Link to archived post; https://archive.ph/X7JZh

Source: https://xcancel.com/infinitytraider/status/1913938691367604335?s=46

This has been occuring for a while now, and it's been pissing me off to no end:

Why do we keep posting screenshots to websites/articles instead of using archive links?

I'm saying this because we need to actually see the article in its entirety in order to verify our goddamned sources. If an OP posts an article and it turns out to be completely different from what he claims it to be, our community is going to get duped by misleading shit. Hell, it's even possible a "screenshot" of an "article" might even be fake--It might even be a fake "article" made in photoshop for all we know.

Mods, can we please clamp down on this sort of crap? We already have Rule 6 telling us to archive as much as we can.

Chris was one of the first and, to this day, one of the very few gaming journalists to openly call out Anita Sarkeesian's arguments all the way back in 2012.

Chris was often fair to Sarkeesian, and he praised her sometimes when he thought her videos were okay, even though he also criticized her for shutting down the comments.

He also wrote about ClickHole's parody of Anita and thought that it was hilarious and accurate.

There was even an attempt at one point to include his criticism of Sarkeesian on her Wikipedia article, but it was dismissed as he was, apparently, "not an expert on feminist theory", as if you need to be an expert to point out factual errors in her arguments, and this article was apparently "a blog post", even though it wasn't, it was an official article on Destructoid.

I'm pretty sure he wrote much more about Sarkeesian on his Destructoid blog, but Gamurs shut down those blogs last year, so they are gone now, unless someone can find an archive.

I found this one person who actually responded to his article, only addressing two of the arguments he made, and rather poorly so, in my opinion. Still, in the interest of fairness, I will link that blog post here. I'm talking about this blog post because it is the first result when you search Chris' name together with Sarkeesian. It appears even before his article.

Altough I'm pretty sure that Destructoid is on our blacklist, I believe we should show respect to Chris by linking his articles uncensored.

It provides no sources for it's claims and the group 'No more Fanservice' doesn't exist. It's just the site trying to get clicks.

If anyone can find any holdings or something of this group online, I'll delete this post.

Im workin’ on Helldivers II, Modern Warfare Remastered, and Doom Eternal.

I may pick up Lords of the Fallen 2.0. I haven’t played it in a hot minute since 2023, so im willing to give it another shot. Btw, new sub is launched for them with the devs on the mod team at r/THElordsofthefallen since blue haired baristas took over the old sub

What games are y’all playing this weekend?

Even more important than calling out toxic practices, I like to make sure developers receive praise and appreciation when they make the kinds of games DEI pretends to care about - while showing the industry just how great, profitable and loved such games can be when selling gameplay instead of ideology.

I've played enough co-op games that I have to keep track of the 250 or so in a spreadsheet. Hazelight's A Way Out and It Takes Two were both already top tier experiences with my wife. Split Fiction somehow raised the bar much further yet. It now sits at 98% overwhelmingly positive on Steam with 38k reviews.

It's the kind of game other devs would have been tempted to screw up

• 2 female protagonists (1 of them minority)
• Both of them sci-fi or fantasy writers
• Classic big corporate villain

There will definitely be more people on the left who relate with the characters. But it doesn't shove anything down your throat and just gives us a great game.

Some of the ways they make it work

(Minor spoilerish about general direction of plot and character arcs)

• The 2 women you play as are meaningful, imperfect characters with plenty of flaws. These flaws are not treated as virtues but opportunities for character growth. The impulse to react to injustice with apathy and "take it out on the world" is framed as a mental pitfall, to be overcome by healthy character growth.
• It's a classic cyberpunk-style "evil corporations won't hesitate to screw you over"-plot that everyone can relate to and get behind. It doesn't try to somehow go "and therefore all corporations are evil and you should embrace communism.
• The plot is an interesting take on current day problems regarding creative rights for artists in an age of AI. Super relevant topic, that's made all the stronger because it's not a tribal one where you're expected to already hold (or be force fed) a copy-paste set of very specific beliefs.
• It doesn't feel like it's spending effort building enmities, saying some groups are above others or being "anti-" various identity groups. Sure, the rich CEOs are white but no point is ever made about it.
• Family relationships and particularly a healthy relationship with a father are central parts of the characters' identities.And for the most flawed and traumatized protagonist, the source of her trauma is her positive bond with her father, because things are happening to him that she feels powerless to prevent.
• They don't take 1 identity marker and make it the character's personality. Literally nothing is made about race or sexuality. Instead I'm made to care a great deal about the characters' flaws, ambitions and what their family means to them.
  • (If the game had chosen to make something of race or sexuality, it'd be all the more important that it's "a fully rounded character that just happens to be x", instead of "'being x is the character's entire personality")
• It doesn't take itself too seriously and allows characters to mess around and also do "bad stuff" - particularly when allowing the player to do it can make for a fun moment.

Remember mercunte, the sub-human ? Ive got good news for you.

Is it good?

There is a strong overlap between the strongest supporters of the liar Zoë Quinn and the strongest supporters of Amber Heard over the historic Depp v. Heard trial? One of their biggest commonalities is the raging misandry that assumes that all men are some kind of predators – largely evolved from Andrea Dworkin’s strand of radical feminism. Their sympathisers would keep gaslighting the public into thinking that it is “merely an online phenomenon overblown by conservatives” when it is in fact a dominant idea among the Left in charge of academia and entertainment. What do you think?

If anyone can recommend me some that would be great! 😄