The diary entries of a little girl who is now 30! ~ Part 2 - Page 335

When the world is a hollowed-out shell and the surviving mutant humans have long since fled to some distant, rickety space station complex orbiting one of Jupiter's moons, a group of alien sojourners will stop by the backwater planet Earth and discover a research lab buried beneath the rubble. Inside they'll find a self-contained cryovessle whose backup systems haven't yet failed. Cracking it open, they'll see the DNA modules ready to be scanned for the first time in thousands of years.

*sequencing*

"I have a dream...."

The visitors sit by idly listening to the 26 seconds run their course, Dr. King's voice echoing through the laboratory like a disembodied phantasm. After a moment of silence, they look at one another.

And then laugh.

Never before had they experience sound quality so... good. They laugh from amazement, much like early human beings did when seeing they could harness fire on a whim. One of the figures clutches the module protectively as the group leaves. They board their spaceship:

*woooooshhhh*

... convinced they'd already witnesses the highlight of their trip.

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Originally Posted by jgray91 

So did anybody here heard about the Dead Island zombie bust uproar? 

I'm still trying to come up with any opinion on it other than "meh seen it" and "lol that's pretty stupid of them", even after a week or so since I first heard about this.

 

Props to them for figuring out a way to combine sexual objectification and the promotion of violence toward women in one slick package.

 

Seriously though, I have a hard time believing it wasn't totally planned anyway. Controversy gets people thinking about their boring game again (and yes, I have the original Dead Island and thought it was boring).

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Originally Posted by eke2k6 

 

I bet - deep in the crevices of your collector's mind- you want it, just because it's so...weird looking

 

 

It's right there on the surface of my mind: I want it because it's so weird looking. No problem admitting that!

 

 

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Originally Posted by tomscy2000 

UERM, UEPRM, UEVRM... Vocal Reference Monitors... anyone find it unnecessary that they made the female version pink?

 

 

 

Usually I catch stuff like that right off the bat, but this time I saw the pretty pink faceplate and just kinda zoned out and said to myself "too bad I'm not a vocalist."

 

I need to get a UERM / UEPRM and pair it with the pOsh fur-ther Tera and a small dog.

This morning I listened to Jacula's Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus for the first time in many years.

Ah, Jacula. Now there was an unusual group. Taken from Wikipedia:

There's something altogether wonderful about including a psychic medium in your band, not tasked with playing any musical instrument mind you, but rather to help in communing with the spirits who inhabit the abandoned castle in which you're recording your album (and listed in the credits as such). 

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Originally Posted by jgray91 


Ok...

Hmm. I'm going to agree that this is also planned, but it didn't turn out exactly how they planned it. I guess the problem I'm having (or rather not having) a hard time with this is that this is so prevalent in anime/manga. Well not the mutilation part (even if I have seen my fair share of it), but the objectification part. It always irks me to no end though, but throwing a tantrum about it (for anime at least) is akin to adding salt to the sea. (a translated local saying).

There was also a lot of claims how misogynistic this is, and I agree. But one thing I'm confused about is that why don't people throw up their arms when it's about other media? (TV, music, etc.) It's as if gaming, recently, seem to be the scapegoat for almost everything.

I'll be honest here and say that probably my social upbringing is a barrier of understanding most of the issues here, but I'm genuinely want to learn more about this kinds of thing (of why/how it's bad etc.).

Well, to my knowledge, people do throw up their arms about other media. It really depends on where you look. Go to any feminist blog, and you'll find articles about not just videogames, but music, film, literature, etc. As for why videogames becomes such a focus on the Internet and mainstream news media... well, it's sensationalism. Videogames aren't as popular a target as they once were now that they've been around for a while and have been integrated into society more. The imagine of a gamer is no longer just some nerdy white boy in his parents' basement. It's expanded.

But there's still an aspect of sensationalism to it in popular news because relative to those other forms of media, videogames are the newest still and the least understood by the press. It's also why you see so much news coverage of "cyberbullying" on the Internet. The Internet is still some nebulous scary thing to a lot of people outside of the Internet, and inside the Internet it's simply more relevant to folks. Like "local" news. Once you start looking online too, you'll find more rants about videogames because that's just more a part of online culture. The two go hand-in-hand.

I do see a reason to focus on videogames when it comes to misogyny, however. Younger people are playing games, and in the case of young males they develop some of their mental schema about the opposite sex through the way they're depicted therein. With female gamers, it's detrimental to how they view themselves.

I like videogames and anime, but most of the time women are treated in a downright repulsive manner in both. Of course, you and I know that there's a diverse set of both, and that it's a generalization. There are plenty of strong female characters in videogames and anime. But let's be honest: the former seems to happen more in both relative to other forms of entertainment, doesn't it? It seems that way to me at least.