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@darkdragonmage99 said:

@Agnosticwatermelon: If she didn't have a pair of tits and nothing dangling no one would even blink an eye at that test it's a double standard . I remember when feminists were all about equality not we want = pay but walk on egg shells around us or we'll sue.

Simply put treat everyone the same if they can't handle it fuck them that is equality as equal as it could possibly get.

Yes, life and gender roles are completely and utterly devoid of any complexity or nuance. Well done, Professor Internetman.

@iAmJohn said:

But can I play as Ron Paul? Wait, lemme rephrase that: Can I beat the shit out of Ron Paul? Then I might be interested.

Listen to this man and his ideas.

@dr_mantas: I had a real long argument drawn up but then I realised this is the internet so I'm going to settle for 'you are misrepresenting a very important political movement and I implore you to do more reading (preferably not in the Reddit Men's Rights section) about it'.

Kthx.

@Brodehouse said:

The entire gender in games argument becomes more infantilizing every day. I feel completely left out, on one side you have mouth breathing bigoted troglodytes and on the other you have sycophantic, simpering toadies. One side is completely fucked, and the other has good intentions but makes awful, self-serving (and aggrandizing) arguments. I can't agree with someone for having the right idea when half of everything they say insults the intelligence of even the average.

The worst of all is the "hey guys we need to do better..." posts, like we've been getting every week in this feature. You are the roadside gawkers of fireball wrecks. You feel like you're in the right because you said "oh well someone should do something" but that someone sure as hell isn't you, and even if it was you wouldn't know the first Goddamn thing to do. This is the argument I put forth whenever I hear "we need more X in games", whether it's women, or isometric RPGs, or 4X strategy or whatever; go make some games, or support the development of some, or do something to actually get what you want. You will never get what you want out of video games by making posts on the internet. But complaining on the internet is so much easier than actually working to get what you want. If you want more isometric RPGs, don't rail and moan because BioWare aren't doing it anymore, go support someone who is making those games. If you want fuller developed female characters, don't stamp your feet because Namco is in the cheesecake business, go support games that have well written female characters (and I mean well-written, not feminist approved Mary Sues).

Or you could make a noise about the games industry being (for the most part) a big ol' patriarchal circlejerk WHILE supporting and buying games from more progressive developers. I don't know if it was your intention, but your whole post comes across as 'Well fine rail against misogyny if you like but don't bother me about it!'

Also feminism is not 'Women are flawless godbeings who should never be portrayed in any kind of negative light', it's 'Women are people'. A lot of folks seem to be under the bizarre impression that feminism strives for women's superiority, rather than equality.

Sure are lots of privileged white men missing the point up in here.

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@Clonedzero said:

this is not your damn blog patrick wtf

don't be a douchebag. Don't read it then

I kept waiting to read some type of "News." Instead, it was just a blog post, which, correct me if I'm wrong, are a thing you can do on this site. Sorry to say, but this doesn't constitute an article Patrick. It's cool to write something up like this, but calling it an "article" is deceptive.

ar·ti·cle

(ärt-kl)n.1. An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item: an article of clothing; articles of food.

2. A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.

3.A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.

Know what words mean before accusing people of dishonesty.

How did I know someone would pull out a dictionary and pretend like that was important?

If you click on the "News" tab of the website, you get all the "Articles." If you look on this first page, everything that pops up will be an announcement, recent event, or interview. While there are 3,966 results on the site, and I don't want to check through all of them, the first 10 pages of article listings have nothing remotely comparing to what this "article" contained. Ergo, it is deceptive to call a random musing an "Article" given the history of this site.

Oh my fucking tits stop wasting your life getting pedantic about a video game website and go paint some trees or something what is wrong with you fucking people.

I didn't lose anyone my first time through and somehow all these people talking about their gut-wrenching emotional torment when THEY did makes me feel bad about being a good Shepard.

What.

Well now I'm sad.

Thanks, games industry.

@HyperionX3 said:

@RsistncE said:

Blah blah blah blah.

Fucking liberals. They think the world is all fluffy kindness because they have no exposure to it. "AMERICA IS EVILLLLL." Where's that fat pepper spraying cop when you need him?

This is a silly post.

@Grimluck343 said:

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@Grimluck343 said:

@patrickklepek You really can't resist stirring shit up can you? Here's a great announcement, more Bastion to play, but instead you turn this into another "fuck Microsoft, everyone should get really angry" article.

Between this, the UMD passport article, and the Microsoft ToS article, you're batting .000 on mobilizing your personal Giant Bomb army.

Patrick doesn't want to see consumers getting fucked over on stupid policies. If you have no problem with getting fucked over (Microsoft INSISTING that you pay for free content is the definition of fucking you over, by the way, dollar or not.) then you shouldn't have any problem with Patrick stating his opinion. Then again, he could charge you a dollar for this article and you'd totally be cool with it.

I fully support Patrick's defense of consumers. We're not fucking monkeys for the industry to take advantage of at every turn -- but as long as people like you exist, they'll continue to think we are.

Hell, if I could get away with charging you a dime for every letter I typed in this reply, I would -- unless you punched me in the face and said "Get your fucking hands out of my wallet!"

That's pretty much what MS is forcing SGG to do here, making them charge for content they want to release for free... The fucking nerve of MS. I'd be pissed. I'd have just kept the content off of XBL and encouraged others to do the same. MS would ease up on this stupid fucking policy if it meant they kept getting inferior versions.

Ah, but see this is the difference. The shit you wrote isn't worth a dime. Bastion DLC? I would have payed $10. Hell, I bought the game twice, once on XBL and once on Steam.

This whole streak of "Microsoft, the giant evil corporation that's stealing your rights!" is just laughable. As was pointed out in the comments of the ToS controversy that Patrick tried to stir up, there are video game websites with ToS that have the class action clause in it as well. Are you pissed about that? No. You're pissed at the big Microsoft and Sony boogeymen, who come like thieves in the night and steal your wallet. Well, actually, they take a dollar from your wallet apparently, but whatever.

There are a lot of things to point your righteous anger towards in the video game world. Having to pay $1 for DLC isn't really one of them.

I don't think the problem is that Xbox users have to pay a dollar, but that Microsoft's policies are so weird devs have to charge for DLC even if they don't want to.

And be zen, dude. Patrick has consistently been bizarrely open to even the most vitriolic of criticism. There's no need to phrase it in such a hostile way.