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I am curious why people are so busy hating on people playing browser games. They're more advanced than the NES games people grew up with, but I don't see people running in circles declaring that 8 bit gaming is "Not true gaming". Why are people so afraid at the idea that someone out there is...

Anywhere from a few percent to several percent. As a lot of people have said, it gets super complicated super fast. Throw in people who prefer dating one gender but prefer sex with the other gender or people who are super straight or super gay.... except for that one time and it gets even...

Well hey, something cool did come out of the whole thing. Kudos and best of luck to the crew.

In many of these threads, the arguments have been made that if feminists want games with better representation, then they should be making their own games and not try to force game developers to make different games. Feminists have no right to demand that the artist conform to their views and...

With indie dev's, it's a different thing at times, since the artist may be a partner in the game, rather than "just" being hired on. Though most of this talk tends to be about AAA games I think. We were probably just talking past each other for a while there :) I need to go get some...

Sure, that's why things are the way they are now. That doesn't mean it has to be that way. More stories to be told.

I'm not saying it's not art. I'm saying that artistic integrity has little to do with it, because decisions about art in games are done for financial reasons. If a publisher decides they can make more money from sexualized art, they will. If they decide they can make more money from...

An artist for a video game doesn't make compromises. They draw, animate and create what they are being paid to draw, animate or create. If a bunch of people got mad about the art in a game and the publisher said to stick with the art, then the art stays. See the debacle about Diablo 3 being...

That's pretty much what I am getting at. FPS games have it particularly bad. Maybe that's a limitation of that particular gaming style but I don't see why it has to be. A character that actually reflects on what is happening would be cool. Maybe someone that shows some doubt. What if the...

They really aren't the same though. Bioshock Infinite has been given as an example: The game revolves heavily around racism and religious fanaticism but it isn't advocating either. On the flipside, if a game had no black characters at all despite being set in say, modern day US or only...

Are you talking about a character that is sexist or a sexist portrayal of a character? Those are not at all the same.

This whole debacle tends to revolve around the idea that gender roles is only of interest to women. That tends to follow into the whole "core gamer" demographic questions. This misses the fact that this stuff affects men as well. A few months back, there was a super sad story about a boy...

So what are you playing at the moment? I am usually playing a few things at any given time. Lately it's been "Sword of the Stars: The Pit", my third trilogy playthrough of Mass Effect and the Doom Roguelike. Bought Alpha Protocal since it was only 10 bucks so that's on the list and been...

When it comes to anime, it's a bit weird. On one hand, I know people who watch tons more anime than I do, so I tend not to call myself an anime guy. But then I realize that most people either don't watch at all or watch only one show, and I watch a lot more than that. Half-anime guy? :)

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