Recent content by mokmoof

My argument doesn't "assume" any such thing. We've all seen the clip of Latisha, and I provided a clip of an archetypal mammy talking in a very similar way. If you don't see the similarity, then fair enough, but there's no assumption there. Just juxtaposition. As I've said multiple times now...

Six things: 1. Not to be a stickler, but "racist" does not mean "seeing things in terms of race." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is "the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to...

Yes, I'm from the north, but I have spent time in the south, and I maintain that there is an appreciable different between the way Latisha talks and the way real people talk. But at this point we're just telling each other unverifiable things about our personal experiences, so we're not going...

AdumbroDeus, both of your arguments seem to hinge on the issue of realism. Latisha is not a racial caricature because some people sound just like her, and because homeless people really do hustle for money, is what you seem to be saying. Thing is, whatever Edios et al intended when they put...

The reason that people are offended is not simply that the character is black and sounds stupid. It's that Latisha's (very stylized) dialect, her attitude toward the white protagonist, and her low social status all align her very closely with the history of minstrelsy. That tradition is racist...

Does it even need to be said that the vaguely effeminate straw-man character in the silly hat is an obnoxious, intellectuality dishonest, infuriatingly stupid way of making an argument? Here's something that Idiot Straw-Man Guy didn't bring up: In terms of theme, the Call of Duty series is...

I really don't buy the cherries-and-sawdust analogy. It's more like Portal 1 was three nice, plump cherries, and Portal 2 is five nice, plump cherries and four juicy strawberries, even though Yahtzee (and lots of other people, apparently) didn't want any damn strawberries, thank you very much...

I can see how Kratos shtupping mermaids was genre-appropriate, at the very least. Greek heroes were all about the transhuman wanderlust.

There is indeed something inherently awkward about video game sex. What I don't understand is why developers refuse to use that awkwardness. Why not write a sex scene that involves nervousness, or discomfort, or even outright disappointment? Without spoiling anything for those who haven't...

It would actually be nice to see the game take that angle on. You know, like an actual satire of a legitimate target, rather than a bunch of dumb excesses with a "THIS IS OK BECAUSE IT'S SATIRE" stamp lazily affixed to it.

Yeah, it does seem a bit like we're all feeding the trolls here, with Gearbox being the trolls. They're getting free publicity for what looks more and more like a thoroughly phoned-in game. As for the mechanic itself, it's a classic problem: the line between legitimate satire and the thing...