Recent content by Izzyisme

I think a problem with many arguments against Bob in this thread rely on faulty logic. Yes men and women's brains are wired differently to some degree. But every single gender difference in our society does not stem from those differences. Studies show those differences to be memory and social...

Nailed it. If I have to listen to one more person complain about how the Resident Evil movie plots are nothing like the games and are thus awful, I will punch somebody. Does anybody actually remember the plot to Resident Evil 4? Saving the President's daughter, crappy one-liners, throwing a...

Yes, he did. Ignore him.

Well yeah, but only by becoming a man (if you interpret Sheik as male, which I know is disputed) or by being trapped in a suit of armor. And I think Spirit Track to some degree is an improvement over her role in other games. But the specifics don't matter. I feel like we got off topic. The key...

Right, but do you get to control Zelda? Other than in those Phillips CDi games or in Super Smash Bros.

No, I think it does have a lot to do with it. Sorry you ignored it. I think it's important for understanding objectification. I think the player experience is actually deeply connected to the narrative. The back story can tell you that Link is a toy of fate, but the experience of cutting down...

Edit: Changed it because a claim I made was unsubstantiated. I'm not talking about video games causing people to take a certain action. I'm talking about video games and other fiction helping to mold attitudes. I don't think video games can cause people to do something terrible. But like any...

I'm sorry I didn't make this clear, but I didn't mean just narratively. I mean what the player experiences as well. The player controls Link, and the player defeats the monsters and saves the Kingdom (and the Princess). On a narrative level, obviously it is more complex. But Link has agency...

Let me just reiterate my previous post. People know fantasy from reality. People know, when they read Harry Potter, that magic isn't real. But fiction is supposed to reflect something true about the real world. If it didn't, then nobody would enjoy it. It is grounded in reality, or else we would...

I mean in real life. You can, to some degree, choose your role in real life but not your gender. To me, these issues are important in their impact on the real world. So objectification of women is bad because women are real and are likely playing the game. So when a game portrays scientists as...

But that's not objectification. If you are given agency, you can choose how to act, even if some of your choices will be judged harshly by societal standards. But if you don't have agency, you don't even get to choose. EDIT: To clarify, there is being told that you can choose but then having...

Because you choose your role. You don't choose your gender.

Aha. Here is the issue. You seem to be implying that the only way that something can affect someone is if it is real. I would only think smoking is cool if I read a non-fiction work about a person who achieved great things while smoking. Often times, the opposite is true. What is more convincing...

I think you might be confusing agency with self-reliance. Agency is simply the ability to affect the world. It isn't problem solving. Video game protagonists have agency by definition. If they didn't, then it would be a movie. Video game protagonists often need help. If men are often portrayed...

I'm sorry about the earlier post. I edited it before you wrote your response, hoping you wouldn't see it, but you did. I guess we're both checking this thread pretty frequently. This point seems unrelated. I also don't think that anyone is being a "Stop Having Fun Guy." Nobody is telling you not...