$100,000 raised for bus monitor

[rah]

I expect to see a few copycat type videos that will attempt to cash in also. I feel sorry for everyone's grandma at this point. Let's add some violence to ours to make it more deserving.

[Jon Miller]

I think that people go after just one heart felt story or something, and then go overboard.

I saw this about another kick starter:

http://i.imgur.com/E2B7r.jpg

JM

[Imran Siddiqui]

I saw this about another kick starter:

http://i.imgur.com/E2B7r.jpg

JM

Crappy picture. We don't know what the Kickstarters are for, or what the perks are for either.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

what´s a bus monitor

[Imran Siddiqui]

I did some research on the dumb Kickstarter picture:

Brian Banks, which is now FUNDED, was a documentary on his life:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681576010/the-brian-banks-story?ref=live

The perks are the regular movie perks (a tshirt with the movie, the film, etc etc).

Anita Sarkeesian is doing a documentary on Tropes vs. Women in video games:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games?ref=live

The perks involve digital downloads of the video series.

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I'd rather back Sarkeesian's project. It sounds waaaay more interesting.

[Al B. Sure!]

Imran, that feminist **** sounds stupid. Video games are misogynist. STFU.

[Jon Miller]

I did some research on the dumb Kickstarter picture:

Brian Banks, which is now FUNDED, was a documentary on his life:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681576010/the-brian-banks-story?ref=live

The perks are the regular movie perks (a tshirt with the movie, the film, etc etc).

Anita Sarkeesian is doing a documentary on Tropes vs. Women in video games:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games?ref=live

The perks involve digital downloads of the video series.

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I'd rather back Sarkeesian's project. It sounds waaaay more interesting.

There was no reason to way overfund Sarkeesian's project.

People just wanted to make a statement.

I actually think that Banks issue is the more relevant one (although I also would probably rather watch Sarkessian's, but it is worth ~10k not >100k.).

My point is that people hear about something, and then say 'I want to make a statement there too...'.

Economists should study this!

JM

[Al B. Sure!]

The video game thing is ****ing stupid. I don't remember seeing a single woman in Call of Duty MW3, let alone some scantily-clad one to be saved.

Are women oversexualized in games with exaggerated features? Maybe. But so are men. Games as diverse as Gears of War to Starcraft portray super-muscular men.

[Imran Siddiqui]

There was no reason to way overfund Sarkeesian's project.

People just wanted to make a statement.

Do you understand how Kickstarter works? If you don't fund the project, you don't get the perks (ie, you don't get high-res version of the series). Most people fund Kickstarter projects for the perks themselves, not because they think its an important project.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imran, that feminist **** sounds stupid. Video games are misogynist. STFU.

I can see why you are so successful with the ladies.

[giblets]

The video game thing is ****ing stupid. I don't remember seeing a single woman in Call of Duty MW3, let alone some scantily-clad one to be saved.

Are women oversexualized in games with exaggerated features? Maybe. But so are men. Games as diverse as Gears of War to Starcraft portray super-muscular men.

How is that the same as portraying women as having massive tits and wearing almost nothing? Men look more heroic if they are muscular. I don't think it has anything to do with sex. Don't be so dumb...

[Al B. Sure!]

Big breasts on a woman... big shoulders and arms on a man... what's the difference? If you don't see the sexual implications of big shoulders and arms, let's ask b etor what she thinks of them?

[giblets]

You are very obtuse...

[loinburger]

There are many video games in which a person with big arms and shoulders will be at an advantage, e.g. fighting games, war games, etc. There are very few video games in which a person with big breasts and no clothes will be at an advantage, unless the object of the game is to get ****ed.

[Al B. Sure!]

Anyway, how many games really portray women like that?

Best to look at the best-selling games because they have the greatest exposure.

360 games:
Kinect Adventures: I don't know; but I doubt it
Call of Duty Black Ops: Nope
Halo 3: Yes
Call of Duty: MW2: nope
Gears of War: I guess Anya's military uniform is tight in the original but she's completely covered and you rarely see her anyway; In Gears 3, she wears metal armor and is decidedly unsexual


PC:
Sims: Nope
Lemmings: Nope
Sims 2: Nope
Starcraft: Original nope but Starcraft 2 yes.
Half-Life: Nope