John Bilbo
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Now that's a cool poster!They should take it it to there next level and have 2 MOMS!
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The 'daddening' of video games
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Captain Toad
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I mean he is literally white. White and red.
IAmAnAgnostic
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*Ahem.*
White ppl be bad. (No, I will not bother to look if the people I am talking about are even white, lol why research)
That'll be a thousand dollars, and my Master's Degree thank you.
The absolute state of "Academia" in the West, tell you what.
White ppl be bad. (No, I will not bother to look if the people I am talking about are even white, lol why research)
That'll be a thousand dollars, and my Master's Degree thank you.
The absolute state of "Academia" in the West, tell you what.
Shmunter
Member
Nah, need to even the score for all the sexy wahmen depictions throughout the ages, etc.
Time for the ladies to rub one out
Kev Kev
Member
how are they supposed to save the world when theyre busy cooking me a delicious thanksgiving dinner?
Rambotito
Member
Isn't that the lady who turned Carol Danvers into a vegetable?author of article
clearly needs a DADDY
Kdad
Member
And yet somehow...a thesis is born. Higher education is a fucking crock (mostly)
K2D
Banned
Clearly, that lack of good father figures is at the root of the problem here..
'Daddening'.. Talk about creating 'problematic topics'.
'Daddening'.. Talk about creating 'problematic topics'.
BlackTron
Member
From the very first few sentences it makes no sense.
Those days are GONE, because out of a sea of thousands of games, SEVERAL games have this?
People do not even think about what they are writing down.
Shubh_C63
Member
The daddening of video games obviously happened because now we have a majority of players being actual dads. Sony is sacrificing their entire genre roster to this market who has much much more money to burn.
I always used to think the veterans making these amazing games always say Zelda, Mario or some famous game of their time that motivated them towards gaming career. Now believe the new crop of game developers will come who will tout Minecraft, PUBG or Fortnite as "classic" that made them go into game development. I am fine with minecraft but still shake at this thought.
I always used to think the veterans making these amazing games always say Zelda, Mario or some famous game of their time that motivated them towards gaming career. Now believe the new crop of game developers will come who will tout Minecraft, PUBG or Fortnite as "classic" that made them go into game development. I am fine with minecraft but still shake at this thought.
BigBooper
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She's clearly never heard of Jr. Pac Man, Donkey Kong Jr., or Jumpman Jr.U of A master's student examines the 'daddening' of video games
www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org
Gone are the days of the lone protagonist in video games, fighting his way toward glory or to save the love of his life.
Now, several video games centre around a rugged father figure whose sole mission in life is to protect his offspring.
This new storyline is evident in video games like Red Dead Redemption, The Walking Dead and The Last of Us. The live-action series of The Last of Us is currently being filmed in Edmonton and Calgary.
Kaitlyn Ensley, a digital humanities student at the U of A, had this new storyline as a subject of interest for her master's thesis.
Ensley said she believes what video-game journalist Stephen Totilo called the "daddening" of video games stems from developers' own personal experiences.
The fathers in all these video games share common features; straight, white, brawny men — a consequence, Ensley said, of game developer leads being straight, white men.
The dads often have traumatic pasts that stem from their careers in the army, police or other militia.
They seek redemption while putting their lives on the line for their only child in a dangerous post-apocalyptic or dystopian — or some sociopolitical-disaster — world.
There is also a redemption arc where the dad figure is trying to redeem a past mistake, sometimes to do with his kids, Ensley said.
In The Last of Us, the protagonist takes on responsibility for a young girl after his own daughter dies.
Mothers are almost always absent.
More at link...
Kdad
Member
Well...CBC talking to a digital humanities masters student gets you this level of reporting...
Kdad
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All white men in costumes....
Topher
Gold Member
And that student will probably owe 100s of thousands of dollars in student loans that she will never pay because the only job they could get was in a coffee shop. Nothing wrong with working in a coffee shop, but if you've got a PhD working in a coffee then you are failing at life.
/rant
Swift_Star
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Several? Are there more than two games that does this? What about the first Silent Hill game? Hyperbole at its finest.
Wildebeest
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I can see it. Third-person action game about a buff dad who has to kill ten thousand generic dudes to protect his kid is the new Oscar bait of the gaming industry.
kiphalfton
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I feel offended by devs not representing dad's accurately (i.e. fat, slow, and/or possibly balding).
recursive
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I have all that plus the 12 below the belt.
DeepEnigma
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Clearly lacked a masculine father figure.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Its not fair.
On another note, who cares about a masters thesis?
On another note, who cares about a masters thesis?
Punished Miku
Gold Member
If Metroid Dread was made in the west, then it'd be about a 49 year old Samus trying to raise her witty, back-talking Metroid baby.
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Don’t give anyone ideas.
Cyberpunkd
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Cyberpunkd
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BigBeauford
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Thought this was going to be an article about the rise of popularity of roguelikes; a genre of games convenient for us dads who only get 30 mins or less to play games at a time.
Of fucking course it was about some bullshit.
Of fucking course it was about some bullshit.
Honey Bunny
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Yeh, dudes fucking rock
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
More cultural division in the great divide & conquer scheme.
Tarin02543
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Perhaps Mario is the father of Princess Peach? We were wrong all along.
DeepEnigma
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
TIL that Kratos wasn't born the color of ice. I should probably play GoW sometime.
BattleScar
Member
Its almost like the Gen X kids who grew up playing games in the 90's are now very likely to be parents, and games where you're protecting a child is more relatable to them.
TheInfamousKira
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-be darker skinned female
-go to college
-danger hair
-write about common archetype/trope/thing
-notice that white people aren't a minority
-common people do common thing
-outrage
-????
-profit. So much profit.
-go to college
-danger hair
-write about common archetype/trope/thing
-notice that white people aren't a minority
-common people do common thing
-outrage
-????
-profit. So much profit.
So are straight-up racist comments allowed on Gaf or...because of course you would never quote the name of the countless white feminists or whatever behind those articles right?Article by Kashmala Fida Mohatarem
Mossybrew
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Or I'm like, shit, I don't want to parent or protect anyone in my games, I have to parent enough in real life, I don't wanna do that on my time off!
Anyway it's a dumb premise, there are so many games released these days it would be easy to cherry-pick a few examples and shit out an article calling out a "trend" for clicks.
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Quasicat
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My ex-girlfriend’s college roommate majored in “Post Modern Female Thought”. She got pissed when I asked her which fast food restaurant she hoped to work at someday. Twenty years later, she works at a Culver’s.
Velius
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Also subjecting it to trans-metroid surgery and posting it on Federation Force Twitter
Velius
Banned
Well you bitch like a feminist so I'm quoting you.
Nothing racist about what I said, quit your lactating
Kev Kev
Member
calm down bud. all he's trying to say, is that its really fucking hard to shoot a gun while wearing oven mitts
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Kdad
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Its not an article being shit out...it's a digital humanities masters fucking thesis...
MrJTeera
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RE Village came close.
Your point?
Kdad
Member
That it's a deeper issue than shitty click bait articles when drivel like this can be considered masters level research.