Anita Sarkeesian - Assassin's Creed Syndicate Review

 
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Yes. Every day until you like her.

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She likes the game, and cites the fact that it doesn't subjugate women as a positive. Truly a horrible cunt bitch, amirite?
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> Trigger

Already I dislike it.

And no I'm not GOING to ever like her because she wallows in her own cesspit of unchecked facts and loves to drown out any opinions that may or may not ever so slightly disagree with her view on things. Much like forums around the internet.

This bitch never says anything good about games ever. It's always so easy to stay on the sidelines and dislike and pick apart something without being checked yourself. It's ever so telling when she has likes and dislikes removed. Comments I can accept, but THAT? Yeah. She's not the voice of all women, and I hate that she has a title that is even REMOTELY close to such a thing.

This isn't a game review, so much as a social one anyway. If you want a review for a game instead of circle jerking over your privileges, watch other reviews.
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There was literally no reason for people to complain about Unity not having a female playable character.
The reason people made a fuss was because of the made up on the spot excuse Ubisoft used, which was only used to try and not to piss off Internet "feminists" who complain about everything that isn't empowering to women.


 
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This bitch never says anything good about games ever.
...Besides the fact that this is a positive review?
And she has a concurrent video series right now that's all about discussing positive female characters? :-/

Don't look into the abyss, Luci.
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There was literally no reason for people to complain about Unity not having a female playable character.
The reason people made a fuss was because of the made up on the spot excuse Ubisoft used, which was only used to try and not to piss off Internet "feminists" who complain about everything that isn't empowering to women.
Most feminists in gaming aren't looking for "empowerment", though. Just subjectification.


 
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It's all about social discussions rather than the game itself.

I just ran into the trans part and remembered Ubisoft's horrible pandering and making trans/gay characters for the sake of being trans/gay for a statement. Another reason I hate Ubisoft and other game devs pandering.


 
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There was literally no reason for people to complain about Unity not having a female playable character.
The reason people made a fuss was because of the made up on the spot excuse Ubisoft used, which was only used to try and not to piss off Internet "feminists" who complain about everything that isn't empowering to women.
Most feminists in gaming aren't looking for "empowerment", though. Just subjectification.
Not really. I wish that was the case but apparently no inclusion = sexist.


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Evie doesn’t feel like a male character who was a last minute gender swap but like she was developed from the ground up with a strong, capable and spirited personality.
This is the only thing that I'm really iffy on in the review-- I don't like this idea that a person's personality has to be tied to their gender. The thought that came before it describing the twins' personalities, with Evie being collected and Jacob quick to act, makes it kind of seem like she's saying that a woman displaying irrationality is bad writing.

And obviously the whole "trivializing issues by being in a violent AAA game", but I don't think you really stand by that either.


 
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It's all about social discussions rather than the game itself.

I just ran into the trans part and remembered Ubisoft's horrible pandering and making trans/gay characters for the sake of being trans/gay for a statement. Another reason I hate Ubisoft and other game devs pandering.
Pandering is bad, sure. But we wouldn't play games, ever, if they didn't pander to our interests. They're basically all about pandering--so it's just a matter of how subtle you do it.

It's conceivable that a trans character could be introduced into a game without it being blatantly pandering. ie. them mentioning it all the time in every line of dialogue, or having it not be their sole defining characteristic.


 
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"There are many valid concerns around portrayals of violence against women in games because too often such scenarios trivialize the real-world epidemic of gendered abuse."

Because I suppose men are exempt from such abuses? Right.

I need to stop picking apart what she says, because everything this woman says upsets me with nothing but double standards and actually gives feminists a bad name. Feminism is now a days synonymous with tumblr esc types of mindsets.


 
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It's all about social discussions rather than the game itself.

I just ran into the trans part and remembered Ubisoft's horrible pandering and making trans/gay characters for the sake of being trans/gay for a statement. Another reason I hate Ubisoft and other game devs pandering.
Pandering is bad, sure. But we wouldn't play games, ever, if they didn't pander to our interests. They're basically all about pandering--so it's just a matter of how subtle you do it.

It's conceivable that a trans character could be introduced into a game without it being blatantly pandering. ie. them mentioning it all the time in every line of dialogue, or having it not be their sole defining characteristic.
No no, you're trying to justify it by saying that, but no. There is a difference between writing an interesting story/cast of characters and not pandering.

Pandering: gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).

Aka: Make the tumblr idiots feel happy they have a trans person in the game! It's the SAME THING Mass Effect 3 did with Cortez, who was gay simply for the sake of being gay. Those things DEFINE their characters ironically enough (even though labels shouldn't be a thing in a world where people are ever increasingly wanting to be labeled) rather than the actual content of their character. You knew this was going to be the case too when Ubisoft literally announced there was a trans women in it.

Fallout New Vegas put TWO gay people in it. One gay, one lesbian. Did they ever mention ANYTHING about it? Nope. Did those two things define said characters? Absolutely not. In fact unless you actually talked to them about their past/history, it wouldn't even come up. Why? Because it's not what defines them as a character, nor should a sexuality EVER define you for a character. It's a passing thing they VAGUELY mention as they go on about how they ended up where they are, or how they shouldn't be dying.

When people think of Veronica or Gannon, they don't think "Oh it's the lesbian girl/gay guy". Nope, instead you're usually thrown a reply with one who is incredibly smart and an Enclave supporter, and the other who is a funny Brotherhood of Steel chick who throws witty remarks at everything and punches things.

It's that kind of handling that should be how it is, not announcing to the world "HEY WE HAVE GAYS AND TRANS HERE!" Buy hey, Ubisoft are known for simply pandering. Mass Effect 3 with the gay guy simply there to be gay, and the same in in Inquisition with a storyline LITERALLY ABOUT A SON AND FATHER BITCHING OVER HIS SEXUALITY in a world that is threatening to come apart at any instant, so you need to build a fucking army and literally save the entire realm. But nope, I'd rather stay here and listen to Steve cry to his Christian daddy about never being open enough as a child.

It's sick, terrible, annoying, and anyone who supports that kind of inclusion is missing the entire point of progressing into the world today as we know it.



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I promise that will be the last time you see a reply like that in this thread
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Evie doesn’t feel like a male character who was a last minute gender swap but like she was developed from the ground up with a strong, capable and spirited personality.
This is the only thing that I'm really iffy on in the review-- I don't like this idea that a person's personality has to be tied to their gender. The thought that came before it describing the twins' personalities, with Evie being collected and Jacob quick to act, makes it kind of seem like she's saying that a woman displaying irrationality is bad writing.

And obviously the whole "trivializing issues by being in a violent AAA game", but I don't think you really stand by that either.
Yeah no, I don't. I never agreed with her stance on violence in games, and I certainly don't think that trivializes anything.

On your first point, though, I can see where you're coming from. It reminds me of what Christopher Hitchens wrote in some column awhile back about "why women aren't funny," and the only times when women are funny is when they are attempting to "emulate" male humor, or by being ostensibly masculine in general (Sarah Silverman, Roseanne Barr; "dykes, Jews, or butch").

I think what you're trying to say is that there is no such thing as "male" humor--there's just humor, and women who "emulate" male humor aren't emulating male humor--they're just funny women. Would that be a fair analogy?

Humor is independent of gender, as is the personality as a whole?
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You know re-reading that, I randomly CAPITALIZE WORDS at times. That post wasn't directed personally at you Verb (obviously I hope). Just the situation in today's world in general.


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With what, Ms. Vague?

Edit: Nvm, I was provided context.
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On your first point, though, I can see where you're coming from. It reminds me of what Christopher Hitchens wrote in some column awhile back about "why women aren't funny," and the only times when women are funny is when they are attempting to "emulate" male humor, or by being ostensibly masculine in general (Sarah Silverman, Roseanne Barr; "dykes, Jews, or butch").
Well, I think it's more that most people suck at humor-- male and female. That's more obvious in things like stand-up where you can't really do situational humor, but instead it has to be propped up on previously referred statements and other jokes. That, and stand-up comedy has mostly gravitated a select style of humor that, unfortunately, is male dominated because of history.

Basically, I don't think humor is really relatable to personality; personality (should be) faceted and complex, whereas substantial humor can be found in the most simple observations (disregarding complexity). Someone shouldn't be strong and bullheaded just because he's a man, or fragile and manipulative because she's a women; stereotyping is a problem, and it's an issue that people think that negative traits (i.e. irrationality, rudeness, arrogance, manipulation) are "male characterization". If you can't be free to write someone as a person and not just a method to push an agenda (not that agendas are bad, but this delivery of it is), then I can't think of it as any more than simply pandering to an audience.

Now I'm not saying that's what Ubisoft is doing with the twins, but I do think it's an issue with her take-away. If she is a good character, it's not because she's a strong independent woman who don't need no man; it's because she is more than a tool for pushing an agenda, an actual character with natural progression. That is true regardless of sex or gender, with any personality traits.


 
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Now I'm not saying that's what Ubisoft is doing with the twins, but I do think it's an issue with her take-away. If she is a good character, it's not because she's a strong independent woman who don't need no man; it's because she is more than a tool for pushing an agenda, an actual character with natural progression. That is true regardless of sex or gender, with any personality traits.
Is that not what she's saying, though? She wants female characters to be more than female characters--she wants them to be actual characters with natural, human progressions. That's her agenda, as far as I'm able to tell.

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Not ignoring your post--just don't have the time to look over it right now. In class and such.


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Is that not what she's saying, though? She wants female characters to be more than female characters--she wants them to be actual characters with natural, human progressions. That's her agenda, as far as I'm able to tell.
I'm referring to the part where she said that it doesn't feel like a last minute gender swap, implying that there should be some sort of different progression or personality if a character's a male or female. If a character is well written, it shouldn't matter if the character was originally a male or female. Same goes with sexuality.


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Stop with these 'Trigger warnings' everytime you make a thread including Sarkeesian. It creates an unnecessary stigma and almost seems like a meme (considering what counts as one on this website) to me.

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Is that not what she's saying, though? She wants female characters to be more than female characters--she wants them to be actual characters with natural, human progressions. That's her agenda, as far as I'm able to tell.
I'm referring to the part where she said that it doesn't feel like a last minute gender swap, implying that there should be some sort of different progression or personality if a character's a male or female. If a character is well written, it shouldn't matter if the character was originally a male or female. Same goes with sexuality.
Yeah, I think that's what she's saying, though. I don't think that's what she was implying there, exactly--more that, because of the current formula, we've come to expect male/female characters to fall into specific stereotypes, which is her whole problem. It's not that they "should"--it's that it's a pleasant surprise that they don't.


 
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Stop with these 'Trigger warnings' everytime you make a thread including Sarkeesian. It creates an unnecessary stigma and almost seems like a meme (considering what counts as one on this website) to me.

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People get pissy regardless whenever I support feminism, so I'm mocking them by putting a mock trigger warning. That's the only reason I do it, and I will continue to do it.


 
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Not ignoring your post--just don't have the time to look over it right now. In class and such.
Get out of these threads and focus on classes, dummy >:I

That's okay, I'd like to talk later anyway and re-read my post to see if I still feel the same post annoyance.


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Is that not what she's saying, though? She wants female characters to be more than female characters--she wants them to be actual characters with natural, human progressions. That's her agenda, as far as I'm able to tell.
I'm referring to the part where she said that it doesn't feel like a last minute gender swap, implying that there should be some sort of different progression or personality if a character's a male or female. If a character is well written, it shouldn't matter if the character was originally a male or female. Same goes with sexuality.
Yeah, I think that's what she's saying, though. I don't think that's what she was implying there, exactly--more that, because of the current formula, we've come to expect male/female characters to fall into specific stereotypes, which is her whole problem. It's not that they "should"--it's that it's a pleasant surprise that they don't.
It could have been phrased a bit better, if that's that case. I don't like the implication that arises from that wording.


 
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Stop with these 'Trigger warnings' everytime you make a thread including Sarkeesian. It creates an unnecessary stigma and almost seems like a meme (considering what counts as one on this website) to me.

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People get pissy regardless whenever I support feminism, so I'm mocking them by putting a mock trigger warning. That's the only reason I do it, and I will continue to do it.
It always made me cringe since 99% of Tumblrites use "trigger" in the wrong way like everyone here uses cuck.


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It always made me cringe since 99% of Tumblrites use "trigger" in the wrong way like everyone here uses cuck.
Pretty much this.


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It could have been phrased a bit better, if that's that case. I don't like the implication that arises from that wording.
Well, think about it--wouldn't it be silly for a feminist to believe that men should be written as arrogant, stupid, etc.?

Not all feminists are Tumblrite misandric maneaters, you know.


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He is Ainu.

The god of Ainu Mosir, Ae-Oine Kamuy, descendant of Okiku-Rumi, He perishes, a living corpse. The summers day, the white sunlight, unabrushed, ends simply through his breath alone.
It could have been phrased a bit better, if that's that case. I don't like the implication that arises from that wording.
Well, think about it--wouldn't it be silly for a feminist to believe that men should be written as arrogant, stupid, etc.?

Not all feminists are Tumblrite misandric maneaters, you know.
Not saying that are-- just that Anita has a history of not paying any attention to male stigmatization or sexualization, to the point that most gather about her through guilt by silence and association (Literally Who, Jon McIntosh) imply that she isn't exactly against misandry.