#Amazing maze part 2 game grumps series#

#Amazing maze part 2 game grumps series#

The latest video's been prompting some absolutely fantastic discussion threads among colleagues and former co-workers, and the series as a whole has been a major learning experience/perspective shift for me as a designer. So what you're going to have is two big groups, one of which are just 'people who play games', who generally don't socialize along that axis because they don't consider themselves to be part of 'gamer culture', and 'gamers', who are the kinds of people who like games and are cool with being part of that toxic culture. People are waxing rhapsodic about Dark Souls and the like, but almost nobody calls themselves a 'gamer'. I don't read the comments on gaming sites, even on innocuous articles, because that's where the 'gamers' hang out, and why would I want to subject myself to that? And on MeFi threads about games, I see that most other MeFites seem to be the same way. I still play games just as much, but haven't considered myself a 'gamer' in years and years. I play a lot of video games, and maybe 10 years ago I would have called myself a 'gamer' (not hardcore, in any way, but I read gaming blogs and knew basic stuff like who John Carmack or Hideo Kojima were, etc.). I suspect that gamer culture is just going to become more toxic, too, as it no longer refers to 'anyone who is really into games'. Previously: Feminist Frequency ( 1, 2, 3) | Please, mom, when can I use the iPad? posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (399 comments total) Women and men are treated differently, which may sound fine if you are the kind of person who thinks men and women should be treated differently. The problem with the 'don't dish it out if you can't take it' line is that not all of us get an equal serving. Which 'shut up and die' messages that I've received might constitute actual threats? Which 'you deserve what's coming to you, you stupid slut' comments merit my tracking down an IP address to keep on file, should the cops end up needing to comb through my computer someday? Paste Magazine - ' Hyper Mode: Anita Sarkeesian And The Trouble With Magic Bullets', by Maddy Myers (June 4, 2013):ĭear reader, I know what you are about to say: 'stop reading the comments,' right? That plan would work much better if I didn't still have to moderate comments on my personal blog, sort through my work emails, puzzle at tweet mentions, and give the side-eye to Facebook messages from strangers, as I'm sure Sarkeesian must as well.

We can only hope she also donned waders for the storm of hostility she unleashed.

The Daily Dot - ' Anita Sarkeesian still can't catch a break', by Aja Romano (August 02, 2013):ĭonning her now-familiar hoop earrings and pink-and-blue plaid shirt, accidental Internet feminist cause célèbre Anita Sarkeesian sallied valiantly forth into YouTube again yesterday for the third and final of her 'Damsels in Distress' videos. you should all be ashamed.'Ī couple of relevant pieces from last year: i would like to announce that POLYTRON and the FEZ IP are now for sale. to every aspiring game developer out there: don’t. Fish has always been a volatile personality, but his tweets prior to shutting down his Twitter paint a particularly dismal picture of the gaming community: 'One developer targeted this week (a phrase I have to use because multiple developers were targeted this week) was Fez creator Phil Fish, whose website was taken down, gigabytes of personal information (including banking details and emails) leaked, and Twitter accounts hacked. ' Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism: A Guide To Assholes,' by Andrew Todd, Gaming Editor of Badass Digest: