The Manifesto
Our games are our games - no one has a right to make them change them
Our games are made by game makers for customers - not social complainers
The only thing that is sacred is the law of supply and demand and the free market.
If you make a game for a niche you might sell well even if not ‘mainstream’ and the only factor should be the effort (read
time/money) put in to reward (money/personal issues) of making said game.
I support a free market if Anita wants to make her “Legend of the Last Princess” game - good for her. Won’t necessarily
buy it but she might sell well and send a message in her social circle, preaching to the chior. What is not to be tolerated is
3rd parties dictating what others make for others. Whatever the subject matter they don’t have to buy it.
There is some issue for complaint when a beloved franchise is turned into a cash cow or debased - but that is from
customers. And ultimately they can spread the word to reduce sales. That is fair because they are the people who’d have
bought it. On the other hand people who do not buy games have no right to complain when games do not cater to them.
They want to change it - instead of demanding the change, be the change. I’m all for again I’ll say Anita and her crowd
making their own “Social Justice” or whatever they are excreting themed games and selling them. Just not to dictate what
others play no matter how they disguise their call for censorship.
Thus this is a simple call for a backlash by making the games market “worse” by having more content they complained
about and sticking the legacy on the people who tried to force unnecessary change.
TL:DR
Expanded
TL:DR
Expanded
Make the Sark Scream
On taking back and defending male and adult appealing elements in video games.
I’ve played games for a long time and I’ve heard controversy after controversy. Waayyy back there was a legendary “Custer’s Revenge”
game for the 2600. Heard about it, but didn’t ask coz my town is near a reservation. Serious were lots of Indians protesting it till Sears,
Odegards, Skaggs and lots of other stores signed promises to NOT sell it, over or under the counter… They didn’t even have that
game...small town, that stuff takes years to get this far out pre-internet era, but they made calls thinking the Red Man had been made butt
of sick joke… Then a few city calls and the word was “HOW…!?” As in “How in the Blue Blazes did anyone make such a sick game!?” Also
there was Halloween and Texas Chainsaw massacre but they never told “Munchkins” they had them.
---NO, I am NOT putting a link to find/buy “Custer’s Revenge” out of respect to Red Man. Yeah, I call myself “Offensiveness MaXXXimVs”
but exceptions to every rule.
I missed the Hullabaloo about “Death Race” but loved the Cameron movie it inspired.
Was concerned over the Mortal Kombat/Night Trap senate ravings that led to the Game Ratings garbage.
So I found myself surprised to be particularly offended by Anita Sarkesian and her Video Game “Tropes” thing. I’d grown up with a lot of
controversy and free speech won every time mostly. Sick compromise on game rating but the internet was opening up the door for adult
only game to be more than a casual niche. And even waayyy back Mystique won by ‘free speech’ but Atari technically won by suing
Mystique into bankruptcy, not over ANY compassion for Native Americans but were offended anyone made games for their system… But the
gaming crash that soon followed made it a footnote. (E.T., Pac-Man, bubble popping and cowardly executives)
The “Tropes” project by Anita Sarkesian I could tell from how it was presented was a media made assasination project on games. I’ve
studied media and ways things are arranged and presented all my life - I can tell a piece of propaganda so professionally produced to look
like it pretends to be normal. And I wondered what for - after all games were more or less G-rated due to the ratings system, by far most
of them anyways. And those that weren’t were pretty obvious about it. A rare parent who’d only buy Bible Quiz video games for children
wouldn’t accidentally buy “Blood” for them…
Fortunately it had a strong, VERY strong backlash. The media even put out another pack of lies on how corrupt their games journalism
was. Apparently instead of the gaming sites being simply completely bought out in ways that before President Reagan would have turned
into huge government Monopoly lawsuits and they were just reading scripted stuff per agenda there was also some other forms of
payment, including sex. The media groupthink machine went into play but only won the devout liberal hipsters, the “Useful Idiots” the
“some of the people ALL the time” types. The rest (like me) used critical thinking and did notice there were increasingly too many
differences between site reviews, official ‘critics’ and money - that often went completely opposite when the real people playing the games
came into play.
So, largely it faded out. They might be able to sway ‘official’ public opinion if they can get some Hipsters thinking it’s the ‘correct
groupthink’ but they can’t force people to BUY it if the products suck.
Anita fizzled out and tried to blackmail - whoops I withdraw that statement, tried to find work as an “Adviser” to various companies. Like
she could tell them how to make a “Politically Correct” product…’advising’ them that there might be trouble if they were not informed and
made a ‘mistake’ and offended some people...
Problem is “Get Woke, go BROKE” - the only group that’s with her is the “Hipsters” and other college radicals who tend to have LOW
spending $. Three jobs to pay interest on that “Gender Studies” degree. Buys a record player made in China but full USA price and $30,
$40 albums...for what he or she can get on YouTube FREE. Lives with 4 or 5 other people in a ratty ‘studio’ apartment but pays $2K a
month rent for it. All the passion of earlier generations but completely controlled by rich elites so all they are are consumers and ‘useful
idiots’.
Gamers, on the other hand tend to be less social but smarter. Some do live with relatives or in cheap one room apartments, trailers… But
usually have more disposable income. Or a LOT. A byproduct of being a white male most often (and Asians count) in today’s age getting
treated like garbage but expected to pull the whole show while people who won’t lift a shovel blame you for the stink. So they save, are
smart with money, and are passionate about their hobbies.
They are the ones that line up to buy the $100 deluxe set or have ordered it a long time ago. They are the ones who paid that “Gold Tier”
funding on Kickstarter/GoFundMe and might have their photo on the wall in a new metroidvania style game.
They are the ones that are the main pillar of the industry.
And Anita and her fake media ilk have turned them into pale, violent, sexist apes and want video games to be made less fun to the main
demographic - the white male. Not to make games that appeal to other demographics, just to hurt white males. RPGs are part of this push
also, but that’s a different rant.
But - Anita’s broke. Real funny facepalm. Her last major squak seems to have been Advising the makers of Cyberpunk 2077 an upcoming
as I write it game based on an earlier Tabletop RPG to hire her (or, one man’s opinion, threats/extortion - one man’s opinion) to avoid
‘consequences’. They told her no. I imagine “F--- You… Beeeayaaaatch!” very loud on the phone.
So the fake media went on a rampage on anything they could find…
In that ENTIRE game they found two things…
One was a transexual in a background poster selling soda pop. Like something you only find looking at every frame and magnifying each
and every pic… Probably hired that guy that found the old Playboy pic in Disney’s “The Rescuers”... And so, the model in 2077 for a
popular soda happens to be a transsexual? Uh, maybe he/she is a good model and the company selected hir/s-he for overall hotness and
no one cares anymore since anyone who can afford it cyberpunk cyborgs themselves near “Robocop” style only stopping short of
“Cyberpsychosis”...
The other was from the RPG. “Voodoo boys” one of the dangerous gangs. But again, it handled it smartly.
Oh, and btw, the head guy of the operation (the game itself) is a BLACK man. We knew this back in the 80s. The game was never
marketed as “A game made by a man of color…” Nope, we judged him not by the color of his skin but the content of his character, which
was pure … liquid … COOL.
And this is the big difference between then and now and stuff I do. I am rabidly anti-politically correct for I see it as utterly STUPID. Being
on an ocean liner and venturing below deck and finding the crew pounding shut the pressure relief valve on the ship’s boiler because
someone complained they couldn’t stand the whistle. I’m not racist in that I do my best my own personal prejudices don’t make me unfair
to others. Like anyone I do have my own issues and assumptions of course, but I recognize those. PC just bottles it up and plays angel on
the head of a pin and only makes thing worse long term, short term doing nothing to work on existing problems because no one dares ask
the hard questions.
Oh, but where was I…
Not to bury Anita but to HONOR her…
See - this is the mission of this sub-project. Non commercial, open to interpetation, but designed to give her a legacy that will not go away
and one she deserves…
I present - the “Sark Score” - working name.
Perhaps “Anita’s Game Ratings” - “Sarkesian Score” - “Anita’s Tropes” close enough to associate, far enough her as a public figure can’t sue
over it.
M.A.S.T.E.R. score “Make Anita Scream at the Terrible Erotic Rubbish”
It’s simple in principle:
We count our “Tropes” in any game based on her own observances.
We add MORE tropes because if she went to college in MY day she’d have gotten a “C” at best - One Man’s Opinion her work is mediocre at
best and even that is flattery.
We add them up.
We give games scores based on them.
And we demand - by email, tweet, posting - even snail mail - that game companies make games that score high on this list. Damsels in
Distress, women as reward, anything sexist or problematic by the “Woke” crowd…
Therefore, her legacy will be to have made a largely G-rated games market get worse. More violent, sexist, objectifying of women. And to
have her name associated with it forever.