I found a good explanation of why this is the case, and a work-around if you have Chrome. I'll try to remember to find and post it when I get home.
I'd like to see this work around. Something is certainly going on, youtube is unwatchable for me now. I just can't tell if it's youtube itself doing the throttling, or if my isp is being a jackass.
It's YouTube. Or at least, in part. I'm not going to rule out IPs as jackasses. That seems reasonable.
GasBandit
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Another one of those funny heineken commercials... this time... Several randomly selected men could win two tickets to the UEFA Champions League final in London this Saturday if they can convince their girlfriends to let them buy a set of $2,899 (£1,899) plastic stadium seats. Oh, and they can't mention the tickets or they're disqualified.
Youtube only works on Chrome for me. Funny seeing as how Google OWNS youtube. What an odd coincidence!
This is true
Heh.
GasBandit
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Gregory Brothers in a non-songify non-autotune joint, feeling the pain of the club DJ.
figmentPez
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Helicopter alights on a freeway guard rail:
figmentPez
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Convos With My 2 Year Old - EPISODE 1
On YouTube, chose "I'm feeling lucky" without any search criteria. It returns a list of 10 random videos. First one's a Korean Starcraft II ad - kinda funny, kinda meh.
The second one?
Qualifies as awesome in my book.
*edit* Apparently it doesn't return random videos from all over the net by some sort of matching algorithm or whatever - unless there's something weird going on, considering I got 4 videos I recognized from my history dive earlier today. However, for the life of me I can't remember when I was listening to this much Miles Davis - I got another video of over an hour of him. Can't say I mind, though, and it blends well with the 45 minutes of Chopin I got too. Rammstein, Celtic Woman, Madonna, and some Dutch "wrong" classics filled out the list. I'm actually mostly okay with that random grouping
The second one?
Qualifies as awesome in my book.
*edit* Apparently it doesn't return random videos from all over the net by some sort of matching algorithm or whatever - unless there's something weird going on, considering I got 4 videos I recognized from my history dive earlier today. However, for the life of me I can't remember when I was listening to this much Miles Davis - I got another video of over an hour of him. Can't say I mind, though, and it blends well with the 45 minutes of Chopin I got too. Rammstein, Celtic Woman, Madonna, and some Dutch "wrong" classics filled out the list. I'm actually mostly okay with that random grouping
It works in Burnout...
GasBandit
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Much as I love Burnout, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to try it in meatspace. I mean, I don't get tips on women from Leisure Suit Larry, either. That'd be only slightly less dangerous.
figmentPez
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Damsel in Distress: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games
Hopefully this video will stay up and viewable. It's already been taken off of Youtube once due to malicious abuse of the reporting system.
Hopefully this video will stay up and viewable. It's already been taken off of Youtube once due to malicious abuse of the reporting system.
I don't disagree with her premise, it's no secret that the writing of female characters in games is very often incredibly immature. Hell, pop fiction in general, really. But some of her examples feel very weak. Off the top of my head, implying that ICO is sexist and that the character of Yorda is there to act as a damsel in distress to fulfill a male power fantasy is rather short sighted, especially when, instead of a powerful male hero, the protagonist is a young boy that's just as scared.
Angel in Borderlands 2 is another weak example. Yes, she fulfills the trope in that she's held against her will and has to be killed 'for her own good,' but that game is full of powerful female characters that are just as capable as any of the men. In fact, the player character could very well be one of those, so that scene doesn't always play out with a man having to kill her.
lets see, strong female characters in bl2, Gaige and Maya for player characters. for NPC's we have Tina, Moxxi, and Lilith(yes she gets taken prisoner as a plot point but there is plenty of evidence its all a matter of convenience)
North_Ranger
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To me, the big problem is that Anita Sarkesian's style of argumentation seems to be a rehash of the old and debunked "violent video games make you kill people" argument. Okay, she throws in a half-ass admittance of that at the end, but she just frickin' spent the entire video arguing that video games make it okay for you to slap your girlfriend around for the bitch's own good.
Plus, I gotta say she seems to be of the mind that if anything, ANYTHING bad happens to a female character, it's automatically the Patriarchy puttin' a good woman down. It's almost like she wants women to be treated as untouchables in gaming.
Plus, I gotta say she seems to be of the mind that if anything, ANYTHING bad happens to a female character, it's automatically the Patriarchy puttin' a good woman down. It's almost like she wants women to be treated as untouchables in gaming.
Whoa, that was long-winded in order to say very little. I thought these were supposed to be indepth analysis videos? She literally spends the first 9/10s listing examples. I know idiots give her a ton of sexist shit (which really only arms her for her Ted Talks where she says very little) but she should be taking shit for how shallow her points are, when they exist.
Game developers are lazy and mostly male, surprise, same tropes get bandied about.
I can't remember if I posted this when her first episode went up, but here is a good rebuttal: http://www.filibustercartoons.com/i...ropes-vs-women-episode-1-damsels-in-distress/
Particularly his end point, which is that... does she have a point?
Particularly his end point, which is that... does she have a point?
Whoa.
figmentPez
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I thought the point was obvious, to bring attention to a common trope in video games and spark discussion over the social ramifications of that trope.
I haven't played ICO, but isn't the boy, however scared and young he may be, the only one who picks up a weapon and takes action? Seems like that still fulfills the trope. He may not be muscle-bound or grim'n'gritty, but he's still the one taking action to save a helpless damsel.
So what? People throw money at much less socially relevant things. That budget is for 12 topics (this is only part 2 of the first), a classroom curriculum, printing DVDs, etc. The Kickstarter funding completed nearly a year ago, and only two videos have come out thus far. I don't think it's fair to judge the entire series on less than 5% of the completed project. Depending on what's actually being done for the rest of these videos, $160,000 is either a lot of money, or only a drop in the bucket. If this is just funding one person to watch Let's Plays until they find the clips she needs, that's a cushy job for a few years. However, if there's actual sociology studies going on that will come to light later, $160,000 can be spent pretty darn fast.
Yorda is completely helpless in the game, but no Ico isn't sacred or any such thing. He's born with horns, which everyone in that world believes is a bad omen. He's locked away in fortress to be killed later. When he escapes his cell, he finds Yorda and they attempt to escape together.
I see your point. I just wanted to clarify that Ico isn't so special, he's very hated by people, even his own family.