February 2012
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thetaylordetroye:
I promise this is the last SSX post for a while (at least until the game comes out)
These are my current demo scores
Are any of you playing the demo? How are you liking it?
I personally am enjoying it a whole lot - the control scheme is a little different from SSX 3, but not that hard to get used to. The two tracks get repetitive after a while, but it’s...
SONY Entertainment's Fifth Annual $10,000... →
The purpose of G.I.R.L is to positively impact the way females are depicted in video games and create and influence content to be appealing to women. Another purpose is to help raise awareness of the serious female gaming audience to the media in an effort to encourage the gaming industry to positively promote women throughout all facets of games, game production and into game management.
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A look at the line between sexy and... →
submitted by petitcarlos
(Though not directly video game related, comic design and video game design have much in common and they cater to a similar audience. This article is extremely well-written! Thanks for the submission.
-Amy-jean/mabufu)
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Anonymous asked: i am a transgender man, and in RPG games in which i am given an option i usually choose to play as a man. however, sometimes its easier for me to relate to the female alternatives because of how often the males get played up as stoic and macho, which are qualities that are hard for me to connect with. great blog btw.
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caramelkite asked: I was talking to a friend today about a speech I was going to make for class on misogyny in nerd culture/video games, and I'm really excited about it! But when I brought it up he just keep bringing up a time that he saw a game that had hyper-sexualized women in it, but the character design was made by women, and he didn't take me very seriously after that. I didn't really know how...
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how to woo a gamer guy →
an article from the escapist, it’s far from perfect but a very nice break from the usual “woo a gamer girl” articles, also I found this paragraph to be a great sign from a mainstream gaming site. “Actually, you know what? We’re sick of this. We’re tired of women (or anyone) being portrayed as something you have to deal with in order to get laid once in a while....
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thetaylordetroye:
Good lord I’ve been watching SSX gameplay for the past week I swear I’m going to disappear for at LEAST five days after it comes out because omg the game is ridiculous
here’s a teaser trailer of gameplay
here’s 49 minutes of preview gameplay
here’s the trailer
aaaand here’s E3 footage
I like how they basically just took all the realism and went “fuck it big tricks are more...
My apologies!
I (kiriamaya) just accidentally posted things here that I intended to post to my main blog. Sorry, my mistake! It’s fixed now.
And yes, I will submit actual game-related posts soon. XD
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January 2012
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enviablememory asked: I love the way Bioware handles gender in games. Having one or two characters that you are supposed to hate making stupid sexist remarks is totally fine! The world at large still recognizes that you're human - sexism doesn't surround you, and when it does pop up, it's surmountable. It's not emotionally overwhelming because it never takes control away from the player. You never...
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Anonymous asked: When letting a player choose the gender of their character in an RPG, how do you feel the developers should approach what lines, romances, and other things are available? In Mass Effect, Maleshep and Femshep have the exact same lines and everyone treats you the same, apart from pronouns (which I've actually had my femshep called sir as an oversight) and one instance where Femshep is told...
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Anonymous asked: I am a man who likes to play as women in RPG's. It was a choice I made starting with Mass Effect 1 because I felt it hard to connect with a bulky, monotone space marine compared to the more slim men of Knights of the Old Republic series) I am usually teased lightly be my friends about it. Usually in comments of YouTube videos of people playing as women, the comments are usually that...
Anonymous asked: Yes, I did show him that article. It was one of the articles he fought the hardest against, the other being about the comic reboots and destruction of characters like Harley Quinn. He's not someone I know all that well, so I'm always afraid I'll look like an idiot when/if I fight back. I might take you up on the offer of adding some of you on facebook so I can get some back up,...
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Anonymous asked: Ugh, ok, so sometimes I'll post articles I've read, a few of them being about male privilege and especially ones about (white) male privilege in the nerd 'verse. However, there's this guy I'm friends with on facebook who just won't acknowledge his male privilege- once again, especially in the nerd 'verse. He keeps arguing about it, or saying things like...
http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2011/12/dont-be-a-cre... →
Written by the same man who did Nerds and male privileges it talks about guys coming off as creepers when talking to girls IDK i found it a good read
Opinion: Boobs, Bad Games and Misogyny →
rosewatersailor:
videogamenostalgia:
If game makers want to distance themselves from cheap marketing tactics, there’s a really easy solution…
An interesting article from IGN on how marketing tactics around the chest.
Also, it features a (well deserved) criticism on this.
I’m really happy to see to see someone on IGN trying with this kind of thing, and I like that this is being talked...
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Nerds and Male Privilege Part 2 →
In a continuation of Kotaku’s discussions on male privilege in gaming/comics/geek culture, the writer takes the time to dissect and deconstruct many of the common excuses that men make for not considering the role that sexism plays in geek culture, in what he calls, “The 3 Ds of Arguing.”
Dismissal entails denying that the issue exists at all in the first place, evidence be...
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This story is absolutely amazing. →
A teenage jock is buying a game for his little brother. The kid wants to get a game with a female protagonist (Mirror’s Edge) with a purple controller to go along with it.
When the father comes in and see’s that his going against gender roles he has a conniption fit.
However, the older brother steps in and defends his little brother.
My faith in humanity was just restored.
-Ed
December 2011
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Ocean Marketing: the most horrible customer... →
nghia:
TL;DR: The guy that was hired for marketing of the Avenger Xbox controller sent out nasty emails to preorder customers, then got caught. He (or they) went by the name Ocean Marketing. This is really shocking and disgusting to read, left alone how the guy who received these emails had to go through.
Fascinating read.
The controllers themselves are rumored to actually be fairly good...
Happy holidays to all Gamerisms followers!
Hope your holidays are filled with as much gaming as you would like there to be.
Also good food.
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Nerds and Male Privilege →
This great article from Kotaku, (that’s right, Kotaku) functions as a kind of introductory lesson to its mostly male readers about male privilege in the gaming world, breaking it down piece-by-piece for the men who have ever refused or ignored talks of male privilege in gaming culture. Now, many of us gamers who already understand the ramifications of a cis-straight-male-dominated gaming and...
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Dark Souls Review + Feminist Analysis →
A review of general gameplay on its own, but also narrative and character reviews based on representation of race, gender, and body type.
submitted by enviablememory
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Why I Don't Feel Welcome at Kotaku →
Submitted by enviablememory
November 2011
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How Video Games Helped Me Go From Boy to Girl
transdyke:
gamessavedmylife:
Morgan McCormick, a transgender gamer, talks about how video games were an essential part of her ability to accept herself and her identity as a woman.
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I fucking love this <3
enviablememory asked: I love that there is finally a safe space to discuss games. I love it so much that I'd like to contribute (I have something I'd like to write about Dark Souls right now, in particular). I'm a FAAB agender pansexual feminist who's been gaming my whole life! I'd love to be able to support this blog in a more official sense.
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an open letter to video game designers
whathunter:
hi my name is hunter and I would like to let you in on a little secret: not every male is big and hairy and not every female is small and curvy. for that matter, not everyone fits into the categories of male and female at all!
I, for example, am a short skinny male-leaning adrogyne who most people tend to think “looks” like a girl whatever the hell that means. I have friends who use...
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ichbinerica asked: Amyjean I thought I couldn't love you any more than I already did but I was WRONG. FOLLOW ALL THE AMYJEAN BLOGS!
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saltheria asked: I just stumbled upon this blog and I love it. Recent issues discussed also reminded me of the midnight launch for Arkham City - I was pretty much the only female in the queue. As it happens, the midnight passers-by asked us why are we queing, and quite a few women doing so then left almost shaking their heads and discussing us. It then led to one of the guys asking me whether I'm buying the...
katieshmatie asked: How come no one ever complains about "guy gamers"? >:(
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October 2011
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Anonymous asked: Msg me on Yahoo Messenger right now my SN is deborahmeliabb121371
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A Role-Playing Game About Growing Up Gay →
Have you ever been so frustrated, so fed up with where you are, that you just want to throw it all away and run off to somewhere new? In A Closed World you play as a young person who has decided to do exactly that. This console RPG-like game puts you in the shoes of a young resident of a village just outside a forest that everyone says is a place of no return. Supposedly home to hungering...
September 2011
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Games that got less attention #3
Third in the series. Check the tag #games that got less attention for the others.
#3:
Samurai Warriors 2 (PC, PS2, Xbox 360)
This game is a pure button-masher with a little bit of strategy. You play various characters in battles throughout Japan’s history (and the characters are actually accurate, as in they existed and fought during the time period the game describes). The goal is to...
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afdot asked: The corset keeps the dress up for Lulu.