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But yeah, like you said, PA's approval is contributing to an environment where violence against woman is OK. Fans are harassing rape victims telling me to get raped, die by getting rape or posting pictures of dead woman. Not cool bro.
The worst is, people who opposed the t-shirt and that are now objecting to the way the matter was handled are being called too sensitive. The problem is that there seems to be, in the mind of PA's most rabid supporter, a link between being mature and being totally detached from others problems. Like there's no place for compassion on the internet."
The controversy around the comic is long gone and now it's all about the t-shirt and the comments made mainly by Mike. If you check back on his twitter feed, he has been a real asshole about it. If they had just removed the t-shirt, post a notice saying "yo we removed the t-shirt" and then shut up about it, none of this would be happening.
Now we have a twitter feed called @teamrape that Mike is supporting (classy) and they are harrasing rape victims that opposed to the t-shirt (@kirbybits in particular), asking them for proof of their rape (double classy). Th fact that Mike is behind them and that Jerry is strangely silent on the whole thing only makes it worse."
Exactly, every other medium is able to talk about politic in their work, but the second a game tries to do so, they get attacked; not by journalists and politicians, but by gamers and bloggers.
Like I said, there is a line between propaganda and political opinion, and I think that gamers often ignore that difference and lump everything in the former. Then again, developers shy away from it due to financial risks, but I still think they should be free to say what,s on their mind, and not just be expected to create a story and a world that exists outside of the real world. Games are not only escapism, they are also simulations and expressions."
"The number of comments thing just broke."
Does that mean we won?"
If people give a chance to games after seeing this concert, maybe they won't be disappointed when they finally play them. If they are disappointed, it's because they have false expectations from a medium that is totally not the same as music. To say that they would be let down by games is almost like saying (and I'm saying you are thinking this) that sadly games are not as good as music or movies."
What I wonder is, are those games sending us this message because of the current writers ideologies or is it because the people who made those games are basing themselves on older sci-fi stories (Invasion of the Body Snatchers for example) that had those ideologic undertones?
The end result is obliviously the same but it's still nice to think about it."
Sign me up for the wild west."