Rock, Paper, Shotgun

31/05/2012 at 16:08 RegisteredUser says:

Btw, I take offense at this whole onesidedness of bullshit political correctness.

The times when only the wee poor women were exploited have come and gone. Not just for the gay community, but for women, too, are there now endless commercials, magazines(+covers), movies and series with topless men prancing about with product or well oiled up, trained well past anything someone without a family fortune(so that you can use the daytime to work out) or personal trainer could afford to work up to.

There are flat, stereotypical male archetypes throughout all games we play that belie the sophistication, empathy and depth men as human beings actually possess and our endless need for games and our heroes to be good is just more of the same.

In a fuckton of ways, men have been exploited to crap and back, yet we bend over backwards to make sure to all chime in only on the woman side of the PC agenda, because, well, sad as it is, a lot of “us” have been guilted into believing that that’s just what “good modern boys” do.
And it makes me sick.
Not that being mysogynistic or sexist or anti-female etc pp is a good thing. But its shortsighted and narrow to keep banging on about it as if that is the only side of the coin that exists.

And over both issues: If we can’t be dicks in our fantasies and games, where the fuck else?
Not in reality, because that is the one place where it will actually have an effect on real people.
And those trying to flat out deny or censor it or wish it away forget that being at times spiteful, hateful, reductionist in your logic or negative-emotional is also part of being human.
To get it out of our system we have things like working out, both physically and fantasy-wise, and trying to bleet against every measure that might have an inch of catharsis just because it goes against what so many norm-fed suckers believe to be “acceptable” is doing it wrong.

To be fair – there is a kind of “Yea, no, this is sick on any level” that springs from the gut (was reached in Manhunt for me, e.g.) and should tell us that there maybe are some boundaries to what we should/”need” to do, but in general we don’t even come within the same galaxy before the “BUT THATS SEXIST, YOU ARE SHOWING TITTIES!” whining springs up.

So, yea. It would be far less worse if it were the women themselves complaining. But men fighting each other to display the most correct outrage, because that makes you a good person that’s why is just sickening.
It ends up an almost or just as bad sin against women by trying to tell them what’s wronging them and doing their outrage for them than the people actually being dicks to women.
Maybe think on that for a second.

01/06/2012 at 01:16 RegisteredUser says:

So let me get this straight. A 6+++ feet tall, barcode tagged hitman uber-male specimen, fit and ripped, that without much pain and total unstoppability moves through missions, here cleans out his wounds on a body covered with scars like its nothing because he’s Studlytough Mc Sexybod is logical, normal, realistic and a fine picture of the everyman, but when a gang of assassins that chose to market themselves via latex clothing wants to pursue their dream of high heel murder for hire, THEY are the sole unrealistic gender stereotype/portrayal?

As for the people extrapolating gameplay from a CGI trailer: Dead Island.