Basically a warmer and poorer version of New Jersey. But it does have one major thing going for it compared to the Bay Area -- you don't have to be a dot-com millionaire to buy a house.
the misogyny in many video games is as obvious as the misogyny in american TV shows - and it comes from the same source: american culture is fucked up and misogynystic.
ROTFL. If you think that, you've missed something obvious. Many of the games she critiques (especially the earlier ones) don't come from American culture at all.
No, really, it isn't - or at least, it doesn't add anything meaningful that we don't already know from both the disclaimer, and the title of the series.
The title (Tropes vs. Women) is suggestive, but doesn't quite go so far as to claim actual harm is being done in real life.
If there was a 50% chance of the game you're playing having a "Dude in distress" thing somewhere, and a less than one % chance of it being Damsel, it'd start to get to you after a while, and you'd feel a little like games aren't aimed at you.
There's a vast difference between "games aren't aimed at you" and "harm". Anyway, I'm not so convinced on the damsel thing. I'm pretty sure a greater percentage of women played the Mario games ("damsel in distress", though the framing story was pretty unimportant to gameplay) than play Call of Duty (which has plenty of "dude in distress" missions).
Well, obviously it's a lie given she's a FEMINAZI who wants to cut off every male's testicles, AMIRITE?! YEAH!!
She has claimed (in an NPR interview) "These representations are really harmful to women". Which is at odds with the claim that she doesn't think the games are necessarily bad.
But I'm glad you've at least gotten past those problems with the narrative. I hope you'll keep an open mind, and accept that not everyone on the so-called SJW side is as two dimensional as you currently I think believe.
Oh, I assure you, I don't think the SJW side is TWO dimensional.
Look at Sarkeesian. She literally begins each of her videos making the point she's discussing common themes, she's not saying it's bad to play a game with such a theme, or that the games are necessarily bad
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Such a disclaimer is not necessarily true.
Which is why these nuts still believe that Grayson wrote a review of Zoe Quinn's game
That's just something anti-GGers like to say; nobody still believes that. Some still claim he _promoted_ the game as a result of his personal relationship with Quinn, which is not the same thing.
Adam Baldwin was responding to Leigh Alexander when he coined the "GamerGate" hashtag.
Again, that's just something anti-GGers like to say. Baldwin tweeted the GG hashtag the day before the "Gamers are Over / Gamers are Dead" articles came out. Those articles are what made GamerGate take off (according to some, including myself) beyond the whole Quinn thing, but that doesn't mean I'm saying Baldwin coined it in response to Alexander.
Do you know how to solve this problem? It's almost absurdly easy: Pick a different hashtag.
Yeah, I'll bet the people who are now blaming gamergate for everything from spoiled milk to murder will NEVER blame people using a new hashtag for the same thing.
And I'll bet that random assholes just trying to stir the pot will NEVER find this new hash tag and start posting shit on it.
And this is the crux of my argument here: conspiracy theories are generally a very poor explanation for any given phenomenon, and are almost always proven not to exist in the long run.
This is nonsense. People conspire all the time. That's why we have whole categories of crime called "conspiracy to commit...". Governments conspire all the time too (e.g. the "Five Eyes" conspiring to spy on everyone). And organizations conspire (consider price fixing, market division, etc). If a whole bunch of publications put out a whole bunch of columns on the same subject pushing the same point of view on the same day (and they're not an immediate response to a particular event, which these were not; the events they referred to had already been going on for weeks), even Occam's Razor points to collusion.
FBI and DHS are investigating and have CONFIRMED that two of the women claiming to have RECEIVED death threats... SENT THEM TO THEMSELVES.
Even GamerGaters on/r/kotakuinaction are suspicious of this one. Campbell isn't the most credible person ever.
I'm sure all the women have received actual (if not credible) death threats from people unconnected with themselves, though I wouldn't rule out that some of them were bogus.
I've been threatened with death while being held up by my shirt collar after being slammed up against the wall. Cops didn't give a shit. You really think you're going to get their attention for meaningless threats from some random internet troll?
Wu, like Sarkeesian and Quinn, plays up the threats as a shield against any criticism of what they are saying and doing. "Oh, poor me, I've been driven out of my home, and anyone who criticizes anything I say is part of that".
If you want "environmental friendliness", get rid of your AC and set your heat to just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. Cold? Wear a sweater. And some gloves. And long johns. And an overcoat. Won't kill you.
I think the point here was that most people never even tried, having assumed it was some magically thing one either had or didn't.
Just about everybody has tried "people skills". Its part of growing up if nothing else, so unless you were raised by Mark Twain's "barrel" method, you've tried it. Some of us just don't have the talent; we try the things others do successfully, and they fail for us. There's obviously a difference, but we're unable to perceive it.
You've failed to consider the theory of "micro-aggressions". This is where the same shit men in tech (and everywhere else) pull on other men in tech (and everywhere else) is suddenly worse when it's pulled on women in tech. You know, talking over people, stealing credit, etc.
Sure, I recognize that I only have 85% of what you're looking for in terms of a skillset; or that you want to pay $5000/year less than my absolute salary floor... But if that job has been open for 3-6 months, the damage caused by it being open (presumably because someone left, and now there's a void that everyone else on the team is not really able to fill) has far exceeded whatever small training costs or whatever you would have to spend on me...
These are not real positions. They are non-jobs. There's tons of them. Lots of reasons they exist -- recruiters fishing for resumes to put in their database, ad to satisfy some visa requirement by not finding anyone, internal corporate requirements, etc.
Basically the job boards are now so useless that your best bet is to start networking in-person with as many local companies as you can. I've already run across some companies that are starting to realize this and host technology meet-ups.
So the people who get jobs are the people great at schmoozing? Somehow I don't think that's the way to get the best people either, unless you're looking for sales staff.
They want new designs and techniques? These companies must have a ton of them that sound good but didn't work out after expensive testing. Make a few of those "available" to the hackers with some doctored test results.
Biggest risk is accidentally falling for your own disinformation.
Almost all US passenger train buying is subject to "Buy America" rules.
Strange that we've got Bombardier and Alstom locomotives and Bombardier passenger cars in NJ, then. Also Kawasaki MUs. None of those companies is American.
It's not about the money, though. Democrats are spending MORE money than Republicans in trying to communicate their message, and they're still losing ground. It's about the entire Democrat party carrying around the stink left on it by a spectacularly incompetent administration - one that the party was supporting in a nearly religious way in order to get re-elected just a while ago. It's buyer's remorse, big time. And since the rest of the party can't bring themselves to say they don't support the administration's policies and world view (although some won't even admit they voted for the guy!), they're left by appearances tacitly endorsing the whole mess, and wearing the consequences as voters show their disgust.
At least in my part of the world you can buy all that stuff for cash at Home Depot. You don't need really high concentration H2O2 or HCl for PCB etching, the pool chemicals work fine.
NY State laws can't be snuck around unfortunately:( Any power assisted bike is considered a "motor vehicle" and thus, must be registered and licensed. Boo! NY
Yeah, it's a lot simpler how those laws are dealt with in New York (and New Jersey for that matter); they're just flat-out ignored. There's a ton of electric-assist food delivery bikes in NYC, all illegal.
My several year old e-bike has a hub motor. It's on the front wheel rather than the rear (because that makes the mechanicals simpler), but this is all off-the-shelf stuff nowadays.
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I just bought a new premium-requiring gas-guzzling machine. And now gas prices fall dramatically. First time I've ever had such good luck.
Meanwhile, electricity prices go up. Sucks to be a new Tesla owner.
Including a felony conviction, so suicide by slow torture.
Basically a warmer and poorer version of New Jersey. But it does have one major thing going for it compared to the Bay Area -- you don't have to be a dot-com millionaire to buy a house.
ROTFL. If you think that, you've missed something obvious. Many of the games she critiques (especially the earlier ones) don't come from American culture at all.
The title (Tropes vs. Women) is suggestive, but doesn't quite go so far as to claim actual harm is being done in real life.
There's a vast difference between "games aren't aimed at you" and "harm". Anyway, I'm not so convinced on the damsel thing. I'm pretty sure a greater percentage of women played the Mario games ("damsel in distress", though the framing story was pretty unimportant to gameplay) than play Call of Duty (which has plenty of "dude in distress" missions).
She has claimed (in an NPR interview) "These representations are really harmful to women". Which is at odds with the claim that she doesn't think the games are necessarily bad.
Oh, I assure you, I don't think the SJW side is TWO dimensional.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Such a disclaimer is not necessarily true.
That's just something anti-GGers like to say; nobody still believes that. Some still claim he _promoted_ the game as a result of his personal relationship with Quinn, which is not the same thing.
Again, that's just something anti-GGers like to say. Baldwin tweeted the GG hashtag the day before the "Gamers are Over / Gamers are Dead" articles came out. Those articles are what made GamerGate take off (according to some, including myself) beyond the whole Quinn thing, but that doesn't mean I'm saying Baldwin coined it in response to Alexander.
Um, both of them?
Oh, don't worry. Sam Biddle or Leigh Alexander or someone else (probably from Gawker) will say something stupid and/or inflammatory, and revive it.
Yeah, I'll bet the people who are now blaming gamergate for everything from spoiled milk to murder will NEVER blame people using a new hashtag for the same thing.
And I'll bet that random assholes just trying to stir the pot will NEVER find this new hash tag and start posting shit on it.
This is nonsense. People conspire all the time. That's why we have whole categories of crime called "conspiracy to commit...". Governments conspire all the time too (e.g. the "Five Eyes" conspiring to spy on everyone). And organizations conspire (consider price fixing, market division, etc). If a whole bunch of publications put out a whole bunch of columns on the same subject pushing the same point of view on the same day (and they're not an immediate response to a particular event, which these were not; the events they referred to had already been going on for weeks), even Occam's Razor points to collusion.
Doesn't work. The state just deliberately under-assesses everything, then jacks up the millage to compensate.
Even GamerGaters on /r/kotakuinaction are suspicious of this one. Campbell isn't the most credible person ever.
I'm sure all the women have received actual (if not credible) death threats from people unconnected with themselves, though I wouldn't rule out that some of them were bogus.
I've been threatened with death while being held up by my shirt collar after being slammed up against the wall. Cops didn't give a shit. You really think you're going to get their attention for meaningless threats from some random internet troll?
Wu, like Sarkeesian and Quinn, plays up the threats as a shield against any criticism of what they are saying and doing. "Oh, poor me, I've been driven out of my home, and anyone who criticizes anything I say is part of that".
If you want "environmental friendliness", get rid of your AC and set your heat to just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. Cold? Wear a sweater. And some gloves. And long johns. And an overcoat. Won't kill you.
Just about everybody has tried "people skills". Its part of growing up if nothing else, so unless you were raised by Mark Twain's "barrel" method, you've tried it. Some of us just don't have the talent; we try the things others do successfully, and they fail for us. There's obviously a difference, but we're unable to perceive it.
You've failed to consider the theory of "micro-aggressions". This is where the same shit men in tech (and everywhere else) pull on other men in tech (and everywhere else) is suddenly worse when it's pulled on women in tech. You know, talking over people, stealing credit, etc.
These are not real positions. They are non-jobs. There's tons of them. Lots of reasons they exist -- recruiters fishing for resumes to put in their database, ad to satisfy some visa requirement by not finding anyone, internal corporate requirements, etc.
So the people who get jobs are the people great at schmoozing? Somehow I don't think that's the way to get the best people either, unless you're looking for sales staff.
They want new designs and techniques? These companies must have a ton of them that sound good but didn't work out after expensive testing. Make a few of those "available" to the hackers with some doctored test results.
Biggest risk is accidentally falling for your own disinformation.
Strange that we've got Bombardier and Alstom locomotives and Bombardier passenger cars in NJ, then. Also Kawasaki MUs. None of those companies is American.
tl;dr: "Thanks, Obama!"
At least in my part of the world you can buy all that stuff for cash at Home Depot. You don't need really high concentration H2O2 or HCl for PCB etching, the pool chemicals work fine.
Yeah, it's a lot simpler how those laws are dealt with in New York (and New Jersey for that matter); they're just flat-out ignored. There's a ton of electric-assist food delivery bikes in NYC, all illegal.
My several year old e-bike has a hub motor. It's on the front wheel rather than the rear (because that makes the mechanicals simpler), but this is all off-the-shelf stuff nowadays.