[Felix]

[Felix]

[Felix]

Ni Go we spent like an entire page and a half mostly trying to reason with you and nothing else, I don't really see cause for blowing up in a huff after that

[Felix]

[Felix]

since we're still having this discussion I'll concede that I've pretty much lost respect for polygon: https://twitter.com/axfelix/status/521718109762506752

[Felix]

well, heck, if it takes Bayonetta for me to agree with 2501, I guess that's one point in favour of deliberately over-the-top sexualization!

(not that bayonetta isn't actually kind of a special case because it also manages to sell the maternal thing too, which is more of a feat than people dismissing it as intentionally silly often acknowledge)

relatedly, I have been having a real hard time trying to derive anything at all interesting from these bayo2 reviews; even if Polygon's was particularly grating for other reasons, approaching them from the perspective of someone who thought the first game had really enjoyable characters and storytelling and really crummy bossfights basically puts you in an unheard-of minority

[Felix]

I'm not actually familiar with what Anita herself had to say in this case, I'm mostly just going off of frustration with the Polygon review, which in the context of them failing to engage with the GamerGate stuff (even if their audience is probably more progressive than others' and they might not perceive a need, it's still shameful) read as them getting on exactly the wrong soapbox; a combination of humourlessness and failing to draw attention to issues that actually matter

I have nothing but sympathy for Anita but I think Bayonetta is actually fairly successful as a feminist game the same way that Saints Row 4 is, and if every AAA title that's on that list is also broadly thought of as ridiculous (where "ridiculous" includes, but is not limited to, lots of tits), well, that's fine, I didn't mean to indicate that AAA stuff is culturally salvageable anyhow.

[Felix]

no, really, the storytelling is actually good and empowering

[Felix]

my official perspective on the evil powers that be is that something along those lines is always plausible but seldom worth trying to prove

[Felix]

yup

my wife has gotten pretty good w/ ffmpeg and pdftk and such since I installed homebrew on her Mac and I'm pretty darned pleased as that's literally the least-bad environment for using modern cli stuff I can imagine

[Felix]

eh, I mean, Team Ninja stuff is pretty much pure gazey cheesecake, so while it's not as smart as Bayonetta or Saints Row (as far as smart cheesecake goes, that is) it's also not much more than a superficial example