Comments on: Video game fans prove that they aren’t racist by hurling racist slurs http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:19:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Cee Cee Marie http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-58604 Cee Cee Marie Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:00:15 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-58604 I'm black myself and will not drag this out much all I have to say is....."WHOOPTY FUCKING DOO!!!" I'm tired of my fellow black people playing victim all the goddamn time! The only ones who got victimized are our great grandparents and beyond! We have no idea what they went through. Stop bitching about nowdays, we have it sooo fucking good! I've killed sooo many white zombies my entire RE gaming life, and now he's in Africa. BOO HOO!! Get over it, when it comes out, I'm lighting their black asses up if they're trying to kill me, just as quick as I lit their white asses up in the others! ^_^ So I drug it out :-/ One complaint,,,,,,where the hell are the black women in video games, and yes there are fine black women. Black, White,Asian,Mexican.....a zombie is a zombie.....in the end.....all they want is BRAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNSSSS!!!!!! >:-F I’m black myself and will not drag this out much all I have to say is…..”WHOOPTY FUCKING DOO!!!”
I’m tired of my fellow black people playing victim all the goddamn time! The only ones who got victimized are our great grandparents and beyond! We have no idea what they went through. Stop bitching about nowdays, we have it sooo fucking good! I’ve killed sooo many white zombies my entire RE gaming life, and now he’s in Africa. BOO HOO!! Get over it, when it comes out, I’m lighting their black asses up if they’re trying to kill me, just as quick as I lit their white asses up in the others! ^_^
So I drug it out :-/

One complaint,,,,,,where the hell are the black women in video games, and yes there are fine black women.

Black, White,Asian,Mexican…..a zombie is a zombie…..in the end…..all they want is BRAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNSSSS!!!!!! >:-F

]]> By: Ben http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-47084 Ben Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:11:56 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-47084 It's always annoying when people not only insist on making raging jackasses of themselves, but decide that they will represent an entire culture and make pronouncements on behalf of it. Here's something I was kicking around though, how much different would the situation be if the protag was black as well? if the guy shooting those zombies was a stranded Kenyan soldier trying to fight his way back to his base? That actually sounds like it would be interesting, but would people then start thinking of all the crimes associated with militias and so forth in Africa? Is there really a way to present the mowing down of an African village and have it not be borderline offensive? When you kill thousands of faceless, mostly white enemies in a game are you able to add an extra level of distance because you're not used to seeing white people die in massive numbers? Do those shots of the guy gunning down the zombies have an added effect because it feels more like a repeat of all the networks report on Africa? It’s always annoying when people not only insist on making raging jackasses of themselves, but decide that they will represent an entire culture and make pronouncements on behalf of it.

Here’s something I was kicking around though, how much different would the situation be if the protag was black as well? if the guy shooting those zombies was a stranded Kenyan soldier trying to fight his way back to his base? That actually sounds like it would be interesting, but would people then start thinking of all the crimes associated with militias and so forth in Africa? Is there really a way to present the mowing down of an African village and have it not be borderline offensive?

When you kill thousands of faceless, mostly white enemies in a game are you able to add an extra level of distance because you’re not used to seeing white people die in massive numbers? Do those shots of the guy gunning down the zombies have an added effect because it feels more like a repeat of all the networks report on Africa?

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-47007 Kyso Kisaen Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:37:07 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-47007 Unfortunately, gamers that lead the examined life are few and far between. Not that they don't exist, but as in so many subcultures there's certainly not enough of them to counter the loudness of those that don't think. All they know is game = fun, and fun = good, so game = good. Which is too bad, because if you'd get them to calm down a bit they'd see that you can probably make the games way less racist and still hella violent. God of War, for example, wasn't OMG! overtly offensive (unless you count that scene with the two women in GoWII, oh, my god.) but was incredibly gory and entertaining. Unfortunately, gamers that lead the examined life are few and far between. Not that they don’t exist, but as in so many subcultures there’s certainly not enough of them to counter the loudness of those that don’t think. All they know is game = fun, and fun = good, so game = good. Which is too bad, because if you’d get them to calm down a bit they’d see that you can probably make the games way less racist and still hella violent. God of War, for example, wasn’t OMG! overtly offensive (unless you count that scene with the two women in GoWII, oh, my god.) but was incredibly gory and entertaining.

]]> By: zingerella http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-46995 zingerella Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:53:20 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/03/resident-evil-5/#comment-46995 I couldn't read the comments. Those that weren't horrid were ... lamentably repetitive: "It's not racist! It can't be racist! The white dude also killed white zombies and Hispanic zombies!" Because video games, of all our cultural artefacts, exist independantly of any cultural or historical context. Because the fans say so, that's why. Did anyone ask what law of nature makes the protag white to begin with? Or why people are so unquestiongly accepting of a white protag? Other than "that's how the Japanese game designers designed it"? Not that I saw, but, like I confessed, I didn't read all the comments. I couldn’t read the comments. Those that weren’t horrid were … lamentably repetitive: “It’s not racist! It can’t be racist! The white dude also killed white zombies and Hispanic zombies!”

Because video games, of all our cultural artefacts, exist independantly of any cultural or historical context.

Because the fans say so, that’s why.

Did anyone ask what law of nature makes the protag white to begin with? Or why people are so unquestiongly accepting of a white protag? Other than “that’s how the Japanese game designers designed it”?

Not that I saw, but, like I confessed, I didn’t read all the comments.

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