Shelby Knox Wants Duke Nukem Forever Out of Walmart

[Vern]

Removing it from Walmart is probably the worst decision. Walmart is the only store that ever carded me when buying an R rated movie or an M rated game. I was just above legal age to buy at the time, but I went into Target when I was 15 and bought Soldier of Fortune 2. Which, by the way is arguably the most violent game ever made thanks to it's GHOUL 2 system in which you can literally blow people's heads apart piece by piece. If parents decide to buy it for their children at Walmart, that's their decision, but Walmart seems to be the only company I've ever seen that actually enforces ID policy when selling games and movies to children. I was never asked for ID when buying violent games at Best Buy or Gamestop.

 

[gigastrike]

Oh no! I can't buy it at Walmart? Now where am I going to shop for Duke Nukem Forever in the event that both Gamestop and Best Buy are out?

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Every outrage just increases their projected sales by 5%

 

[Chappy]

If Walmart didn't sell the game would that not just mean more people would buy copies from other shops that focus on games like Gamestation and Gamestop?

To this I wonder if her true motive is to smear Duke Nukem or get Gamestation employee's a nice paycheck bonus.

 

[MrGalactus]

I'm on Team Shelby for this one.
Quit selling games, Wal-Mart, no one buys them from you!

 

[colourcodedchaos]

*headdesk*

Why do people even care about this story?

Hell, why do people even care about Duke Nukem? Let Forever come out, let everyone be disappointed, and let. It. Die. For gods' sakes, let it just wither into the nothingness it will doubtless be.

 

[funguy2121]

"Oh, no, how will people buy Duke Nukem without Walmart? why, this most definitely will have an impact on the games sales for sure. *SNORT SNORT*

Ok, here's the thing... This is Shelby Knox:

...Why is it that these aggressive feminists are always uglier than sin...? Am I the only one noticing this or are any of these "jump on everything no matter how stupid" feminists that are actually non-visually scarring?

She's not ugly. How many women have let you sleep with them that look better than this, exactly? You'll see ten women like her at the very least at any given time on your nearest high street. Why does it even have anything to do with it? why are you jumping on the "lol, feminism is for ugly chicks" wagon here? surely we're all WAY above this kind of idiocy? you'll only ever fuel the more aggressive ones if you start making jokes like this.

Here, here. Even if Ms. Knox is ugly "for a woman" (which she is not), she's probably still prettier than me, prettier than you and almost certainly prettier than Caliostro. Knee-jerk reactions to feminism can only mean one thing. Calio, why do you hate women?

I love how Pritchford seems thoroughly oblivious to the fact that "a love slap on the booty" is if anything more condescending.
This is a game which should never have seen the light of day. If its development gestation of nearly 15 years is proof of anything, that is it.

Don't get me wrong, I think Duke Nukem has always been a neanderthal exercise in the most base and worthless qualities of this medium, but I won't deny it the right to be base and worthless.

Looks like someone is missing the joke.

I agree with her. Duke Nuke'em was like a cheap Doom Knockoff with Shredder henchman simulacra for enemies. The only thing distinct about the game was its use of faux-porn posters and aliased strippers.

 

[chinangel]

well...I dunno..I 'm not going to earn any friends for this, but I'm rather divided on it. You see, I was kind of hoping duke would have moved out of this 13 year-old obsession. Srsly, the guy's a manchild.

I'm a girl and I do feel this is offensive, but on the other hand I also wouldn't mind playing the game....


As I said, I'm divided on the issue.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

So in nearly every other game made you can loads of people, like in the Mario game you throw bowser into a pit of lava in front of his young son and just watch. But all hell breaks lose if you give some girl a but slap, maybe feminists should be more worried about how females are treated over the internet instead. Or instead maybe they should stop complaining over something so trivial, I don't complain when women say men are inconvenient slobs or we are bad.

PS. One of us should start a petition to say "Fuck off Feminists, let Duke Nukem Forever sell at Walmart" and make their petition insignificant by comparison.

 

[Blood Countess]

the thing is, she will fail in her cause simply cause Walmart likes money and not selling it will help them not make money.
Her problem is she fails to understand the game is a joke based around old 80's action movies and as a feminist myself I don't find the game offensive cause I understand what it's trying to be, like Saint's Row 2 is a joke and a parody

 

[Riobux]

Thank you for reminding me that the role of radical feminists/"women's rights" groups isn't to create equality, but to create inequality in their favour.

 

[Amondren]

GearBox isn't gonna do anything about changing it its almost out the door and a small feminist group wont change anything.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Did anybody even bat an eye at the Slap Morrigan mod [http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1464]? Not that she doesn't deserve it most oft the time...

 

[Amizrael]

It seems to me that Ms. Knox is not so much lacking in understanding as to the ineffectual nature of her actions. It is more likely that she is attempting to further advance her position and increase political clout with her constituency. After all she's picking such a flamboyantly easy target. To my mind, the fact that there isn't more outcry from other feminist activists shows that those who would honestly wish this sort of thing to not exist know there are better ways to accomplish it. After all, attacking this one game doesn't solve the problem since it is merely a symptom of the underlying societal issue. One would as well cut out a single tumor in hopes of curing cancer.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

<---- The Point


<---- Shelby Knox

That is all.

 

[MoNKeyYy]

Damn, now I'll have to go to one of the many other places that carries this game instead of supporting an abusive, employee hating, monopolistic, heartless corporation that deliberately makes it so that more than half of their employee's paycheques goes straight back into the company while simultaneously encouraging 20 year employees to go on state welfare and medicaid...Sorry, I'm not a huge fan of Wal-Mart.

 

[Jodah]

Ahh fun times. Frankly, anyone who takes any Duke Nukem game seriously needs a "love slap to the booty" if you know what I mean.

 

[darkbshadow]

Its funny I actually wasn't thinking about buying this game at all. Since it really was starting to look like nothing special. However with all the bitching I might actually pick up a copy just in spite of them... Used of course after it goes down to 30Bucks.

 

[Formica Archonis]

Thank you for reminding me that the role of radical feminists/"women's rights" groups isn't to create equality, but to create inequality in their favour.

Any special interest group is invariably about bringing itself (via the group it "represents") to dominance. I don't know, I'd love equality. Then I wouldn't have people trying to make me feel bad for the sin of being born male.