If it were her cousin, it would have been A-OKAY!

I will explain it all in a lil while. These people are the worst thing to happen to gaming since Jack Thompson. It's not about standing up for anything.

That's quite a claim. I must be missing something.

Have you been following the Anita Sarkeesian/Kotaku/SJW/Thunderf00t/MundaneMatt/Jordan Owen stuff? It's a lot of content and back and forth over the last two years that would be tricky to condense into a TLDR version for you. I will try, though.

The Anita name sounds familiar but I can't say I know exactly what's happening.

/care ?

She has been speaking out about how females are portrayed in video games, yadda yadda. She had some pretty harsh things said to her and that is where I stopped.

Who gives a flying fuck. We will still play games and if there is something that turns us away from a title, we will most likely not pick it up and play. Hatred from either side on this is silly and a waste of time.

Your apathy is much appreciated.

I just sent Drak a nice long yet short version of what's up and why it's important. If only it was as easy as people not playing what they don't like. It's more than that.

But if you stopped at the tippy top of this, then it's cool. Carry on.

I did, know why? It has zero impact on what I choose to and not to play. Never listen to reviews either, or self-righteous fuckwits with blogs that think they are the UBER of all things gaming.

Please though, if it that dire, elaborate.

I appreciate the message but I only managed read some of it.

Take your time, no probs.

You're good, drave, keep doing what you're doing. A customer's right to choose with their wallets is paramount. I am not against that. It's chill. If you're interested enough, look up Jordan Owen's vids on the matter the last year or so.

It isn't my wallet that I choose with, I go with what game entices me most or seems to be the most entertaining. If someone wants to get all righteous about the industry, then no one should even purchase consoles due to their being produced mainly from precious minerals mined under slave-like conditions and their manufacturing plants behaving the same way and also using OIL to make said plants run and exploit the workers.

But we will still play.

I mean, you are choosing with your money. You either buy it or you don't, right? Or do you get games free?

You also seem to have some issue with people being passionate about the industry, which in turn smells like the old 'it's just games' mindset. This is fine, but if you're not interested in the discussion, I think you can better spend time somewhere else. Not excluding you, just never understood the need to say how uninterested you are in something.

Gaming still has a lot of growing up to do. It's rife with every negative aspect of society. Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, stereotypes. Not just the fans but the industry as a whole.

That's true. The SJWs aren't the answer, though.

Is that your response to my PM or do you still need time on that. I understand it was long.

Just a general comment. I have actually been wondering for a while how you feel about the portrayal of black guys in fighting games. Doesn't it bug you that every black guy in a fighting game is either a thug, a boxer or some kind of music/dance man?

Balrog, Dudley, TJ Combo, Eddy Gordo, Zack from DOA.

Jax tho

If the latest issue of Game Informer is to be believed, then Unity is “new-gen” exclusive and Rogue is “last-gen” exclusive due to the fact that ACR is meant to be a go-between to bridge the story gap between ACIII and AC4: Black Flag.

Today's News:
1) Ascend: Hand Of Kul was recently pulled off of Xbox Live with the developer Signal Studios stating Microsoft did not inform them ahead of time about the delisting. While the Steam version remains unaffected, the XBLA version will lose all remaining support after November 18th.
http://www.destructoid.com/ascend-ha...0-279953.phtml
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/...ed-on-xbox-360

2) In a recent interview with Eurogamer, the President of Sony's Worldwide Studios stated the company is very hopeful for a PS4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider, the reason for declining EA Access on PS4 was a business decision, and the lack of Vita talk in recent press conferences is because the PS4 is their main priority.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-boss...w-279945.phtml

3) Microsoft is currently rumored to be adding a "Free Play Day" program for Gold users on the Xbox One with certain games having a free 24 hour trial window available.
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...m-279951.phtml

No. They're cartoon characters made primarily by white nerds and Asians. Seriously, it's whatever. I'm all about the gameplay, unless the designer is earnestly trying to make some kind of point. Most of the time, they aren't.

People who seem to be offended by everything have the critical edge of being able to choose when they are victimized.

On the other end, a black character who isn't of those types you mentioned would not make me pick him or play an otherwise shitty fighter. See what I'm sayin?

I wasn't offended by it, personally. I just noticed that so many black guys in fighting games fit into the same mould and wondered how someone from the same racial background felt about it. Pure curiosity.

I knew you were just asking me.

I settled on a new name and typed it in. It's been taken!

I swear every possible combination that isn't gibberish has been taken.

Try to mix it up with a number for a letter or something. The "R" in my GT is done with |2

Today's News:
1) Sales & Freebies:

• Sony reveals the latest list of games to get the Flash Sale treatment this weekend with the bulk being PS3 games.
  http://www.destructoid.com/i-m-lovin...s-280035.phtml
• Square Enix is currently holding a "Back to School" sale from now until September 3rd on their official online store with sales based on tiers.
  http://www.destructoid.com/square-en...s-280021.phtml
• EA reveals this weekend's free to play game for their "Game Time" promotion on Origin is Titanfall.
  http://www.destructoid.com/play-tita...n-280019.phtml
• Valve announces both Borderlands 2 and Dishonored will be free to play for this weekend on Steam.
  http://www.destructoid.com/dishonore...d-280010.phtml

2) For those interested, Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed Memories for iOS devices today. The game itself is a free-to-play card-type game and does require a constant internet connection.
http://www.destructoid.com/assassin-...w-280011.phtml

3) The boss of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, states Microsoft will not be revealing any news regarding a new Crackdown game until next year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...wn-until-2015/

I'm not a fan of 1337 5p34|<.

I've tried 6 different gamertags, all taken. I looked a few up and they aren't even active. Likely ones people set up and never used. They should deactivate after X amount of years of continued inactivity. Say, 5 years.

Not a fan of the speak either, but it was the only option at that time for the same reason you are having troubles too.

Just tried approximately 6 or so more. All taken. I might be on to something, though.

Weekend News Edition
 

Take it with a grain of salt since the main source is from reddit but a recent big rumor regarding Assassin's Creed Unity involves the possibility of playing "levels" or side missions with assassins from past games.

The person who's been leaking the stuff is also claiming the combat system is mostly broken at the moment. Same for the online netcode so far.


http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comm...pmental_build/

I imagine they would def be side missions ala playing as Altair for 5 missions in Revelations. Hope this is true; it would be a great feature imo.

I played AC4. First AC I've played. Didn't think it was any good.

Greeeeeeeeeat. PSN got hacked.......again.

It's a beautiful Sunday and hackers got nothing better to do?

Just seems to be a DDoS at this point. Big whoop.

Unity has supposedly been worked on since before AC Revelations. Apparently a bunch of people split off from the studio to make it, while the others put in the usual by the numbers, annual stuff.

For that reason, I'm gonna give Unity a chance when it comes out. Rogue is no doubt same old same old though.

Along with Blizzard's battle.net, Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile, and Riot Games' League of Legends servers. Sony got the double whammy of PSN and SOE (PC side) so nothing from them was running.

President of SOE even had a bomb threat done against him by the same group responsible.

*Continues to play BF4 on XBL*

:shifty:

I think they hit comcast earlier, too, tbh. I actually got a message when On Demand booted me out of movie that said "We are suddenly experiencing extremely high traffic, please try again in a few minutes."

Yeah. Kinda figured Sony would have had this sorted out by now.


Now I'm thinking they'll keep it shut down and roll it into their scheduled maintenance they had planned for tomorrow.


According to what I read, another hacker retaliated and posted the IPs of Lizard Group, the group responsible to today's mess.

Good.

We need vigilante hackers. Hackers whose sole purpose is to catch other hackers.