Common misconceptions: Fallout video game series
Vault Boy is the mascot character of the Vault-Tec corporation
The PIP in “Pip-Boy” stands for Personal Information Processor and is the device you wear on your wrist in the game.
The Escapist : The Big Picture : Gender Games
This is unbelievably refreshing. This makes me dance around gleefully.
An atypical voice explaining feminist views on the current state of gaming in a compassionate, accessible, non-jargony manner…on a website that doesn’t cater to a group already mostly in agreement with feminist views?
OMG. Somebody hold me…
Thank you to Baran for bringing this to my attention <3
asdf THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER.
If you play video games and identify as a feminist, you should watch this.
If you play video games and don’t identify as a feminist, you need to watch this.
I always prefer to play as female characters then male characters.
Even if the character sucks, I’ll still choose a female over a male. I really do prefer to play as my gender.
I sat on my dialog screen for an hour deciding whether to choose Zevran or Alistair as my lover.
WHY NOT HAVE BOTH? Srsly, my Warden slept with Alistair, then moved on to Zevran that same night. It was beautiful and I only felt a little bad about breaking Alistair’s heart.
lol this dead dragon wanted to say hi!
I have completely fallen in love with Skyrim. I never want to stop playing or get bored of it.
Because for many of us out there who aren’t the “right” sort of gamer? It has never, ever been “just” about the games. From age seven, in second grade, when the boys in my class asserted that girls don’t play Nintendo. To age seventeen, in high school, when despite using a girly alias and telling everyone I was a girl, the guys all called me “he” when I won science-fiction trivia games. To twenty-seven, when I started to understand that just because my Lone Wanderer looked female, didn’t mean the game’s design treated her that way.
“Can we just play the video games?” Sure. As soon as conscious and unconscious sexism vanish from the stories, the art, and the reviews.
Culture exists, and we all must live in it. Our culture means that if you’re the girl at the party, you might have a really hard time getting the guys to let you in on GoldenEye. It means that if you’re the girl behind the counter at the GameStop, you have to deal with a constant level of leering and commentary that your male co-workers never get. And if you’re the girl, it means that any time you try to talk about the uphill battle, you’re going to get smacked right back down.
The end result is exhaustion. Swimming upstream against culture is tiring. And journalist Tracey Lien is right: it’s not just one incident, or just one joke. It’s every last one of them. For many of us, life is a pile of these. There are no “simpler days” to go back to.
a bit late on this, but it’s still a great read. check the rest at the link
I love this game! :D
I’m downloading this game right now! :D
HOORAY! IT IS SO AWESOME.
Vrook Lamar server, come roll a char? :D
Sure! Empire or Republic?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
SIMPLY REBLOG AND YOU CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
SIMPLY REBLOG AND YOU CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Hey there, my name is Shayla and I’ve been gaming for as long as I can remember. I’ve been lucky enough to grow in a stable household and I’ve never had to deal with a life altering illness, but I know first hand how important video games can be. Gaming can offer an escape from our daily lives and a chance to unwind. People my age and older benefit from it- now imagine how important it is for children who are suffering from illnesses of all kinds to have distraction and a chance to have fun in their lives. That’s why I want to donate to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity.
ABOUT CHILD’S PLAY
“Since 2003, we’ve set up and organized Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 70 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.
Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.
-Child’s Play.”
ABOUT MY FUNDRAISER
- For every re-blog of this post, I will donate 20 cents to the Child’s Play charity! The deadline I’m setting is February 19th so on that day, I’ll do the math and figure out how much I’ll be donating to them.
- I AM NOT ASKING FOR ANY MONEY. All I want is for people to reblog this post and spread the word! The number of reblogs will decide how much I donate to Child’s Play. I don’t want your money. Just your awareness and kindness.
- I don’t know how successful this will wind up being, but you have my word that every reblog WILL act as money towards Child’s Play. Even if I have to set a certain amount of money out of my pay cheques and do so for years, I’ll do it and that’s a promise!
THE BREAKDOWN
1 reblog = 20 cents
10 reblogs = 2 dollars
50 reblogs = 10 dollars
100 reblogs = 20 dollars
150 reblogs = 30 dollars
200 reblogs = 40 dollars
500 reblogs = 100 dollars
1000 reblogs = 200 dollars
5000 reblogs = 1,000 dollars
And so forth!Whether you’re a gamer or not, please reblog this!
For more info on Child’s Play, please go here.
