Yet another GAF thread - I still haven't got over it :( (No spergfits allowed)

[Yulwei]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=815617

It's not just Monster Monpiece, there's a wide panoply of smut being localized lately. The thread I'm referring to was started by a dude wondering why these floodgates have opened and became multi paragraph discourses on the nature of pedophilia from everyone's favorite expert posters.

I used to think tag-shaming was sort of effective but these guys just don't give a fuck.

that's because they've built up their own safe haven within gaf, anime/manga/k-on/etc threads on the community side.

[Momo]

Though I will say, reading some of the thread, the usual anti-Japan bunch used it as a chance to go to town, without punishment, as usual.

There's an anti-Japan group over there? Kinda surprising tbh

Really?  Most of em aren't hard to spot.  A few of them are even moderators.

You sure it's actual dislike of Japan and not just a seething hatred for the anime fandom/japanophiles? the latter is understandable if not completely warranted...

No, there's a pretty clear difference.  I know because I'm one of the latter. 

It's always strange to see people lay the pipe up Japan's rear end ito aggressiveness regarding it's borders, militarization, xenophobia, treatment of okinawans in a thread about which Mario bros char you like most. The weird thing about these people is they always bring up the most unrelated stuff at random ass times.

[Shadow Mod]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816352

 

[benjipwns]

I think they should change the GamePad to 1080p and include three more graphics cards inside it while also making it 2 mm thick. Also, all the games should be free for one week or month. And it should play Xbox One and PS4 games with better graphics. And also use Xbox Live and PSN for multiplayer but for free.

And this should be plastered on every surface on planet Earth by the Nintendo ninjas:

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And every character in every game should be able to pick their gender, spirit animal, avatar, etc. along with an extended profile detailing their sexual orientation that other players must read and agree to before playing. And if they disagree, it bricks their console.

[nudemacusers]

I think we can all agree that sexualizing little kids is the worst though, right?


It usually doesn't bother me unless it does some stuff like the bathing scene in Mugen Souls... which was censored anyways, haha.



In games? Not really. Better there than real life.


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no more scrolling for me!

[MCD]

1000 year old demon loli is ok.

[Tasty]

I love posts like this.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=111315358&postcount=9831

"The only sensible thing to do is to [radically transform something]." You got it, chief.

Sounds like most of the arguments against Pokemon I hear.

[Tasty]

Shaka can be my dirty pirate gigolo anytime he wants 

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Is that a Nexus 4?

Shaka

[Shaka Khan]

[king of the internet]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816352

 

 

[Rufus]

But, the entire point is that they don't, so they can get your kids next...

[Joe Molotov]

Nintendo is a pedophile. 

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-think-im-going-to-fight-my-moms-boyfriend-when-i-get-home.212547/

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816445

 

Most of these are just...

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-think-im-going-to-fight-my-moms-boyfriend-when-i-get-home.212547/

[Phoenix Dark]

get punked by your mom's bf brehs

[Joe Molotov]

This has to be a troll thread...no way this nikka got abandoned by the dude piping his moms AND the piper convinced the birth mom that is getting piped, to abandon her own seed

[benjipwns]

Nintendo is a pedophile. 

Other considered slogans:
Nintendo watched you grow up through your youngest adventures, isn't it time to go with them on your new ones?
Mom, Dad and a friend named Mario. Rebuild that relationship.
Nintendo was there during your most harrowing challenges, it's time to remember and relieve those experiences.
Nintendo embraced you when you were a child, how about sharing that love with today's children?
Nintendo was your alpha and omega, Iwata demands you make others join in this respect, KAAAAALI-MA.
Nintendo showed you new experiences as a child that forever changed you, now it wants to show you its Wii U and change a new generation.
Nintendo helped you through your shitty childhood, you fucking owe us you ungrateful bastards.

[Trent Dole]

So great to see THIS again

[Momo]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=111389107&postcount=370

this lump guy is getting super hurtmad in this thread

I love that line about a blind mole

[headwalk]

the problem with GIFs is that irreverence and effort don't make good bedfellows, the result being a bunch of sycophantic my_first_after_effects_project brand cheerleading with the sense of humour of a press release.

that nintendo one in the OP is particularly indicative of the current nintedard state of mind.

[benjipwns]

that nintendo one in the OP is particularly indicative of the current nintedard state of mind.

I'd say it's rather accurate considering how the gaming media ignored and spun this into a long term negative undermining of Nintendo's status:

[MIMIC]

that nintendo one in the OP is particularly indicative of the current nintedard state of mind.

I'd say it's rather accurate considering how the gaming media ignored and spun this into a long term negative undermining of Nintendo's status:
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[Tasty]

God that GIF

[benjipwns]

The only thing it really needs is a new Legacy of Kain in the list of games.

[Shaka Khan]

Saved for posterity.

I still remember wading through Ninthing splooge over it. Many sincerely bought the hype.

[Himu]

SHENMUE IS PRONOUNCED SHENMUE YOU ASSHOLES

[Your Stalker]

http://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/257v4y/wow_64_a_true_force_to_be_reckoned_with/

[Shaka Khan]

Manlets 

[nudemacusers]

lol dude sounds like a megaloser. i wanna see a pic of this dude. i doubt his height is the issue, tbh.

and shaka bb it's manlet

[Shaka Khan]

Dreams of being one of the cool kids dashed :'(

[nudemacusers]

is 5'9" manlet status?

be honest

 :'(

[Your Stalker]

according to the /fit/height chart yes. it's around average height for the u.s. though

[nudemacusers]

[Your Stalker]

 

[nudemacusers]

according to the /fit/height chart yes. it's around average height for the u.s. though

*purchases man heels*

you and me both, we'll be tres fab

[doctavius bonbon]

them shits look hot

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[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/ps4s-xbox-one-uploaded-a-video-of-himself-without-permission.212897/



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take it easyyyy

[doctavius bonbon]

archie, you have created a monster in that compendium thread.

[archie4208]

Haha.

Sad thing is, I legitimately do think Valve is being kinda lame holding back deathmatch and 1v1, but that thread is something else.

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I bought my compendium. 

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[Shadow Mod]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816430

spot the virgins

[Your Stalker]

pawgs gonna pawg

[StealthFan]

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816316

There's a lot of diversity topics active today, and I made some of these points in those topics, but none of those topics were quite related to diversity as it pertains to mental and developmental disorders. Thus, I decided to make a thread on this specific topic.

There's a variety of mental disorders where the people diagnosed with them would mostly prefer societal acceptance rather than a "cure", including OCD, ADHD, and Tourette syndrome, but I have PDD-NOS, which is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) along with the more famous Asperger Syndrome and "classic" autism, so my post from here on out will explore how I believe the autism spectrum disorders could be effectively represented in video games. I encourage discussion on how other disorders could be represented by video game characters and what that might affect gameplay, characterization, and plot! I am not talking about it in this post, however, because I do not know very much about other disorders, only the autism spectrum.

To start with, some might be wondering why large video game companies would be interested in creating a video game protagonist that caters to the autistic demographic of all people. After all, so comparatively few games have female protagonists because women on the whole don't play narrative-centric video games very often. The fact of the matter is, however, that autistic people spend more time playing video games than those without mental disorders. I can't find any demographics on what percentage of video game players as a whole is on the autism spectrum, but given factors such as autism's greater diagnosis rate in males (there's debate as to whether autism is legitimately rarer in females or the two genders have the same rate but females are just better at hiding it), I would bet that, like engineering, video games have a disproportionately large autistic population. In particular, though, the fact that autistic people spend, on average, more time playing video games than neurotypical people do ("neurotypical" as an adjective or noun refers to a person without a mental disorder), it seems as though the idea of video game companies giving the player a main character they can relate to should, at least occasionally, mean that the main character might be autistic, have Asperger Syndrome, or have PDD-NOS.

Beyond just being a token character included only to represent an under-represented demographic, though, a character on the autism spectrum could support certain video game tropes. For example, if Grand Theft Auto had a protagonist with a high IQ and an autistic spectrum disorder, who owned and/or whose narrow interests included or involved motorcycles, cars, trucks, jets, and boats, it could provide justification for how the character knows how to operate all of these various vehicles so effectively! Plus, about 0.60 percent of criminals fall somewhere on the autism spectrum, so it's not too unusual to appear in a GTA game in at least some capacity. Among these, too, apparently arson cases fairly frequently lead back to someone who is on the autism spectrum, or can end up stalking people due to unfamiliarity with or disregard for social precedent, both of which, in my opinion, would make for an apt GTA series character, even if only a supporting character.

The subject of autistic spectrum criminals raises another point in favor of autism representation as well: unlike what some people *coughbigbangtheorywriterscough* believe, writing a character as having an ASD does not necessarily limit what they realistically can do in the narrative. People on the autism spectrum have led to societal leaps (Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, and Nikola Tesla are often speculated to be on the autism spectrum, were they alive today) and Miss Montana in 2013 (who came in 15th in the Miss America pageant) had PDD-NOS. People on the autism spectrum disorder obviously do a lot of, at times stereotype-violating, things.

Speaking of stereotypes, now is the time where I wish to discuss current video game portrayals of autism. Most often, these come in one of two categories: the first category is characters who are explicitly stated by the game or the game creator to be autistic, but whose characterizations are either minimal (from what I can tell, David Archer from Mass Effect 2) or exaggerated/not down-to-earth (Patrica Tannis from Borderlands 2, Jade from Fahrenheit), and the second category is where the characters are plausible depictions of someone on the autism spectrum, but neither the game or its creator ever officially declare that the character has an ASD (River Wyles from To The Moon). The main issue I have here is that no game creator seems to consciously create accurate depictions of autism and its related disorders.

I was about to go on for several more paragraphs about how would be a good method for creating an autistic character, or how an autistic character can have a character arc without the ultimate narrative goal being to "cure" the character (neurodiversity proponents who have mental disorders themselves will most often tell you that if a cure were somehow found for their neurological abnormality, they wouldn't take it), but I realize now that that would produce a text wall to end all text walls (even larger than it is now, perhaps doubly so), so I'll cut this post here.

Who here has a disorder that they would be interested in seeing represented in a video game character? Are there any game developers here who are interested in the prospect of including a character with a mental, neurological, or developmental disorder? Are there any objections to what I've listed so far or the idea of acknowledging neurodiversity as a whole? Let the discussion begin!

As a random aside, mentioning Tannis in 2 as exaggerated is a little odd considering how she acted in the first game. 

[Shadow Mod]

Going more smoothly than threads on racial, gender or sexual orientation diversity of characters. Wonder why.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=111425755&postcount=62

With autism, however, it's a different story: people don't struggle with the disorder as much as they struggle to put up with other people being ignorant or misguided. The single biggest autism "charity" on the planet has a mission statement that involves eventually producing a world without autism, which seems to mean very bad things for those who have the disorder currently and don't want to be cured of it. And that's not even getting into the bad stuff (such as how they align themselves with an institution that, according to the United Nations, tortures, via painful electric shocks, people who have mental disorders including autism, or how no one in their board of directors has autism, yet one of their higher-ups said on a short film put out by the organization that she considered committing a murder-suicide against her autistic child after the child was diagnosed with autism, but didn't because she had a "normal" child at home). I'd name the organization, but this organization also has a history of contacting forum moderators to delete topics and posts that talk about them in a negative light. You probably already know the organization's name, though.

[Shadow Mod]

[etiolate]

I'm honestly scared of the type of characters you would get if videogame devs tried to force-write in minorities of various sorts.

[Himu]

Going more smoothly than threads on racial, gender or sexual orientation diversity of characters. Wonder why.

Notice the usual shitbags who complain about "why so many diversity threads?!?!?!" Are absent.

[Shadow Mod]

I'm honestly scared of the type of characters you would get if videogame devs tried to force-write in minorities of various sorts.

Force-write is kind of disingenuous, especially because they do write them in, and it's usually a one dimensional character overwrought with stereotypes when they do show up.


Seeing that neuro one at the same time as this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816574

So good.

No disrespect towards gay people but I dont want to see gay characters in games.

[Himu]

White dudes be crazy

[benjipwns]

Makes sense to me, furries like to think they're animals, gays and blacks like to think they're humans.

[brob]

"no disrespect, but [disrespect]"

[thisismyusername]

Saved for posterity.

I still remember wading through Ninthing splooge over it. Many sincerely bought the hype.

Well, it was funny for reasons that Nintards didn't understand.

But yeah, most Nintendo .gifs are just -ville.

But the "paste a corporate head's head onto a movie character" shtick has gotten old.

[Shadow Mod]

I want better and deeper games but no gays, women or blacks pls, thanks.

[Shadow Mod]

Its not that I have a problem with you. I just don't want to see you anywhere near me and my own, and certainly don't want you to be in things I like.

And when you point out that you aren't well represented in a medium it hurts me and I have to lash out.

[benjipwns]

To steal from the autism guy above: It's not that I have a problem with you, it's that your continued existence causes me problems.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=111353428&postcount=40

Yes. Likely in the next 5 years. Definitely by 15. There are many possibilities for what will be the catalyst, but no matter which one, everything else will follow like dominos.

I'm not saying humanity will cease, but getting food and water could be a daily struggle.

He's talking about the Fast Food Wars isn't he?

[Phoenix Dark]

           

Please understand.

                   

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm honestly scared of the type of characters you would get if videogame devs tried to force-write in minorities of various sorts.

I'm waiting for a gay dog in the next CoD.