But that's like saying "Computer games made me do it!" I mean come on man - that argument is so old and overdone and completely mind-numbingly boring!
okay, no. me saying that games can help make young boys stupid and sexist is not the same as me saying that games make you shoot up schools - which could be the only thing you were implying. i'm not saying it's a game thing though, anything which reinforces these bullshit ideas can do it if there is enough of it over time. you're right this is a very common kind of argument but the difference is that i am saying liking stuff like this makes you stupid and not that it makes you do bad things. misogyny is one kind of stupidity, and it's probably one of the worst kinds. if you want to say that liking games like this UNRESERVEDLY - i'm not saying you've got to hate it, but to embrace as badass awesome cool shit - will not make you more likely to be an idiot who loves maddox and hates it when women try to make jokes then i guess we've got to disagree.
you can't say that you love something which is tangled up with a bunch of issues and expect to be let off the hook of them all just cos ITSFUN.
And the POINT of that video is that it's stupid and funny. If you're looking for an AWESOMMME BADASS man-fest then you should watch The World's Strongest Man or crack open a tin of stella and go and punch your mother in the face!
YES, it's a cheesy game that's the point
this makes me think you've misunderstood me completely. let me be clear: i get it. i get the entire joke, i'm saying it's a shitty joke which people only get into cos they are insecure about something in their pants. but i'm getting too into this single point here, cos it's not the only problem i've got with this trailer. my main problem is that it's just flat out stupid and not funny. it could have been much better because like i said at it's core this is a pretty cool idea, to create a fictional video game character's history and have it be a ridiculous parody of all the crap franchises try to pull. but instead of focusing on that, at least in the trailer, they went for the BIG IN EVERY WAY LAMO bullshit.
and aside from that misplaced focus, the guys who are writing it are obviously only at a certain level as far as what is funny goes. being so blatant to put "Mandatory Hot Chick" on the screen as a title, or "Old School Bad Guy" or whatever it was just isn't funny. it's stupid, and it kind of treats you as stupid, too, because you couldn't possibly get the caricature they are going for if you don't have it explicitly pointed out to you, right?