I have been reading some interesting article and posts on the website today including Yatzee's
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/12596-Bayonetta-s-Gender-is-Woven-Intricately-to-The-Game-s-Plot?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all
and Bob's http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/9893-What-Really-Is-and-Isnt-Censorship (ok technically I watched that not read it but lets avoid that level of pedantic thought)
And all the comments associated with them.
It just struck me that at the root of the anger in the room is the disconnect between how we (I) think the would should be and how it is. I'll give two examples in no particular order.
Person A sees the state of gaming and is offended by some or all of it. We or at least some of us think that they shouldn't be. The fact is that they are/were offended. Their behavior being other than what we think it *should* be gets us angry.
Person B sees the state of gaming and thinks is *shouldn't* be that way. They get angry and offended.
This isn't a huge point just an observation that struck me as interesting. I not really trying to say that people are wrong, to think things should or shouldn't be it just seemed interesting to me that the result when we find a difference between what how we believe the world *should* be and how it is, appears to be anger.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/12596-Bayonetta-s-Gender-is-Woven-Intricately-to-The-Game-s-Plot?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all
and Bob's http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/9893-What-Really-Is-and-Isnt-Censorship (ok technically I watched that not read it but lets avoid that level of pedantic thought)
And all the comments associated with them.
It just struck me that at the root of the anger in the room is the disconnect between how we (I) think the would should be and how it is. I'll give two examples in no particular order.
Person A sees the state of gaming and is offended by some or all of it. We or at least some of us think that they shouldn't be. The fact is that they are/were offended. Their behavior being other than what we think it *should* be gets us angry.
Person B sees the state of gaming and thinks is *shouldn't* be that way. They get angry and offended.
This isn't a huge point just an observation that struck me as interesting. I not really trying to say that people are wrong, to think things should or shouldn't be it just seemed interesting to me that the result when we find a difference between what how we believe the world *should* be and how it is, appears to be anger.