Tied Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Sony brings people who aren't up on stage. Where'd the quote come from? Also what was that thing your sig was for a bit? No it was a forum qoute from awhile back from an infamous wehraboo, i think snow panzer, that i managed to save in a MS word document before it got the RO hammer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinegata Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Sony at least tries to make a show that it's more of a multinational company even though there's a hard glass ceiling for any non-Japanese employees. Nintendo doesn't even try and they're very hard to talk to if you're a foreign company. Oh, and given that 45% of gamers were women circa 2012, and it was a growing proportion, criticizing the AAA industry for still being male-centric is not really out of line. They're being left behind by the casual game crowd, which is the current growth segment of the gaming industry while the market for CoD-stye games on the Xbox or PS is shrinking (albeit still the most lucrative). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Sony at least tries to make a show that it's more of a multinational company even though there's a hard glass ceiling for any non-Japanese employees. Nintendo doesn't even try and they're very hard to talk to if you're a foreign company. Oh, and given that 45% of gamers were women circa 2012, and it was a growing proportion, criticizing the AAA industry for still being male-centric is not really out of line. They're being left behind by the casual game crowd, which is the current growth segment of the gaming industry while the market for CoD-stye games on the Xbox or PS is shrinking (albeit still the most lucrative). Call me a Racist but i pin that more on Japan's xenophobia more than anything else And yes, while women continue to make up a greater portion of the 'gamer' population it is out of line for two reasons: A: most of these objections are baseless and without proof that companies are actually sexist B: Most speakers/company leaders aren't choosen because they arent minorities or women, but becuase they are the men for the job. Its doubly demeaning to women that there HAS to by a woman speaker even if she isnt as qualified, accomplished or deserving as her male counterpart. Ideally, women should undergo the same selection process for men, one that is based on merit rather than filling gender quota's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Part of the problem is that when all the old hands come from one group they tend to pick people like themselves to raise up. And of course the best way to get skills and cred is to come up under an old hand. Good example: tech companies in SA. They often have massive amounts of (white) women in them all the way to the top, because our oppression was much more obsessed about keeping black kids out of universities than women. Two guesses as to the people who aren't well represented in tech company board rooms here yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinegata Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Call me a Racist but i pin that more on Japan's xenophobia more than anything else And yes, while women continue to make up a greater portion of the 'gamer' population it is out of line for two reasons: A: most of these objections are baseless and without proof that companies are actually sexist B: Most speakers/company leaders aren't choosen because they arent minorities or women, but becuase they are the men for the job. Its doubly demeaning to women that there HAS to by a woman speaker even if she isnt as qualified, accomplished or deserving as her male counterpart. Ideally, women should undergo the same selection process for men, one that is based on merit rather than filling gender quota's. But not all Japanese multinationals are as inaccessible as Nintendo, which was the point. Sony has been able to make the transition, at least image-wise, as an international multinational whereas Nintendo is still the traditional Japanese company despite having multinational reach. And the comment on women was not about having women spokespersons, but how the AAA games industry is male-centric. AAA is still dominated by testosterone-laden games like Call of Duty. Part of the reason this is the case is because game develop Having more women spokespeople while pumping out another Space Marine/Special Operations/Thinly Veiled Male Power Fantasy would in fact just be window-dressing for the much deeper problem that most AAA games have become boring precisely because they're getting stuck in a loop of producing only games for half the population. That's why I mentioned the decline of the CoD crowd and consoles in favor of the indies and the casuals - it's the latter that's tapping into the female gamer marker which again has grown significantly to the point that "games are played mainly by guys" thing of the early 2000s no longer applies in the present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Trump really needs to get better interns unless you want his Twitter to be full of pics of murders as he just retweets pictures of John Wayne Gayce and Jeffery Macdonald thinking they're somebody else. Trolling can be entertaining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 CoD decline have nothing to do with females, but it have eveything to do with it becoming worse each year as a game and as a CoD FPS. General rise of indie and descreased interest to AAA games are directly connected to AAA games being made by soulless marketing "specialists". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinegata Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 CoD decline have nothing to do with females, but it have eveything to do with it becoming worse each year as a game and as a CoD FPS. General rise of indie and descreased interest to AAA games are directly connected to AAA games being made by soulless marketing "specialists". Actually, you might want to read this article: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-07-10-time-study-boys-think-women-are-over-sexualised-in-games Given that the supposed driving force behind the AAA "soulless marketing" is that these games are supposed to target teenage boys primarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 I'd like to know why I'm supposed to care that the offspring of the woman who lip-synced the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl nearly three decades ago is dead and why it's suddenly banner headline news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Because then you wont spend as much time reading about your national debt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 The mother of the Allman Brothers died too. Important news compared to basically everything else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 I'd like to know why I'm supposed to care that the offspring of the woman who lip-synced the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl nearly three decades ago is dead and why it's suddenly banner headline news. You're supposed to care because it's supposed to be something you care about, because if you care it makes them money. The news isn't about informing you, it's about monetizing your attention span. Tied 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Some thread fodder from my newsfeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 "Secret weapon?"That would be why we have a thread with hundreds of pictures of the thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 "Secret weapon?" That would be why we have a thread with hundreds of pictures of the thing. Looser is obviously a spy or something. That article states the Armata is going to be the world's first unmanned tank. Good luck with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 "Secret weapon?" That would be why we have a thread with hundreds of pictures of the thing. But there was a tarp around the turret! A tarp! The pinnacle of opsec technology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Across the South and in America's trailer parks thousands of top secret war machines are made ready, disguised as IROC Camaros on blocks under blue tarps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Across the South and in America's trailer parks thousands of top secret war machines are made ready, disguised as IROC Camaros on blocks under blue tarps. Those are weapon stockpiles for JADE HELM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 David Frum looks up World War 1 on Wikipedia, clicks a bunch of the links and throws all the random stuff he found against the wall to see what sticks. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/world-war-i-legacy-democracy/394616/ And perhaps I overlooked it, but he talks about America's entrance into World War 1 and doesn't mention unrestricted submarine warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 That's strange, The Atlantic has never gotten anything wrong, before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 That Armata article was terrible. It made me feel actual pain for a moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 What's wrong here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 What's wrong here? The nested Javascript popups? Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 I had my eye on the image they're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted August 23, 2015 Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 I had my eye on the image they're using. Oh that's funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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