Recent content by MaximumTheHormone

She has at least hyperbolized it. Just because people can do something dosen't mean they are encouraged to. The score deduction you get for killing the characters is clearly an in game dissinsentive to kill the women, so to try and imply that killing these charecters is what the player is...

This video is a classic example of moving the goalposts. There are CLEAR similarities between what is argued by Jack Thompson and Anita Sarkeesian, and to just point out differences and personal flaws of jack dosen't change the fact the two have asserted 2 very similar thesis statements. They...

tl; dr Pewdiepie got told that uncensored spaces on the internet frighten parents of potential viewers, not allowing comments is an easy solution. Its the same as the wiggles or seaseme st youtube channels not a big deal

Consumption implies some sort of active action rather than a passive gaze. Going out in the open at all is an implicit consent to being seen which then has to be excplicitly or implicitly revoked. If someone goes out to a con in cos-play they are giving consent for all those around to see them...

I think anything within the realms of legality should be acceptable. Looking at something isn't illegal, that's why people will more likely walk away from someone who they don't want staring at them then asking them to stop. Its a social inconvenience at worst, making people feel uncomfortable...

The chess solution seems like a pointless money sink honestly. Those who are interested in the sport don't care about this side league and those women who take the sport seriously forgo it. The league sticks out like a white elephant as no-one really takes it seriously and its sole purpose is...

People do realize that its not just the model that needs to be redone? Cutscenes may have needed to be altered to altered (depending on how they handled things, but if they wanted to give the concept a serious go they would've had to redo the cut scenes to center the female player). Voices...

Remember that prop 8 wasn't anti gay, it was anti-gay marraige. He Could actually accept gay relationships as natural for all we know, and just believe in the 'biblical sanctity of marraige'. I know people who have no problem with gays, they just don't want gay marriage to be called 'gay...

1. There isn't much difference in performance in primary school as this study points out (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11542-eng.htm): "The study showed that 9-year-old girls and boys were no different in terms of success in mathematics in Grades 3 or 4." but once they...

Why not? Home computing had only just come about, and introduced the general public to an amazing new set of possibilities./ Before the 80s programming was almost an unknown. A relatively new field with usually very low levels of exposure at lower levels of education. As it has become more...

The way these results are trotted out is deliberately misleading. I don't think anyone is complaining or arguing about women's representation/involvement with social games like farmville. Pretty much the entire focus of the big internet fight is on triple A (Or similarly budgeted titles) with...

You say it like jokes that involve rape are inherently bad. The joke mainly centered around the original dickwolf rather than the act of rape, the use of rape only came in when considering what possible assualts a dick wolf could afflict. It dosen't rationalize rape, its still portrayed as...

Meh, if people want it why not? And for those complaining, how would this in any way affect your convention experience? + 1 if they serve shoddily made pizza and someones mum brings in a curry to play up the ethnic diversity.

not really a big deal. I'll wait till release and then decide whether its worth importing a copy (it usually is). With Australia's fucked up prices it allows me to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

I'm not saying trans repression doesn't happen, just that those complaining about it aren't being repressed institutionally. Rather that they face negative attitudes and actions by individuals and groups. Thus the militant response is well overblown.