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legion, rok temu do gaming w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

I can hardly think of a better example of “the lady doth protest too much” than the responses that would get fired back at Anita. Completely unable to mask just how close to home the criticism hit them.

squidsarefriends, rok temu do gaming w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Her videos about women in video games were mind-blowing. And I never forgot her Lego City vs. Lego Friends comparison. Smurfette-syndrome and damsel distress are words I didn‘t know before watching this channel.

hal_5700X, rok temu do gaming w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Wait…that was still an thing?! I thought it died a long time ago.

yads, rok temu do games w Kickstarter rival Backerkit exits beta on the heels of a successful Gloomhaven campaign | Polygon

I didn’t realize backerkit was a Kickstarter rival. I always thought they were like a companion to them.

Aurenkin, rok temu do games w PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings

To be honest as awesome as this game was I just want a new Battle for Middle Earth game.

Mutelogic, rok temu do games w PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings

Good write up! It certainly made me nostalgic for the games of that era.

Cqrd, rok temu do games w PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings

I expected this to be bashing from the title, but it took a pleasant turn. Makes me want to play the game now.

mooseknee, rok temu do gaming w Warhammer’s upcoming fantasy RTS is simple, sleek, and thrilling

As a lover of RTS games, I am cautiously excited. A friend and I were talking the other day and we came to a realization that might sound mundane. Some of the things we miss about older games (specifically RTS) is that balance is so much more important now that a lot of the time, character and uniqueness get lost. If things aren’t as close to perfectly balanced as possible, gamers get real angry. There were some truly unbalanced RTS games that were incredibly fun. Battle for Middle Earth had some great mechanics that were incredibly fun, but I don’t many would say those games were balanced lol

HappyMeatbag, 2 lata temu do gaming w BattleTech community closes ranks to support the creators of an LGBTQ fanzine

But users pushed back, noting among other things that the existence of queer people is not a political issue at all — their erasure, however, is.

Best line in the article.