Yeah, I know, still need to read the whole thing, I was just stating what I saw at a cursory glance of it.

As for me, if you ask me, people treat me as if I was black.

So there.

P.S. Don't live in The South, if they're so racist, I guess.

P.S.S. The 3 states bordering North Carolina have some of the densest Arabic populations in the country - figure that out; them, Texas, California, and Detroit, Michigan (Just random trivia I thought I'd mention).

P.S.S.S. And like I've said already, Obama has done NOTHING for blacks in this country, so don't heap all the blame at white people.

At any rate, you're all probably right, and I need to think differently about how I go about things.

You have to wonder, though, when it comes to these games, in which they're just trying to shoehorn diversity into the game, how sincere they're being, as opposed to doing it just because it's now fashionable, and for the purpose of being popular and profitable. Just sayin'.

As for me, the whole identity crisis shtick has worn thin, and that's the point of I've been trying to make and has been so thoroughly distorted at this point.

That's what I'm trying to say when I say I'm over Evangelion.

I'm OVER Final Fantasy VII.

I'm OVER angsty heroes and protagonists.

I'm OVER pseudo-intellectual pretension.

You wanna discuss existentialism? READ A !@#$%^ BOOK.

I'm tired of being reminded of my own real-life crippling depression when I play a video game.

That's what it comes down to, when it comes to media representation; you're asking some to listen to YOUR problems and sympathize with YOU when you've already called them asshole.

That's what we want to spend our time and money on, is something that just makes us wallow in our self-pity, or for some, self-loathing?

You're basically paying money to BE UNHAPPY.

If you really want to address your own life problems, see a counselor, therapist, or life coach, as opposed to thinking that someone's poorly written book, movie, music, TV show, or video game will have the answer for you.

Video games are for jumping on people's heads.

They're not there to help you figure out what the nature of your existence is.

And that's my stance when it comes to stuff like this.

Have your character editors, I don't have a problem with that; have your diverse cast of characters in which the straight, white male is the villain, I don't care, but stop trying to josh me into buying your damn game, Life Is Strange!

Excuse me if I object to being called the villain, when I'm the one who's more or less been getting their fudge pushed back in most of their life!

And I think that's why most of the population resents the straight white dude: We have our !@#$ figured out, and that's because we didn't waste time mired in existential crises, trying to prove to the world how DEEP AND INTELLECTUAL we were!

You want to know why I don't even bother to addressing your honestly bullshit 'arguments' is because you keep talking about how a white male keeps getting discriminating and how everyone is shoehorning diversity into everything. Which is honestly bullshit.

Or you keep dropping names like Anita Sarkeesian and her box set box which I had to check what that was about on the KS page, and funnily enough. It's for the whole ok series of Tropes vs. Women, it does have some good points and some bad misses. And it has gotten better lately. Also, if you've not pledged on that, then you don't have pretty much anything to say how the money and time is used, especially when she is still producing videos, thus creating the content that people pledged for. (And before you froathe something, I didn't pledge that project at all.)

As it's not shoehorning if devs are actually thinking that: "hey, we actually should think more than one minute what gender/race our characters in games are".  I mean, you can't honestly be against diversity in video games, or against diversity at all? As it doesn't mean that white males are gonna be erased, instead you will have diverse cast of characters, alongside your whiteys. And honestly, that's for the better. That also means that even villains will be non-white too in the future.

And your ramble about games making you unhappy etc., you probably need to see counselor/therapist to try to fix your issues and the crippling depression (f--- depression really, f--- that shit), instead of blaming games.

Also, you're dead wrong in any kind media not helping people address their own problems, just dead wrong. Just because you feel discriminated/oppressed against, doesn't mean that white male priviledge exists. If it wouldn't, we wouldn't having this bloody discussion.

Oh my f***in' crap, I can't even be angry anymore, this's just too funny.

Except for the fact that the Anita Sarkeesian Tropes Vs Woman DVD boxset was FUNDED BUT NEVER RELEASED. She ran away with people's money, under the guise of SJW causes, do you really not understand that? You got taken for fools!

Yes, that series got INEXORABLY better, because it was DISCONTINUED.

At this point, I can't even tell if you're trolling me; since when was "Froathe" even a word?

Way to take my own suggestion, and throw it in my face! :3

I only have crippling depression in the figurative sense. Still, though, some video games plots and their characters are just f***in' whiny these days!

Wait, wait, wait, take a look again at what you typed there.

"Just because you feel discriminated against, doesn't mean that white male privilege exists."
Uhh, you're trying to prove that white male privilege DOES exist, right?

'Cuz you worded it just the exact opposite.

Also, it's spelled "Privilege." There's this thing, in this day and age, called "Spellcheck." Try it out!

Man, if you're taking life lessons from your comic books, man...you should stop reading the PSA genre, I guess!

Maybe I'm just f***in' drunk right now, but your post was hilarious; I seriously mean that, it was the highlight of my day!

And here I was, just DREADING the kind of responses I'd be getting, to the last few messages I left.

If diversity happened naturally, I wouldn't have an issue with it. But I detect the same sentiments in this thread that I detect in any typical social justice argument that falls apart...That is, an underlying sentiment against white males. Razakin, really? "Whiteys"? Maybe it's a language thing with you that you're not quite getting, but you certainly wouldn't call black people "blackies"...You would get your face punched in. You pretty much discredited every single one of your arguments to me entirely by using that one word.

I think what people who preach concepts like "privilege" and "MRA" need to understand is the tone of these words are outright confrontational and end up hurting diversity overall, because they imply that "if we decrease our content geared towards white males and increase our content geared towards <insert minority group here> it will get better". Which IS shoehorning. And it does cause people who are not racist* to view this type of forced diversity in a negative light.

And just to be fair...SJW is also a confrontational term, but that was the very purpose of why it came to be. It was meant to mock from the very beginning.

Again, go back to Power Rangers...Diverse cast that never felt forced (to me...does it to anyone else?) and it's a fine show (mostly). But is it going to please everyone from a diversity perspective? No. At what point is there enough diversity? This is where the argument falls apart to me. You really can't please everyone.

*cue the tired "but everyone is racist to some degree" argument that needs to be put out to the pasture and shot dead.

And this page is pretty much exactly why better media representation is a good thing. That someone could get seemingly this worked up over fictional gaming characters who aren't straight white men, where anything other than that default is a shifty agenda, and simply some of the comments here, both paranoid and showing a lack of understanding, all go into the column of, yep, let's push for it. Thing is, DD, I wouldn't even try to take you up on any of that because it just oozes anger (over fictional game characters!) and you sound well beyond reasoning with. But the next generation, if they grow up with better media representation, it might go some way towards making a difference. Won't achieve everything of course, not even close, but it can help.

I always think of better media representation as a good thing for people who are currently sidelined in the media, but it's pretty clear that it will be a good thing for the people who aren't too.

Discontinued? You do realize that there was an episode two weeks ago? Lingerie is not armor, so please show where you see it being discontinued? You could criticize that the videos come out really slowly, but I would assume that Anita and co. are doing other stuff than just videos in their lives. And perhaps with the amount of money she did get in the end, the videos could come faster, but as I'm not a pledger, can't much comment on that.

So, how did she again run away with other people's money again?

And you should probably check the timestamps of that post, and know that not all of from US, and when I'm tired, I do make typos or miss words there and here, or mistype words because I've grown accustomed to type certain word in a way. So if ya want to laugh, then laugh, sockpuppet.

Also, where the bloody hell did I say about taking life lessons from comic books? I said that media can help people address their problems. Not solve, but help. And if you're still insisting being like a grade a idiot, I'm not implying that people shoudln't go and seek professional help also.

Guess which one of those two words do have a massive racist background? And then you might know why saying the non-racist one is ok. Of course, you can be racist against white people, but I'm now talking more of EU/US where that does happen really as much as being racist against people of colour. And I tend to sometimes use slangish words or dialects. So, no need to pull your tidy whiteys up your arse.

All this talk about forced diversity and has anyone seen it lately? In for example in games or comics? I'd really would like to see some examples if there is.

And I don't preach those concepts, unless the being I'm replying to sounds like arse who takes his actions from MRA books or says how he as a white male has things so wrong. (Not directing to you, you just have oddball opinions alltogether, some funny and some bizarre )

It's a stupid term, but I don't mind if someone calls me a SJW, just because I tend to like diversity and want something different from the usual. Their loss I'd say.

You're talking about the original Power Rangers? That was for sure diverse cast I have to say. And I'd think everyone was pleased with it. So, if all shows were diverse like that in their own way, there wouldn't be discussions about it. Thankfully TV-series and movies are nowadays pretty diverse, and it has helped even some series to sell more tickets, like what happened with Fast & Furious 7.

Yeah, that's a silly argument.

Review Tech USA on the backlash regarding the latest X-Men movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPKpzodDKI

And for the record, I could scarcely even care about comicbook superhero movies anymore, but the uproar over it? What're SJWs trying to do, just flat-out shut down the entertainment industry?

I've heard SJWs criticize Power Rangers for making the black guy the Black Ranger and the Asian girl the Yellow Ranger, and of course, getting offended for making the OTHER (white?) girl the Pink Ranger, 'cuz pink is a girl's color ZOMGwaffles. You really CAN'T please everyone.

I actually think we're having a pretty constructive discussion here.

Fact is, I'm TIRED of being BAITED into games that're really about social justice agendas. Like I said before, nobody likes to be preached DOWN to, no matter what it is being preached about.

Life Is Strange isn't really about time traveling, it's about lesbianism.

Gone Home isn't really about a spooky house, it's about lesbianism.

And you can think that feminism and lesbianism are about whatever textbook definition you want (Onision), but in practice, it's about giving the middle finger to the male half of the human species in general.

In public, I might go to a coffee shop, and there are sometimes gay or lesbian people there, I can tell when they're eyeing me with animosity, with a look in their eyes that says "What the hell is this guy doing here?" (which, I go to the same places quite regularly); I don't think the coffee shop I go to is specifically an LGBT joint, because the other people there otherwise look straight, and don't seem to have any problem with me.

It's not that I have a problem with LGBT people, but LGBT people don't really seem to like having me around, even though I'm minding my own business.

And, there is in fact ONE LGBT place I've been (I didn't know the place was LGBT, it's not like it was decorate with rainbows or anything), where they straight-up (tee-hee) asked me to leave, probably because they could tell from the way I looked, that I wasn't LGBT. I wasn't until I related this story to someone else who was familiar with the area, who told me I stumbled into an LGBT cafe.

No f***in' piece of fiction is going to get me to empathize/sympathize with [subset of the human population] if that particular [subset of people] treat me like s*** in person.

People want to talk about equality, but to some, that means either handicapping or giving an artificial advantage to some certain subset of the population.

And how far do you want to take that? I swear - this is just an exaggeration - SJWs are either going to start sawing the antlers off of male deer, or gluing them to the heads of female deer.

Well, holy s*** it's been 2 years or more since her last episode.

Yeah, probably not a good idea to try posting late at night when you're tired or in a hurry, if you actually want to end up sounding coherent.

I'd honestly still like to know what the word "Froathe" means.

You sound scared of gay people. That you would sound angry over games that have gay people in them is the problem that better media representation might help fix. I wouldn't expect you to understand the issue when you are the issue. I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can make a difference in this area. We're doing some good.

By the way, happy Pride!

No, I got an issue with you and people like you making grandiose assumptions about me, and more or less thinking or calling me an assh*** based on said faulty assumptions. I'd actually like to stay cool with you, since you've been pretty cool with me up until now. I actually don't have a problem with you, personally. Some of your thoughts, though? Yeah.

I don't like people thinking that I'm something I'm not, no matter what it is.

Also, like I mentioned in above post, about the 2 coffee shops, LGBT people seem to have a problem with ME just being there just because I'm straight, NOT the other way around.

I get together with gay people at least once a week and all we talk about is you. Judging you. Just you.

I'm joking of course. Just sounds more than a bit paranoid. Come on, hug it out.

I know you're just exaggerating.

Yes, and I can see that.

I'm not the type to take offense at the drop of a hat.

Well, I'm cool with you, anyway.

Oi, you shouldn't talk about our secret meetings with gay people where we judge Dragonbernie dogs. And control game industry to make games that lure poor Bernie Dogs into lesbianism.

Yeah, LGBT people sure do have problems with you, and not the other way around. And how do you even notice if someone is gay or lesbian? You have a working gaydar? Because I for sure can't tell if someone is gay or not, unless they tell me. But guess your eyes really do have some gaydar that can pickup slight clues how LGBT people dress up. You really should check if the goverment could get you into some anti-terrorism special group, as you probably can tell who's a terrorist and who's not.

And seeing how type shit in here, I really doubt you do the same in real life. And you being asked to leave from LGBT cafe, I'm gonna 100% call bullshit on that, but cool story 'brah'.

But yeah, happy Pride Day for y'all.

Edit: Holy shit at that bloody shitty attempt of a 'joke'. You do same kind of shit with coloured people too?

Okay, yeah, if you don't want me "Insulting" or criticizing LGBT people, perhaps you shouldn't pull those kind of insults either, hmm? 'Cuz you're SO MUCH above me, that you can get away with that shit, right?

Sleeveless shirts are usually a tip-off, as well as faux-hawks (if you don't know, it's a stupid-looking type of hair-do; look it up), piercings, tattoos (though those features aren't exclusive to LGBT people), but especially people who try to look real hard not to look either male or female, people who like androgynous, or people who try to look the opposite of what they really are.

No, they don't snipe at me like you do.

You wonder why I prefer not to deal with LGBT people? Because when I do, they're assholes to me, like you have been to me this entire thread, and they'll be assholes to me when we're not even discussing issues of politics or religion. I never had any bias or prejudice against homosexual people, until I actually started running into actual homosexual people. You created the hate against yourselves by being assholes.

Removed Dragonfish Dog's "joke" of a homophobic slur.

DD if you are seriously trying to have a fair and open-minded conversation as opposed to just offending and degrading people then you should know better than to post that.

You can insult and criticize as much as you want, but don't think that you're gonna get called for it. And for the insult, it probably wasn't the most tasteful one I've done, but probably hitting close to ya anyways.

Also it seems that most people who are so against LGBT do have some skeletons in their closets wanting to get out. Wasn't there just some priest or politician who was againt gays and then did finally come out from the closet? Just saying ya know.

None of those are any kinds of tip-offs at all. So, guess you do have a gaydar in the end. Heck, not even having a Pride-pin is any clue in the end.

You do realize that people do have their own taste in style and style just doesn't tell sexual preferences at all, in most of the cases. I mean come on, piercings and tattoo a tip-off, or a somewhat popular hair style. Give me a break.

You know why people treat you like they do? It's because how you bloody act towards LGBT people, this thread clearly is evidence of that.

And lastly, not gay (at least the last time I checked my preferences), perhaps slightly bi-sexual at most. And I don't need to snipe at you, I just say it directly, you do seem like a horrible and shitty person with some major issues towards people that ain't white or straight.

Also, funny that you recognize that people will be 'assholes' towards you if the topic is about politics or religion, I think that should tell something. But whatever Bernie, thankfully your kind is a dying breed.

Phaggoat (Goat) RAMS (Sheep) Razakin in the ASS! (Donkey)
It's Super Effective!
Razakin is afflicted with BUTTHURT!

Okay, that's really ALL that I got left.

I might actually make that my namesake, just to be ironic.

I'm even thinking of commissioning an artist just to create some Phaggoat artwork!

ORIGINALCHARACTERDONOTSTEAL

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Clearly most people don't care about what I have to say, so I'm not going to continue. Don't egg me on anymore.

This stopped being a productive conversation sometime ago.

Thread needs to be LOCKED, man.

P.S. Anybody have any contact info for this "Barthandelus" or whatever fellow people keep calling me?
Sounds like someone I'd actually be able to actually talk to.

Aaaaand Dragonfish Dog has been banned.

I suppose I'll leave the post up in case there's any question as to why.

I figure I will just jump in to to talk about a piece of media (since that was what this thread was supposed to be about) that DD keeps referencing but clearly never played and doesn't understand.

Life Is Strange spoilers kinda but yes it involves time travel, but it is about the butterfly effect and also about judging people.  You can choose to play Max as a lesbian but you DO NOT HAVE TO. The "straight, white male is the villain" is a sexual predator and guess what, Chloe's stepfather who is a straight, white male saves Max from him... because you're led early in a misdirect to think he's only an asshole but turns out he really cares and when Max's powers can't save her he does.  Chloe is a lesbian no matter how you play, but despite trying to find what happened to her girlfriend this is hardly the focus of the story (which along with the themes mentioned before, it is a story of Max reconnecting with Chloe in a real way through use of Max's powers because Chloe is fated to die).  I haven't seen you mention games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age which have gay or lesbian or bisexual characters, only difference being the relationship isn't as fleshed out?

If you went into Gone Home thinking it was supposed to be a horror game then it's really your own fault.  "Walking simulator" games don't really interest me that much since they just take a short story and drag it out, though Gone Home was my favorite of the 3 because of the tapes.  It is also the most direct story so yea "what if you came home and read your little sister's diaries as she realized her sexuality?"

We live in an age with more games than anyone could possibly play and people making games that speak to a wide variety of perspectives is not a bad thing.  There isn't hetero-bashing in either of those games.  The whole point of a work of fiction is to jump into another person's perspective and empathize with them.  You want to succeed in GTA even though if it were real life you would want these people behind bars for life, which is something Rockstar has played with and made more and more over-the-top.

I thought the characters were really well done in Life is Strange, and the plot had some great twists (Chloe's stepfather was perhaps my favorite character)! Too bad the ending was quite disappointing. Anyway, I think there probably is some truth about the stereotypical "evil white guy" in video games/movies.
http://www.giantbomb.com/evil-old-white … haracters/
Similarly you can expect the token (often black) guy to die first
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M … eDiesFirst
Of course, you have to take both of these with a grain of salt, and often these days that's not the case, but then again, sometimes it is.

Really need to buy Life is Strange before the whole game gets spoiled to me by someone on the internet by accident, and probably should install Gone Home too. Would be probably refreshing to play a game that doesn't have achievements bothering me to gather them.

That's quite an assumption to make, especially what they've already had to say about the game.

Life Is Strange is nothing new or revolutionary, and a lot of game reviewers and YouTubers have really talked it up as something that it really isn't; and some of them have either expressly recanted their views on the game, or quietly disavowed it without making too much noise about it.

First off, the game (and we're using that term loosely here) is more-or-less a ripoff (unintended or not) of a made-for-TV MTV movie (Riley Rewind; look it up on Amazon Video)

Yes, Life Is Strange borrows from a lot of things, like The Butterfly Effect (really, if you want The Butterfly Effect, then just watch The Butterfly Effect), Twin Peaks, and other teen and crime shows.

The time travel effect is purely for quickly reversing dialogue tree choices (don't you wish you could do that in other games too, instead of having to reset the game?) but it's not like they get Chrono Trigger with it; you don't get to travel in time at will.

Absolutely no choice is given to you as to figuring out where to go; it's a plot railroad of the most transparent kind, and one should think most people would be either intelligent enough to notice that, or honest enough to admit it.

The puzzles are garbage too, if you can even consider them puzzles.

As for choices, when it's marketed as a choose-your-own-adventure point-and-click game, the choices you make don't matter in the slightest; you still end up visiting all the same places and talking to all the same people, and what few things do change are purely cosmetic, anyway (like watering Max's plant, for example - and you can't even tell whether it's alive or dead until Max talks to it). The only choice that matters all game long is the very last one that determines the ending; none of your other choices contribute or build up to the ending you get.

There's the ONE choice you can botch (end of Chapter 2) that'll make/allow you to bypass one certain setting, but that's just OMITTING a part of the game. To make that choice correctly, though, you don't even need to read or exam the related character's stuff/room; you can still talk to that character and make the same choices, like you actually knew her, whether you rifled through her junk or not.

Life Is Strange is a serious big middle finger to video gamers. If you ask me, it's Dontnod's revenge for the massive flop of Remember Me; they made an incredibly linear game with a clumsy combat system that didn't sell well, so they decided to appeal to the Tumblr crowd, instead (The only thing I remember about Remember Me was how quickly it ended up in the bargain bin after it was first released).

And really, the game fails at its social activism aspect too, and only delves into the concepts of bullying, rape, suicide, etc., on high school and college campuses ankle deep, but absolutely no solutions are offered for these social ills. Just because you identify a problem doesn't mean you're deep or thoughtful; you have to offer a solution, too.

As for sexuality, all I'm going to say about that is this: I miss those days when we kept that business to ourselves, and no one was the wiser. So you're a ______-sexual. Good for you. What do you want, a medal? That's like being given a medal for taking a ______. It's a basic human function. You're not special. You're made out of the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Stop bragging about it.

I don't like the trend of video games becoming more cinematic; if I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. When I want to play a game, I want to PLAY a game. Movies don't make you click on junk before revealing more of the story. A cinematic "game" is essentially a movie that makes you jump through hoops in order to tell you the plot.

Fact is, if Life Is Strange had been a movie from the get-go, no one would've paid attention to it, because there have been plenty of other movies that have touched on these same social issues before, and incorporated some sort of twist into it to make it more interesting, and have done a better job.

It's just another story of coming-of-age, and reaching sexual awakening, with a murder as a backdrop, and a time travel gimmick that vaguely allows one to classify the story as "Sci-fi."

I refute that. The Fullbright Company DID market the game (or at least game reviewers did) as a horror game; maybe not explicitly, but they loosely implied it, so that's what people expected.

That may be true. It certainly was not new nor revolutionary, but still fun and enjoyable for the most part.

Seems to me like it was quite obvious where you are supposed to go to next. The puzzles were fairly trivial, at least one was a bit annoying, but so what? Overall I thought it was a fine way to tell the story, which is what the puzzles were there for. Also, it's not a puzzle game per say as it is a movie.

Exactly! It's a choose-your-own adventure game! Thus, why bitch so much about the puzzles? Also, the choices you make to matter to an extent. True, the ending scenario happens regardless of your decisions, but they do still make some small impact.

Can't agree with that. I can understand if you don't like the game, but not every game you don't like is a "middle finger to video gamers", seriously

I never thought it was meant to inspire social activism. I mean, you're a young girl, with many young problems, and all of a sudden you find you have time-travel powers that are also destroying a city. Where does social activism come into this?

That may very well be true, but it wasn't a movie. Hate the game if you want, but don't try to make it seem as if it was meant to be something bigger than a sentimental adventure game with very limited choices. Admittedly, the ending was disappointing, but I enjoyed the journey.

If you'd grown up with the point-and-click choose-your-own-adventure games from the 80s and 90s, you'd know how much better the genre used to be, and puzzles have always been a big part of point-and-click adventure games; how else can you put challenge into a point-and-click game, other than having to figure out puzzles?

You can bet your chips social activism was part of it; when you finish Chapter 2, the ticker tape at the bottom says, "If you face any of the issues depicted in this game, find a local support group near you [insert URL here]."

Yes, part of the game was addressing social issues. Did you not watch the commentary by the developers? It was offered as free DLC.

As for media representation in general, there's always someone who's going to be displeased with how their demographic is portrayed in popular media, and even the concept that a person can "Belong" to a certain demographic category can be considered derogatory.

Which, I'll admit, no one likes feeling like their background, psychology or personality has been pinned down by anyone, much less some marketing executive board, anyway, and marketers and advertisers are kind of creepy with how in-depth they get with their research sometimes, but still reach inaccurate conclusions.

Catering to such people results in generic, Mary-Sue characters who can do everything and have no character flaws, because these characters are designed to be inoffensive (and hence no character arc) and hence aren't interesting (e.g., Rei from Star Wars Episode VII, as an example). What was even the subtitle for that movie? I don't even remember, it was such a generic re-hash of A New Hope, but with women and ethnic minorities.

Honestly, if I was either non-male or non-White, I'd still feel insulted about how I was being pandered to in our current culture/civilization/society. Not to mention Affirmative Action: You didn't get hired because you were intelligent or skillful, you just happened to have the right skin color/set of genitals. About the only worse way you could choose personnel is by randomly drawing names out of a hat. I guess you could consider it fair, because no one person is consciously making a decision, but that doesn't mean it's also enlightened,  much less responsible.

I guess this's the kind of stuff we end up talking about, when the gaming industry has taken such a downturn, and politics and social engineering are so prevalent and invasive, that we can't even escape them in our video games.

Back so soon, Dragonfish Dog/Bern?

(I did read the preceding messages before weighing in myself, you know)

Kind of lame to ban a board member just for that, too.

Life Is Strange is not the best game in the world.

It's not an opinion limited to one person.

Do you want me to rain down with YouTube links of people who didn't like the game, or can we leave it at that?

Also, it's going to suck for new members if you keep accusing them of being a single person that you don't like.

1. Only DD/Bern would think it's lame to ban someone for what he did.

2. I don't even care about what you think of the game. I haven't played it myself yet. It's your constant whining about social issues that's the problem.

3. Not as much as it sucks for old members to see the same dude coming back over and over, trying to pretend he's someone else every single time and not being able to fool anyone. That's kind of the thing here: we don't get new members very much, we just get the same dude over and over.
You come here, you spout your same bullshit every time, you get banned, and then a couple of weeks or so later, someone new pops up who has the EXACT same complaints about the exact same topics, voiced in the exact same way. Maybe this works on a forum like NeoGAF with thousands of people, but this place has like 5 regular members, so you're going to stand out.

So, I think it's important that anyone should be able to present his/her viewpoint on most things, even if those viewpoints are not the most in-vogue opinions.  Although at the same time, we should be respectful of others. Anyway, back to Life is Strange, I'm aware that lots of people did not like it, but also lots of people did. Isn't that true for most games? Not sure how raining down negative youtube videos means anything? Also, I know that lots can be made about affirmative action and other political topics. Again, you should be free to say what you want and feel (respectively), although to be fair I'm not sure this is the best forum for such topics.

When this topic was being discussed, I hadn't played Life Is Strange. On the strength of DD's recommendation, I got it. Wow, what a game. I LOVED it. The dialogue isn't fantastic but the world and characters are wonderful and I got sucked right in. Beautiful atmosphere and a character-based story that I felt was really well told.

As for whether it would have been noticed if it were a film, as already pointed out, it doesn't matter because it was what it was - a game. Would Silent Hill been as scary as a movie? Nope. The medium can't be easily separated here. Being the one to make choices in Life Is Strange makes all the difference.

Anyway, I loved it and had to track down the soundtrack CD after playing it. I may play it again soon.

That's just how I felt. And I'm a big fan of 'unexplained fantasy thrust into the real world' type stuff, so the time travel hook really helped nail it for me.
No it may be relatively simplistic on the gameplay scale, almost (though not quite) to the point of it being a 3D visual novel, but there's nothing wrong with that....

Honestly I think the problem is that too many people want to lump all video games together but I think it'd be better to classify everything under 'interactive entertainment' (or something) with games being a subset and some things being 'almost games' (of which I'd probably put LiS in) and some even being not even really games at all (a good chunk of VNs and some so-called 'walking simulators').

Yes, this. Still on second episode, but damn that I love the atmosphere of the game. Now I have the problem that I should I just play it more and more or take it easy and slow so I don't finish it in a day or two.

I binged the whole thing and I have no regrets! Yes, it didn't last long as a result but I really felt like I was living there for a few days. I was immersed in it.