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[Pissmaster]

Nobody is reporting on the new SH merch basically being a precursor to a new game announcement

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Pyramid head's head makes the V for 5.

Ah yes, from modern day Konami that brought us:



My expectations are through the roof and I will be extremely disappointed if their next game is not better than Silent Hill 2.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Ah yes, from modern day Konami that brought us:

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My expectations are through the roof and I will be extremely disappointed if their next game is not better than Silent Hill 2.

Right now people have entire relationship charts and employee time spreadsheets about Kojima's involvement with Blue Box Game Studios and how it's a shell company ment to act as a front for Kojima's Silent Hill game.

They make some compelling evidence and have gone so far as to dig up stuff on people who work there only to find they didn't exist up until 27 months ago.

 

[Pissmaster]

Right now people have entire relationship charts and employee time spreadsheets about Kojima's involvement with Blue Box Game Studios and how it's a shell company ment to act as a front for Kojima's Silent Hill game.

They make some compelling evidence and have gone so far as to dig up stuff on people who work there only to find they didn't exist up until 27 months ago.

It's called Blue Box because that's the female equivalent of getting blueballed, which is what Kojima's next game will do

 

[Marissa Moira]

It's called Blue Box because that's the female equivalent of getting blueballed, which is what Kojima's next game will do

But Death Stranding already came out and is getting a PS5 "Re-Imaging" that promises to be the game equivalent of Zach Snyder's Justice League.

 

[ZMOT]

The irony of this situation after we've had to listen for years to Sarkeesian types whine about even the most mildly sexualized female characters in games and now female gamers themselves have started whoring it up.

that's why aneeta was always a retard, and the people that listened to her even more. anyone who ever played a game with a chick that had a character creator knows one of two things happen: "improved" version of themselves but pretty or slutting it up so hard it would make any dude blush. no one ever thought females in video games need to be "ugly" or "realistic", because most people get the concept of escapism and sex sells - there's a reason the fur bikini amazon gets paired up with a bare-chested babarian and a strong jar, it's simple equal opportunity fap oogle material.

femfreq and it's adherents are the modern day creationists.

 

[robobobo]

The irony of this situation after we've had to listen for years to Sarkeesian types whine about even the most mildly sexualized female characters in games and now female gamers themselves have started whoring it up.

Those aren't gamers whoring themselves, they're whores on a gaming site.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Alright I was joking about Death Stranding's re-imaging, but the PS5 version got a ratings upgrade since it now features more full on nudity than the Raiden tunnel scene.

 

[Dom Cruise]

that's why aneeta was always a retard, and the people that listened to her even more. anyone who ever played a game with a chick that had a character creator knows one of two things happen: "improved" version of themselves but pretty or slutting it up so hard it would make any dude blush. no one ever thought females in video games need to be "ugly" or "realistic", because most people get the concept of escapism and sex sells - there's a reason the fur bikini amazon gets paired up with a bare-chested babarian and a strong jar, it's simple equal opportunity fap oogle material.

femfreq and it's adherents are the modern day creationists.

Am I being optimistic to say the femfreq mindset seems to be kind of dying out now?

 

[albert chan]

Alright I was joking about Death Stranding's re-imaging, but the PS5 version got a ratings upgrade since it now features more full on nudity than the Raiden tunnel scene.

Have Sony not learned anything from The Last of Us: Part II? Rhetorical question, I know.

But what is this obsession on wanting to have full on nudity in video games. I know it’s not new, but it’s been spiking up regularly as of late; thinking that having characters that are fully naked, or showing scenes where they’re half naked for just no reason at all, is a justification for not caring about gameplay or plot of how the base of the game is played.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Have Sony not learned anything from The Last of Us: Part II? Rhetorical question, I know.

But what is this obsession on wanting to have full on nudity in video games. I know it’s not new, but it’s been spiking up regularly as of late; thinking that having characters that are fully naked, or showing scenes where they’re half naked for just no reason at all, is a justification for not caring about gameplay or plot of how the base of the game is played.

This is Kojima's own doing, his will is law.

It's also not sex specific nudity so it sounds like you're going to get more than just man ass.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

Am I being optimistic to say the femfreq mindset seems to be kind of dying out now?

If anything it has been growing stronger, it may not be popular with the masses but it's certainly popular with companies. All companies I've worked for in the last three years (Be it as an employee or while visiting clients) have had some diversity initiative, ranging from simple, non stop mails to taking mandatory seminars or courses to making an entire diversity department.

 

[Marissa Moira]

If anything it has been growing stronger, it may not be popular with the masses but it's certainly popular with companies. All companies I've worked for in the last three years (Be it as an employee or while visiting clients) have had some diversity initiative, ranging from simple, non stop mails to taking mandatory seminars or courses to making an entire diversity department.

It's been this way since the late 80's with sexual harassments seminars, they've just slightly tweaked them for modern audiences.

 

[Dom Cruise]

If anything it has been growing stronger, it may not be popular with the masses but it's certainly popular with companies. All companies I've worked for in the last three years (Be it as an employee or while visiting clients) have had some diversity initiative, ranging from simple, non stop mails to taking mandatory seminars or courses to making an entire diversity department.

I wasn't talking about "diversity" in general, I was talking about getting a sore ass over sexy female game characters.

With Twitch thots whoring it up and Lady D in RE8 and everyone thirsting after her, it does seem like gaming is slowly but surely moving away from the Anita style mindset.

 

[Deadwaste]

This is Kojima's own doing, his will is law.

It's also not sex specific nudity so it sounds like you're going to get more than just man ass.

>mfw we get to see reedus peenus

 

[ZMOT]

Am I being optimistic to say the femfreq mindset seems to be kind of dying out now?

yes and no, aneeta's grift is over, just check the numbers on her latest vids and even CDPR as retarded as they are showed here the cold shoulder after she begged for a consulting gig on twitter. but then you get someone like devolver still giving her money for some retarded reason.

the other thing is you still have companies that are infested with people that follow her, don't forget RE8 and anime asthaetic are predominantly asian based. western shit is still stuck in the butchdyke/strong black female who needs no man mindset and probably will for the next few years while everyone else gets free publicity (like RE8 ) by not chasing a nonexisting demograpic.

 

[Dom Cruise]

>mfw we get to see reedus peenus

Are we really gonna see the reedus peenus?

yes and no, aneeta's grift is over, just check the numbers on her latest vids and even CDPR as retarded as they are showed here the cold shoulder after she begged for a consulting gig on twitter. but then you get someone like devolver still giving her money for some retarded reason.

the other thing is you still have companies that are infested with people that follow her, don't forget RE8 and anime asthaetic are predominantly asian based. western shit is still stuck in the butchdyke/strong black female who needs no man mindset and probably will for the next few years while everyone else gets free publicity (like RE8 ) by not chasing a nonexisting demograpic.

I know what you mean, I've explained myself, perhaps in this very same thread? That their rationale for why they go easier on Asia but expect western games to toe the line is that they think any western dev putting sexy women in a game is reverse virtue signaling and sending the message of "HONOR AND GLORY TO GAMERGATE!" whereas they assume Japan knows nothing about that.

However that's different than the past, back around 2015 they got just as buttpained over sexy women in Japanese games too, but have since strayed away from that, I think Nier Automata is a big reason why, that was a crossover hit and everyone loved the character of 2B, so they just let her robot buttcheeks slide.

But I do think they might stray away from it in western games too as it's only going to become more and more absurd to complain about a video game girl in a bikini while many women on Twitch are pretending to lick people's ears.

Make no mistake though, there won't be any apology, there won't be any "sorry, we were wrong to give gamers so much grief over this", they'll just quietly move on and get angry if anyone tries to bring up the past and point out the hypocrisy.

 

[AnOminous]

yes and no, aneeta's grift is over, just check the numbers on her latest vids and even CDPR as retarded as they are showed here the cold shoulder after she begged for a consulting gig on twitter. but then you get someone like devolver still giving her money for some retarded reason.

That said some other retard will take her place as Social Justice Waifu for these morons.

 

[SiccDicc]

>mfw we get to see reedus peenus

It wears a top hat and moustache and when it slaps up against something it explodes in nuclear fire.

 

[ZMOT]

I know what you mean, I've explained myself, perhaps in this very same thread? That their rationale for why they go easier on Asia but expect western games to toe the line is that they think any western dev putting sexy women in a game is reverse virtue signaling and sending the message of "HONOR AND GLORY TO GAMERGATE!" whereas they assume Japan knows nothing about that.

However that's different than the past, back around 2015 they got just as buttpained over sexy women in Japanese games too, but have since strayed away from that, I think Nier Automata is a big reason why, that was a crossover hit and everyone loved the character of 2B, so they just let her robot buttcheeks slide.

But I do think they might stray away from it in western games too as it's only going to become more and more absurd to complain about a video game girl in a bikini while many women on Twitch are pretending to lick people's ears.

Make no mistake though, there won't be any apology, there won't be any "sorry, we were wrong to give gamers so much grief over this", they'll just quietly move on and get angry if anyone tries to bring up the past and point out the hypocrisy.

imo it's more like they tried and failed, and 6 years after the journalist holocaust aka gamergate people simply don't give a fuck anymore (and asia never did) while anime/manga/asian stuff is shitting over local entertainment pretty much everywhere. a big part of the whole thing is attention whoring (like companies talking about BLM for marketing), which doesn't work if people simply ignore it or outright tell you to STFU and they can't handwave it away as misogynistic incel chuds.
they're still trying of course because we're not in the clear yet and lot of companies are rotten to the core, but with corona, inflation and life in general getting more and more shit no one has time to get butthurt over skin-colored pixels; what's worse for their retarded crusade the more shit things get, the more people are looking for distraction and escapism, which western media can't provide anymore - even if they stop politicizing their games, all those diversity hires will have an effect on the final product. turns out that danger hair wailing about social justice on twitter all day and gets on everybody's nerves about trans rights isn't a very productive or competent coder, who would've thought.

change and consequences like that were always inevitable, but for that you'd need to have a basic grasp about history, which most leftoids simply lack or willfully ignore. as for the companies, they'll either go under or change course, like it always happened, and most people don't care if they enjoy the product. the people tho made an effort to be very loud and very annoying while making sure to be as identifiable on the internet as possible to show everyone how on the right side of history they are, would be a shame if someone remembers all that once society inevitably shifts like it always does... (that's not a threat, but simple reality that if you blast your nonsense for the whole world to see someone in the world will see it, remember it and most likely bring it up at some point depending on his or her goals. now imagine that someone being an official for a government which doesn't align with your past political views).

That said some other retard will take her place as Social Justice Waifu for these morons.

doubt it, it was the perfect storm really. ofc there will always be another prominent figure being retarded, just like jack thompson was before her, but they won't have much influence anymore. video games are a very young medium, remember she tried the same grift with movies before (and after), and we all know how that went, imo those were part of it's growing pains. the more companies fail and people get sick of it, the more companies and people will tell those retards to fuck off.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I've been thinking the OP is over due an update, but I wanted to wait until the journalists stopped sperging long enough so that nothing would be lost in the shuffle.

Looking back at the first reply, in 2019

It's worth noting that most, if not all of these websites are now in a protracted death phase. Simply put, the Venture Capitalists stupid enough to spew money into their coffers thinking they were a sure thing have found that their investment is now worth diddlysquat. Kotaku is being sold as we speak. Giantbomb is doing terribly and Polygon's been edging the cliff for quite a while now. Waypoint is likewise on its way out.

Just watch and enjoy, as they proceed to enter a hell as vast as our collective bonergrins.

Congratulations Jaimas! You were pretty much correct on all counts. I don't have a cash prize, so accept this permission to be intolerably smug for a day.

What, no Ben Kuchera? The guy who blocked someone over the fact that they told him that insulting their audience would only lead to less traffic and would only make them end in failure, and him being generally corrupt as fuck.

This is by far the biggest thing I should add. I kept putting it off because he wasn't one I knew much about, but I need to stop being lazy and add this already.


So, I should add Ben Kuchera, and update the death spiral of Giant Bomb. what else do you guys think should be added? Any favourite things over the last year I should add to the OP?