Posts by Taylor

Most games I’ve worked on have obsessed over the metascore, which is doubly unfortunate given they’re all pretty low. One even had a fake metacritic chart where the bigwigs would play through the latest build and come up a plus or minus on our running, imagined metascore. Boy am I glad they decided to drop that individual metascore nonsense.

I've got nothing against metacritic itself as a concept, but it's not a force for good while publishers obsess over it.

I did enjoy Doom 3 but it seemed very schizophrenic to me. It really needed to decide if it wanted to be 'realistic' horror game or stick to its monster-closet action roots.

The white men of mapcore.

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We tried. Jason wanted him in the game badly. Copyright and everything made us stay away from easter eggs.

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Man, you really have to put up with a lot of shit for wanting to make videos about this.

This backs up John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Also, since this won't die anytime soon, KiteTales is someone on youtube who talked about

when this Kickstarter happened and has now done a video response to Anita's part 1. She's generally more positive than the other responses I've seen and her music choice is made of pure nostalgia. Her main focus is less about aggressively picking apart her assumptions and bad evidence, and more arguing that being a 'damsel' doesn't automatically mean you're a powerless MacGuffin.

Also, since I clearly have nothing better to do, I put together a playlist with everything mentioned so far, which I can put on shuffle and listen to in the background. This is to stop myself just posting what I like, nodding in appreciation at a few Chrono Trigger tracks, and then exiting the thread. Which I'm sure nobody else does.

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It is missing a few tracks, mainly because soundtrack videos get killed frequently for copyright infringement and the links were dead already, but I also didn’t include 3-4 because they were ‘real songs’ or covers. What an asshole.

The original Bioshock always crashed at the first level transition for me, so I had no problem absorbing all the leaked Infinite footage up to the ending. This thread is going to get awesome.

Many fat characters in video games can breathe fire and this could be setting unrealistic expectations.

Well, next time everyone will wait for thunderf00t and InuitInua to point out any bad evidence and logical fallacies for them to work from. This has been ten pages of people trying to make points through a minefield of linguistic traps while stressing they totally don’t hate women.

Just mass tier 1 and keep your heroes up.

I don't know of a Vita release. I can't imagine it being too nice to play on a handheld as it uses six buttons and double inputs for throws, assists, tags, supers and snaps D:

There will be a PC release, though.

I really like Skullgirls. It’s definitely the deepest fighting game out on consoles this generation and the best fighting game out of a western developer by far. How’s that for an opening gambit?

The gameplay system was made by MikeZ who is a tournament-level Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Guilty Gear player. I believe his stated goal was to make an MvC2 where everyone played like a top tier character (for the uninitiated

but only a small portion of its cast is viable).It brings a few new features to the table like the infinite protection system, variable team sizes and custom assists. I could write for ages on how these are super awesome, but I’ll refrain unless someone actually cares. Although there are only eight characters (up to ten with the funding) they have pretty extensive skillsets reminding me more of a Guilty Gear character than one you would see in Marvel. It also makes no competitive concessions to modern conventions, so there throw windows are short and there is no comeback mechanics.

Some of its problems are what you’d expect from a low budget game using all its money on animation, the cast is small and the non-canon “story mode” is the extent of the single player content. Other problems are a large burden of knowledge due to the reset heavy gameplay, but that's something you just need to embrace.

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Yes. Girls are raised from birth to fulfill a feminine role, which is not one of computer science or engineering. Women are absolutely capable of programming and designing things, but are told their entire lives that they must be pretty and focus on aesthetics and other people and be nice and kind and polite and respectful and defer to others and be a wife and be a mom and be a caretaker. This is what those mean ole feminists are talking about when they talk about the Patriarchy. Do you think that most nurses are women and most doctors are men because of an innate biological difference? Do you attribute anything whatsoever except the differences in reproductive role to innate biological differences which are universal per-gender? If so, how do you square people who aren't "normal" male or female on the biological spectrum, such as those with XYY, Adrenal Insensitivity or Hyperactivity, Hermaphroditus, etc?

I'm pretty sure I clarified my position this very clearly, so I’m not sure why you’re assuming I said the differences were mostly biological. Now you’ve now taken this to the extreme of me denying cisgende/cissexual people exist, which is a blatant misrepresentation. If you do this again I will just exit this conversation with a big fuck you.

There is a different to men and women being uninterested in jobs because of gender roles (which we can and should change) and being uninterested in jobs because of an active sexist discrimination from those within it. Nursing is a female dominated profession; is this evidence of an activate discrimination within nursing to stop men taking these jobs? I would say, like the above, it is not.

Trying to get back into Skullgirls now Squigly and Big Band have been funded by their indiegogo crowd-funding thingamajig. I actually haven’t been playing it since the patch which makes me a terrible person. From what I can gather Big Band is like Nrvnqsr Chaos only instead of opening up his flashers coat for shadow animals and tentacles it’s trombones and cornets. I approve of this.

If you think this was mainly about linking the indiegogo campaign rather than saying what I've been playing... you'd be right. Also, Heart of the Swarm, League of Legends, and Vergil's campaign in DmC.

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I'm sorry you have this difficulty, but regardless of what you might thing about gender, it is a social construct. That aspect of gender is part of its very definition.

You’re right, I tripped over my words. I don’t agree that innate differences begin and end with the genitals, but certainly gender is socially and culturally generated. I’m going to steer clear of this semantics minefield because it’s not something I’m equipped to deal with, however I will try and expand this past the half a sentence you quoted. Do you agree with her point that because women are disinterested in science, computing, engineering and video games this implies in itself an active discrimination?

D3: Your comment was retarded, though.

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I think women already have the rights and opportunities to get into the industry. It's on them to show interest for the jobs, to practice their skills and to educate themself like we all do. I don't think any sane person would oppose that.

I think it’s comparable to the sciences and engineering, which are not so much a gentlemen’s club but a sausage fest. There’s nothing particularly exclusionary going on here, in fact I’m sure they’d love to have more diversity too, it’s just a field comparatively less women are interested in.

A feminist friend has told me the lack of interest is itself evidence of sexism. Gender is cultural and therefore the disinterest from women must have a discriminatory root-cause somewhere. But, if you really want to go that route, gaming has been stigmatised as something for male losers until very recently and that’s also going to be a factor in it growing inwardly as a male dominated pastime as well... Though I think this debate is unproductive and don't buy gender is a cultural construct anyway.

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But when people suggest quotas for women in this industry to fix "the problem" that annoys me.

Agreed, I don’t like hiring quotas because it is actual discrimination introduced to fix perceived discrimination.

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This is all getting a bit off topic or maybe not because that feminist issues get project on pretty much everything that happens in the world is one of the main reasons people have a problem with Anitas agenda. It's not really about tropes in video games or is it?

Well, she doesn't try to hide her agenda. It’s no surprise to see feminism latch hold of a subculture and demand change. But that doesn't mean their complaints are invalid. This is why I just tried to focus on her evidence and conclusions.