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That's a young Chakotay!

I've seen a few people (and that thunderf00t guy) commenting on her pink clothing, makeup and girly earrings - compared to her old videos. I imagine she changed this to enforce to the viewer that she is in fact a true female in a world of sexual dimorphism. Where she's trying to show to the viewer that she IS clearly a female and accepts the differences between men and women. If she were wearing all gray with no makeup, people would likely then say "She's a lesbian or misgendered female; therefor her points are moot".

Men have to pay more for car insurance because men in general drive more recklessly, which sucks but then again is just another tragic consequence of how we are supposed to act and behave (young men are encouraged by each other to drive fast)

The problem with this is that you're also believing in the sexist views that men drive more recklessly than women. The other factor that insurance companies use to base these sexist views of men vs women drivers are speeding tickets. It's shown that men receive more speeding tickets than women, but this is where I get upset. I know several dozen women that tell me they've never received a speeding ticket. Not because they don't speed and don't get pulled over, but merely because the police officer let them off with a warning. When I have asked dozens of men, I rarely hear of them receiving a warning.

My belief on this is that the majority of police officers are men. Men are generally more lenient and polite towards women. This is my own personal beliefs because I notice it in myself as well.

In the dozen years I've been driving and received many many speeding tickets, I've actually only received one warning instead of the actual ticket. In this one instance the police officer was actually a woman (the first woman police officer I've ever encountered on the road). It can't be a coincidence.

When I was 18, there was this girl I worked with who was a year younger. She was in 2 massive car accidents (one where her car swerved and hit another car, then pushed them both off the road where her car flipped and was completely totaled). Both accidents were her fault. But the thing that pissed me off was that after these accidents, even a year later to allow for rate adjustments, she was still paying 1/3 of what I was paying - where I had zero accidents or tickets.

I'm sure Anita would love to discuss this, since it's a perfect example of what she's trying to say (treating genders differently is destructive), but I guess she was simply focusing on games and media in that video.

I wasn't actually serious about her debating this issue, I was mostly saying her discussions are completely "feminist" and that if she took a neutral position on things, I may actually have more respect for her.

Edit: On a side-note, I've recently learned she was born in Ontario, which is pretty cool.

OK if you people are gonna respect me and explain to me what is wrong with my post if anything witch you haven't been doing than I won't need to become one.

To be a moderator, you would already know the answer to this.

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To me she was delivering a message in a reasonable and calm tone, with a few facial expressions to show her feelings about the ads.

Imagine it this way: I have my own YouTube channel, and since you can't see this fake video, imagine the stuff in asterisks being what I'm doing on camera. I show the Twix commercial. I then start to say:
"See how obviously angry and possessive this wife is? *face palm* Her husband can't even enjoy the view of these beautiful women without getting nagged at. She's so bad that he has to lie to her to prevent any kind of argument. *rolls eyes* Women need to be more open to the idea that men have desires and should be free to view whomever they want, just as they should as well. If she wanted the same kind of attention, perhaps she should be wearing a tank top and miniskirt like these women in this obviously warm weather instead of that dull church sweater. *tilt head upwards with pride*"

Of course these aren't my views, and I did over exaggerate my point as I simply couldn't find a decent commercial to use for a proper example. If I made this video, men like this man would see me delivering the message in a rational manner and would agree with my argument. They wouldn't see attitude in my expressions. On the other hand, most women would see me as being a complete chauvinistic ass, reading my facial expressions as over the top and even more aggravating than my views alone.

Anita isn't this extreme of course, but after watching the Mike's Hard commercial I get blind sighted by her facial reactions. It takes her over the top argument that he's a scumbag and makes her message even more aggravating to listen to. Shifting her eyes. Widening them. Raising her eyebrows. Everything about her delivery here gives her argument so much less weight. It's probably something along the lines of what Andail mentioned with picking up on subtle cues.

You like sexy women, Anita is saying that women being sexy in ads is a problem, therefore it might make you feel angry that she wants to take away something you enjoy and personally feel is harmless. I might be wrong, but if I'm not I can understand why she would irritate you.

She hasn't really expressed this at all, other than mentioning the Twix commercial needlessly having 3 models. I agree with her arguments of not having women shown in a degrading fashion, but from my perspective, I only see the men looking degrading (other than Paris Hilton, but that's her in a nutshell). In the Twix or Coors Light commercial, one could argue that these women being trusting is shown as degrading to their overall intelligence, I do not. Sure it shows them as being naive, but in all honesty, they're accepting they're spouse's word in trust. If you can't trust someone to this degree, you shouldn't be with them. Which is why it makes these men look like assholes.

I would've preferred to see the Twix commercial done this way: at the end, after she kisses him, he should've hung his head and said "I'm sorry, I was goggling", as she passes him the baby she says "I know".

He's clearly not doing it to be noble, he's doing it to have sex, potentially even a 3 way.

I never meant noble as in a man helping walk an old lady across the street. I meant he asked in a respectful and courageous manner to introduce the idea and show his desire to get to know either of these ladies. I'm not disputing he doesn't want to have sex with either of them (or even a 3 way), I simply mean I feel he seems like he genuinely wants to get to know either of them.

I once heard on the radio, the DJ said "Men have a relationship to get sex. Women have sex to get a relationship.". I sadly agree with it in most cases - from the male perspective, or at least from my own. Sex and the physical bonding, ie: hugging, holding, kissing, etc, are the main driving points as to why I want a relationship. Everything else, from having the best friend you'll ever have, knowing everything about someone and caring for them beyond anything you could imagine, knowing or sharing their interests, loving them, that's the bonus. A most amazing and beautiful bonus that, which to me, completes the package (or relationship if package sounds too objectifying).

Like you have experienced yourself, one of the worst thing you can be as a man is feminine.

Isn't it the same with women where the worst thing you can be is masculine? I would think so anyway. Those are probably sexist views, but I don't see women and men as being the same. In all honesty, I actually feel women are the superior sex. I do. They're far more beautiful, caring, passionate, mature, outgoing etc (my own subjective opinion, obviously). But I do know that men are superior on many things though, things that the majority of women couldn't do with their natural anatomy.

The funny thing is though that all these sexy women in bikinis drinking are great until someone gets laid or hurt. Then people say "She's a slut!" or "She was asking for it!" or "What did she expect getting drunk in that skirt?"

This is a hard topic to cover. There is no male equivalent to a bikini or miniskirt (I mean in terms of sexual attraction). Men are naturally designed to want to dominate and do their business with any woman they're attracted to. When a woman is wearing a skimpy dress or bikini, there's nothing more visually inviting and accessible, besides being naked. That's like swimming in a tank filled with friendly sharks, with meat wrapped around your body and then being surprised that these shark acted on impulse. Or even walking around the street with large sums of money in your hand.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying women shouldn't wear skimpy clothing. I'm just saying that there are guaranteed chances you will turn someone on. Which is likely why they wear these outfits, besides the comfort of being nearly naked. Rape shouldn't be on their mind when they choose their clothing, but "am I sending the wrong message?" should.

We could also take this discussion to the lighter version where the guy doesn't rape her, but seduces her to have sex just to release his sexual tension because of the clothing she's wearing. Then she feels used and wonders why the guys that show her interest are all assholes. Also thanks for the Louis CK vid, that was brilliant and enlightening.

Here's some honesty about myself and likely a lot of men, when I see a woman at the bar wearing a cleavage shirt and/or short shorts, I see her as a sexual object because that's what she's dressing as. I have very little respect for these women. Their only use to me in that social environment, in the clothing they're wearing, is the view they offer. I am massively more attracted to a woman in a simple t-shirt and jeans. This woman, now I would like to know her as a person.

[kid yelling at you] But it begs the question, where did he learn this stuff?

That brings me to a argument I had with my older brother. I was arguing how my niece, his daughter, shouldn't be listening to the music she's listening to at her age. That she should be listening to kid appropriate music. The girl, at 4 years old, knows the lyrics to Sexy and I Know It. It was horrifying the first time I saw it. I was completely stunned. She was in her car seat with her headphones on (yes, she has an mp3 player with THESE songs on it) and she was at the "I've got a passion in my pants" part of the song singing along when she spread her legs open pointing at her crotch with an up and down hand gesture.

His argument is that she's going to hear the songs anyway, why not allow her to listen to them in front of her parents instead of having her think she needs to hide what she listens to... ummm.. because she's 4!!?? The only source she has to this music, at this age, is her damn parents. Needless to say there's no swaying his thoughts on proper parenting, he's very stubborn. Not to derail the conversation too much, but yes, parents are a huge influence in the majority of what habits or traits kids learn.

I think I would ask myself why I don't want to play as a woman though and if it is because you only enjoy the immersion of playing as your own gender or if it is because you don't think female stories would be as interesting or valuable in a non sexual context. [..] I just wonder what it really is that makes a female character seem like a lesser experience?

Both of those, yes. And to be honest, I am indeed absolutely sexist. I would find it immersion breaking to see a woman wielding a large chainsaw gun and heavy armor while kicking and curb stomping massive opponents - it's bad enough that a guy is doing these things. Then you could argue that she could just be a physically large and strong woman, but if we're going to go that route and take sexual interest out of the character I'm playing as, I may as well just play as my own sex.

I've watched the videos on Tomb Raider and I couldn't accept the poor design choice of her constantly talking to herself "I just got to keep going" "I need to find a way out of here" "What kind of contraption is this?". This is what they generally do in female character games. I find it annoying. It seems they generally design women as chatty and excessively voicing their every thought. I'd rather it show your current "quest" in text rather than hearing her tell me herself, breaking the 4th wall. I'll likely buy it one day with a really good Steam sale though. Then Longest Journey and Beyond Good and Evil are just way too fantasy/childish for my liking (and honestly typical female games). Not to mention their annoying choice of voices. Why can't they find realistically average voices for females.

[Ryan]

Ryan I'm surprised you were surprised that she's quite feminist. Her channel is called Feminist Frequency so I didn't think it would be a shock.

I wasn't surprised she was a feminist, I was surprised that how insanely opinionated and highly negative she was. She can't make one point without rolling her eyes. She really needs to work on her presentation and overall point.

And regarding the lego, I have no problem with there being a Lego set that is pink and "feminine" but she's trying to point out that the lego sets that have public service roles like fire fighters, police, etc have no female mini figs. Why not? Women are in every public sector serving their country and our kids should know that, boys and girls alike. I see a lot of guys saying they wont play games as girls, but in the same breath saying girls should just play with the sets even though the mini figs are all boys. Are you not seeing the double standard?

Thank-you. With your better approach to explain the point she was "trying" to make, you've helped me see what she was arguing. Of course though, unless all these fireman, police officers, etc sets all come with Lego men and not the non gender Lego character, then I'm still confused with why she's so upset with it being "for boys". If that's the case, she should've explained this by perhaps showing that all the Lego characters are painted male in these sets. I've grown up with Lego and all the sets my parents got me came with the non gender Lego face. The majority had male hair (or no hair with helmets), but there were also a few female characters too. So if Lego has changed this in the past 20 years and only have Lego men, then I understand her point that she didn't clearly make.

He stopped dancing, stopped all the things that could have been considered feminine because he learned that displaying an interest in feminine things was bad if you were a boy.

It happens in a work environment too. I work in a male only department of a factory (I actually have issues with it being male only with HR never hiring women for that department). I've had a few men harass me, calling me a woman or saying I'm feminine because I don't have the same interests as them. My interests pretty much consist of computers, video games, tv and movies. The coworkers were once talking about cars, sports and terrible 90s action movies whereas I had no comment on the conversations and did express that I had no interest in cars or sports, and that the movies they were talking about were quite rubbish. Which resulted in "That's because you're feminine", simply because I just don't have the stereotypical "masculine" interests. And for a while it became a regular insult - and calling me gay. Fortunately the immaturity has died down.

So yes, I completely stand by her overall ideals, just not her execution and presentation. She shows too much emotion, rolling her eyes, smirking, face-palm, etc to be taken seriously without enraging me. I find her very attractive (I'm not talking visually) with how passionate she is about the stereotyping in the sexual roles. I would love to be with a woman who was as passionate about these things instead of the accepting type. Although she does take things a little too far, like for example this video (skip to 1min 3seconds):
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As she explains these men, how are they being scumbags for trying to pickup women by offering to be their designated driver. I think it's a noble effort to get to know them and genuinely funny - and if the role was reversed, I would find it to be equal. Unless the message is that they just want sex, then I understand her point, but I don't see it that way. Heck, the one girl even puts her arm on him before he even offers. She also says they're trying to take advantage of these women but they don't look shitfaced drunk to me; looks like these ladies can make their own decision.

As for the next commercial, Twix, now I agree that he is a scumbag and so is the message. You can stare at the opposite sex all you want, just don't be drooling with your spouse beside you belittling her and making her feel unattractive. It's a terrible message that will simply make guys feel they're allowed to do this, that it's acceptable in society to make your spouse feel unworthy.

As for the "vent" Coors Light commercial, I don't see anything wrong with it other than that he's lying to her. I don't have any problems with a spouse hanging out with their friends. Drink, get shitfaced, etc just don't lie about it. Overall I don't see a problem with the message of this commercial as she knows where he is, just not the purpose of the visit.

Then her point of women becoming "just as raunchy like one of the guys" only shows that she must really dislike men. A comment like that has her saying that women would be pure and kind if it weren't for them trying to be like men. Now she's trying to separate women and men, basically shitting on all her previous points of trying to equalize the balance between men and women. I get confused by her.

If there are more female characters then like Ryan said, he wont be buying those games because they simply wont appeal to him.

What I meant by that, but I never actually said it, I don't want the majority of games to be solely one sex. I want the majority of games to have a choice like Mass Effect with the male or female Shepherd. But if it's strictly a female game, I then have very very little interest in it unless it's awesome. If I can play the male Marcus in Gears of War and my gf can play the game as a female Marcus, that would be ideal.

Why can't we all just watch these videos as is, take a little from them we find interesting/insightful, and then move on? Why do we see these videos as an attack on who we are as gamers, but don't have this same reaction when we watch Zero Punctuation?

Probably because Zero Punctuation generally pokes fun at a single game, not trying to change society and our lifestyle. Which is fine, just not easily done without receiving criticism and hatred.

As for disabling the YouTube comments and approval meter is obvious. We blindly follow society. If 99% of her votes are Dislike, many folk will just follow along without thinking for themselves what they honestly feel. The comments being disabled is simply because YouTube is filled with peckerheads.

So I've watched a few more of her videos and can't believe how strongly feminist she is. Like this video:
[embed=560,315]http://youtu.be/CrmRxGLn0Bk[/embed]

Why!? The whole Friends Lego for girls product. Why does she think girls can't play the other Lego? Clearly they AREN'T (statistically), so I see no issue in the attempt to make Lego more appropriate to what they currently play. I honestly don't see the issue here. It's not like the other Lego is advertised "for boys". If girls want to build airplanes, then build damn airplanes. The only issue obviously being that parents wouldn't ever buy the airplane set for their daughters with "girl" sets like this available. But still, she's pulling at everything that even remotely resembles a "separated sexes" world.

If she really wants to earn my vote, then start bitching that women pay less on car insurance.

Ryan Timothy; I'm not sure what you wanted to say with your last post. You admit that you're enjoying stereotypically sexualized female 3d-characters, and therefore... well, therefore what? Do you find the way the game designers have exploited her sexuality (to provide eye candy for male players) a good thing or a bad thing? Please explain.

I meant that I have no issue playing as the female character in a game like Hunted, just to stare at her ass on every cutscene that she lifts a door, while she walks sideways between tight areas, or ducks under stuff. Do I want EVERY game to be like this? No. Heck no. But I certainly enjoyed the extra bonus of seeing that beautiful character doing provocative poses and such; so no, I never felt it was a bad thing at all, that a game developer made a game with sexual interest in mind. She wasn't a "girly" girl, but she did have a very attractive body (with unpractical armor lol). I didn't know anything about this game before playing it though, so I never bought it so I could stare at E'lara's ass every cutscene.

I know what I said was conflicting, where I find no interest in playing a game that has a female only protagonist but I played Hunted as the female - but only because of how much better she was at the bow. I've played games as the female protagonists, but the majority of them are games like Portal where she's a mute and basically genderless. But for 3rd person games or talking ones where it's just a female and no male sidekick, it just doesn't appeal to me. Probably because the majority of games I play are either RPG or shooters.

If Gears of War was played as a big butch woman or even a gorgeous skinny one, I never would've bought it.

The thing that bothers me about Anita Sarkeesian's views is that it seems as though she desires a world with genderless plots. It almost feels as though she's asexual. I somewhat understand where she's coming from though and I agree that it would bother me just as much too - but she never did talk about this directly. Males in entertainment are shown as heroic and strong, whereas females are shown as fragile, week, sexy and a stereotypical barbie. There's generally no middle ground with female characters. Where male roles in entertainment range from fat to skinny, ugly to attractive.

Even in the game Rage that I started playing yesterday, the majority of the men are either fat and/or ugly, but all the women I've seen so far are attractive and skinny (albeit, it's only the first two towns). It doesn't bother me because I prefer to see skinny attractive women, as that's what I want to see.

I don't believe it is the point because it tacitly implies that men want Duke Nukem and its perfectly ok for them to want that.

I agree. Like look at this:

[embed=560,315]http://youtu.be/-e6XQMCeXqY[/embed]

Men want these types of games (mostly young men) because that's what interests them. Although I have no desire to play Lollipop Chainsaw, but I do see the sexual appeal. A few days ago I played Hunted: Demon's Forge. I actually played as the female, only because she was the archer type while he was the hack and slash type - which is more fitting of my gameplay style. I ended up quite enjoying every sexual pose she did as she squeezed between tight areas, or slowly lowers and raises her ass as she ducks under stuff. It made it a very enjoyable bonus.

After watching these videos here, it makes me wonder. Would I have wanted to play Hunted IF the man wasn't in the game and it was only her. I doubt it would've looked appealing to me. Just like how Tomb Raider looks unappealing to me whereas Uncharted doesn't.

I've had this problem before on my first (and only) realistic head modelling. I was using Maya and somehow messed up the normals. I guess I deleted the faces and edges too often, and also attached too much stuff that it messed up somehow. I ended up trying to position all the normals by hand, but ended up giving up as it wasn't working out properly. As for faceshop, not a clue, perhaps it's doing the same poor modeling techniques as I was. lol

(Looks like youtube embedding is broken again - or am I doing it wrong?)

I'll do it for you.
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For future though, do it like so:

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Dust Runner!

Edit: Strange, the forum's [tele][/tele] tag doesn't seem to work...

It's TT. 
cEgo.SayCustom("bla");

In my opinion, you should just have an Options menu that allows the player to set any of the skip speech styles.

AGS 3.2 and beyond. You're looking for: Game.IgnoreUserInputAfterTextTimeoutMs

Excellent!

Now talk about Skyrim. A whole episode. You know you want to.

[embed=420,315]http://youtu.be/ac9Z6CN14Gs[/embed]

And yes, I agree with Andail. I couldn't believe how terrible the gameplay looked.

You know what, I'm voting for the new one of the clean style with the background of the gradient. It just looks so fitting. This one

The gradient need to be more uniform though. The multi resolution gradient really drives me nuts.

I didn't really buy a lot of indie titles; I usually pick the indie ones up during a bundle for fairly cheap, so I can't pretend any moral superiority or anything, but I wonder how much of it goes towards the developers? I know in the HIB you can choose how you split it...

From what I've been told and have researched, Steam takes 25%.

This year I only bought:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution  and  FTL

I'll play them eventually, just like the half a dozen games I bought on the last Steam summer sale. 

Bastion - still not in the mood for this game, but it was piss cheap so it felt almost like a crime not to buy it.

I wasn't either before I started playing it, but from all the good reviews, I had to give it a go. I definitely enjoyed the hell out of that game. Super captivating and that narrator is awesome.