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# 001 Liberal Arts Major
So due to all the work I was putting into the site (lol) I didn't get to an article on Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny Restoring Honor whatever like I had intended, and when I got some free time I didn't feel like doing the research necessary to write that article, so I decided to savagely attack Kenri instead!
Though this was technically submitted on Sunday, I started it on Saturday (and took a long break to watch TV) so I'm going to count it for last week and continue claiming to have been issuing a weekly article. I can do this, because I'm the webmaster.
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Soon: A Reply to a Look at an Overview of an Analysis of a Comment on Idiots and Video Games
(Shrines awarded.)
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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http://wii.ign.com/articles/112/1122068p1.html
The crux of her argument seems to be:
1) I haven't read the Metroid manga.
2) I haven't played Metroid II.
3) I didn't pay any attention to Metroid Prime 2, Metroid Prime 3, Super Metroid, or Metroid Fusion.
4) I am still qualified to evaluate this character and determine if the new entry in the series keeps her character consistent with previous portrayals.
And then, more specifically:
5) If six soldiers are in a unit, the five men should have to follow orders, but the one woman shouldn't have to. If the one woman WANTS to, in order to not get kicked out of the situation prematurely, well, too bad, real women never follow orders.
6) ****ing character development how does it work
7) Women in their early twenties are not allowed to show any emotions whatsoever and should always be perfectly rational.
Throw in a handful of flat-out lies and wow, crazy awesome article.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
The moment a cutscene begins to roll, however, she is transformed into someone completely new and unrecognizable. Someone who is insecure about what a former employer thinks of her, gets hurt when called an outsider, has serious daddy issues, and even, at times, chokes in the face of fear. The duality of her character within Other M is confusing in and of itself, and only lends to the feeling that the Samus of the cinema scenes simply doesn't belong, and just plain isn't the woman I grew up idolizing.
In a videogame landscape filled with helpless princesses and brainless bimbos, the concept of a woman who was indiscernible from her male counterparts was novel to say the least. She wasn't the wide-eyed, innocent damsel-in-distress, nor was she the objectified, scantily-clad hussy (you never so much as caught a glimpse of her outside of her armored Power Suit until the end of the game). Instead, the Samus of past titles was a rare example of a female character whose actions, and not her gender, were what defined her, and who was as uncompromising, steady and in control as any other hero out there.
Other M takes these formerly defining traits away from her, making her into just another generic, overly emotional female character. Where she once broke gender stereotypes, in Other M she exemplifies them. Her independence is reduced to subservience, her fearlessness to panic.
I bolded the parts that, together, made me fear for humanity.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
Then we have poor little Audrey complaining about how female video game characters should be more like one-dimensional cardboard cutout versions of their male counterparts. Score one for women!
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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While a lot of the more popular stupid complaints have come from women (presumably because woman + video games = omg traffic), I've seen plenty from men as well.
And the articles written by women seem to have a distressing number of replies that say something like "stupid wh0re go back to the kichen", so yeah, I think both genders are having some... issues... here.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
New Moderator
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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears