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No matter which side of the political spectrum you find yourself on, one thing that can't be underestimated about Anita Sarkeesian is the impact she has had on the landscape of gaming. Her web series, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, has been a driving force in gender and race representation in gaming over the last several years, but it is coming to an end according to Sarkeesian herself in a blog post on the Feminist Frequency website.>It’s a bittersweet moment, bidding farewell to this series. It’s definitely time for it to be over, time for Feminist Frequency as an organization and for me personally to move on. But I keep thinking about all the ways that the world of video games has changed since that day, almost five years ago, when I first took my modest little Kickstarter live. It hasn’t all been for the better, but some of it definitely has. There are conversations happening now, among players and among creators, that weren’t happening before, about who games are for (everyone!), about what impact they can have, what they can tell us about humanity, empathy, race, gender, sexuality, the world we live in, and the world we want to create for ourselves. From the sound of things, it seems like Sarkeesian and Co. are moving into politics and pop culture with their next show, which given the current political climate, doesn't come off as all that surprising. WE DID IT BROS... WE WON.
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>>81441 literally who gives a fuck
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>>81463 >literally who It's over. We can stop censoring her name.
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>>81441 I hope that bitch got audited.
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>>81463 literally lots of people who dont not give a fuck
what are you some kind of faggot?
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>>81463 People with literally nothing going on in their lives. Anita's a dumbass and people made dumbasses of themselves attacking & defending her and maybe now we can go back to not hearing about her.
Also, this is /v/ pasta and should be saged.
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>>81517 Don't be silly, leafbro. That'd be sexist.
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>>81441 Imagine all the hardship she went through having to play video games for literally hours in order to see how misogynistic they are.
Truly the coal miner of the 21st century. We owe her our thanks.
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>>81441 This just in, yesterday's news officially stops pretending to be relevant.
I am kind of curious if she's gonna give back the mountain of cash she was given to make her little videos.
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>>82115 Actually, it's a known fact that she didn't even play the games herself. The most notorious example of this is the Hitman Absolution incident.
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her surname sounds like something that i would give for my reptilian pet
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Wait? She officially ended it? I thought she quietly just never finished making videos for it, thus never technically fulfilling her Kickstarter promises?
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>>82210 Also she even stole footage from a bunch of people on YouTube.
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>pretending she isn't just another overproduced and marketed Jew product Stop acting like she sprang up organically and has a huge following of ordinary people.
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I have to admit, the early videos were pretty good. They made me think about things that I have never thought about before, which is always a good thing. As the series went on, they settled into a rhythm of a misfiring muscle car: good point, good point, good point, completely incorrect point that destroys the credibility of the entire argument, good point, good point. We also have to address the elephant in the room here: would she have gotten as far as she had if she wasn't good looking? Imagine the exact same videos being made by someone who was 50 pounds heavier, no makeup, piggy eyes, ill-advised tattoos, and cheaply done pink / blue hair. Could you see them ever getting more than a few hundred views?
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>>82646 > would she have gotten as far as she had if she wasn't good looking? Oh that delicious irony, rub it all over my face
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I think Sarkeesian was fucking brilliant. She is the embodiment of the American Dream, doing as little work as possible and getting boatloads of cash.
Doing Feminism 101 videos on videogames, while idiots harassed her and blew up her channel to huge proportions that gaming "journalists" (gaming journalism will always be glorified advertisements) and arsewipes who wanted gaming to be art, donated piles of cash to her "cause".
She played both sides and won. I have nothing but respect for her.
>>81441 >WE DID IT BROS... WE WON. You didn't win anything.
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Did she even make all the episodes she promised? How was this not a kickstarter scam?
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>>81441 I hope she dies in a fire.
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>>86611 Since she is a jewess and I believe there will be a real holocaust in our lifetime your hopenings may be rewarded.
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>>86663 Maby she needs to be drowned.
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yea we did it!! nice reddit! :)
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>>81441 It didn't rock shit and you're a loser for even suggesting it. Literally nothing has changed in the industry. Did you not notice that shiny new game that just game out called Nier: Automata? Yeah Antifa Sarkeesian didn't achieve shit.
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>>87319 Uh, what? Before Anita started her show people would never have thought to have a female protagonist in a game.
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>>82646 >We also have to address the elephant in the room here: would she have gotten as far as she had if she wasn't good looking? Imagine the exact same videos being made by someone who was 50 pounds heavier, no makeup, piggy eyes, ill-advised tattoos, and cheaply done pink / blue hair. Could you see them ever getting more than a few hundred views? I mean that's everything when it comes to female looks. Pretty much anything where you can see them, people will give disproportionately high attention to attractive females and disproportionately low attention to unattractive ones. This is true with men too, to an extent, but it's not as pronounced, particularly if your audience is mostly male (think The Amazing Athiest or something, who is ugly but with a semi-sizable audience).
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>>87352 >what is Tomb Raider Plenty of games have female protagonists for the male player to ogle, and Anita has not changed that.
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>>87701 The fact of the matter is, Nier Automata couldn't have happened without the help of Anita.