The trouble with video games isn't the violence. It's that most of the characters are dicks

[microrobert]

The trouble with video games isn't the violence. It's that most of the characters are dicks

Every pixel in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 oozes machismo, but these games are inherently wussy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/13/charlie-brooker-modern-warfare-3?CMP=twt_gu

[Flintlocke]

The trouble with this article is that it's written by an asshole in a newspaper that wouldn't even serve as a cum rag.

[SwordoftheVistula]

lol the pic of the author should explain all:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2007/09/28/charlie_brooker_140x140.jpg

[Peasant]

You know what I don't like about Call of Duty? I don't get to play as the evil Russian Ultranationalists (http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Ultranationalists).

[Flintlocke]

I love Makarov, he's such a ruthless bastard!

[Raikaswinþs]

problem here only commercial crappy games are taken into account.

Here a list of awesome and gender-friendly games:

Beyond good and evil

http://www.mywiinews.com/wp-content/uploads/bge1.jpg

The longest journey

http://www.longestjourney.com/assets/img/screenshots/normal/03.jpg

Another World

http://pixelate.de/assets/another_world.jpg

[Beorn]

Charlie Brooker has a very admirable English trait: Satire with a hint of cunt.

I have loved watching his contribution to the world. And yes, the characters of most games these days are dicks, played by dicks and talked over for boring, endless hours by people who should be classified as 'dicks' but don't actually know that their dicks exist beyond one function.

I swear, the day they invent a realistic virtual world of these sort of games, the world will stop, have a dip, readjust and get on with life as the millions of dicks get absorbed into the matrix to masturbate whilst not noticing the the blatant self-dedication to Lawnmower Man....From retard to MASTER Lvl 9001!!

[Raskolnikov]

cWuteFLUPSY

Funny thing is there were like 3-4 ads even gayer than that for this game (with the soundtrack "stroke it"). I didn't get if it was intentional or not.

[Jake Featherston]

...yes, the characters of most games these days are dicks, played by dicks and talked over for boring, endless hours by people who should be classified as 'dicks' but don't actually know that their dicks exist beyond one function.

I'm pretty sure they use them for both urination and masturbation. http://www.thephora.net/forum/images/smilies/nono.gif

[Flintlocke]

He's a cunt no doubt about that, but I don't see any satire there, he didn't like the game and so he decided to write and endless dribble without a point. He could have said that he didn't like the game, plain and simple.

[Incal]

Another World

http://pixelate.de/assets/another_world.jpg


Now that's a classic.

[Jake Featherston]

He's a cunt no doubt about that, but I don't see any satire there, he didn't like the game and so he decided to write and endless dribble without a point. He could have said that he didn't like the game, plain and simple.

I think he thought he was making a statement about a general trend within this seemingly endless array of military simulation games to be released within recent years. And based on my limited experience in such matters (I don't really play such games), I'd say he succeeded in making a relatively valid point. The possibility he may otherwise be a dumb, faggy cluck does not detract from his being right here.

Although he way, WAY over-played the "homoerotic" angle. Liberal-types always do that ie., they can't conceive of masculinity outside of a context of homosexuality (which I admit is a pretty weird way to look at the world, but then, that's why they're liberals).

[Hevneren]

The longest journey

http://www.longestjourney.com/assets/img/screenshots/normal/03.jpg

Norway FTW! :thumb001:

[Flintlocke]

Although he way, WAY over-played the "homoerotic" angle. Liberal-types always do that ie., they can't conceive of masculinity outside of a context of homosexuality (which I admit is a pretty weird way to look at the world, but then, that's why they're liberals).

The cult of masculinity is as old as time itself, of course liberals cannot understand it, liberalism doesn't have a place for courage and heroism, their effeminate brains just can't deal with it.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I think the author is projecting his fantasies onto others.