six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[DavidG_WI]

105. 4Chan, Something Awful etc...

And a great many of the trolls there are female. The most active publicly named troll right now is Anita Sarkeesian, Who is playing feminists for fools due to their blind support of her trolling antics, apply a little logic to her claims and the obvious troll becomes painfully obvious. Though you'd know how many female trolls there are if you'd been to the early anti-Scientology protests that where conducted primarily by trolls wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

And if you're going to defend Anita, before you do, go get her game, Depression Quest, off Steam, it's free, play it, it's short, then go look at her reaction to the reviews, which where negative because the game wasn't good and what she then did to attack those that disliked her game. What she's doing is the equivalent of companies suing because you gave them a negative review on Yelp. But unlike Yelp users, most gamers don't just bend over and take it, they retaliate. Que the media getting half the story and running with it because cyber bullying stories of the "poor defenseless female game developer" bring in the fresh eyeballs for ad dollars. Lets just ignore that the death threats are obviously staged by her, how else are you going to get a dozen of them all with perfect grammar and perfectly within Twitter's 140 character limit all within a few seconds of her Twitter posts?

I know full well about the feminist attacks on gaming, they would have a more legitimate bone to pick if thy actually targeted the proper subset of gamers and the crappy games they play, but even there, the don't play with 12 year olds rule still applies.

Kids are sexist and homophobic, because as Donald Glover put it best, they are:

Gamers being over is a joke, the stats for the increase in female gamers show that their primary growth sector has only been in the casual game market for cellphones and tablets. As lucrative as hat market may seem, breaking into it is nigh impossible and avenues to stand out from the crowd are few and far between.

The only part of traditional gaming that is "sloughing off" is the same that is happening to the entire entertainment industry. t' the decentralization of the industry from the major companies, rejection of the middleman publishers and move away from uninspired mass market mega tittles. It's already happened to music, its happening to the movies/TV and its now happening to the gaming industry. With Star Citizen we'll have the first completely indie AAA blockbuster title.

The argument put forth by feminists is that there are "no games made by girls", which is wrong. The fact is that there are no games good enough that people actually want to play them made by women at this time. Nobody is against playing games made by women provided they are actually entertaining.

Really? Wheres the female made equivalent to the best known strong female character in all of gaming, Samus Aran?



As to the writer of your little article, he seems to be confused as to what the conventions actually are, they are trade shows. Every industry has trade shows, attended by people who are there to look at new products and processes and hopefully walk away at the end of the day with a bag of free swag. The only difference with gaming is that with PC gaming at least you can also have a huge multiplayer event like Quakecon that is impossible to arrange otherwise.

The actual culture of gaming is one of nostalgia, storytelling and comradery. Some of the best times I've ever has was hanging out with my friends trying to beat each other in every type of game we had, racing, fighting, strategy, even single player trying to get top score or beat the game the fastest, constant challenge and competition is what brought us together. When we weren't playing against each other we would collaborate on long single player games like Final Fantasy or Breath Of Fire. And no, we weren't all guys, my neighbor and her cousin that used to hng out with her used to hang with us and could throw down with the best of them in fighting and light gun games, she was also the only person we knew that had a Sega Saturn, so she'd school us in games like Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop as well as non Saturn games like Street Fighter 2 Turbo and even Duck Hunt on NES. She hung out with us so often that she became "one of the guys" and none of us tried to hit on her when we started noticing girls, because we had spent so much time together with her that she seemed more like a sister then anything else. Can't say the same for her cousin that wasn't around us all the time though, I managed to get more then a few dates out of her.