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Anita Sarkeesian Doesn't Like CyberPunk 2077

Started by Shawn Driscoll, June 17, 2019, 04:01:53 PM

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crkrueger

#75
June 20, 2019, 10:29:44 AM
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

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Omega

#76
June 20, 2019, 10:44:32 AM
The telling factor though will be in how the RPG and PC game publishers react. Hopefully neither bends knee to these nuts.

Armchair Gamer

#77
June 20, 2019, 11:03:45 AM
Quote from: Omega;1092911The telling factor though will be in how the RPG and PC game publishers react. Hopefully neither bends knee to these nuts.

   As far as I know, Mike Pondsmith more or less is R. Talsorian Games, so I wouldn't worry on that front.

Kiero

#78
June 20, 2019, 11:05:31 AM
Quote from: Doc Sammy;1092482She didn't get her endgame goal at those UN hearings and now the video game industry is ignoring her since she was a consultant to both Mass Effect Andromeda AND Anthem, two of the largest video game failures in recent years so she's no longer seen as infallible like she once was.

Fucking hell, it wasn't bad enough that BioWare failed to sack Casey Hudson after he fucked up Mass Effect 3; and let him ruin Andromeda with his crap writing too, but they also hired that shill to stir in some SJW garbage too?
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RandyB

#79
June 20, 2019, 11:06:39 AM
Quote from: Omega;1092911The telling factor though will be in how the RPG and PC game publishers react. Hopefully neither bends knee to these nuts.

"Maximum" Mike Pondsmith *is* the RPG publisher - he founded and still owns R. Talsorian Games. And what he is doing is damn near the opposite of bending the knee. Nothing to worry about on that front.

Ratman_tf

#80
June 20, 2019, 11:20:23 AM
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

GeekyBugle

#81
June 20, 2019, 11:56:32 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;1092908More Maximum Mike in response to some idiots at E3.
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-creator-mike-pondsmith-defends-2077-from-post-e3-criticism/

Yeah, and that rag should only be linked in archived links.
QuoteSo he likes the game, then, though whether or not CD Projekt's creation matches Pondsmith's vision wasn't the crux of the criticism, and would be an exercise in comparison. As a game named for a genre which has a great deal of existing symbolic meaning, Cyberpunk 2077's portrayal of the future and what it has to say about cultural and economic oppression will surely continue to be scrutinized.

You fucking what mate? A game will be scrutinized for "what it has to say about cultural and economic oppression"?. It's a fucking game you zealots! It has nothing to say about those things in the real world, it only has to make sense inworld. But what can you expect from the SocJusCult zealot Urinalists?
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Snowman0147

#82
June 20, 2019, 01:41:52 PM
Quote from: Kiero;1092913Fucking hell, it wasn't bad enough that BioWare failed to sack Casey Hudson after he fucked up Mass Effect 3; and let him ruin Andromeda with his crap writing too, but they also hired that shill to stir in some SJW garbage too?

Yes.  She took a photo with her among the staff at bioware.

Opaopajr

#83
June 20, 2019, 06:10:16 PM
Journalism sure has suffered since the de-regulation of media consolidation under Bill Clinton... :D Is it still not censorship-censorship if the gov't sub-contracted out its role to oligarchic cartels? :D
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Spinachcat

#84
June 20, 2019, 08:11:15 PM Last Edit: June 20, 2019, 08:13:56 PM by Spinachcat
I wonder how many SJW "consulted" flops need to occur before the video game companies pull their heads out of their ass?


Quote from: Opaopajr;1092994Is it still not censorship-censorship if the gov't sub-contracted out its role to oligarchic cartels? :D

I consider it censorship, but I understand the legal definitions.

However, there is a legal definition of "platform" vs. "publisher"...

GeekyBugle

#85
June 20, 2019, 09:38:08 PM
[video=youtube;RNTRbis9WHw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTRbis9WHw[/youtube]
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Ratman_tf

#86
June 20, 2019, 11:40:33 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1093021[video=youtube;RNTRbis9WHw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTRbis9WHw[/youtube]

Good, if true.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Novastar

#87
June 22, 2019, 04:18:09 AM
Well, that put a little giddy-up back in my step. Thx GeekyBugle!
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thedungeondelver

#88
June 22, 2019, 04:23:26 AM
I'm sure she'll find a new, equally annoying confidence job to pull.  Trust me, she's latched on to pop culture like a tick.
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Opaopajr

#89
June 22, 2019, 06:20:22 AM
Eh... gov't, corporations, and technocratic elites have already "Cyberpunked" NGOs beyond their legal pupose for their own "street values," to borrow thedungeondelver's argument.

501c3s are supposed to spend 5% of their previous annual net each fiscal cycle, so if you are spending out more than you previously started with you're doing fine. Starts with 200+k, gains 300+k, ends with under 140+k... system working as intended. Ooooh, oh no, cartels lose out on needed-to-be-laundered money for tax write-off and social PR! ;) Yeah, quite the renewable resource.

Remember, these are exortion services to push agendas, so as to launder and tax write-off funds for corps, in exchange for good social PR, and more importantly backscratching gov't and cartel inner circles by coddling their next-gen parasitic assets -- all while their precious social sciences networkering flunkies get "paying non-profit [titled!] gigs (with awards!)" to pad their resumes for when they return to halls of power in a decade or so, to keep the circus plowing merrily along to Gehenna.

It's how the next crop of parasites brood their young in the globetreking technocratic managerial class. ;)

Yes, you live in Cyberpunk hell already. :) My condolences.
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman
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