Steam User Finds Misogynistic "Joke" Buried in Dead Island Code [UPDATED]
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Sheesh, western people are so intolerant. So what if people on dev team hate feminists? It's their business.
IMO rabid feminists are just another bunch of idiots and make women look bad.
It's really bad in the West... Not to mention racism towards white people.
IMO rabid feminists are just another bunch of idiots and make women look bad.
It's really bad in the West... Not to mention racism towards white people.
Yeah, and Alpha Protocol which had some major issues out the gate (yay! Obsidian!), which ruined the games' sales. It is a patching culture, and digital distribution is going to make it worse.GonzoGamer said:
In the case of Dead Island, this could have been controlled by management if they reviewed the code appropriately. The programmer should have been told to rename the skill at some point near release, if not as soon as it was noticed.
As an analogy - I work for television. We send people out to shoot some material that won't be able to be reshot. If a camera operator or location sound mixer makes a mistake - and they make mistakes - you can sometimes "fix it in post". But that doesn't mean that the camera operator or sound guy doesn't get some sort of warning or scolding. If the pattern continues, they get fired. I've watched shows that had had careless mistakes in them that could have been fixed at one point, but never have (a blatant example is a watermark of an effects package - which takes up the entire screen - that appears if you never register the software). These mistakes are careless and should never be delivered (not to say it doesn't happen).
While alright for a joke, this is a careless temporary name. While the majority of those who work in programming are male, it could be safe to assume no one would find this. Still, that reality is changing, and its jokes like this that may keep more women from joining the programming workforce.
It's really just professionalism. Cleaning up code acknowledges that the code is used by everyone in the team, and that may include females that either are hired or will be hired. Leaving unnecessary jokes that may offend someone is just poor judgment.TheAmazingHobo said:
Yes, yes it does. Is there a problem with that?Mr.K. said:Well god damn it now even source code needs to be politically correct
Exactly. Feminists who fight for womens equality are fine by me. But hardly any feminists do these days. Because women these days have pretty much equal rights to men. But Feminists these days often push for more womens rights. Which means that women have more rights than men. This isn't the way forward, and I hate them for even trying such a thing.JustaGigolo said:
Men and women should be generally equal. But feminists push for greater rights than males. And Chauvinists push for greater rights than females.
But it isn't just sexists. It's dealing with the inherent sexism in society. Here's where it gets kinda radical (but good radical) but here is the inherent sexism in society:JustaGigolo said:
Gender specific clothing
Women not being able to serve in the army
The expectation for men to earn money
Slut-shaming
The expectation for women to care for the family
Women being more likely to get custody of children in divorces
and more.
Don't forget the two main male characters are portrayed as the biggest pieces of shit on the planet, whereas the female leads are given sad stories to make them more noble and heroic.Azuaron said:
I'm just not seeing the Misogyny.
At least not in this game, plenty all over, sexism is pretty popular regardless of gender.
Gender specific clothing goes both ways.orangeban said:
Women can serve everywhere in the Army but the foot soldiers (infantry?). Also homosexuals get a harder time in the military than women, albeit women don't get it well.
This sucks, I'm pro women ruling the world.
Mansluts were a thing in my school. We tended to call them douchebags, but the idea was the same.
I'd >love< to be a shufu. I've already raised one kid and doing the family raising is pretty fucking awesome. Gimme gimme, ladies can go hold a job, I can take care of the family.
This is sad, kids being property saddens me.
And off I go...to work...
Ladies save me!
There's a perk that allows you to seduce and do more damage to members of the opposite sex in Fallout. Just sayin.
Feminism is just as retarded as chauvinism or any other form of sexism. Taking the piss out of them is more than deserved. Why not cry about something more interesting like the fact that piss-poor games like Dead Island are constantly being made? Or that some people SUPPORT games like these?
Seriously, if you support women's rights or men's rights instead of EQUAL rights you should jump off a bridge. Preferably a high one.
Seriously, if you support women's rights or men's rights instead of EQUAL rights you should jump off a bridge. Preferably a high one.
Oh yeah, sure. I definitly believe that this makes him a shit programmer, who is either too lazy or too dumb to realize the necessity of sanitizing community code.jmarquiso said:
I just don´t believe it makes him a shit human being.
In dubio pro reo.
So I just chalk this up as a brain-fart combined with lazyness.
Uh, you know you can support both men and womens rights at the same time? I am both a feminist and a masculinist.Skiisk said:
Here's the thing, feminism is meant to be about equality, and for most feminists it is about equality. But the ones everyone care about and the ones that get tossed around the internet are the crazy ones so everyone thinks they are the norm (this is because normal feminists are kinda boring, seeing as pretty much everyone agrees with them.)