Not that I agree with Anita in any fashion, but she isn't a spokesperson for every feminist. Not that I agree with much of what they have to say.
You just made a great point. See you (possibly a feminist) don't personally enjoy Call of Duty games and "would rather have them go away".
All Chrononaut is saying there is he hates some games and wishes they would go away. He's not advocating for slaughtering the developers in the name of Ze Fuhrer, he just hates their games. Granted, his Nazi poster response nonsense was fucking stupid, and I'm not going to defend that. In fact, he and I often disagree about this shit on Steam and Skype. He left my Skype group because he loathed the general opinions in there.
He isn't wishing death to the Skype group, or death to anything that's different. He has a particular set of narratives he enjoys, so he pursues those and supports them. He has a particular set of narratives he doesn't care about, so he ignores them. He has a particular set of narratives he loathes, so he wishes they would stop being promulgated over narratives he does actually enjoy.
The very fact that you don't like something and want to see it go, even though millions other people want it, is what makes you not a gamer.
Which makes this statement fucking absurd. So because millions of people love Call of Duty, and I loath it and wish it would fuck off instead of eating the Steam front store page for an entire month and breed another generation of Doritos-consuming mountain dew-pissing twelve year olds, means I'm not a real gamer? Since when? I've played video games since I was knee high to a gopher. I fucking loved Super Mario on the SNES as a kid, though I never beat it because I enjoyed PC games more. I loved X-COM Apocalypse (which makes me a heathen because apparently the original with the retarded looking geoscape playdoh view thing and trolololo awful balance is the master race version). I loved MechWarrior 2, and MechWarrior 3, and Master of Orion 2. I loved Birth of the Federation, even if it was a shallow and buggier version of Master of Orion 2. I loved Microprose, and my naive, childish eyes got to watch them get fucking molested by Activision, then watch their hollowed out husk of a brand get sold off to Hasbro to be milked like a cow until Hasbro shut down their games division.
As a kid, I never got why they failed. I loved those games, so why didn't they succeed? When the new X-COM came out, I saw it as a watered down, buggier version of the original that stripped most of the strategic elements in favour of turning most of the game into a giant slot machine of endless RNG. Then I played it, and you know what? It really is that. Does that make it shit? Well, I thought about it. It's certainly kind of shitty to me. I found some enjoyment out of it, but never as much as I found in Apocalypse. Then I talked to other people who played it and enjoyed it profusely. People like Kadaeux, a long time friend of mine. He loved it. Does that suddenly make Kadaeux a dumber person? Does that somehow exclude him from being a "true gamer" because he likes the more shallow version of what the fan base considers the "master race" original title with playdoh graphics, and a UI designed by fucking cavemen?
Look. I could easily go on a fuckin' tirade about all the stupid nonsense that Anita Sarkeesian spouts out of her fuckin' mouth. She's Jack Thompson with Tits™ right down to stating that video games cause violent behaviour. She repeatedly concocts lies and other nonsense in her videos for the sole purpose of attempting to slant people to her perspective. And you know what?
I don't care. I can't even begin to muster a single fuck to give. When news media was devoting several minute long pieces to the shock and terribleness of
blue alien booty and skewering the truth about it, I gave lots of fucks. I was enraged. I was also a teenager who thought that Linkin Park was the greatest musical talent of all time, so I'd say my tastes back then were hilariously fucking shit. When Jack Thompson was going on the news, time and time again, talking about the evils of
violent pixels, I totally got mad about that too. Do you know what happened?
Rockstar continued to release extremely violent Grand Theft Auto titles. The first person shooter industry boomed. Jack Thompson was eventually disbarred from being a lawyer for repeatedly abusing attempts to silence free expression through law. Everybody moved on with their lives and played motherfucking video games.
What's the greatest achievement this new wave of pseudo-feminist new agey soccer moms has done to stop violent & sexist video games? Get GTA V removed from Targets in Australia? Oh no. How terrible. How else will I acquire my grandma roadkill simulator. It's almost as if there are
entire fucking store chains dedicated to selling games who will sell this to me, but, losing it from Target will somehow prevent me from buying it. You know what? Fuck Target. If they don't want my money, I'll just go buy it from someone else who wants my money. Same thing about various corporations in the US who hate the LGBT movement. I guess they don't want my money either, fuck em', I'll go buy things from companies that are either indifferent or supportive of the LGBT movement. Gee, that wasn't hard.
Anita Sarkeesian is free to speak about her stupidity and I'm free not to get a shit about it and keep buying my horribly sexist, violent games. Other women are free to talk about what they'd like to see change in video games. Some video games will change to try and reach out to them as an audience, and other video games will not. There will always be studios like Rockstar who don't give a rip roaring fuck and will just spit out highly offensive titles without a care in the world, and overly heart throbbing hipster indie twats who will make video games they think are "artistic" and "profound." Some of them will be, some of them won't be, and it's entirely to your personal tastes. I found Undertale to be boring as shit but Ori and the Blind Forest is fucking amazing. Disliking one and liking the other doesn't make me any less a "gamer." When the fuck did we concoct some sort of "gamer inquisition?" This is dumb.
If you really want Anita Sarkeesian to go away, stop giving a fuck. Encourage other people to stop giving a fuck. If you think this feminist slant crap at the UN is something new, it's not. It's old. At least a decade or so old. They have entire sections dedicated solely to building up women's rights, and you know what? I don't care. I don't have to give them my money, or my time. I can just give my money to organizations I like. That's why we have thousands of games. We have thousands of different narrative experiences. Some of them, Anita will hate. Some of them, Anita will love. Do you know how much I care about her opinion? I don't, so I don't fucking watch her videos.
Seriously, stop getting so worked up about Jack Thompson with Tits. Sit down and ask yourself how much effective change she and her cadre of artards have actually managed to create. It rhymes with "basically nothing." They've managed to get nothing of any importance banned. They've managed to change no laws regarding the development of games. If a developer here or there capitulated and added things she wanted, stop giving a shit about it then. Don't do this creepy ass gamer inquisition/borg collective crap: SJW games can exist and you don't have to give a fuck about them. Games with ideological slants have existed since the dawn of gaming.
This fucking thing exists.
So does this. Seriously, we don't have any standards whatsoever.
It doesn't matter what other people do and enjoy. If you don't care about someone's opinion, stop fucking bothering with it. There are people here on Iwaku that I don't get along with whatsoever: I don't talk to them, and I don't role play with them. Do you know how much I have to give a shit about them now? Not at all.
Oh, and
PS: Hashtag movements are fucking dumb and ineffective and never actually do shit in the long term. #Kony2012. Fuck. Why does nobody learn? These people just want to verify themselves. Look at Atheism+. Atheists rejected it and moved on with their lives. The folks within Atheism+, failing to get any attention from outside, started to devour each other in some of the most brutal, savage infighting you can possibly look up. They started accusing each other of being sexual molesters n' shit. You win by not giving a shit. That's how you win.
Also, please, no more of this "true gamer" crap. That's retarded.
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Also, yes, there are good feminists and bad feminists. Look at the Middle East. There was a girl there shot in the head for the crime of just wanting to get educated and read books. Her name is Malala. Look her up. Stop letting attention whores fuck up entire movements. If you don't want GamerGate to be judged by the deranged, sexist assholes within it, don't judge all of feminism by the actions of prissy idiots who have nothing better to do than wallow in self-pity and accuse the world of hating them.