She never said that. She's saying that advertising in video games began as such and has changed little. She's talking SPECIFICALLY about video games, not acting like it's the only case.[DOUBLEPOST=1402954980,1402954686][/DOUBLEPOST]I don't, however, like that she mentions the women NPCs in, say, Grand Theft Auto, specifically when there are just as many male characters that you can kill and rob, as well. No male prostitutes, though, so that point still stands.I'm only two minutes in and already have problems with the assertions. She's acting like video games invented the ornamental woman decoration. Well, it's good to know a time traveler went back with video games to invent the chorus line, and pong advertisements got Vanna White her job.
Why? She's not wrong about the misrepresentation of women in the majority of video games.
Actually, in this particular video, it's wrong to call them misrepresentations. Like what you said about GTA. She splices in clips from Sunset Riders because their showgirls are eye candy, but that was a real thing in the west - and it's also a particularly bad example because the game has female enemy mooks who throw dynamite, making them an order of magnitude more dangerous than the male mooks, and there's also the sister of the delightfully tackily named "Chief Scalpem" who convinces the bounty hunters not to kill her brother with absolutely zero sexualization, overt or implied.
It's not my fault her eyebrows look ridiculous.[DOUBLEPOST=1402963000,1402962722][/DOUBLEPOST]I just randomly clicked on her video and gave her 1 minute to try to convince me to watch her video... 19 minutes in or so... apparently games allow you to "kill women" for power-ups and money and showing footage of games like GTA. Undocumented facts galore follow suit. Someone needs to tell her that killing ANYONE in GTA gives you this. But nooooooooo.... let's assume "I know what I'm talking about".
If she were doing this for free, I'd say you're being cynical. But she did get a metric fuckton of money to do these.
She pulls out the victim card at the drop of a hat. I know women get more, and worse, hate than men on the internet, but she's antagonistic in how she states a lot of her tweets, and then calls it being attacked when anyone disagrees with her, even if it's not out-of-line. I stopped following her because she's so over-dramatic.
Speaking as someone who still follows her, I don't see that. I see her posting a lot of positive messages or excitement about games. Almost primarily about female representation, which is to be expected, but it's almost always positive from what I've seen.
That's extra cinematic!
She reminds me of Sybil Pandemic from the Sam & Max games.[DOUBLEPOST=1403071729][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh my, Miss Pauling is voiced by Ashley Burch.
Oh man I thought she stopped making videos since she disappeared from the gametrailers website. Welp there goes my free time this week.
No, they still make videos occasionally. The thing is that her brother works for Gearbox and she does voice acting now, so they don't happen nearly as often.
