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I've never rolled an Undeprived class so I wonder what its really like. I've only ever used pyromancers, warriors, bow-hunter, and faith characters in the Souls games.

Thank you very much, I appreciate the feedback.

I just linked an article written by Erik Kain at Forbes that does a much better job of going in-depth with the issues that have come to light the past two weeks. It's a pretty fantastic piece and is quite reasonable and shines light on the issue much better than I did in my piece. If you'd like to check that out it's definitely worth-while. I'll put it here for you as well if you haven't read it already:

GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games

Thanks for linking that, James. That's probably the best and most reasonable article I've read so far on this whole thing. I'm going to link that in my blog. That piece goes into much more detail and I really appeciate the way he approached the issue.

Thanks for reading, Alex!

If you'd like to read my whole piece at some point, you should, there's no poop-slinging lol. The whole point of this piece is to step back to the core issues and refocus on what's important. People on all sides of this have left behind what was important in the first place.

Thanks, Matt.

I'm looking forward to your next blog!

I remember that, it was pretty gross when Quinn used that opportunity to plug the game. There are games out there that have tackled depression better than Depression Quest, but that game is still valuable, it helped a lot of people and raised awareness for some people. I don't know Quinn personally, but what few things I do know about her lead to me believe I might not want to be chummy with her, but not liking her so much is different than the witch hunt, and also different from critiquing Depression Quest.

Sorry the piece was so long. It really could've been broken up into two pieces, feminism and then industry transparency, and might've made more sense that way, but I tried my best to cut things and make it into a single blog that was as short as I could muster.

I agree with all of that. I didn't elaborate on it in the piece, I only mentioned in one line how I questioned her research methodology, but other that that I didn't expand at all.

I don't agree with everything in her presentations and the points you just made are some reasons why. When she simply says things like, "All I want is more inclusiveness, better games, better stories." it's easy to get behind that general sentiment, but once we get into the finer points of what she's actually researching and the conclusions she's coming to on specific games and characters her points start getting really weak, in many cases at least. Last year I rememeber remarking that it's a little unfortunate that Sarkeesian seems to be the only face of women's issues in gaming, and clearly the most widely heard voice.

The issues in the broad sense are incredibly important and relevant, but some people who only ever listen to Sarkeesian and disagree with her seem to have written them off completely and decided to ignore women's issues. That's why I want to take the conversation back to the larger focus and get back to the important stuff to remind people that there are actually real problems to address at the core of it and benefits that could be had by discussing it all.

Dark Souls 2 so far only because that's the newest game I played. That probably won't last long with Alien Isolation, Dragon Age 3, Far Cry 4, Shadow of Mordor, and Pillars of Eternity all coming very soon this year. Not to mention Destiny.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned South Park: The Stick of Truth yet. Everybody all over this site and across the gaming world in general adored that game and immediately put it up as a GOTY contender, but since it was much earlier in the year people must be having a brain fart about it (pun intended).

Spongey enemies are the worst. I wonder if that Defiance tv show is still going? I don't know if it got renewed, I haven't heard about it or seen any Sci-Fi Channel advertisements for it. Granted I don't watch that channel much to start with so I might just be out of the loop.

That was the right kind of sass to start the morning off here, the first sentence especially was pretty excellent.

That's not really fair on my part, I don't mean to laugh at your situation. Jokes aside I think it's ridiculous how high those prices are. Nintendo have some great games but none of them are worth that much to me. Over here prices don't depreciate much at all but we still have much lower starting prices than what you're forced to deal with. Those prices you're seeing are kinda nuts.