Friday Afternoon Video: “What it’s like watching The Sarkeesian Effect”

Love the dog, it’s the only way I could have watched the less than 5 minutes. How did you watch the whole thing!

That monotone. Ayn Randian is right. BTW, I’ve never actually watched one of Owen’s videos(can’t stomach his bs. Blegh!), does his voice really sound like that?

It’s like Owens is trying to have the worst monotone voice known to man. It doesn’t help that the graphics look like they belong in a high school powerpoint either. I’d wonder at them charging money to watch such crap, but then we already know why.

Is that a text-to-speech device reading that monologue? It sounds like it.

And the space background. How cliche can you get?

Dawg really helps to make this watchable, but why is there no skull? Eh, I guess this is my biggest criticism for a lot of shows…but man, the antics of a bookshelf skull are a good addition to just about anything. Too bad “too much skull” was the only critique Professor Skull allowed himself to process.

So for 2½ hours, Jordan Owen scolds people with his soothing voice about how artists are entitled to exclude everyone except white guys from their characters. Did he ever consider that audiences are just as entitled to criticize them for doing this?

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So Owen has absolutely no idea how AAA video games are developed and believes there’s a creator/artist (just one?) free to as they want since “there only obligation is to themselves”. Who knew the companies spending tens of millions on the games are so hands off?

…games have been passionately safeguarded by creator and consumer alike, forever immune to the demands of political correctness and social justice sermonizing. When Anita Sarkeesian and her cohorts arrived it signaled the end to that creativity. Gaming they decided would be the new pulpit from which they would harangue the multitudes with their sermons. If you are dissatisfied with what already exists then you are free to do what every creative person has done since the dawn of time and begin to create something new that is the product of your own imagination.

This clip gives a nice overview of how astonishingly wrong Owen is about everything.

He’s dead set on ignoring how video games are mass consumer goods produced by corporations and how simply by purchasing games, the consumer will keep them coming. For instance, WTF is this passionate safeguarding gibber gabber? Is it a conscious, proactive and/or collective act? Do they work in tandem with Gamestop or do they and the major publishers simply acquiesce to the noble demands of these passionate creators and consumers.

So if Anita Sarkeesian is all four horseladies of the gaming apocalypse, how did she gain such power and what specifically has changed since her terrible arrival? Who are her cohorts?

The pulpit metaphor is a bungled mess. Gaming is her current subject, but her Youtube videos are her metaphorical pulpit and her hate groupies have to actually voluntarily watch those to be harangued by her.

Owen is seemingly unaware of the role of the critic and how criticism, good and bad, does require imagination. If Sarkeesian’s videos aren’t a creative endevor than what about Owen’s
numerous shitty Youtube response videos to other people’s work? In few that I’ve forced my self to watch he often spends a good portion of those videos awkwardly reading out loud what other people’s writings. What’s his excuse?

I’d never watch TSE but I would be tempted by any director commentary track, if only to hear him explain the reasoning behind the milky way graphic.

God, I could only make it through the first sentence, but…

If no one has the “right” to be represented in any one of their demographics (which isn’t what people are asking for? Like we’re asking for people to consider adding more diversity? Not just make token characters? ??????), then I have the right to not represent cishet white dudes in anything I do.

Of course, I’d be harassed for “erasure”, or “not being realistic” if I ever did something like that though, because the mental gymnastics that Owens and other Goobers do to assure themselves that they’re the “default” of the human race is fucking astounding.

That fucking speech is just stupid and try hard that i can’t help but laugh.

@Sarah: Exactly. They say people should “go make their own games”, but when creators do, they whinge and cry about how those games were “tainted by SJW ideology” or some bullshit.

So, what they’re saying is, they’d rather we didn’t make our “own games”, and if we do make games, we’d have to pander to them, and since they think they’re the only ones who play “real” games, or they’re the only people worthy of having games made to their tastes or be included in games, “our” games would be immediately disqualified as a game by these shitlords.

That’s far worse than I had imagined.

The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors

These two con men claimed they had an inside scoop which was a big, fat lie. It’s the usual “You can’t criticize my hobby!” whining wrapped in pretentiousness and accompanied by the kind of music heard on mid-20th century soap operas. Seriously, WTF is that?

I’m guessing the universe image represents “gaming’s expanding horizons”. *cringe*

They say people should “go make their own games”, but when creators do, they whinge and cry about how those games were “tainted by SJW ideology” or some bullshit.

It’s good to remember that GG had (has?) three main targets/archenemies/strawwomen/etc.; of those three, two are game developers.