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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5970 on: April 07, 2015, 06:11:04 pm »


I have no Idea who Bagnall is, I have no idea what Gone Home is other than that it's a game, I have no idea what reductivist* and negative lenses are or how queer youth are are represented through them, and I have absolutely no idea what the hell "queer game design structures" are.

Seriously, the fuck does that last one mean? Is it when someone sucks ass at modelling a building for a game and you end up with a virtual Leaning Tower of Piza?

If your point is that you want more LGBT characters in games, great. Say it in a way that doesn't come off as bullshit art critique speak.

Tangent: Anyone ever heard of the time someone made a computer program that would take all kinds of big words and arrange them in a semi-coherent manner, and then sent stuff produced by the program to several big art magazines and it ended up being published? The funniest part was that since I had at least a vague idea of what most of the words actually mean, it looked like incoherent gibberish to me.

 A similar idea was used to make a Deepak Chopra Tweet generator. It pulls various tweets of his which often use large words that he definitely doesn't know the meaning of, and uses that to base the generated tweets on. It arranges the bits together in ways that half the time are more coherent that Chopra's actual tweets. Of course in makes frequent use of the word "quantum" in stupid ways, as Chopra apparently does himself. How that woo peddler gets so much attention I'll never know.


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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5971 on: April 07, 2015, 09:23:54 pm »
Queer game design structures...?  Sooooo, writing a game in Lisp, then.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5972 on: April 07, 2015, 10:07:41 pm »
I don't know anymore.  I just don't.  There's this subset of people who have become so prissy

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5973 on: April 07, 2015, 10:46:34 pm »
Summary: nobody knows what queer game design structures are, but you know that it's terrible that people talk about them...?
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5974 on: April 07, 2015, 11:41:16 pm »
I'm just trying to figure out exactly what they're trying to say.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5975 on: April 08, 2015, 09:45:21 am »


Ending AIDS?  Feminism.  Ending poverty and hunger?  Feminism.  Increasing economic growth?  Feminism.

It's like for these people, "feminism" is just a buzzword they use for any possible change that they believe to be for the better.

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5976 on: April 08, 2015, 06:08:17 pm »
UP actually increasing female equality, employment and education (you know feminism) has been shown to reduce poverty, reduce prevalence of VD and increased economic growth. Because you know being able to choose who you sleep with and whether a condom is used, reducing birthrates, employing a further 50% of the population and allowing them to get better jobs tends to actually help with all those things.

Just look at the cracker behind Grameen bank in Bangladesh - he basically only lends to women.

Although I thing the answer the card was looking for was 'using condoms'.

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5977 on: April 08, 2015, 06:30:57 pm »
UP actually increasing female equality, employment and education (you know feminism) has been shown to reduce poverty, reduce prevalence of VD and increased economic growth. Because you know being able to choose who you sleep with and whether a condom is used, reducing birthrates, employing a further 50% of the population and allowing them to get better jobs tends to actually help with all those things.

Just look at the cracker behind Grameen bank in Bangladesh - he basically only lends to women.

Although I thing the answer the card was looking for was 'using condoms'.

Huh.  I hadn't thought of it that way.  But you gotta admit, it's kind of a roundabout solution.

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5978 on: April 08, 2015, 06:39:47 pm »
No. No I don't.

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5980 on: April 09, 2015, 12:57:51 am »
And here I thought all the Transracials got shooed out.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5981 on: April 09, 2015, 01:42:18 am »
I see some stupid people are still trying to make "transethnicity" a thing.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5982 on: April 09, 2015, 02:23:33 am »
What's next? TransClique?

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5983 on: April 09, 2015, 02:28:25 am »
I'm going to ignore the most obvious bit of stupidity there, and instead point out that she thinks she's "transkorean" because she likes kpop. So, since I like jpop, does that make me "transjapanese"?
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #5984 on: April 09, 2015, 04:37:31 am »
I'm going to ignore the most obvious bit of stupidity there, and instead point out that she thinks she's "transkorean" because she likes kpop. So, since I like jpop, does that make me "transjapanese"?

Either you are transjapanese or you liking Japanese things is cultural appropriation. It is that simple.
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