His point isn't that there are no issues, it's that nobody thinks of this dogma that she's spouting when making games. Games are meant to be fun. Games are meant to please people. They do so. If they don't, they don't make money.
... and are therefore free from criticism? Of course not. What *she* is saying is that the games are made using existing tropes, and the ones most commonly picked are sexist garbage. We can argue how sexist they are, if they can be salvageable, etc. But that kind of conversation only can take place once we acknowledge that the conversation is worth having, which Thunderf00t completely denies.
His criticism is even dumber when he acknowledges that she makes videos "for a market". Well then, if that's your rationale, why are you ****ing criticizing her? According to this dimwit, she's perfectly entitled to make these videos like this because she made a ton of money! Hey, what's your problem, thunderf00t, it's only the market!
What a moron.
As the tropes go, she wants them wiped out. And that's wrong. The Damsel in distress trope is old, but it's still capable of being well used, and you're just stifling creativity if you remove it from a developer's arsenal. Every generation of gamers should be able to enjoy being the hero and saving the girl. That's why Double Dragon got it's remakes, because it's a classic. I haven't heard Double Dragion mentioned in years, but as soon as it came up I thought "Marian". I remembered the girl's name even though you barely see her.
Perhaps she does want them wiped out. Perhaps that's bad. But this is a whole another level conversation that these dimwits are not even willing to let others discuss. To point out these tropes, even if in an exagerated manner, is a very useful thing. It makes us aware of the ideologies that surrounds us everywhere, and how they are incredibly skewed in some manner.
I'll give you that the "bollocks" part was unnecessary. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but she's so arrogant, just telling you how you think and how the game makes you think and how you should think, and it doesn't work like that.
Yes, I think ideologies function *exactly* like that, they are subtle and they tell you things, even though you might think they are "stoopid" and "too obvious" for your intelligence and so on. (That's the main reason why advertizing always works, despite all our cynicism towards them, "ahhh as if I'd buy anything just because it showed on tv", yes, yes you will).
Arrogance might be bad, but the level of abuse she got is way over the top. That's unexcusable.
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Hi Luis.
I'm surprised you called that Thunderf00t guy a moron. I thought you liked him. Maybe not anymore...
I think he just thinks she is 100% wrong. Now I don't know the guy, but you seemed to think he was intelligent before this, so I'd be surprised if he thought the actual conversation wasn't worth having. Did he ever say she wasn't entitled to making them? I can't remember now, it's been a while since I watched it, but I certainly don't oppose her right to make them. Especially when people have paid for them.
These people that attacked her with the abuse campaign, I certainly oppose them. They are fools, and I'm sure they contributed a great deal to the money she got in her kickstarter campaign by way of sympathy. Nice going fools. You helped her. All you did was put money in her pocket and strengthen her resolve.
How do you feel about wiping these tropes out entirely? I'm sure that's what she wants.
You know advertising never works on me. I decide what I want and seek it out. Others don't decide for me. I know it does work on others though. But advertising is overt, not subtle. It is focused and targetted. The message is clear.
As I've always said, the abuse was wrong. Terrible in fact. I'd like to see these people punished. But that shouldn't stop people who aren't abusive from having an opinion in opposition to hers, just as it shouldn't stop her being able to voice hers, despite me strongly disagreeing with it.