tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post6625261932992428821..comments2023-08-11T05:49:23.366-04:00Comments on Exploring Believability: Male ObjectificationJ. Sheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-64527527621241220772014-04-24T00:18:04.159-04:002014-04-24T00:18:04.159-04:00This is a really good article..!!
Generally, eve...This is a really good article..!! <br /><br />Generally, even without research, in casual discussions, it's usually very clear on how female characters are objectified in video games, but it gets mixed up when people try to argue about objectification of male characters-- which you've proven quite clear and well, DOES exist, but not in the way that many people think.<br /><br />And I really have to add, the tone of this article is wonderful. It's so well balanced, acknowledging the issues for both women and men. It feels patient-- which is an extremely admirable skill, especially when involving topics like this. Though, I'm not saying that emotionally charged articles should be ignored or treated less important if it does have valid, logical points, and if the writer has researched the topic.<br /><br />This is a really good read, thanks so much for sharing!! I think this'll help a lot of people understand objectification of genders better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10692001294833290121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-84417530703232087582014-03-05T10:50:49.391-05:002014-03-05T10:50:49.391-05:00You could possibly say something a litte more subs...You could possibly say something a litte more substantive, there, rather than just asserting that something is false and following through with an empty pejorative. How could it be a lie when it's an expression of a subjective judgement? Anyway, see any of Leigh's stuff about GTA V or Anna's review of Indie Game: The Movie. Are you seriously saying that they aren't heavily critical of the mores of 'gamer culture'?<br /><br />I'm not sure you'll see this, friend ExpBelieve likes to selectively remove my posts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-16499390412919364332014-03-03T19:39:10.143-05:002014-03-03T19:39:10.143-05:00"There are numerous game critics of standing,..."There are numerous game critics of standing, like for example Anna Anthropy or Leigh Alexander, who have great facility with invective and apply it admirably to attacking the status quo."<br /><br />This is the most ridiculous lie I've heard all year, and I even browse Free Republic. Could you social justice morons leave the adults so they can talk about real things?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-5064191731402841412013-12-12T17:05:03.359-05:002013-12-12T17:05:03.359-05:00You're an interesting man, and having read ove...You're an interesting man, and having read over your motivations, I'd like to extend an invitation to you. Would you like to Skype with me and/or some others sometime? You wouldn't have to speak to me, and I'm completely fine with a text-only communication. I don't really expect you to respond, but if you do, the offer is always open. <br /><br />Skype: theallosaurusrexAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141712049414771726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-51570371202310519192013-12-12T15:33:48.075-05:002013-12-12T15:33:48.075-05:00You know, I debated replying to this for a while, ...You know, I debated replying to this for a while, but eventually I figured I could use it as an instructional message for future generations. I can see how you stumble with big words in your posts, as much as you try to pretend their use is natural for you, so I'll try and use small ones.<br /><br />Bile sells to two kinds of people. The first is people who legitimately have hatred in their hearts, and who want to see something change. The second is people who want to feel superior to people who are, in short, the same as them. Now I know you think that second one describes me more than anyone else, but in truth it's the people who follow me - at least, a lot of them. People who want to hear someone be mad about video games, mad about gamers, mad about the culture. What they don't want is for someone to be mad at them. It's not just me, of course - those kinds of people go to Retsupurae or whatever, anywhere where a person gets mad at another person and they can draw value from it.<br /><br />Bile sells. Thorough bile sells to the right people. You ask why I have fewer than 300 twitter followers - a short laugh at the idea of using twitter followers as a measure of success follows - and the answer is that if I wanted a lot of followers who only vaguely cared about what I had to say, I'd update my articles and never say anything on Twitter. But I don't. The people who follow me after everything else are the people who actually hate video games. The people who stopped following me are the people who just wanted to feel better than other gamers.<br /><br />See, if I wanted to be popular, that's easy. You tell people what they want to hear. Maybe you make a video about how it's wrong to judge all gamers, so that the substantial gamer population can watch it and cheer along with you about how gamers are an oppressed minority. It's easy to be popular, but unless you're going into something that involves money or democracy, that kind of popularity is useless. And I don't plan on making a job out of this; watering down the message would be against the entire point.<br /><br />I leave you with an anecdote. A person followed me and RTed a post about how we need to get rid of everyone in the gaming industry to rid it of all its old influences. A person who followed HIM responded to me saying that they took exception to it & had friends in the "old guard". I said, bluntly, no exceptions. The first person (the person is David Gallant) took exception. Why, then, did he retweet an absolutist, inflammatory post if he was going to disagree with it as soon as it offended anyone? The answer is because when he read "everyone in the gaming industry" he interpreted it as "everyone [I don't like] in the gaming industry". How many others did the same? Countless. People who were happy about me tearing nerds down who became angry and confused when "nerds" started to include them. Now many of them are gone. The silver is a little bit purer for it.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />J.SheaJ. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-28607858371886810992013-12-10T18:41:55.095-05:002013-12-10T18:41:55.095-05:00If what you say is true, I can only speculate as t...If what you say is true, I can only speculate as to what kind of cloistered existence you must lead in order to have concluded that realism in video games is more important than treating people properly.<br /><br />To your credit, I don't think that it really is true. Your vociferousness in making moral judgements beyond what might be characterised as "protecting realism" is readily apparent to anyone who cares to scroll down your twitter timeline for a few minutes.<br /><br />Unfortunately, all of your high-minded discernment of the moral valence of various cultural artefacts is quite worthless if you don't treat people properly yourself (i.e. by, among other things, not making unprovoked, abusive comments to survivors of abuse as you did the other day).<br /><br />In fact, acting in such a way as you did is, in a way, fatal to your entire schtick. If the ostensibly principled J Shea still acts like an ignorant dick despite his eminent perspicaciousness with respect to matters of popular culture, what reason is there to believe that his insights can contribute to anyone's edification?<br /><br />I regret the triumphalistic tone of my previous comment -- I shouldn't be pleased that you caused people to become upset the other day. However I can't help but be a little relieved to have it confirmed that your sanctimony really is sanctimony and not something else. It means I no longer feel the need to spend any time deciding whether certain of your ravings are worth heeding or not.<br /><br />Finally, I must note a failure of comprehension on your part. I did not criticise you for not being "sweeter," I criticised you for using an ostensible concern for social justice and the moral implications of entertainment media as a crutch to feel superior. It now seems clear to me that you care less about such issues than you do about having a high horse atop which you feel you can assure yourself and others of your greatness. There are numerous game critics of standing, like for example Anna Anthropy or Leigh Alexander, who have great facility with invective and apply it admirably to attacking the status quo. The difference is that they are focused on bringing down the object of criticism rather than on impressing a sense of their own superiority. If your "bile sells" so well, one has to wonder why you are in the unusual predicament of having fewer than 300 twitter followers despite having had your blog linked on a major website.<br /><br />Au revoir,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-71086985379566856572013-12-09T20:30:58.735-05:002013-12-09T20:30:58.735-05:00Funny you mention visual novels and the problems t...Funny you mention visual novels and the problems that plague them, but are there any good visual novels that follow your standards or advice? What about Katawa Shoujo? Although in fairness I think it only works because its barely a game at all.<br /><br />Anyway really good article, keep it comingTheSilentWitnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348823500693619692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-17904164608498272102013-12-09T11:06:39.891-05:002013-12-09T11:06:39.891-05:00For what it's worth, I'm more proud of thi...For what it's worth, I'm more proud of this one than the last. If you keep providing the lyrics, I can keep on providing the tunes. We could make some great lo-fi acoustic tunes together, friend: http://vocaroo.com/i/s19ysagEKpd5Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141712049414771726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-38527220613129238502013-12-09T00:00:17.685-05:002013-12-09T00:00:17.685-05:00once / there was this guy who / got so mad at game...once / there was this guy who / got so mad at gamer-hate that he recorded music / and when / he finally came to / he / found / that he still lacked validation<br /><br />it probably would've helped if / there'd been a little sub-stance<br /><br />mmm mmm mmm mmm<br />mmm mmm mmm mmmJ. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-81358328836426971152013-12-08T23:57:04.858-05:002013-12-08T23:57:04.858-05:00all exists in the service of believability; i neve...all exists in the service of believability; i never claimed to be an ally. these things just fall under the umbrella of protecting realism<br /><br />also, i did try a "sweeter approach" for a while. didn't really work. bile sells.<br /><br />hearts,<br />j.sheaJ. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-42570090099802672602013-12-08T14:08:33.739-05:002013-12-08T14:08:33.739-05:00I was going to send this to you through Twitter, b...I was going to send this to you through Twitter, but I'm blocked and don't want to make a sock-puppet account. Anyway, I made something for you, it's a song, which is music, which is art: vocaroo.com/i/s1mZaev63gOCAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141712049414771726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-14079266122655940272013-12-08T12:06:48.462-05:002013-12-08T12:06:48.462-05:00Hi J,
Didn't read your fart of a post as usua...Hi J,<br /><br />Didn't read your fart of a post as usual, but I wanted to note that it is somewhat vindicating to see that you have been exposed as a transphobic, sexist creep. I have suspected for a while that your apparent concern for issues of social justice was merely posturing, affected in service of your plainly desperate need to feel superior. I'm not glad, as such, that you are such a dick, but it's good to know I was right.<br /><br />What's really unfortunate here is that, as is occasionally apparent between the lines of your self-aggrandizing bluster, you do possess a measure of critical ability that could conceivably be put to good use if you would just get over yourself.<br /><br />So my advice to you is, step away from the keyboard for a while. Learn to be okay with yourself without external validation, lose the insatiable thirst for a sense of self importance. More people will listen to you (which is the objective, right, if you're serious about changing things?)<br /><br />Love and kisses<br />xoxoxoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-43755285155895833552013-12-05T17:10:37.999-05:002013-12-05T17:10:37.999-05:00game publishers should imitate something worthwhil...game publishers should imitate something worthwhile from Hollywood for a change, and release semi-indie games with modest budgets targeted at gamers who want more serious games, rather than focusing only on setting up mega-franchises and spending millions on each release. Maybe that way game devs can stop watering down their games to appeal to everyone.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392962188840134167noreply@blogger.com