Buzzfeed v Straight White CIS Gamers (AKA The Devil)

Okay, so I felt unusually motivated this week. The last turd I decided to write was the crap on Fire Emblem Fates. I recently came across an article from everyone's favorite click bait site about shit White Gamers don't understand. So I examined these points. This article here is the one in question. So I'll take a crack at this bullshit, point by point.

1. Firstly, Assassin's Creed? Can you maybe pick a more relevant multiplayer title? Christ... Personal gripes aside, once again, BULLSHIT.

As you can see, based on a 2014 study, men and women play different games. Just because that 47% stat you Buzzfeed so proudly totes makes up the gaming population in general, doesn't make your point valid. For fuck sake... Okay, lets throw what defines a "Gamer" out the window as that's a murky thing. Just because 47% of the gaming populace is female, doesn't make that data true for every genre. As seen above, 30.6% of the action game population surveyed is female. The heading already contains a statistical fallacy. Second, common sense aside, who the fuck cares? Gamers have never seen this as an issue. Stop projecting...

2. No. Fucking. Shit... Female gamers have been here since the beginning of the hobby. Gaming started out as an outlet for outcasts. The weird kids that didn't really fit in anywhere else. Eventually, it grew into its own subculture and included men, and get this, women too. The way this article is read makes you twats seem shocked that women play games. This isn't news to any gamers.

3. I almost didn't want to address this one because it was so retarded. Look, male and female brains enjoy different things. There are always exceptions like in the last point. But you can't deny that the hardware used to create this art was largely (not solely) developed and advanced by men. Barring that fact, there have always been female developers. Creativity in any outlet or medium is valued. This is ignoring the overt sexism in this heading by the way...

4. Jesus Fucking Christ... Who cares? Why is sexuality that fucking important to characters in games? Why are identity politics trumping decent writing? Dragon Age: Inquisition had a gay character that suffered from poor writing, because his sexuality was the only highlighted trait. It doesn't fucking matter. I love the fuck out the Witcher. If somehow Geralt turned out the be gay, it wouldn't have changed anything. You wanna guess why? Because he wasn't written with his sexuality as his primary trait. Stop using identity politics to write characters. You're actually hurting your own cause when Gay or Trans is all they fucking are. They're also boring as fuck...

5. I already went over this. There have been female devs nearly since the beginning... You're fucking retarded to think otherwise.

6. This one was stupid too. The example you gave lets you create your own character. I personally don't give a shit what color the character is that I'm playing as, so long as the writing is good. If you want to write a game about a black woman in fucking space, do it! Just don't make her only quality be that she's black... Also, the cover was the way it was just because. Like most RPGs these days, the characters on the cover isn't what you're stuck playing as. Fallout has always featured someone in power armor on the front. I'm not confined to power armor the entire game. This observation was piss poor and stupid at best.

7 and 8. These two are merged because they basically say the same thing. Gone Home sucked balls. Not because it was actually gay, but because it was interactive media under the guise of a video game. I've not met one person who liked it. The only twats praising it were the fucktards in the games media circle jerk club. And again, why is sexuality being the center point? Persona framed gender identity in a well handled way. It wasn't the focal point of the character, but it was an outlet of that character to be explored. It wasn't the other way around. This is just going to lead to "after school special" quality writing and it won't bring anything new to the table.

9. Really? Fucking really? Okay, this is where I get serious. Gaming has always been an important hobby to me. The people generally in this subculture who were there from the start used gaming as an outlet when they didn't fit in. Misfits, nerds, and generally the outcasts flocked to gaming because it gave a place to unwind after school. Most gamers, I would venture to say have been the target of bullies at some point in their life and it provided an outlet to blow off steam. Games have always been for everyone. I've been called a fag, fucker, cock sucker, bitch, a shitty player and any other matter of trash talk you hear over the XBox Live. For your sake, and for mine, get over it. What ClickBait here is saying, is self imposed segregation. I've played games with and met all sorts of people from all walks of life.

I never supported the Gaymer thing because all it did was put a up wall between another section of the subculture. Many of the people I enjoyed gaming with, I may have never met if this was the case. I see LGBT guilds in MMOs, and all I see is another layer that separates people. When I play a game, I don't give a shit what you identify as, as long as you're good or just love the game. Another safe space of segregation hurts everyone.

Okay, this would have made for you good video. And I may revisit this some day in that form of media. But fucking seriously, why is this a problem all of a sudden when this shit is appearing everywhere else? I can't wait for the day that places like Buzzfeed aren't in business any longer. Clickbait is shallow bullshit at best and at worst, gives people the wrong impression. It's quite harmful to society as a whole. So Buzzfeed, go fuck yourselves. This was clickbait, not journalism.

Fire Emblem illFates

So, here we are again. Another sad story of censorship. Recently, Nintendo of America/Treehouse had the latest Fire Emblem game translated by folks with an obvious agenda to push. I'm not a fan at all of Fire Emblem. Regardless of whether of not you agree, you're kind of forced to put up with this shit.

What are the issues? Well, there was a gay rape thing going around based on a translation someone gave over 4chan. Yeah, that was the source, 4chan... Anyways, it turned out when it was translated, the character in question was given a potion that made her view the opposite genders of what people actually were. Yeah, it's a little out there, but it's Japan. While I do agree this is a grey area, it's also the original material and it was removed by the team that did the localization. My personal beliefs aside on this one, this was the source material. If you don't like something, don't buy or support it. A point I will repeat at least a few times in this one.

Second, we have stupid shit. Just stupid translations. Let me emphasize on the stupidity and childishness of the translation.

Take notice of the Treehouse "translation" if you can even call it that. If you don't see the problem here, allow me to spell it out. THIS IS BULLSHIT. This is shit I expect to hear a five year old say. It's so entirely cringy, there are now words. How is this a thing? What kind of QA would let this fuckery pass? Here's another thing by the way...

Yeah, fan work is better than the "official" thing.


Believe it or not, this isn't the worst of it. An entire support conversation was just gone. I don't this it was removed, I think it was an oversight. Another slip up of the QA department.

It's just gone. Like, not even there. It was missed. Gamezone has a side by side comparison to the conversation, courtesy of @mombot on Twitter.

Last, but not least, something I found odd. There's a minigame where you get to pat the heads of different support characters in the original version. It was removed from the NA release because the people doing the localization, found it weird. There goes the impartiality that goes along with professionalism. How was it Pokemon was about able to pull that off without a hitch. No one cared. I admit, the concept is odd, but there little reason to even remove it.

The "balanced" media agrees with the removal,calling it creepy. I could point out the casual racism here but I'm going to point out the fact that these journalists have been proven to have connections to the people working in the industry.

So again, what's the issue with all this? Well, for one, I want the games I play to be handled professionally, by people who don't want to push a narrative or ideology onto me. I'm not going to tell you what to buy. I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money. I'm not going to force an idea onto you. I'm saying that it's both your right and your responsibility to make informed decisions on how how you spend your money on the games you want to play. This again is censorship rearing its ugly head. I've never been a fan of it, but this little display of assholery has me considering importing shit these days.

But of course, if you don't like something, don't buy it and don't support it, period.

Disclaimer: I take no credit for the images posted. These are all the works of other I found around the internet