5 Reasons It's Still Not Cool to Admit You're a Gamer

[Hisako]

Study is interesting. Findings lack references. As someone attuned to reading a metric farking ton of medical journals on a regular basis, I see flaws in this report.

Study 1 is okay. From the material they have there isn't much room for bias. Male, female, ethnicity. Fair enough.

Study 2: define "traditional" and "hypersexual", like they defined "sexually revealing clothing". Lead it back onto the analysis. "Three times as likely" is a general statement, and it sounds like an assumption.

Study 3: give examples in the films being studied. Especially with such a small sample size. That way I can believe that these "aspirations" and "heroic actions" are "to be commended". Honestly, this is analysis without giving the reader proof or reference to check up on.

Study 3: "Unrealistic"? What defines "unrealistic"? Is there a set value for this? A lot of those statements use numbers that aren't explained clearly enough. It'd be much better to have numbers of characters rather than just percentages, and god forbid, ratios.

If we compared this to a legitimately valid report, this is nothing more than an Abstract. Link me to the full article plox

EDIT: It is an abstract. Disregard, then.
It is genuinely interesting, though. Full article is much better. http://www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org/pdfsrc.php

Still doesn't define "unrealistic", though, which is in itself a very subjective word.

 

[Max Payne]

moms are tough

 

[Hisako]

Also, very goddamn hot. =w=

The stupid Bayonetta video did bring up a valid point with some genuinely strong female characters merely being made to look more masculine, although that's also up for debate as well.

 

[Max Payne]

Eh. Female characters don't need to be made more "masculine" they just need to be more designed with form and functionality in mind, versus what would look "hot".

The two aren't always that far removed, but people always seem to go for tits hanging out of outfits and shit. You can still have fanservice characters and all, but if your character is meant to be a female in a serious role in a serious story, it's probably best not to have her wearing a metal bikini to a gunfight.

 

[Cthulhu]

We Can't Shake the "Lonely, Anti-Social Virgin" Stereotype

True to a degree, however I've observed lots of 'social gamers'. I'm not one of them btw, all gamers are nerds and weird and watch hentai and stuff. I'm with Tenny on this one.

The Industry Thinks We're All 17-Year-Old Douchebags

Proof is in the fact that I cannot (or do not want?) to remember normal-looking women in video games.

Video Game Storytelling is Still at the Level of B Movies

This is why video game movies suck by default.

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I've only skimmed the topic btw. One thing I do wonder is: When are you "A gamer", and when are you "A regular consumer that plays and enjoys video games"? Who decided the line?

Referring to someone as "a gamer" already chucks someone right into a stereotype. People aren't called "Televisioners" (televisionaries?) because they watch TV for ten or twenty hours a week, so why should gamers? And things that most adults do for the majority of their days - are they called "employees"?

imho, the author is stereotyping people. Who's a gamer, who isn't?

Also, very goddamn hot. =w=

OMFG SEXUALIZATION AIMED AT 17 YEAR OLDS ASDF!413443414.

imho, Epic could've been the first to include an obese woman as a lead action heroine in an AAA title. Fat Princess doesn't count in this case, . Really, FFVIII is the only title I can remember that had a more-than-normal posture (the cantina lady). Even the cows in WoW are skinny (or 'normal-sized', w/e).

Of course, I like my perfect imaginary world where obesity doesn't exist, .