June 2013
4 posts
On Transgender Characters
If it were in your power, would you feature a trans* character as a lead, or do you think that that would be putting too much on the writing team’s shoulders in terms of representation and factual/political correctness? As someone who is highly involved in the game industry, do you think there would be a backlash from the industry or fans if a trans* character was a lead? Is video game culture ready for a trans* companion? — venak-hol
No, I don’t think video game culture is ready for transgender characters— not as major plot characters, and certainly not as a lead. It’s not ready for major characters that are gay, either. Heck, it’s barely ready for ones which are female.
Does that mean the industry should wait until it is? Probably not.
Yet I am also not the one whose money is being put on the line when it comes to making a major game. With hundreds of millions of dollars now sunk into your average video game title, it could perhaps be viewed as understandable why publishers would be risk-averse. The tried-and-true is safer. The audience they already have, and have had since gaming’s inception, is safer. Or is it?
Feminist Frequency: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games →
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April 2013
3 posts
December 2012
8 posts
November 2012
1 post
Chora's Den
- Kaidan: I see why this place is so popular. It's got quite the, uh, view.
- Ashley: Hey, Lieutenant, put your tongue back in your mouth before you trip on it.
- Ashley: A million light years from where humanity began and we walk into a bar filled with men drooling over half-naked women shaking their asses on a stage. I can't decide if that's funny or sad.
- Kaidan: What? You don't think they're here because of the food?
October 2012
4 posts
- Vernon: Where are we?
- Triss: In a forest?
- Vernon: Very funny.
The beginnings of the American Revolution, simplified
- BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
- BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
- BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
September 2012
13 posts
oh noes, my 3 games for $60 has no dlc →
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Some of us real Mass Effect fans paid $40-$60 each for three games, and paid full price for all our DLC. And some of us even don’t complain about it because we’re not entitled gamertards. I swear, people want everything to be free. You’re getting three fantastic full-length games for only $60.00. And you’re still complaining. What the fuck is wrong with you?!
- Shepard: Loch ness monster?
- EDI: Plesiosaur.
- Shepard: Loch ness monster's more interesting.
- EDI: Interesting and non-existent.
Geth Trooper Model for Jedi Academy - JKHub.org →
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I have officially released my Geth Trooper custom model for the game Jedi Academy as of today, September 12th 2012. Download it now and play with your favorite geth in-game!
“Are you from irishland and asianland put together?”
—Me - after drinking way too much and choosing to get on mumble anyway
That's what she said.
- Inyri: I don't like my charr's teeth too big.
- Varsh: There's a slider for that.
- Inyri: I like them big, just not so big they don't fit in my mouth.
- Varsh: That's what she said.
“I’ve never smithed anything black.”
—Dinky - Guild Wars 2
“If anyone tries to sell you clams, just say no.”
—Isabela - Dragon Age 2
August 2012
16 posts
Play
0:19
“I have the capacity to accommodate the slacking of any number of productively suspect humans, Shepard. That was a joke.”
—EDI - Mass Effect 2
- Shepard: If you want to help Urdnot, you need to get back there. But it would take a real badass to make it back to camp while injured.
- Sick Krogan: I can do it.
- Shepard: You? I said a badass, not some scout whining like a quarian with a tummy-ache.
- Tali: I'm standing right here!
Geth - Still Alive
So I’ve been toying around with making a geth sounding voice with some fancy vocoder work, and I couldn’t possibly pass up this opportunity. (Just imagine if they ever met each other.)
