[CGIRanger]

I'm sure there have been prior studies confirming this, but add another one to the pile here:
https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/sex...emale-players-according-to-new-research-63388

Ferguson and his research team conducted a meta-analysis of 18 relevant studies. All of the studies included a measure of exposure to general or sexualized video games. Fifteen of the studies measured aggression toward women or sexist attitudes, while 10 studies measured outcomes related to depression, body image, or anxiety.

But the researchers failed to find a statistically significant link between videos games and either sexist attitudes or psychological well-being.

"Overall, the 'moral panic' over video games and sexualization is pretty much following the 'paint-by-numbers' pattern of the video game debate. Lots of hyperbole and moral outrage, but very little evidence that video games are causing any 'harm' to either male or female players," Ferguson told PsyPost.

"The major caveat is simply that many of the studies just aren't very good," Ferguson said. "The good news is that the higher quality studies were less likely to find evidence for negative effects than lower quality studies. In some cases, scholars probably interjected their personal moral opinions into the studies, if unintentionally. Granted it's still a fairly small research area, but this initial data has been so underwhelming that I'm not sure there's much to be mined here."

Add another study to the pile to throw in the faces of the prudes that think scantily-clad women and "objectification" are causing real-world harm of any sorts.

Of course, we didn't need research to know this. It has been obvious since the beginning that the "outrage" over make-believe women is due to jealous/insecure ugly real-life women and their "male-feminist" cucked allies.

Unfortunately, and expectedly, you can bet this will be ignored by the media and the developers (particularly in the West), because they'll simply now use the go-to excuse of "sexualized women in games aren't INCLUSIVE". Since they've all drunk the coo-laid of DIE after all.

 

[and 3 others]

Gee. Who could have guessed.

 

[Stilton Disco]

No fucking way! My mind is blown!

 

[regawdless]

Wait until the right persons, funded by the right organisations come along. There are scientists who dispute biological genders, doctors who can't tell you what a woman is.

The science changes. Give it more time.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Wait until the right persons, funded by the right organisations comes along. There are scientists who dispute biological genders, doctors who can't tell you what a woman is.

The science changes. Give it more time.

TBF I think the whole country remembered what a woman was real quick last Friday for some reason.

 

[CGIRanger]

Current Anita apparently..... (likely what Western devs would use as reference now lol)

 

[Grinchy]

Current Anita apparently..... (likely what Western devs would use as reference now lol)

would motorboat

 

[and 3 others]

Current Anita apparently..... (likely what Western devs would use as reference now lol)

Where's Johnny Cage to punch her in his 4 armed dick!?

 

[GreyHorace]

I don't play games looking for sexy women...

But fuck it, I certainly won't say no to them either.

Who the hell is Anita Sarkeesian to tell me I can't enjoy some virtual T&A?

 

[mcz117chief]

Her grift was truly something though. She got thousands of dollars to make a basic powerpoint presentation in a couple of hours.

 

[regawdless]

Where's Johnny Cage to punch her in his 4 armed dick!?

Really quick and dirty. Looks like that in its pants as well.

 

[lock2k]

I'm sure there have been prior studies confirming this, but add another one to the pile here:
https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/sex...emale-players-according-to-new-research-63388





Add another study to the pile to throw in the faces of the prudes that think scantily-clad women and "objectification" are causing real-world harm of any sorts.

Of course, we didn't need research to know this. It has been obvious since the beginning that the "outrage" over make-believe women is due to jealous/insecure ugly real-life women and their "male-feminist" cucked allies.

Unfortunately, and expectedly, you can bet this will be ignored by the media and the developers (particularly in the West), because they'll simply now use the go-to excuse of "sexualized women in games aren't INCLUSIVE". Since they've all drunk the coo-laid of DIE after all.

Men love T&A and there's nothing wrong with it (be it virtual or real).

Thankfully my wife understands that and she even points me whenever titties appear on TV because she knows I'm a maniac for them lmao

 

[Kadayi]

Was and always been absolute BS tbh. The fact that As made a tonne of bank, gained public credibility and even won a Peabody award for her Video series says a lot tbh. All because Game Journalists were pretty much all too cucked to ever call out her particular brand of bogus accusations in the same way they did Jack Thompson over violence in video games.

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

Current Anita apparently..... (likely what Western devs would use as reference now lol)

I'll take one for the team

 

[lock2k]

I'll take one for the team

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this

 

[Kadayi]

I'll take one for the team

 

[64bitmodels]

gee wow who woulda thunk it, it's almost like they're literally just fuckin video games. It's just media, and it's not gonna harm anyone who watches it. The good majority of games out there aren't overtly sexualized, and there's plenty of excellent indie games with lots of female representation that stray away from that stuff. Anita was talking out her ass and always was.

I still give anyone who unironically plays Senran Kagura the looks though. You've got to be really down bad to want to play that shit.

 

[El Rey]

We need a t-shirt that says
"Get Fucked Anita Sarkeesian"

 

[brap]

We need a t-shirt that says
"I'd Fuck Anita Sarkeesian"

 

[Dreamlord]

We need a t-shirt that says
"Get Fucked Anita Sarkeesian"

@Mirabilis this is how you raise money for the forum, dude.

 

[64bitmodels]

We need a t-shirt that says
"I'd Fuck Anita Sarkeesian"

god damn dude, you're down bad

 

[and 3 others]

We need a t-shirt that says
"I'd Fuck Anita Sarkeesian"

"I support Armenian Spermacide!"

 

[Grumpy Karen]

To misquote Anita's choice of Twitter profile picture: "Trust no neo-feminist".

 

[Mirabilis]

@Mirabilis this is how you raise money for the forum, dude.

She's yesterdays news Dream. Giving her any form of attention would be like pouring oil on a dying fire.

Mayhap down the road we might do some merch for funzies, but with regard to funding the site I prefer to stick to people subbing or gifting if they choose to keep us ticking along. Helps with the maintenance and QoL updates, chips away at the site outlay and affords us the opportunity to do some site promotion so we can spread site awareness to the broader gaming community and get more like minded folk in. We have some fun stuff in the works at present that we should be rolling out soon, which I think everyone will get a kick out of once they see it all.

 

[Stilton Disco]

gee wow who woulda thunk it, it's almost like they're literally just fuckin video games. The good majority of games out there aren't overtly sexualized, and there's plenty of excellent indie games with lots of female representation that stray away from that stuff. Anita was talking out her ass and always was.

I still give anyone who unironically plays Senran Kagura the looks though. You've got to be really down bad to want to play that shit.

Those games are genuinely excellent and get a completely undeserved reputation for being coomer bait just because they're overtly, joyfully celebrating the female form in a time when that stance is taboo.

Well at least the first few games are. They did go to shit quickly. But the original 3DS games in particular are genuinely good, well balanced Beat 'em Ups, with well written characters and incredibly well done plot twists, particularly those towards the end involving lovecraftian eldritch abominations, that I did not see coming.

 

[mcz117chief]

She's yesterdays news Dream. Giving her any form of attention would be like pouring oil on a dying fire.

Mayhap down the road we might do some merch for funzies, but with regard to funding the site I prefer to stick to people subbing or gifting if they choose to keep us ticking along. Helps with the maintenance and QoL updates, chips away at the site outlay and affords us the opportunity to do some site promotion so we can spread site awareness to the broader gaming community and get more like minded folk in. We have some fun stuff in the works at present that we should be rolling out soon, which I think everyone will get a kick out of once they see it all.

If you are even going to do merch then make it generic or with some obscure references. I say this because at one point I wanted to buy some NeoGAF merch and you can just imagine how I would feel about those items now if I had them.

 

[regawdless]

If you are even going to do merch then make it generic or with some obscure references. I say this because at one point I wanted to buy some NeoGAF merch and you can just imagine how I would feel about those items now if I had them.

Yeah, like Dr. Pringles first avatar pic for those who remember. Something obscure that only insiders know, but classy.

 

[and 3 others]

Yeah, like Dr. Pringles first avatar pic for those who remember. Something obscure that only insiders know, but classy.

What? I want that Advice Dog dragging his ass across the carpet merch. Now that's classy!

 

[Mirabilis]

If you are even going to do merch then make it generic or with some obscure references. I say this because at one point I wanted to buy some NeoGAF merch and you can just imagine how I would feel about those items now if I had them.

Noted. Down the line for sure, but nothing too OTT versus classy though.

 

[Stouffers]

Men love T&A and there's nothing wrong with it (be it virtual or real).

Thankfully my wife understands that and she even points me whenever titties appear on TV because she knows I'm a maniac for them lmao

Do you point out dick bulges to her?

 

[lock2k]

Do you point out dick bulges to her?

No. lol

 

[DonDonDonPata]

Oh well, who could have predicted this?

My irritation is that it'll just get memory-holed or never acknowledged at all. Like many of the other Lefty cultural innovations of the past 20 years, they storm into a space, trash it by spray-painting logos everywhere, then leave the company/franchise/hobby worse than it was before. They add nothing positive to the things they join and usually destroy whatever fun was there. At any point will IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot, etc etc etc retract their previous idiocy with even 1/4th of the articles and bloggy posts? Not a chance.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

the tremendous irony of it all is this same group that screeched about tiddies in videogames will stand up and applaud a man waving his glittered dick in a kid's face at a parade. They said one caused harm in children and they say the other doesn't.

 

[GreyHorace]

Oh well, who could have predicted this?

My irritation is that it'll just get memory-holed or never acknowledged at all. Like many of the other Lefty cultural innovations of the past 20 years, they storm into a space, trash it by spray-painting logos everywhere, then leave the company/franchise/hobby worse than it was before. They add nothing positive to the things they join and usually destroy whatever fun was there. At any point will IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot, etc etc etc retract their previous idiocy with even 1/4th of the articles and bloggy posts? Not a chance.

Would these game 'jurnalizm' sites even exist in a few years? My understanding is that these places barely get any funding and no one really reads them for gaming news. Twitch streamers are now the source that most gamers rely on, which makes these 'jurnalizts' seethe in rage.

the tremendous irony of it all is this same group that screeched about tiddies in videogames will stand up and applaud a man waving his glittered dick in a kid's face at a parade. They said one caused harm in children and they say the other doesn't.

I can't wait for the inevitable public backlash against the troon uprising and watch these 'jurnalitzs' cope and seethe.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

Would these game 'jurnalizm' sites even exist in a few years? My understanding is that these places barely get any funding and no one really reads them for gaming news. Twitch streamers are now the source that most gamers rely on, which makes these 'jurnalizts' seethe in rage.

true, the gaming news artifice is pretty soggy compared to 10 years ago, and especially 20 years ago at its height. The audience made it clear years ago that we prefer "real" people presenting their own opinion of a game. Even if the opinion is flawed, even if they're putting on an "angry" schtick, even if they missed certain nuances that we love about the game, we prefer to hear genuine opinions instead of journos. Twitch has deepened that divide by allowing us to see people playing a game live for their first time. It gives us raw access to even more "genuine" gaming impressions even though Twitch also has its personalities and schticks.

There's no going back. Journos don't offer the internet generation anything of value.

I can't wait for the inevitable public backlash against the troon uprising and watch these 'jurnalitzs' cope and seethe.

I hope they all form convents / communes and then stew for awhile planning how to blow us up for not accepting their vision of utopia.

 

[HariSeldon]

The audience made it clear years ago that we prefer "real" people presenting their own opinion of a game

Yep - back in the day when we had the likes of Zero, The One, PC Zone, Zzap, etc the people writing about the games weren't journalists, they were just ordinary blokes who loved games and happened to be able to write reasonably coherently about them, and that's a large part of the appeal of those magazines. No fart-sniffing, just an ordinary person who tells you about their experience with the game with no sociopolitical agenda behind it. The rot set in when games mags and blogs became a pathway to writing for The Guardian.

 

[lock2k]

Yep - back in the day when we had the likes of Zero, The One, PC Zone, Zzap, etc the people writing about the games weren't journalists, they were just ordinary blokes who loved games and happened to be able to write reasonably coherently about them, and that's a large part of the appeal of those magazines. No fart-sniffing, just an ordinary person who tells you about their experience with the game with no sociopolitical agenda behind it. The rot set in when games mags and blogs became a pathway to writing for The Guardian.

Gaming magazines here in Brazil were similar.

We had Supergamepower, which was a marvelous magazine, Supergame was Sega focused and Gamepower was Nintendo focused and they merged to talk about multiplatform stuff in 1994. All the reviewers were gaming enthusiast fictional characters and their boss was called "O Chefe" (The Boss) and people loved them as if they were actual gaming characters. Each one was focused in some genres, there was the fighting game specialist, the RPG specialist, this hot chick who was into games, etc. It had this whole mystique and we loved the mag because it had a lot of meta stuff (similar to what we see here in the forums) about them. Such a cool time.

 

[GreyHorace]

true, the gaming news artifice is pretty soggy compared to 10 years ago, and especially 20 years ago at its height. The audience made it clear years ago that we prefer "real" people presenting their own opinion of a game. Even if the opinion is flawed, even if they're putting on an "angry" schtick, even if they missed certain nuances that we love about the game, we prefer to hear genuine opinions instead of journos. Twitch has deepened that divide by allowing us to see people playing a game live for their first time. It gives us raw access to even more "genuine" gaming impressions even though Twitch also has its personalities and schticks.

There's no going back. Journos don't offer the internet generation anything of value.

To be honest I don't have the patience to watch Twitch streams. I still prefer watching game reviews on Youtube, particularly from reviewers I trust, like ACG or even Angry Joe.

I don't feel sorry though that many of these gaming news sites may go under in a few years. They chose to throw us gamers under the bus for a fucking ho like Zoe Quinn just for the asspats. So let them rot in the Hell of their own making.

I hope they all form convents / communes and then stew for awhile planning how to blow us up for not accepting their vision of utopia.

I'll be so glad if troons become the bad guys in movies and tv once Hollywood regains it's senses. Unlikely scenario, but I will cackle with glee if it happens.

 

[El Rey]

She's yesterdays news Dream. Giving her any form of attention would be like pouring oil on a dying fire.

Mayhap down the road we might do some merch for funzies, but with regard to funding the site I prefer to stick to people subbing or gifting if they choose to keep us ticking along. Helps with the maintenance and QoL updates, chips away at the site outlay and affords us the opportunity to do some site promotion so we can spread site awareness to the broader gaming community and get more like minded folk in. We have some fun stuff in the works at present that we should be rolling out soon, which I think everyone will get a kick out of once they see it all.

How do I make my post highlight all cool like that?

 

[Mirabilis]

How do I make my post highlight all cool like that?

Gift a post