I saw this story about IGN last night, but it’s really making the rounds this morning. So let’s go ahead and lay it out. Earlier this year, it looked like IGN had gotten the message about our consumer revolt. But recently, they’ve slid into the same sick patterns that outlets like Kotaku and Polygon adhere to. Their editor slimed GamerGate a couple weeks ago. Now, their staff is injecting gender politics in an interview with a Nintendo developer. In just a few short weeks, they’ve lost all the credibility they had built up by (for the most part) staying away from spreading SJW talking points.
Let’s excerpt the interview, which concerns The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, for those who haven’t seen it yet:
IGN: So earlier, I brought up the similarities in the approach. The outfits remind me of gear-driven games like Monster Hunter and MMOs. Part of what ties into equipment-driven games is a player has a choice between choosing a male or female. I’m curious if, in this game, players will have a choice between a male avatar or a female avatar, especially since the story doesn’t seem tied to a specific gender?
Hiromasa Shikata: I’m going to tell you a little bit about the story quickly and we’ll circle around, here. There’s this kingdom, an event happens, and the king needs heroes…The story calls for this sort of legend/prophecy where heroes will come together to help solve a problem. And in that, they are male characters. So, because the game is set with that as the story background, you cannot choose a gender; you are a male character.
IGN: I guess I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t express some slight disappointment with that, especially because there is a Zelda outfit Link wears in the game. It just feels like it’s one step closer to giving the Zelda series’ female audience the chance to explore that universe from another perspective.
Shikata: Understood. I understand what you’re saying, and just as general information, we do have a lot of female staff members who are playing this game and enjoying it. It doesn’t seem to be a big issue to them. They still are getting emotional investment in this game. And to be honest, Link isn’t the most masculine of guys in the world, depending on how you want to project yourself into the character.
https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/616177726777655296
That’s literally what this clown, said, Sargon! His fucking mandating to inject radical feminist activism into every developer interview. It’s unprofessional and annoying. I’m not the only one who thinks so, either. Check out the comments section on IGN:
Even the mods are speaking out against this trash:
That guy may not be a mod much longer lol. But it’s still good too see such widespread revulsion to this “interview.” It looks more like an inquisition. Our opponents want to stamp out any deviation from the SJW agenda. I guess it’s a good thing for us that so many gamers are on our side. As I’ve said from the start, they can never really defeat us in the gaming sphere, because they just don’t have the popular support. That doesn’t mean we can let up in exposing their bullshit, though. Turn it up to 11.
P.S. Polygon wrote about this as well, and it was just as dumb as you would imagine. The comments were mostly worthless as well, except for a few gems like this one:
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My brain hurts, this is just too pathetic. People actually aren’t allowed creative freedom unless it fits a certain criteria.
I bet you they could find an a way to argue that a game set in a male prison is exclusionary because there’s no female playable character.
I wonder how long it’ll be before the scumbags at IGN start cleaning house in the comments section?
They usually do. I’ve been reading their stuff again somewhat recently and see how they’re trying to pull the shit other SJW infected sites pull.
I like the shot Shikata took at the IGN interviewer: “Link isn’t the most masculine of guys in the world, depending on how you want to project yourself into the character.”
I gotta take a break from visiting this site, everytime i read an article here i gotta watch at least 30 minutes of kitten videos just to calm myself down. That “I guess I wouldn’t be doing my job if” line is fucking infuriating.
I’m right there with you…
I wouldn’t be spreading my agenda it should have said…
“…wouldn’t be doing my job…”
Aren’t they supposed to ask question, get answer? Sure, you can voice how you feel about it but I don’t think “voicing my opinion” describes a journalist.
I want a safe space from poor journalism! With kitten videos and lego!
Lego is no longer safe from SJWs it seems…
I have no idea why SJWs are so fucking obsessed with making Link a woman. If they actually played any fucking video games, they’d know that the series already has a fucking awesome female protagonist – Zelda. Her name is in the title of the fucking series! But of course, that’s never enough.
Shit, I’d love for there to be a Zelda game where she gets to be the lead character, maybe something along the lines of ActRaiser, where half of it is Zelda fighting to clear out monsters from her kingdom, then the other half is her using her royal position to rebuild the parts of Hyrule damaged by Ganon’s forces.
It’s the same reason they want to make Spiderman black and why they made Thor a woman. They could easily create their own characters, but they want to change established characters because they perceive it as taking something away from what they consider to be their enemy, straight white men. This is why they always get upset when they hear the decision to keep Peter Parker a white guy (and other similar decisions.)
That’s the way they think, “there’s our characters and there’s your characters.” They see it as characters somehow belonging to straight white men and they want to take those away and reform them into their characters, rather than just realizing the characters exist as part of a story that anyone can enjoy.
There’s already a black Spiderman in Miles Morales. They want to turn Spiderman gay because of the cast choice in the new movie. Of course, Miles could always be not ‘black enough’ for them.
Yeah, I had heard they did that with the comics, but there were waves of complaints again when the new Spiderman reboot announced a white guy to play Peter Parker. It’s just not worth pandering to these people in any way because they’ll never be happy.
Exactly. It’s not about “making more female/minority characters”, it’s “This will make manbabies cry delicious male tears”. If these stupid thundercunts actually picked up a comic book, they’d realize that there have been women and minorities taking up identities from male characters for decades with no one making a fuss. Examples:
After the first Captain Marvel died, Monica Rambeau, a black woman took up the mantle. No one complained, and she ended up leading the Avengers with a respected track record.
When Doctor Mid-Nite retired, his protege Beth Chapel (a black woman) took up the mantle after she gained the ability to see in the dark like he did. No one complained.
After Wildcat was crippled during the first Crisis, his goddaughter Yolanda Montez (a Mexican woman) adopted the name. No one complained.
When Vic Sage died of lung cancer, his protege Rene Montoya, a Hispanic lesbian, took up his identity of The Question. No one complained.
Doctor Strange was replaced by Brother Voodoo, Invisible Kid’s replacement was black, the second Star Spangled Kid was a teenage girl, etc, etc. NO ONE MADE A BIG DEAL OUT OF IT, BECAUSE NONE OF IT INVOLVED TURNING AN ESTABLISHED CHARACTER INTO ANOTHER RACE OR GENDER SIMPLY FOR GENDER/RACE POLITICS BULLSHIT. FOR FUCK’S SAKES, THE PUNISHER WAS TURNED BLACK FOR SEVERAL ISSUES, AND IT WAS A FUCKING EMBARRASSMENT AND INSULTING TO BLACKS. DO WE REALLY WANT TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD AGAIN?
While I’m not disagreeing with you, I think the reason these people focus on popular characters is because they want maximum exposure for least effort.
“Make our own characters? Pfft, that’s too hard. We gotta take what’s already popular through someone else’s hard work, time and dedication and simply usurp it!”
What’s easier? Create something new and fresh and then dedicate your life to building up a fandom and canon? Or just aggressively take someone else’s hard work?
I hope these people never wail about how Hollywood never comes up with new ideas.
You know what, to be fair it’s probably a little of Column A and a little of Column B. I hadn’t even considered that take on it until you said so and that actually does make a lot of sense.
Agreed. I have to say that there appears to be a measure of spite involved in changing the characters to suit their politics.
Nintendo already tried that with a Peach game where she used her emotions as a game mechanic and these people freaked out and felt insulted because of it.
They can do a game based on a coven of witches and no one would start shrieking about the lack of warlocks. Remembering the not to old series Charmed.
I exclusively play female characters when I have the option, there are a lot of games that don’t have the option. What do I do? I fucking deal with it like an adult and not let it ruin my experience because ultimately it doesn’t fucking matter what gender your character is. It seems as though the lack of a female protagonist is just an excuse for these people to complain and make issues out of nothing.
I recently played South Park: Stick of Truth and there’s no real female option and I played on without it and it was one of the most fun and enjoyable games I’ve played in a long time. Stick of Truth easily made my personal top 10 list, despite being as short as it was. In fact, that was my only complaint, was that it was too short.
Fuck these people who endlessly complain about “representation” in video games. They don’t care about games or else they would be asking real questions about the game rather than this stupid fucking identity bullshit.
Usually in games where you can choose between male & female characters, I’ll pick a male my first run through, and the next one I’ll choose a female. I like to see all the differences that come from different characters and weigh the pros & cons. The people constantly “demanding” a lot of diverseness in character designs don’t seem to appreciate the strengths & weaknesses a character can have that make them more interesting (with well written depth) & relatable. It’s like their thoughts are similar to fan fiction writers.
They probably aren’t too far off from bad fanfiction writers. I had a tumblr account since late 2011 and I can’t tell you the number of times I saw some stupid bullshit where they randomly make their own little kinda stories. Not quite fanfics, but something I guess they believe to be behind the scenes or some unspoken plot or something. The best example I can think of at the moment (and it’s really fucking stupid) is that half the fans of the TV show Supernatural on tumblr seem to think there’s some kind of unspoken gay relationship between one of the main characters and an angel that’s been in the show since season 5 and they go on and on about it non-stop. It’s fucking annoying as shit and makes me embarrassed to have even liked the show in the first place. Just another reason I can’t stand Tumblr or most fandoms in general.
Honestly, most people that like a show, like a show for one reason or another. Some people take it to a whole new level when they can congregate and feed off of each other’s positive feels and reinforcement.
Being fair, the creators of that show keep putting in stuff that feeds the shippers because they think it’s funny, also Misha is a fucking troll.
Yeah, I realize that too. I kinda stopped watching just because it became impossible to separate those obnoxious faggots “headcannons” from the actual show. I might pick it up again sometime in the future, but for now Supernatural stands as an example to me why something shouldn’t get too close to it’s fandom.
hahaha, a foot long discussion on which characters are appropriate, hating on how other people see their avatars, DIRECTLY following your logic that characters don’t matter to the gamer and therefore any requests for a non-cis persona should be ignored.
you cannot make this shit up
Wut?
1: I wasn’t talking about which characters are appropriate, I was talking about how it’s stupid when people take established characters and make stupid changes to them for no reason.
2: I wasn’t even talking about how other people see their avatars. Where did you even get that from?
3: Typically the race and gender of a character don’t matter. What matters in a game is good story, gameplay and characterization. Often times the skin color and gender of a character actually has little to do with any of those. Take a look at Walking Dead by Telltale, you play a black guy, one I’d argue is one of the most likable characters in gaming in the past few years. It isn’t because he’s black, it’s because he was a decently written character.
Who the fuck are you or anyone else to tell someone else what THEIR characters should be? People put real time and effort into making their games and as someone who is making a game now, I know what it’s like having certain visions for a character I want to make. If I have an idea for a character and just picture her as a dark skinned woman, that’s the character I’m going to make, same if I picture a character as a white dude. Changing a characters race or gender because YOU don’t like it is stupid as fuck.
You might want to watch season 10 episode 5 if you stopped watching before that. I thought it was pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXjxAh69r0
What’s with that show? It has a ton of seasons and some really strange shippings, but beyond that it’s all I’ve heard about it.
At this point I’m beginning to think that’s all there is to it.
I haven’t been watching since the 7th season, but it was pretty good comedy-horror.
Seven seasons? Damn, my attention span’s too low to get into something as longstanding as that.
I like how you differentiate between bad and good fanfiction writers, because people generally believe every fan-fic is godawful when that’s not really the case. You might have to sift through some crappy ones, but there are some gems (especially when you get the original author of a story doing their own fan-fiction of their series).
Yeah, like with many things, usually the bad is more noticeable than the good. There are good fanfics out there, the problem is finding them, because there is a lot of shit to sift through. I honestly don’t even go looking for them since I just don’t want to waste the time reading half way into one and just drop it because it’s so poorly written. That especially sucks when it’s a really good concept no one else has done, but the guy doing it can’t write for shit.
I think the worst part of the Supernatural fandom on Tumblr are the “Wincest” fans. These weirdos get off on imagining Sam and Dean getting it on with each other. Gross.
Yeah, these ‘shippers’ are all kinds of fucked up. Shipping is a hobby I will never in my life understand. Dedicating so much time to fictional relationships of fictional characters, be it canon or not just seems really weird to me. I mean, at the very least I can understand something like stamp collecting because then you really have something to show off. But creating relationships between fictional characters? It gets more weird when it’s characters that absolutely hate each other and they somehow think that means they’re in love? …And then it gets even MORE weird like you said where they do incest ships. What the actual fuck.
God, this shit makes my head hurt.
I get shipping as a fun little game but yeah I know there are people that take that shit way too seriously. To me it’s just a little game I play when watching the series and I generally go with the ones the series heavily hints at. Except Digimon. I don’t agree with the one ship they made cannon. But I am not going to lose sleep over it. I do not go near the incest ones or the hate ones.
And then they mention that in the show during one of the 4-wall breaking episodes featuring the Prophet Chuck.
Yeah, the fandom pandering moments are eyerollingly bad. Every single time.
As an actual writer these people just make me cry. I’ve written several scripts for fun and have taken a multitude of script writing classes. These people don’t know jack about character writing. Now I acknowledge my writing is very flawed and I’m no master writer but I am Shakespeare compared to these people. They think an entire character’s identity is their gender. That is it. Not their past, not their weaknesses, not their strengths. Some of my favorite characters are women and honestly their gender is a very small fraction of their character. 3 of my favorites are Toph from Avatar, Erza from Fairy Tail, and Lady Satsuki from Kill la Kill. If these people had their way these characters would be stripped of what makes them so great. Because we can’t have anything bad happen to female characters. Erza wouldn’t have her traumatizing childhood thus is the reason why she protects those she loves even if it means death, Lady Satsuki wouldn’t have her entire life which would fuel the fire of her determination, and Toph would not be blind thus making her determined to show she is still capable of fending for herself if not more. Instead these characters would just turn into the damn Sand Snakes from GoT and we all saw how well that went. If bad things don’t happen to the characters then they won’t be able to pick themselves back up and win. That is why we root for them. Otherwise what’s the damn point.
The first 3 resident evil games were great at this in giving differing point of views from multiple people.
People complain about representation but here is street fighter where there is someone from at least one country from every continent.
or is it bad because you’re beating up PoCs?
There’s just no winning with SJWs, that’s all there is to it. If you don’t include women, you’re sexist. If you include women in the background, they’re decoration. If you make women enemies, you’re perpetuating violence against women. If you make the hero/protagonist a woman, she’s just a “man with tits” being violent.
They’ve got every angle covered so they can complain about it, unless it’s a shitty “art” piece like Sunset, that tries to drive a poorly executed political message into your head.
When will people realize its not the character in the game thats important, but the person playing it.
Because that would require some common sense and not being a brainwashed, tunnel-visoned SJW drone.
It’s the story the developers want to tell. Not the story you want them to tell.
Shit, even Choose Your Own Adventure books sometimes locked your gender.
MMMK.
I don’t understand why stories have to be inclusive. Isn’t the point of a story to give you a perspective other than your own? To give you the ability to experience something outside of your existence?
I mean what if Tom Sawyer was a female? Would that change the story? Probably not, well, at least not meaningfully. Would Ripley from Alien be any less badass as a male? I don’t think so. Should we be getting book A and Book B and Movie A and Movie B now one for boys and one for girls?
Isn’t that EXclusive? not INclusive? Would they have said the same thing if you could only play as a female and not male? No, they’d shift to POC language.
Writers write stories from their creativity, as artists create the same way. If they want to draw a male, or a female for their piece, why is it a problem if they choose to do it the way they want?
So what is it? Excluding one gender or the other and creating Dimorphic Media all the way? Or, do we want to just bash and shame in the hopes of censorship?
Here’s an idea, why don’t we discuss the game, the story, the graphics, something relevant, stop wasting Dev’s time with this bullcrap. Jeez, it’s like content doesn’t matter…
Wait, oh yeah… IGN hasn’t cared about content for years.
You’re preaching to the choir as it were.
I’ve made that exact same argument dozens of times only to see SJW’s cover their ears and scream “BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH I can’t hear you.”
They only want inclusion that excludes others they deem unworthy…
Oh trust me I know, but it’s better to vent.
I’ve also read the same “E32015 best E3 for females in vg” crap on Gamespot…why everyone is try so hard to turn into Polygon/Kotaku garbage?
I read somewhere that E3 2015 actually had LESS female leads that last year by quite a bit. I’ll see if I can dig up the article…
Here:
https://medium.com/@adrianchm/the-truth-about-e3-2015-and-female-protagonists-b006094e44b1
This needs to be archived with everything else that goes against the SJW narrative. They’re going full retard and don’t seem to be slowing down just yet. Just look at the gamergate page on wikipedia.
Yeah, by a fairly significant margin too.
Funny thing is, they’re all chocking it up as a win, completely ignoring the fact that these games were in development LOOOOOOONG before the war on gamers even started.
Holy shit, if you can’t even brainwash a mod far enough to not buy your clickbait trash, you’re too far gone. Good thing IGN is still garbage.
It’s good to see people fighting back more openly. The fact that we’ve given people a voice shouldn’t be under estimated.
I used to be defending IGN from comments comparing them to Polygon, Kotaku, Destructoid, etc. Now this happens…
Yet, it’s not IGN entirely to blame, only these corrupt turds of this “interview”
IGN doing what they do best. -_-
Just had a thought, not about this story in particular but about that whole “infinite gender” movement thingy:
Ever notice they never come up with formal pronouns in place of Mr & Ms/Mrs? Could it be that some actually grow up out of their phases?
I dunno, some of these SJW hipsters are pushing mid 30 to even 40.
The thing is, i wouldn’t say those people are “on our side”. I know that it doesn’t say anywhere that they aren’t proGG, but I’ve got a few friends that have this same mindset on the situation: they don’t like GamerGate, they think GamerGate is stupid, but they’re not SJW’s either and are just as tired of the identity politics as we are. I’ve been seeing this attitude a lot lately, it’s the neutral side finally getting tired of the bullies (games media) not only trying to boss around the nerds (gamers) but the teachers (developers) as well. You play games to ESCAPE reality, it’s the same reason Sunset sucked the big one, and the neutrals are starting to realize that if the SJW narrative is enforced, this industry is dead, because as much as the media wants you to believe that male characters are a sexist bias, if it’s a good story and/or the game is fun, you won’t care if your character has a penis or vagina.
I’m also REALLY FUCKING TIRED of the media and SJW’s trying to force this crap on FOREIGN DEVELOPERS. Their culture is WAY different in Japan. It’s the same reason they didn’t understand the Tamadachi Life backlash about the lack of gay relationships, because being gay in Japan isn’t really a big deal. For God’s sake, we’re talking about a country that CENSORS ITS PORN because reproductive genitalia is a taboo to talk about and openly display. It’s the SAME REASON that artist that keeps making things from a mold of her vagina keeps getting arrested. It’s the SAME REASON anime will feature a fully stacked Jcup character naked in high detail yet also lacks a vagina. They have a different vision for their games, keep your shitty ideas out of it.
If they don’t like gamergate or think it’s stupid then chances are they’re still believing the narrative because it’s still about ethics in games journalism but the media and SJWs have distorted that message so much that it’s being presented as a totally different beast.
Shikata response should straight up of been, FUCK OFF you retarded ideologue….
Then gotten up and promptly walked out of the interview!
Can someone point me to what’s exactly wrong with asking if there will be a female option? This is one of the things that always interests me also, it has nothing to do with telling someone they should make their game to be PC and I don’t see why the outrage. I’m also a little bit disappointed if there is no such option present, that’s just how I personally feel like, what I enjoy, it’s a matter of taste and it doesn’t in any way imply that I would like for the people making their game to make it so it suits me, I would prefer them do it their own way even tho I may not like it.
It’s the “I guess I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t express some slight disappointment with that” part.
It’s saying that the game journos job is complain that there’s no female player characters, ignoring A) Hyrule Warriors had 8+, and B) the 3 player characters are presumably the 3 Links from the various alternate timelines of the Zelda series.
Yeah if he said that it’s his personal opinion then I think it would be a bit more appropriate .
There’s nothing wrong with it. That’s not the problem. If I’m a game dev and I’m being interviewed by some game journo who asks about the availability of a female playing character option. I tell him no. He asks why. I tell him it’s my choice for the game. He should leave it right there — especially if I’m Japanese (people known not to care about political correctness or SocJus).
I somewhat object here guys. Look, are reviewers EVER to put their politics in to these things? Or must they hermetically seal it?
On the other hand, imagine you hold a very strong emotional conviction that is also controversial or unpopular. To pick a random example, maybe you FAVORED the Iraq War and in the middle of your review you wanted to remark about how “The game’s character is widely misunderstood, much as fans of George W. Bush can relate to.” Would that work? Or would that feel like you were begging for a fight?
(IF I get a dozen responses to this that talk about Iraq, those commenters have completely lost the plot, this is a hypothetical example for fuck’s sake.)
So if you’re going to be the Social Justice Game Reviewer, or the Christian Game Reviewer, or the Objectivist Game Reviewer, or the Libertarian Game Reviewer, OK. Just make sure people can see what your politics actually are. Otherwise why go there?
How does the gender of your nonspeaking avatar give you the perspective of anything? Characters that don’t speak are designed specifically for your to put yourself into them. Link just happens to be somewhat androgenic already so there should be ZERO issue.
I’d even go so far as saying there should be no issue in half life. You never really really see Gordon you never hear him, all you hear is people calling a name and true gordon isn’t a female like you could make the srguyfor immersion that it’s a nickname.
God damnit who cares anyways? I don’t care what my character is or isn’t I truly don’t. Why do these people?
It’s at least refreshing to see the vast majority of comments on the article’s forum are telling Jose Otero to shove it up his cuck-hole. They are even bringing up the bullshit Sunset review. They will never win this fight.
Watch as he turns the comments off and claim they sent him pedo-files via email and how it traumatized him. -_-
why isn’t there gluten-free options for the snacks in bubble bobble?
God damn it IGN. I admit that IGN has problems. This is coming from a person that was in the Mass Effect movement. There were definitely conflicts of interest but I at least gave them credit of not jumping on the identity politics band wagon and thanks to just following them Sarkeesian was able to stay off my radar until 2014. They never delve into the sexism bullshit it seemed…..until now. Good job guys.
I love Shikata’s answer though, its sort of straight up saying “it is what it is and guess what? Our female staff don’t care”
If only these writers could get that last part and realize that most people DON’T FUCKING CARE! They’ll play whatever they want to play and they won’t be dictated to. If a female chooses to play as a male character because god forbid she just likes playing the game then what are they saying about that female? That she NEEDS to be represented by someone in her own gender? She can’t possibly take enjoyment in the game without a female avatar? Fuck off IGN, you’re going down the shitter. San Francisco man, its got to be something in the drinking water…or the hair dye.
But what else do I expect from IGN? These are the same idiots who ran with The Last Guardian is cancelled story because we have Russian sources.
I am genuinely curious. If they made a GTA game with a female lead, would they object to the ultra violence still employed?
No, no, don’t answer that. I know they would say it is “symbolic of smashing patriarchy” or some bullshit.
Nope, instead they would complain that the protagonist is nothing more than a man with boobs…can’t win with these people. They thrive on looking for outrage.
Awesome. Its great to see people fighting back against SJW politics in games. Keep up the good fight people. Spread the word, and lets win this thing. Hopefully, at some point we can do a march on EA.
Ralph, you need to have your prefrontal lobes checked out, if damaged they prevent a person from being able to see things from other perspective than his own.
What’s the fucking problem with including women? All male cast is not an artistic choice no more than ignoring blacks was an artistic choice at the Oscars. It’s a sign of white privilege just like the all male default setting is a privilege. If not, try for twice (Lara and?) using all female casts and telling the critics to stfu because gender doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t matter why the fight for staying all male, if switching is so easy you ought to be able to do it yourself. Pathetic how many ppl here don’t have any other response to civil rights claims than “if you don’t like being excluded stay outside” which should give an indication of why the term “social justice” is so threatening. “If you don’t like getting treated like crap you shouldn’t be in a society where I create the rules of who deserves to get represented and treated fairly”.
Oh, the hypocrisy! Just own that you’re scared of losing privilege and are trying to do all you can to secure your own rights at the expense of others.
Now let’s see how many of your supporters are going to respond with logic… lol, sorry, rape threats, death threats and verbal abuse. And of course all in the name of equality.
“Ralph, you need to have your prefrontal lobes checked out, if damaged they prevent a person from being able to see things from other perspective than his own.”
He can see things from any perspective he chooses and there ain’t shit you can do about it. Deal with it. You need to have your DNA checked out to ensure your parents aren’t close relatives.
“What’s the fucking problem with including women? All male cast is not an artistic choice no more than ignoring blacks was an artistic choice at the Oscars.”
Game developers can include who they want in their games. Whether the choice on the part of the dev is artistic or not, it doesn’t matter. If you don’t like the fact that a game doesn’t include enough women, then don’t play the game. If I had the skills necessary for game development, I would literally go out of my way to make sure I not only create a kick ass, enjoyable game, but that I also offend the living fuck out of you and your ilk.
“It’s a sign of white privilege just like the all male default setting is a privilege.”
Serious use of the term “white privilege” to support a weak argument = confirmed retard. Would it be “white privilege” if the game devs are Japanese? You DO know the article is about a JAPANESE game dev’s artistic choice. Right? You DO know that JAPANESE game devs don’t give two wet fucks about some butthurt, white, western, upper middle class crybaby. Right?
“If not, try for twice (Lara and?) using all female casts and telling the critics to stfu because gender doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t matter why the fight for staying all male, if switching is so easy you ought to be able to do it yourself.”
Game devs can do whatever the fuck they want. Deal with it.
“Pathetic how many ppl here don’t have any other response to civil rights claims than “if you don’t like being excluded stay outside” which should give an indication of why the term “social justice” is so threatening.”
Pathetic = your existence. Game devs can do whatever the fuck they want. Deal with it. The only thing threatening about Social Justice is the unnerving fact that the retards who believe in that horseshit are capable of reproducing. Social Justice = ideology of losers, functional retards, general failures and other recipients of a genetic raw deal.
“If you don’t like getting treated like crap you shouldn’t be in a society where I create the rules of who deserves to get represented and treated fairly”.
Analogy fail.
“Oh, the hypocrisy! Just own that you’re scared of losing privilege and are trying to do all you can to secure your own rights at the expense of others. ”
Hypocrisy is to SJWs what stench is to a pile of shit. Just when I think SJWs can’t get any more stupid, along comes you.
“Now let’s see how many of your supporters are going to respond with logic… lol, sorry, rape threats, death threats and verbal abuse. And of course all in the name of equality.”
Why should anyone respond to you with logic, when there is none to be found in your post? It’s little more than pretentious, pseudo-intellectual, weak cultural marxist propaganda. No logic to be found.
TL; DR version: You’re a retard among retards.
wow, I really got to you there 😀
What’s sad is the time you spent trying to come up with an answer and decided to enter that load of substandard gargle. Again using your logic I’m gonna move on with my great day championing for my opinion and there is nothing little trolls can do about it.
It took you 11 days to come up with “I’m smarter then you! You’re the real trolls here! I’m going to go away and not come back because I won so hard!”?
You’re not too bright, are you?
I posted that reply 12 days ago. A reply I know you saw. You finally respond to it yesterday, but you got to me? You get 0/10 for that one since even you don’t believe that horseshit.
one man’s joke is another man’s life. Looky: how powerless you are
The faggotry is strong in you.
I think we should just start boycotting those editors. I’m still not willing to abandon IGN just yet. The one time I’ve seen Jose on a podcast he was a mousey little cuck who was talking about E3 and said “yeah it’s great that they interviewed a woman during the nintendo conference” and the rest of the staff was just like “yeah.” Then there was a long pause. The other guy who tweeted about the e3 pictures always seemed like a typical fedora whiteknight.
Reguardless the only thing I use IGN for is to watch Naomi Kyles tits on the Daily Fix
I remember how IGN used to have a huge gallery of E3 booth babes after the show. Now nothing. Also, their babe of the day feature is gone… a feature that helped launch various careers for many women be it modeling, acting or photography.
reminder that demands for representation in any medium is a form of unchecked entitlement
They’re the ones thinking we’re entitled for being able to return games on Steam but the shit they complain about isn’t. I highly doubt many of them even purchase games.
Gender is just a social construct right? Why don’t they socially reconstruct Link into a girl?
I called out one of the IGN mods about her pushing a fucking stupid narrative in one of the game reviews. It’s pathetic how low they’ve gone in that instead of just reviewing the fucking game they have to push their ideology and the ever increasing SJWs and white knights just come in to defend them. The mod/ author seemed to be a recent addition to the team.