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Female gamers who compete in "gender-neutral" events would, by and large, be beaten into the dirt and largely disappear (or not qualify for high level games, Dota2 hasn't gotten a single female player at the highest levels I think). It's better to nurture female participation in separate events. I understand your point but i don't think we do female gamers a favor in the long run by having them compete in special olympics. Unlike athletic sports there is nothing that puts females at a disadvantage physiologicaly. The Danica Patrick of e-gaming will pop up eventualy. The things 14 year olds bother about arn't mainstream. It's a subculture. And CS and its players frankly had a very bad reputation in the public.

There are mixed sport. Low female participation doesn't matter for that. Try to tell Danica Patrick to drive her own Indy 500 in the name of equylity. That would be absolutely ridiculous. Outside of nerd circles not really.

Makes no fucking sense. Is this Saudi Arabia!?

If we play like this against France we will get our asses kicked badly.

The heat is killing Netherlands. What a shame. Was secretly hoping for Germany-Netherlands final.

I haven't organized the contest or ever participted in one but my guess would be that some legal documents will be signed to switch ownership of the intellectual property and then it's up to us to get the map through QA should that be necessary. Or who knows maybe someone will even land a proper job.

Possible that it will get extended but that's not me to decide. And keep in mind the map doesn't have to be finished in every regard. The winning map just needs to be better then all the other maps. I don't know how other map contests have handled it but isn't it the norm that winning maps will see more polish and optimizations afterwards before they get released as an official map?

Everything will be good when 4k screens become the norm. Then PC's can run their games at full resolution and consoles on 720p but they don't have to hide goodies for PC anymore.

Don't know if this cross promotion is allowed here but i just want to give a heads up to fellow source level designers that we have started a mapping contest for Insurgency. Ther's some cool prices and cash to win. Head over to gamebanana for more infos: http://gamebanana.com/contests/48

Suarez is fucked in the head. That was the third time he bites another player. Hope he gets banned for a long time.

Indeed. They will get butchered against a more experienced/competent team. If we make it to quarter finals it will be a success.

So far i got: Divinity Original Sin Euro Truck Simulator 2 Sins of Solar Empire: Rebellion Mafia 2 Trine 1+2 Velvet Assasin Witcher 2 Skyrim Legendary Edition

No idea what's going on over there but just yesterday someone shared glassdoor company reviews of Crytek and i was like "damn that reads like Grin shortly before implosion!" Hope everyone on mapcore will be ok!

Thx for sharing the chart. Also Happy Birthday!

Of course when i do "metal with grease layer" it would still be physically correct. But would also get "this metal looks too shiny!" comments. Get what i mean? The question is more if people arn't a bit too hung up with realism at the moment when discussing PBR.

That's something i've been wondering for a while if physically correct is even desirable for some stylized settings because i always remember that back when movies were made with practical effects they used lard and hairspray and whatnot to make surfaces more shiny. For them it was important that the edges pop on film not that it looks like real life.

lol stay classy. so educate

Anita has no authority to decide what is healthy sexuality and what is not. Period. Stay the fuck out of peoples bedrooms! That goes to homophobes and people like her alike. You like Anita make shit up. I don't even know what mental hoops you jump through to come to the conclusion that sexualized depictions make women subhuman in the aficionados mind. Ther's a thousand fetishes and things people get of to. BDSM is pretty popular or so i heard (among males and females) but surely a women being a submissive slave for sexual pleasure is completely sick in your mind and even more sick the people who jerk off to such depictions. The biggest crime however is to look at big breasted fictional characters in video games. It's the same old "video games turn people into psychotic killers"-argument recoined to fit the feminist agenda. Correlation does not imply causation. Like killers who played games had issues to begin with so have misogynistic gamers or girls who feel objectified by depictions of sexy game characters.

Confirmation bias False equivalence Bullshit

I see as always we get the circular argument going. Say what you want but to me video game characters arn't people. Period. And Anita Sarkeesian wanting to decide for others what is "healthy & normal sexuality" goes hand in hand with shaming everything that she doesn't approve off. Not sure what else to tell you if you can't see that. It's not different from the twisted and paranoid thinking behind Russia making anti "gay propaganda" laws to protect their youth from "filthy, degenerate and dangerous" influences.

I've heard of it but last time was like 5 years ago. So either i live under a rock or it's not really a relevant organization.

Best world cup evr!!!

So anti gay propaganda and ridicule would be tolerable if we could just convince the brutalos to not physically harm homosexuals?

Wow you have completely missed my point. And here i thought i couldn't have marked it more clearly as sarcasm (except for putting actual sarcasm tags on it). My point is that shaming people for their sexuality is a bad thing. Imagine for a moment Anita's video was about gays and the things that they find erotic. It would be a scandal in this day and age and rightly so! Remember the "they eat da poo poo"-video? But apparently it's A-OK to shame heterosexual males for having sexual desires and preferences BECAUSE RAPE CULTURE.The undertone of all these videos is "How dare you pig disgusting men to get turned on by that filth!". And she comes of as so misguided because she identifies herself with sexualized female depictions. It's so ridiculous. Of course a gay men who checks out some random pics of muscular male bodies does NOT think of me. That would be so absurd. But it is how Anita's thinking process works going by her videos.