bioware games.

What you need to realise though is that games that appeal to males will never dissapear. Horny teenagers and men are a powerful and easily accesible/influencable niche. It's pretty easy cheddar usually. But this isn't really a bad thing, just as porn isn't a bad thing. Males generally like to look at tiddies. That's ok, they were biologically programmed to do that. If you don't like to look at tiddies all the time, that's ok too, just don't buy stuff that's made to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Go back to talking about Let's Players here and move any discussion about sexism in video games to the Taboo Topics. Thanks.

Swatting's when somebody calls the S.W.A.T on you without any crime being committed right? Who would do that? The only instance I recall is this one angry COD Asshole that ReviewTechUSA reported about on his channel.

Yeah that's pretty much it, glad they didn't start shooting when the broke in.
I have no idea who did it or why they did, it even happened in the middle of a stream so I can only assume it was timed.
No word on if the caught the guy, only some stupid rumors going around.

Well Mat, maybe I would have watched the video on your website if your video player weren't busted garbage right now.

Justice

mayn you know dat's from a satire site right
paul horner is da name of one of their writers

Good for that idiot. Somebody could have gotten seriously injured or even killed during that.
They've got gun props and stuff like that, thank god they weren't filming a movie night or something like that

and yet people still think they ain't just a satire site

36k are killed by police each year?! Who knew the world was so corrupt.

based on yo previous post I ain't sure if that's sarcasm or if ya just dumb

Translation: we were worried that edgy tumblr girls would get rustled off

Yeah, never mind the fact the entire episode is based on goddamn suicide.

Fuck the Game Grumps for trying to warn people about a sensitive subject like that.

Seriously, if you've watched the episode, you know that several instances in it could be very painful for someone who has had to deal with suicide. It's not like they said "TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains material related to cat death." This is a serious issue.