The Best Gamer Over-Reactions of 2012 (Editing help required)
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You've already addressed this a bit but I do have one more thing about Mass Effect before I drop itrob_simple said:
Your personal opinion on things shouldn't really matter if you're going to talk about over-reaction. 'Sending letters to the developer?' That seems alright. 'Sending death threats to the developer?' A bit iffier but people throw stupid shit into their letters all the time. 'Sending a ton of cupcakes to the developer to make a point?' Alright guys, this is getting a bit weird but I suppose people send all kinds of weird things to TV execs to save their shows. 'Suing Bioware because the ending wasn't what we were promised?' Alright, I don't care what side you're on, THIS is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
The easiest way to tell if it's an over-reaction is to take the subject in question and flip it to Twilight
Spoiler for the New Twilight movie from MovieBob; I sincerely doubt anyone here cares but warning anyway:
What if fans sent a ton of letters to Summit because they changed the giant battle scene at the end to a vision (I guess this is a big change from the book)? What if fans sent them a bunch of...uh...vampire teeth in protest? What if fans SUED Summit because they felt the change ruined their experience so much?
Get the point? No one who takes the action ever thinks what they are doing is over-reaction; they believe it's justified because it's such a slap in the face. Outsiders don't have this problem...
Shit, there are only twenty posts in this thread and already I've gotten people to argue about it with my post
Over-reaction or not, you can't ignore it without looking like you're ignoring it. It sounds like you were convinced (or made it sound like I convinced you to boost my ego!) so if you do make the change, feel free to add it to your post or PM me if you still want advice/assistance/someone to give you loving words.
Your idea on "best" over-reactions in regards to sexism this year is the fairly benign storm in a tea cup that was the Mechromancer reveal? Instead of the two other examples you mentioned (the Tomb Raider or Hitman trailer) or even the two events that created massive shitstorms all across the board and really got the sexism discussion going:
1. Anita Sarkeesian. The undoubtedly craziest thing that happened to gaming all year (or tied with the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle, but at least that was more about the game). A gender studies graduate makes a kickstarter where she wants money to sponsor a series of videos deconstructing the tropes of female gender present in contemporary gaming. Rape threats, death threats and games about physically abusing Anita Sarkeesian follow, along with a month long discussion about the relative merit of the project, the relative merit of Sarkeesian's opinion and the relative merit of Sarkeesian as a human being. In the end, those who liked Sarkeesians project still likes it and those that hated it still hate it.
2. The twitter from a Destructoid intern where he "insinuated" that Felicia Day was nothing but a glorified booth babe and went on to suggest that her only talent was using her body to draw attention to herself. What followed was a massive discussion about whatever Felicia Day really was a gamer, if she really had any talent, if she deserved to be in the game industry and a "gaming celebrity" and if it really was such a bad thing to compare female gamers in general (and Felicia Day in particular) to booth babes.
Leaving out the Mass Effect 3 ending outrage and the Sarkeesian "discussion" (in this context I use discussion as synonymous with riot) from a list of "best over reactions" suggests that you really don't follow the gaming community all that much.
1. Anita Sarkeesian. The undoubtedly craziest thing that happened to gaming all year (or tied with the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle, but at least that was more about the game). A gender studies graduate makes a kickstarter where she wants money to sponsor a series of videos deconstructing the tropes of female gender present in contemporary gaming. Rape threats, death threats and games about physically abusing Anita Sarkeesian follow, along with a month long discussion about the relative merit of the project, the relative merit of Sarkeesian's opinion and the relative merit of Sarkeesian as a human being. In the end, those who liked Sarkeesians project still likes it and those that hated it still hate it.
2. The twitter from a Destructoid intern where he "insinuated" that Felicia Day was nothing but a glorified booth babe and went on to suggest that her only talent was using her body to draw attention to herself. What followed was a massive discussion about whatever Felicia Day really was a gamer, if she really had any talent, if she deserved to be in the game industry and a "gaming celebrity" and if it really was such a bad thing to compare female gamers in general (and Felicia Day in particular) to booth babes.
Leaving out the Mass Effect 3 ending outrage and the Sarkeesian "discussion" (in this context I use discussion as synonymous with riot) from a list of "best over reactions" suggests that you really don't follow the gaming community all that much.