It’s time for prominent figures in the game industry to acknowledge that they’re responsible for the environment that their words create. Because as long as our community leaders are allowed to make misogynist “jokes” about rape and violence against women, how can we expect the sorts of criminal harassment that feminist bloggers face to go away? If rape is something normal, acceptable, and permissible, can we be surprised when the women who dare to speak up for women’s rights are threatened into silence?
He who dies with the most toys still dies.
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Said by someone wiser than most people who play online multiplayer.
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Are there men so insecure that they’re offended by fictional gay men coming onto their fictional avatars? Surely at worst it’s just a nice compliment and you can then politely set them straight, if that’s not an unfortunate choice of words.
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Yahtzee Crowsaw, there. I don’t really need to say anything else. He’s right.
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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
I think motion controls are a complete dead end for gaming. The popularity of the Wii is entirely due to the casual gaming gimmick crowd, very few of whom buy more than one or two games. Something like Kinect might be handy for when someone gets around to inventing those holographic gesture-based PCs like what Tony Stark has in Iron Man, but no form of entertainment has ever been enriched by forcing the audience to exert themselves.
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The Escapist: Extra Consideration - Console Gaming
Ben Crowshaw hits one out of the park with this statement. Afterwards, James Portnow says something smart, and Bob Chipman makes himself look like a doofus. Then again, that’s par for the course, considering he’s a moron.
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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Ellen Goodman tells it like it is
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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- Oscar Wilde
I enjoy how relevant this quote is now.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
