fought the good fight for 15 years
and her tropes vs women series had a banging intro song
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Gamergate was almost 10 years ago and today you learned Depression Quest was actually a free game the whole time.
I think Anita started something that has now been moved in on by people who do it in a far more entertaining way, essentially pushing her content out of the space. Combined with obviously the fact that her name still carries (unwarranted) negativity for people who grew up affected in waves of gamergate reactionary culture.
Either way she did a lot of good. Hope she knows it.
I always felt like she was kind of shooting fish in a barrel. It used to be really rare for games to have nuanced, good writing and it's still kinda rare. It wasn't that long ago that any depiction of a woman in a game required enormous cleavage and the ability to perv on her. Metal Gear Solid games have modes where you can make a woman do risque poses and take photos of her. There's a Hitman game where you fight against sexy nuns in bondage gear.
That stuff still exists but I think there are a lot broader depictions of women now. We're living in a simultaneous golden age and dark age for games. It's weird. There have never been so many charming, innovative indie games as right now. There are even games with good politics.
So I'd like to think at least Sarkeesian was part of that, helping to let people know games didn't have to be about grunting white man looking at tits and shooting a gun.
How DARE YOU talk shit about MGS when you're absolutely right and the series has a bad track record for treating woman characters.
no, no, you see she breaths through her skin like a plant. this absolutely is a better explanation than just admitting i was randy while designing the character
nooooo it makes sense in the lore!! you will be ashamed of your words and deeds!!! - kojima
vs
i like looking at pretty girls lol - nier developer
I remember when gamers made a flash game where you punched her in the face complete with blackening her eyes or busting her lip.
Extremely normal people having a normal reaction to a woman who mildly critiqued their hobby.
Yeah her takes are pretty lukewarm. She's just like "it'd be cool if we had some female characters that don't exist as ornaments and have some agency" and straight up starts all the videos in her series off with this:
I can’t believe you can accurately trace the alt right directly back to people mad at her videos about games.
What a stupid timeline.
Problem is: she wasn't exactly good herself... but her comments were tame beyond measure.
They were tame and people still beat her up for them.
And it spawned a lot of ultra-right and alt-right people too.
Problem is: she wasn't exactly good herself
I know nothing other than her making losers mad. Explain please?
I remember I thought she was "thunderf00t" on youtube because that obsessive freak used her in so damn many video thumbnails.
Thunderfoot has undergone a weird shift to where his new obsession is bashing Elon Musk. I scrolled through his twitter a while back and was surprised that I couldn't find a single tweet complaining about wokeness or anything, it's literally exclusively making fun of Musk and arguing with Musk fans. Critical support?
amazing atheist also shifted his content and became less reactionary, though his heel turn was way more public. these things are a process i suppose, but i figure trump was a real "choose your side" moment for many.