Don’t work for free for rich people. Seriously. Don’t don’t don’t. Even if you can afford to, you’re fucking over the labor market for other creators. Haggling hard for money is actually a beneficial act for other freelancers, because it is a fight against the race to the bottom that’s happening online.
(via mollycrabapple)
Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering contentThis article is heartbreaking. And true.
There is a reason I throttled back on doing a lot of creative gaming content a few years ago. And why I still avoid taking some jobs in the gaming world when they’re offered to me. And why, when we have a female host on any of our Geek and Sundry gaming shows, we have to monitor the comments on YouTube extra, to remove the many comments that are offensive and pollute our community’s spirit of equality. Because I hate that shit.
There is an endemic acceptance in the gamer world that “well, it comes with the territory” when a woman receives threats and harassment and the hateful anonymous internet dialogue is focused on her body and whether they would “do” her or not. I don’t know why this became okay. It’s a vocal minority that has been given way too much power over the industry dialogue, and I am so happy to see more and more articles like this shining the light on what reasonable gamer men and women have been conned into accepting as a given.
NOTHING is a given in this world. And frankly, it taints the art form we so love and keeps it back from becoming more respected and more diverse to not at least TRY to fight it. Gaming deserves more than complacency in this area.
Even posting this link will cause me to receive hateful Tumblr PMs. I can always tell when something I write gets linked on certain places on the internet (like 4 Chan or a few other forums of troll-hood), because I’ll immediately get dozens of hate mails along the veins of what is posted in this article.
Well, I’m a lucky one to be prominent enough to have 10 supporters for every hater. I mostly feel sorry for girls and women who aren’t in my position, who may just give up on gaming when they’re too beaten down to fight anymore.
We have to change that. For the good of what we love doing, gamers! Okay, back to work :)
I rarely use this to just blog. I’m going to just blog now, so you can all just ignore this if it’s not to your liking.
Warning. Contents under pressure.
The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working from before you were born and doesn’t stop until you sit down to write a song.
by dmuth
Like the Samurai’s mempo, the uniforms of many of today’s Special Forces units play dual roles. Not only do they protect the wearer’s face and conceal his identity, they terrify the pants off of the enemy. Take the newly unveiled uniforms of Taiwan’s Special Forces for example. They look like something out of Army of Two.Carlyle soldiers protect their identity to better protect you…
by uelandir
in one of the latest episodes of Feminist Frequency, Anita describes a hypothetical video game property to demonstrate exactly how easy it is to come up with one that isn’t exploitative or sexist but still engaging and unique and surprisingly, it isn’t that difficult. She created “The Last Princess", which can be seen here by itself.
But anyway, it ended up being like, super awesome! I watched this in the episode and immediately I was ilke, why isn’t this a game??? It sounds incredible! Like a stealth version of LoZ with some old school Final Fantasy thrown in! There needs to be fanart. This has to be real. So that’s what I did.
I expanded on the designs found in the animatic and added a little bit, to create a more complex and conceptual design(not that they weren’t already, but I understand the entire thing was an ‘example’ to begin with). I was thinking… somewhere in between Medieval Scandinavian dress, some Celtic themes but a majority of a old Persian/Indian sort of style using Mediterranean-themed colours. I’d want to have the soundtrack be sort of jazzy but upbeat and energetic, like this. I think it turned out! hahaha I sort of over-thought it I guess, I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious :B
AMAZING fan art for The Legend of the Last Princess. I absolutely love it!
(via femfreq)
Themed poster for a developers’ conference in Toronto, Canada.
The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I,…
