Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

Him face

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)

please stop this

can't reblog hard enough

in case anyone wonders where my icon is from :B

FINALLY! Golden Pair Ring! XD

AMEN

oh my god.

I feel... at peace. Vindicated somehow. Like after fourteen years someone in marketing said ‘you know what, you were right.”

Why Valve are amazing

Last year I was playing through the HL2:E2 commentary mode, and while I was having a fantastic time I noticed that whenever the team mentioned the gamer in terms of personal pronouns, it was always a ‘he’. I started to feel a bit alienated, like I was in a space I didn’t belong (again, because it’s often like this in gaming worlds. No girls on the internet, y'know) I thought it was a shame because Valve has been great on the ladyfront in general with characters like Alyx and GLaDOS and employing folks like Makani in our loose community. So I thought it was a bit odd that anyone who wasn’t a ‘he’ wasn’t addressed by the devs, even if it was simple grammar and a small point of contention. I felt like saying ‘hey, I’m here too! A lot of us non-‘he’s’ are here too, please include us! I know you know we’re here!’

I emailed Gabe, because I’d read that he reads each of his emails (mighty impressive considering their sheer volume alone). I was delighted not only to recieve a reply from Gabe, but Marc Laidlaw as well and they took me seriously. Marc seemed to take it upon himself to start a war against the grammar police; I was just thrilled that I wasn’t ignored or dismissed. In a gaming world where Penny Arcade fervently defend rape jokes and the likes of EA’s ‘sin to win’ contest exist, this is a big deal to me. While I knew Valve was awesome I think I underestimated their awesomeness.

What was awesome was playing Portal 2 (awesome enough in and of itself) and then turning on the commentary mode to hear about 'Project Lil’. I’m Lil. Marc thanked me in game for writing them that letter. I couldn’t quite believe it, and I was so stunned and honoured. My favourite game, the advertising and concept art of which I’ve been consuming voraciously since it started… and I’d played a tiny part in it. Inclusive grammar mattered so much to me that I wrote in about it, and it mattered so much to them that they made a little movement to make their games accessible to everyone.

Thankyou Gabe and Marc and Valve, you’re truly the best.

Oh, so that developer commentary node talking about “project lil” wasn’t a joke, then. Someone actually pulled this shit and Valve listened to them.

TIL I guess.

Assuming, you know, #thatHappened.

> In a gaming world where Penny Arcade fervently defend rape jokes

They made a joke about someone ignoring rape, which was portrayed as morally reprehensible. That was the crux of the joke. The whole point. How does a joke that goes “ignoring rape is wrong, and good people shouldn’t ignore it” going to support “rape culture”?

I’ve seen people say jokes about Nazis are only 'acceptable’ if they’re making fun of the Nazis. Here we have a joke about rape erasure that made fun of someone ignoring rape, and people still complained.

Oh, and Penny Arcade very clearly said that they do not condone rape, rape is wrong, and their comic was not intended to condone rape. So they responded to feedback and criticism.

Then people yelled at them for literally months on end. At one point, someone said Gabe chose his art stream music just to spite the complainers. Because somewhere in his two hour stream, he played one song by Tori Amos. A rape victim.

So when OP acts like PA just ignored what people had to say, it seems a tad odd.

https://zaewen.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/project-lil-thinking-with-portals-and-inclusivity/

>Valve was already off to a great start in the Portal series with their handling of Chell’s character. Having a female character that just was a woman without making a big fuss about it, either through sexualizing her or hyping up the fact that she was a woman, let female gamers experience the (sadly) revolutionary idea that female characters could just be normal, default characters.

This was a surprise to literally no one. Lara Croft existed. Samus Aran existed. Various JRPG protagonists. You wrote this two years after Bayonetta came out. Three years after Left 4 Dead, two after the sequel. Mirror’s Edge.

>For once, the person holding the gun wasn’t some random white guy (like it is in almost every other FPS game),

Like Bad Company 2? Halo Reach? Metro 2033? Bioshock 2? Red Steel 2? All of those are from 2010 the year before you wrote this.

>Add to this Project Lil and Valve has taken the (again, sadly) revolutionary step of being the first major game company to explicitly include women in the same ways that men get by default.

This is not only wrong, this is critically wrong, for reasons I’ve explained. I’m not sure if you honestly didn’t know what you were talking about, or you ignored it. I hope it was the former.

@gamergate-news

Fairly significant addition to the Penny Arcade bit, they had to take the comic in question down after recieving legitimate threats against the lives of their children.

MRAs are 7 years late to the party?

For starters, I’m not the owner of the blog you’ve linked. Though I agree with it.  Your examples Bayonetta and Lara Croft, like a good majority of video game characters are highly sexualised. It’s nice to play female characters who simply exist as women without hypersexualisation or a backstory as deep as ‘romantic interest’ or ‘whose death/kidnap furthers the plot’. There are great games like Mirror’s Edge & L4D but over the decades of video game history I would think the exceptions prove the rule.

I don’t intend to go back over 7 years of Penny Arcade history, though they did defend their rape joke. They made and sold merch out of it as a ‘fuck you’, if that’s not defensive I don’t know what is. I don’t particularly care for picking apart the intent of a shitty comic but when your reaction to a bunch of people you hurt with your misplaced joke is to make merch out of it, that’s a defensive and asshole move. (So is threatening kids lives, but tangential to the issue at hand, like if you want the gaming death threats olympics go elsewhere)