Here's a hint: despite what your porn mags say, having sex with someone you just met is not the norm (exceptions being made when copious amounts of alcohol or drugs are involved). Anyone who's been on a date understands this.
As for trusting his reviews, right, because he's boning every developer whose games he's reviewing. That makes total sense.
A review is one persons opinion. Not everyone has the same opinions. If you don't like his, find a reviewer who you do agree with. However, treating reviews like some sort of universal truth is asinine.
We are referring to a singular incident here. Are you that illiterate? He wrote two articles about a game and he was in a sexual relationship with the developer. He was asked outright if he wrote it during this time and he lied. So how can we trust that his writing remains neutral when he talks about the game?
And you know he lied how exactly? Were you in the room when they had sex? Do you have timestamped paparazzi photo's of them walking hand in hand? Or are you just equating mentioning the game with sleeping with her?
[edit] LOL - I just looked up the ED link, and they're claiming that a screenshot from a GDC video where the two of them were in the same room as four other people somehow "proves" they were sleeping together. IIRC, that house belonged to someone from unwinnable. It also ignores the fact that there was a subsequent video with Nathan and five other people in the room, two of whom were *gasp* also women.
Some people really need to get out more.
I missed this story somehow. Sad to see Zoe Quinn in the middle of it, she is a very cool person. I've listened to her in the past on multiple podcasts and I think she was dating the guy that did the Meat Boy soundtrack. He's really cool too.
I'd say hold off on all the judgement. She's obviously a person that has had a hard past (hence her game Depression Quest.) Turning TMZ on the game industry is the last thing I want to see happen. Who's sleeping with who is about as high school as you can get.
Hail and well met, noble White Knight. I wish to direct you to the blog of the cuckold who was involved with the harlot in question. Therein he captured images of her admitting to all the fornication.
Besides, do people take "professional" game reviews seriously?
She does seem very cool. I especially like how she pinned a bunch of harassment on some innocent losers (wizardchan) in order to get attention as a victim. Oh, and the way she shut down charity events because they didn't channel video game money into her pockets? So cool.
Ah yes, reddit and chan controversies. Don't frequent those places, so I guess I have a view of her with respect to her games and her discussing gaming on podcasts. I'll leave the controversies to the twitterers and forums.
And what is your own view of Anita Sarkeesian?
Well it now seems like the 4th estate is now picking up this story and noticing the implications of crony politics and corruption as well as the opposition against the corruption of moral and value campaigning and they are rushing to the defense of Zoe Quinn, journalists, and the game industry careerists. They are probably looking to inflame their audience and use that to try to oppress the opposition right now and strengthen the power of traditional media and companies in the game industry.
I thought there wasn't really a scandal at all? Kotaku already said the journalist in question never wrote a review of the game and only ran one article that mentioned her regarding a game jam, but it was before they had a relationship. If people are interested in who she is sleeping with then by all means, head over to TMZ.
I missed this story somehow. Sad to see Zoe Quinn in the middle of it, she is a very cool person. I've listened to her in the past on multiple podcasts and I think she was dating the guy that did the Meat Boy soundtrack. He's really cool too.
I'd say hold off on all the judgement. She's obviously a person that has had a hard past (hence her game Depression Quest.) Turning TMZ on the game industry is the last thing I want to see happen. Who's sleeping with who is about as high school as you can get.
I thought there wasn't really a scandal at all? Kotaku already said the journalist in question never wrote a review of the game and only ran one article that mentioned her regarding a game jam, but it was before they had a relationship. If people are interested in who she is sleeping with then by all means, head over to TMZ.
I've heard that argument a lot and frankly I think its full of BS. You're throwing everyone in one group trying to label them, when there were a lot of reasons not to like the ME3 ending.
On my first playthrough I expected Shepard to die. I expected most of my crew to die. In fact I expected whole races to die. I wanted to see some of my decisions be punishing. It would have made me replay the series.
What pissed me off about the ending was
1.) Introducing a character last minute to tie up everything magically for you in a deus ex machina.
2.) Crap consequences to previous decisions. One or two no dialouge wheel ambiant quests in ME3 have a greater influence on your war score that the big decisions of the prior 2 games. One game of multiplayer had an even bigger impact.
3.) The ending choices were literally lifted from the Original Deus Ex and adapted (poorly) to Mass Effect. I have a hard time accepting artistic integrity when Starkid first told me my options and my first thought is 'those are straight from Deus Ex.'
4.) The choices themselves were beyond bad. Control was boneheaded considering you just spent the previous scene arguing with TIM that the Reapers can't be controlled. But hey guess what, you're Shepard you can do it. If anything that choice is the catering/ego stroking you claim people are pissed they didn't get. Synthesis was abhorant since it equivalently is a force alteration of every living beings genetic code. Essentially genetic rape, but hey its ok cuz then Joker and EDI aren't so weird <eye roll>. If someone sliced your DNA with a monkey without asking you'd find this acceptable? Destroy was the only thing that made sense imo.
5.) You can make ANY variation of all decisions in the previous games and get all the exact same choices. That was disappointing and gave you no reason to replay the series to see different endings. Literally you can reload your save 5 minutes from the end and watch them all.
6.) Sameness of presentation in your choice in the original cut. (EC improved this substantially).
7.) Some blatantly false statements like how the Reapers could win that was made AFTER the game was gold so they can't claim cut content. (To BW's credit they added this as an option in the EC).
Frankly ME3's ending just wasn't the same quality as the vast majority of the series.
And nobody cares you like it or thought it was fine either so don't be a dick. Its feedback. If BW took your brilliant advice and issued a statement like that then they'd be the morons for making a sensitive situation worse and insulting customers. Great way to run a businesss.
If anything the whole uproar over it should tell BioWare 3 things. #1. You made people very passionate about the franchise so good job. #2. Be very clear about what you're including and don't overstate things and make sure employees aren't stating incorrect information. #3. People want big consequences that feel different in major decisions.
By how they've handled DAI so far I think they've learned #2, time will tell on #3.
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Anyway back on topic, this is a piece done by tasteful understated nerdrage that I though was pretty decent on the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRXEAGWynGA
He can get pretty longwinded but I think he's somewhat right.
Nothing "cool" about a manipulative hypocrite.
These people , especially those who are circling the wagons just are displaying a lack of ethics and a lack of concern for ethics that is incredible. It just is emblematic of the do what I say, but don't look at what I'm doing mentality, these are all people who spend their time on their own high horses throwing smears at the very community they claim to serve or represent, apparently we're all misogynists that have to be banned censored, ignored and suppressed, but they are off limits.
These people are the very same types who point their finger at fox news and their followers and laugh, but they commit every sin themselves. Fox news uses victimhood to justify heinous things, ignoring fact and reason, abandoning all concept of journalistic integrity, and its no different with social justice warriors, but they take it a step further, because unlike fox, they are multiple media outlets, they are infested all over the place, and they also don't believe in free speech. They are like the most rabid right wing fox news viewer who is also a fundamentalist conservative x10, because they resort to tactics of suppression at the drop of a hat, mass bans, mass deletion of reviews or comments, just ignoring the issue and then attempting to distort the narrative. Its why you see even corrupt moderators on reddit deleting tens of thousands of comments while in contact with zoe quinn. Its really hard to compare these sjw with fox and friends because really, their behavior is that much worse. Fundamnetally these people are a clique of bullies, who pretend to be victims, crying about victimhood endlessly, but in the end, they are the worst bullies of all.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic.
Kotaku is in the middle of this scandal, these liars always cover their asses, so of course that's what they are going to say.
Looks like someone is making a documentary on sarkeesian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHvvtUcp8I&list=UUhi4TtLzwVnMQ5xHwaxWD-g
as should be done, that woman kicked it off, and revealed the extent of corruption and dishonesty in that industry. How many times can she be objectively provably wrong while the likes of "kotaku" and the rest ignore that and just fixate on her victimhood, it just tells you something is rotten in denmark. Ethics don't matter for these people, honesty and integrity just aren't a concern.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic.
Kotaku is in the middle of this scandal, these liars always cover their asses, so of course that's what they are going to say.
Lol, well it seems like the only evidenced thing here was the sleeping around. People carrying on with this drama ought to drop it as all it's really doing is giving publicity to her.
Even if the review allegations are true, no one is going to admit it.
While I wouldn't say she ever had any measure of success in the gaming industry, she's now well and truly done there. No one is going to hire her knowing that she sleeps with coworkers and that 4chan has a lifelong vendetta against her. 4chan doesn't forgive, and it doesn't forget. She'll never get another game she "develops" herself green-lighted again either. Until she withdraws from the video game arena entirely, she can expect to have her private life pried into and posted in the comments of everything she does.
Sounds like the people that keep vendettas and continuously annoy people in real life need some other hobby to focus on.