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FFD: Are we all becoming too sensitive?

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Almost every day, there’s some new controversy about games and other media not being inclusive enough, or somebody becoming offended by some or other thing. I actually champion the inclusion of more people in to gaming’s fold, so I have no problem with people wanting games featuring homosexuals, strong female characters, racial diversity or any other lifestyles and cultures. Yes, I’m tired of playing games featuring white bros with guns too – but is there a point where people look for controversy where none really exist?

The latest bit of storm in a teacup controversy comes courtesy of Paste Magazine’s review of Mario Kart. they’re a little upset that 8 iterations on, and Mario Kart doesn’t offer enough skin colour diversity.

“The other notable omission is in the cast of characters’ diversity,” says Casey Malone “After 30 years there are still zero Mario characters of color, a problem that Mario Kart 8 highlights by lining up all the characters on a single screen. When it comes to human characters, Mario Kart 8 is overwhelmingly white.

Of the 29 drivers, 14 are human (including Toad and Toadette), and every single one of them is white. While it’d be atypical of Nintendo to introduce new characters into a Mario Kart game, it’s also where the deficit is the most obvious, and during play I found myself disappointed that Nintendo’s stable of characters so painfully fails to reflect the diversity of its audience.”

Firstly, half of them are baby versions of themselves, and since when is a mushroom a human, plus you can race as your Mii, and that allows you to be whatever skin colour you choose – but I digress. Yes, Nintendo does have it’s problems with not embracing diversity, but I’m not sure a Mario Kart review is the right platform.

I’ve never once even contemplated the racial make-up of the Mushroom Kingdom – but maybe that’s the problem. Is it my (not really) privileged (not really) white cis-gendered mentality getting in the way, or are people just becoming too damned sensitive about everything?

Last Updated: May 16, 2014

168 Comments

  1. Umar Returns

    May 16, 2014 at 10:33

    What the hell do they want Mario to be? Mario Jackson?

    Reply

    • Norm

      May 16, 2014 at 10:42

      Mario L Motherfu*king Jackson?

      Reply

      • Umar Returns

        May 16, 2014 at 10:44

        Enough is enough

        I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHA FUCKEN GOOMBA’S ON THIS MUTHA FUCKIN PLANE!

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        • Admiral Chief in Space

          May 16, 2014 at 10:45

          Hahahaha!

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 16, 2014 at 10:45

          Mario Cart plays the race card? O_o

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      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 10:45

        LOOOOOOOOOL

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      • Jedi JJ

        May 16, 2014 at 11:27

        Your censoring skillz are mad yo.
        What’s that you’re saying? Motherfulking or Motherfuiking?

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    • CAE9872

      May 16, 2014 at 10:44

      Bowser is green! He is “of colour” – besides white and black are not the only colours in the rainbow which is what I expect that reviewer is silently trying to point out.

      Reply

    • Norm

      May 16, 2014 at 10:45

      Like such…?

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    • Matewis Jubilai

      May 16, 2014 at 10:52

      Can’t say I’m even sure that Mario is human…

      Reply

    • Geneslicer

      May 18, 2014 at 01:00

      if they want it to be Mario Jackson then its already there because if i aint mistaken you had a black man turn white anyways

      Reply

  2. RinceBroken

    May 16, 2014 at 10:36

    Mmm. I think it is a very ‘look I care’ industry now. Not sure if people do it for attention, hits or because they are bored while waiting for their manager to get back from having lunch on the tax payer.

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  3. Gerhard Davids

    May 16, 2014 at 10:37

    So Nintento should arbitrarily change the race of characters that are almost as old as the the people who complain about it?

    That makes no sense. Also it’s Japanese. The number of people of color there is very low. It’s a reflection of their world not some racist agenda.

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  4. Spathi

    May 16, 2014 at 10:37

    In my opinion, the only character in ALL games must be the “human being” from Community. That’s the only way to satisfy everyone (until we meet aliens…)

    My alternate opinion, seeing as this is FFD, is everyone can go fuck themselves. If you don’t like it, tough like. Go cry me a river, bou ‘n brug, make like a tree, sorry shame…

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  5. Matewis Jubilai

    May 16, 2014 at 10:38

    We need an alien invasion so that everyone can realise how petty this nonsense is

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 16, 2014 at 10:41

      Don’t be silly. *innocent whistle*

      Reply

    • Dutch Matrix

      May 16, 2014 at 10:43

      Even then, you can count on us to be racist.

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 10:45

        Pro human then?

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 16, 2014 at 10:46

          Yes, except for those filthy Aussies.

          Reply

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 10:46

            Yeah, filthy orkses

        • Dutch Matrix

          May 16, 2014 at 10:46

          Cerberus?

          Reply

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 10:47

            Nah, I love the Krogan….and don’t even get me started on the Asari…….

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 16, 2014 at 10:53

            So, what you are saying is that if no Asari is available you will happily spend some uhhhhh “Quality Time” with a Krogan female?
            Well, okay. I’ll give it to you, at least you’re not into Vorcha’s, Can you picture a Vorcha pulling an O face?

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 10:55

            Ag nee sies man!

    • Hammersteyn

      May 16, 2014 at 10:48

      Or to cleanse the planet, way to many humans for my taste.

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 10:50

      • Mark Treloar

        May 16, 2014 at 11:20

        Zombie Apocalypse?

        Reply

        • Matewis Jubilai

          May 16, 2014 at 11:21

          Whichever one creates a fallout/mad max universe…

          Reply

          • Mark Treloar

            May 16, 2014 at 12:09

            So Doctor Stranglelove it is. Any volunteers for the role of Slim Pickens.

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 12:16

            Apart from death by snoo snoo, that’s got to be one hell of a way to go 😀 I’ll do it! On my 100th brithday I’ll ride a 50 megaton warhead into skynet’s mainframe!

        • Hammersteyn

          May 16, 2014 at 11:33

          Anything really.

          Reply

          • Mark Treloar

            May 16, 2014 at 12:13

            Make sure you wear this.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 16, 2014 at 12:42

            hahahaha

    • jac7

      May 16, 2014 at 10:57

      I’m honestly so tired of race issues and…hell, just petty issues overall. I think President Ronald Raegan said it best during a famous speech, “When you stop to think, we’re all God’s children…Wherever we may live in the world…if there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We’d forget all the local differences that we have between our countries and we’d find out once and for all that we are all human beings here on this Earth together.” On a lighter note, after watching Predator again (in awesome 3D I might add) I realised that it simply is the best and most fantastic movie ever made. It spawned two governers – Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura – and it is one of the few movies that didn’t kill the black guy within the first 5 minutes. Hell, the first guy to die in the movie would eventually move on to direct Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3 (Shane Black).

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 10:58

        Love that movie!

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        • Mark Treloar

          May 16, 2014 at 11:24

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:28

            (soft voice)
            *get to de choooopppaaaaa*

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 11:28

            that’s the best part!

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:31

            Love it!

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        May 16, 2014 at 10:59

        So technically the Black guy did die first :/

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        • HvR - THE Average GAmer

          May 16, 2014 at 11:16

          But not in the first 5 min, small steps to change in the 80’s

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        • jac7

          May 16, 2014 at 11:23

          That, good sir, made me laugh.

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      • Matewis Jubilai

        May 16, 2014 at 11:00

        Very cool I wasn’t aware of that quote .

        I might be in a minority here but I also really liked the 2nd predator movie 😛

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        • Dutch Matrix

          May 16, 2014 at 11:12

          Every Predator movie after Predator 1 deserves to be ignored. Here’s why:
          We can all agree that as far as bad-ass go, Dutch Schaefer from P1 is kind of the poster boy. Even with his boy scout bullshit.
          He is strong, well trained and can obviously turn every thing he sees into a weapon with which to kill.
          Despite all this, he barely survives his encounter with the Predator.
          Then Predator 2 comes. And they want me to believe that Danny Glover can take out a Predator with the Predator having more advanced weaponry than the first?
          Then we have Predators. In which they want me to believe that Adrien Brody and Topher Grace can kill Predators: Brody by scowling and Topher by giving them flowers.

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          • Weanerdog

            May 16, 2014 at 11:17

            I only ever saw the first one, it was great. I did not buy into the idea of the second so never watched it and the third did not even blip my radar.

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 11:17

            Lol ok that is completely fair. Nevertheless I enjoyed the vibe of the movie – the idea of a Predator in the streets worked for me. Also, except for the Danny Clover fight possibly, that predator was completely bad ass and scary as hell.

      • Hammersteyn

        May 16, 2014 at 11:02

        Most manly movie ever Predator. The would blow the hell out of Expendables.

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        • Matewis Jubilai

          May 16, 2014 at 11:04

          The only thing I like about the expendables film, and I do mean the only thing, is Dolph Lundgren.

          edit : lol it is so appropriate : the spellchecker’s suggestion for Lundgren is ‘plunderer’

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          • Hammersteyn

            May 16, 2014 at 11:06

            hehehe

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 16, 2014 at 11:29

            Come on! Expendables are not meant to be taken seriously. It is meant to be fun and over the top! But full marks for Lundgren though. An underappreciated treasure that man is!

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 11:40

            Yeah I know, but I still can’t help but to cringe for most of it 😛

            except the Lundgren scenes =) Best part : He smashes this guys head in during a carchase as the guy was arguing with him or something and he just goes : “Insect!”

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 16, 2014 at 11:44

            Have you seen Number 2? He is even better in that. Pokes so much fun at himself in that.

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 11:45

            Uhm yes I saw parts of it. Was cool to see Arnold break off that door and Van Damme showing of his moves 🙂 Bit unrealistic though : in a fight without guns Van Damme would wipe the floor with Stallone!

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:48

            Agreed.

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 16, 2014 at 11:53

            OMG! What is it with you people wanting realism all the time???? LoL!

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:42

            Lundgren is the shiz.
            And Stallone’s face looks like a melted Rama bakkie from all the surgery he’s had done.

    • RinceBroken

      May 16, 2014 at 10:58

      Nah, that meteor is on its way…

      Reply

      • Matewis Jubilai

        May 16, 2014 at 10:59

        I guess that will also solve the problem, at least technically

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    • oVg Errorist

      May 16, 2014 at 11:08

      The old school can see how the frog is being boiled slowly.
      If we do not stick up for what used to be a proud hobby then the internet will slowly turn it into an even worse commercial past time.
      Day one patches are now normal, (unfinished products) REWARDS are not rewards anymore, one has to pay for unlocks (skins, levels and difficulty)

      I am giving up on this hobby. I will sit in the background and watch how $40 episodic content per level will become the NORM. We all thought Bethesda was nuts when they released the Golden Horse armour DLC for $5 back in 2008. We all thought CAPCOM was nuts making you buy a disc with on-disc DLC. 1 Million people love the 10 minute $40 MGS demo. Expect that model to become the norm.

      Like how 20 minutes of a 1hour programme became advertising…

      Enjoy. Its all up to Jim Sterling and the like to act as the buffer between passionate gamers and fuck faced marketing executives.

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      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 11:15

        LOL @ “fuck faced”

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        • oVg Errorist

          May 16, 2014 at 11:25

          I did offend iAmWeasel yesterday when I took the piss out of what GOING GOLD meant in the old days.
          So this is sort of a reminder of how Indoctrinated gamers have become.

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:28

            Yeah, saw that, hahaha

      • Matewis Jubilai

        May 16, 2014 at 11:20

        I believe I agree with you, but not with regard to the presence of extra nationalities(edit: meant races) in amongst dragons and mushrooms in a mario kart racing game 😛

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      • HvR - THE Average GAmer

        May 16, 2014 at 11:22

      • Weanerdog

        May 16, 2014 at 11:24

        Must be honest I am starting to embrace opensource software for most of what I do. Games seem to be bargain bin or free to play at the moment. Nothing is a day 1 purchase I’ll get it down the line when it has actually been fixed and I can also assess if I actually want to invest my time on it.

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        • Matewis Jubilai

          May 16, 2014 at 11:49

          Check out gog some time if you haven’t already – is where I spend most of my time these days

          Reply

          • Weanerdog

            May 16, 2014 at 12:14

            I have and have grabbed some stuff, but I find I rarely get time to invest these days.

  6. Alien Emperor Trevor

    May 16, 2014 at 10:40

    Yes.

    I think the problem comes in when people identify so strongly with only a part of who they are, be it gender, race, sexuality, whatever, that they see EVERYTHING through the lens of that characteristic; and when it doesn’t meet some arbitrary standard that they apply to it they’re somehow discriminated against.

    The internet also helps by being a giant megaphone that amplifies whatever people want to complain about, especially when they go out of their way to look for it.

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  7. Umar Returns

    May 16, 2014 at 10:41

    I’m all for equality and diversity, but this industry and those within are feeding off controversy like it’s insulin and they have Diabetes….SHOCKING clickbait headers featuring the next racial scandal. What irks me is the fact that these people don’t recognize when a good character or story actually features diversity. Nope, they’ll rather pull a Sarkeesian and focus on all the bad shit….

    Also…Do people even know what racism is? I mean….REAL racism…..Make a racial joke and suddenly you’re a bigot. The hell….Racism is discrimination based on race, not jokes…..Sheesh…..Anyway, Let’s just play as purple atheist hermaphrodites so we can satisfy everybody

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 16, 2014 at 10:43

      Were you looking at my avatar when you said that? I’m not a hermaphrodite!

      Reply

      • Umar Returns

        May 16, 2014 at 10:49

        Could’ve fooled me…Well not that I’ve seen your parts…I mean…..F**K

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 16, 2014 at 10:50

          lol

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    • Dutch Matrix

      May 16, 2014 at 10:47

      As a wannabe Christian, I object to your idea that I should play as an atheist… 😛

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      • Umar Returns

        May 16, 2014 at 10:48

        But religion is EVIL and it is destroying society!…We can’t have that ruin our children’s mind 🙁

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        • Dutch Matrix

          May 16, 2014 at 10:57

          But atheism is EVIL and it is destroying society!…We can’t have that ruin our children’s mind 🙁

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          • Rainman

            May 16, 2014 at 10:59

            The problem seems to be the children, why don’t we just get rid of them.
            No more COD either then.

          • Umar Returns

            May 16, 2014 at 11:02

            Cant win lol

          • RinceBroken

            May 16, 2014 at 11:03

            Pah! So I am atheist AND ginger! FEAR ME!

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 16, 2014 at 11:14

            The problem isn’t that you do not believe in God it is that God does not believe in you.

          • RinceBroken

            May 16, 2014 at 11:15

            Which one? 😛

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 16, 2014 at 11:18

            Stop messing with my Chinse proverb. That is Confucius shit right there man.

  8. CAE9872

    May 16, 2014 at 10:42

    YES…

    The End.

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  9. Admiral Chief in Space

    May 16, 2014 at 10:43

    This one is too white, this one is too black, this one is too macho, this one is too sexy, this one is too gay, this one this, this one that, blah blah blah whine whine whine.

    While I agree, more choice pending on the player would be nice. I mean character creation ala Skyrim or Fallout or any decent RPG is flippen epic and the way to go, but yeah, some people too lazy to deal with all the different NPC choices and events and this and that

    Ok rant over, where is the bacon?

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    • Kromas

      May 16, 2014 at 11:28

      Bacon was recalled as it was too salty.

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        May 16, 2014 at 11:29

        What were the console gamers crying about this time? trollol!

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        • Admiral Chief in Space

          May 16, 2014 at 11:30

          Something about not enough P?

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  10. Rags

    May 16, 2014 at 10:44

    I think a lot of people are becoming professional victims. There is a bunch of money to be made from gullible twits if you exploit their sensitive side.

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  11. Hammersteyn

    May 16, 2014 at 10:47

    Maybe they can introduce a new character like a Shiitake(black forest mushroom) to rival the Toadstool? Will that be fine?

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    • Norm

      May 16, 2014 at 10:47

      LOL!

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    • CAE9872

      May 16, 2014 at 10:48

      No because then you marginalising the other mushrooms! *shakes head* We cannot have that…

      Reply

    • HvR - THE Average GAmer

      May 16, 2014 at 11:12

      The Brown Mushroom has been suppressed for to long!!!! It will rise up and take down its White Button Imperial Colonists and the Populist Shiitake Tribalists!!!

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      • Hammersteyn

        May 16, 2014 at 11:34

        Hahaha

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  12. InsanityFlea

    May 16, 2014 at 10:50

    Media is far more connected in today’s world. So yes, you are going to piss someone off sooner or later. It’s bound to happen. Hey, Gavin 😉

    Reply

    • Gavin Mannion

      May 16, 2014 at 11:22

      lol, I tend to piss off many people. But certain people are too st.. let me not getting a second lawsuit

      Reply

      • Kromas

        May 16, 2014 at 11:27

        Well since I have my T-Shirts now. Ill buy beanies to raise money next time 😛

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      • oVg Errorist

        May 16, 2014 at 11:32

        I blame you for making Cliffy B and David Jaffe pack their bags and get as far away from this medium as possible 😛

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  13. Weanerdog

    May 16, 2014 at 11:00

    I recommend a solution: We should just breed race out of existence. Everyone to wear unisexual balloon clothing that covers the entire body. And every week we all go to a different religious group on a rotational basis (please note for simplifying the process I have includes the non belief of spiritual entities and whatever agnostics are as religions).

    Ok I’ll leave this here as well, found on somewhere last night.

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    • Matewis Jubilai

      May 16, 2014 at 11:02

      People like hating each other far too much for that to work. Have you seen football hooligans?

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      • Weanerdog

        May 16, 2014 at 11:09

        But isn’t football hooliganism just a mark of socio-economic disparity.

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        • Matewis Jubilai

          May 16, 2014 at 11:12

          Uhm possibleh 😛 If socio-economic dividing lines neatly correspond to the borders of various sporting clubs, which I kinda doubt…

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          • Weanerdog

            May 16, 2014 at 11:30

            A lot of football clubs are supported according to certain divides. Some are traditionally working class vs nobs and others are religion and we all know how that turns out.

          • Matewis Jubilai

            May 16, 2014 at 11:43

            I suppose, but even so, it’s still remains an impossibly dumb reason to hate a person and even attack them. In fact it might be interesting to read up on it : I’m sure there have been a lot of studies considering how rampant the problem is (or at least was at a stage)

          • Weanerdog

            May 16, 2014 at 12:24

            Yes, sadly you are right though. Hate seems to be an emotion that is very easily stirred. It is and has been used for most of history to rally rational people to do irrational things.

    • Hammersteyn

      May 16, 2014 at 11:05

      • Norm

        May 16, 2014 at 11:18

        Mind blown.

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      • Tiaan Pat

        May 16, 2014 at 11:50

        If only i could do that at the office!!! Clear my desk in 2 seconds…. The dream i tell you!

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        • Matewis Jubilai

          May 16, 2014 at 11:53

          I wish I had a magic faerie in my office, when I still had one, that could immediately tell me whether I was ever going to need a certain form/piece of paper again…

          Reply

          • Tiaan Pat

            May 16, 2014 at 12:01

            That would be amazing…

        • Hammersteyn

          May 16, 2014 at 12:05

          I have a shelve bolted to the wall, so I’d have to flip the whole building O_o

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 16, 2014 at 11:09

      …..wow. my brain cells are (metaphorically) committing suicide right now.

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  14. Viking Of Science

    May 16, 2014 at 11:03

    People are overly sensitive, or at least the media is, I mean, in the case of Nintendo, they are a Japanese company, All the core games are developed in Japan, with mostly a Japanese audience in mind.

    So of course the “human” characters in Mario games are white, It’s what the developers know.

    as for the tomodachi life thing, in Japan, Homosexuality, at least in the western sense does not exist.
    There are exaggerated forms of Gay culture in Japan, and these get represented in some of their games. Think Tingle in Legend of Zelda.

    Japanese Developers, like any other, Develop games with what they know.

    Western developers are more aware of the gay community, and therefor try to be more inclusionary, the same with racial diversity.

    But, never forget, according to the big publishers, they’re demographic says games sell to White males aged 18-24. Therefor, that’s what they target, and according to sales of the past few years, the preffered game is the DudeBro-shooter.

    My Point. Until Publishers worldwide realise that the Gamer demographic has widened and become more inclusionary, Games celbrating that Inclusionary idea won’t be made, or at least, be marketed as much.

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  15. derp

    May 16, 2014 at 11:05

    That is why games like Stick of Truth are needed to desensitise people to the really stupid trivial stuff that is complained about.

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  16. Brenz

    May 16, 2014 at 11:08

    Oh most defintely yes.

    Ive said this for quite a while now actually, this world is getting softer by the year.
    All these liberal left wing hippies crying about their rights and what offends them and what they deserve, pfft.
    We are breeding a generation of self entitled brats with no sense of how to take responsibility for their actions, and a big part to blame in this is stopping corporal punishment, they dont understand the concept of repurcussions, but still they are soft as marshmallow when it comes down to it, full talk with thier hippy beliefs and vegan attitudes, soft i say, soft!

    You see it everywhere in all forms of news these days, articles of how this and that offended this person, how a tv show was so terribly graphic it hurt my poor eyesies, or a radio dj says something and everyone promptly jumps on thier high horses and take the moral high ground and complains……Bullshit, bunch of wankers, most of the people out there.

    Reminds of all those feminist cows who picked up sword and shield when the article about that chick who won that award was posted here. So much defense and taking offense where possible and taking swings with that sword at every dick in sight.

    We need an alien invasion or zombie apocolypse to give them somthing to cry about, and to wipe out the soft so our race can survive before everyone becomes so soft and sensitive they are all born with vaginas and the race dies out due to inability to breed.

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    • Kensei Seraph

      May 16, 2014 at 11:42

      There’s actually a species of lizard that has already suffered that fate and consists solely of females, they can still breed though, and some scientist think that human are heading towards a similiar fate (the male chromosome is shrinking or something like that).

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      • Brenz

        May 16, 2014 at 12:32

        ah ha! so there was something to my rant. Lizards became too big a pussies so they all have em now! Watch out guys, time to man the fuck up or no longer man at all.

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        • Kensei Seraph

          May 16, 2014 at 13:08

          I think it’s a bit more biologically complex than that.
          As I understand it we’re all fucked anyway so we may as well enjoy our manliness while it lasts.

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  17. oVg Errorist

    May 16, 2014 at 11:11

    Gamers

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  18. Ryanza

    May 16, 2014 at 11:22

    The mail problem is that the gaming industry is not giving gamers what they want. The gaming industry has played it safe for so long now and it’s the games that suffer. DRM, mobile games, Kinect, ect, that is what the gaming industry calls innovation. Because of DRM I am not buying games because I’m not adding shit to my collection that I can not get rid of.

    So it’s good that people complain and the gaming industry needs to listen. How many games need to be ruined. Simcity, Diablo, Thief, Hitman, Call of Duty, Duke Nuken, Dragon Age, Resident Evil, Splinter Cell, Mass Effect, ect. And how many new games is just a copy.

    I can’t buy EA games, I can’t buy Blizzard games, I can’t buy Ubisoft games, ect.
    I will support the shit out of CD Projekt Red because they giving me what I want, good games with no DRM.

    Do not support DRM.

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    • Kensei Seraph

      May 16, 2014 at 11:39

      Not really on topic but still a good rant.

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  19. Gavin Mannion

    May 16, 2014 at 11:23

    I’m totally fed up with how the world panders to the offended.. We all have problems, suck it up and move on sunshine…

    Don’t even get me started on whether someone is male or female

    Reply

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 16, 2014 at 11:25

      Oh I don’t know. In certain cases it’s fairly important to me if someone is male or female. Not that I’m judging 😀

      Reply

      • Kromas

        May 16, 2014 at 11:27

        I really don’t think Lara Croft would have been nearly as hot if she was Larry Croft. 😛

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 16, 2014 at 11:28

          You mean this guy?

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:30

            No WAY am I refreshing page!

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 16, 2014 at 11:31

            Awwwww come on. Do it.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:32

            All aboard the NOPE train to NOPEFUCKTHATSHITVILLE!!!

          • Hammersteyn

            May 16, 2014 at 11:32

            hahaha

    • Jedi JJ

      May 16, 2014 at 11:30

      You say that because you’re a girl and me calling you a girl is insulting and at the same time very sexist because women and men are exactly the same, that’s why guys also see gynecologists and rubgy teams are made out of both men and women.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        May 16, 2014 at 11:31

        What is rubgy? O_o

        Reply

        • Jedi JJ

          May 16, 2014 at 11:32

          Fixed it already 😉

          Reply

        • Admiral Chief in Space

          May 16, 2014 at 11:33

          Sounds preposterous, and kinky, but in a bad way

          Reply

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:34

            That would be a rubguy. Very different. And also Trevor’s weekend job.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:35

            noted

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 16, 2014 at 12:20

            Hey! Well… well you wear eyeliner!

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 12:34

            HAHAHA, I’ve forgotten about the whole Cleo thing

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            Hey! No! Don’t bring it back!

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            Na nanananananananananaaaaaaa

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            Brutal

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            Critical hit?

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            20% extra damage.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 12:35

            Right in the handbag!

      • Matthew Holliday

        May 16, 2014 at 11:34

        but inequality!
        and like, stuff…

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  20. Matthew Holliday

    May 16, 2014 at 11:24

    Sensitive? no, if anything, we’re a desenstised community, especially the younger generation.
    But we are over-entitled and think waaaaaaaay too much of ourselves.
    Every gamer considers themselves an expert and think that their oppinions on how games should be made, are more important than the developers knowledge and experience.
    sure, developers arent infallible, but gamers are even less so.

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  21. Kromas

    May 16, 2014 at 11:24

    The problem for me is adding race for the sheer sake of it. I was really upset with a black human torch in the new Fantastic Four movie. Not for the obvious reasons but rather for the pure fact that his (comic wise) blood relative sister is white. The science did not really add up until someone led me to the conclusion that they may have had different fathers. Still. Things like RE5 having you shoot black people being controversial is stupid since obviously Africa has no black people in it right? Don’t just shove or omit authentic things out of games cause you don’t want to offend someone and if you do something like that at the very least make it believable.

    Gamers are not overly sensitive but like for their stuff to be left relatively unchanged. Media on the other hand needs things to blow up or there is nothing to cover.

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    • Milesh Bhana

      May 16, 2014 at 11:29

      well doesn’t that just mean that all the good comics from the Golden Age/Silver Age were written by racists 😛

      Reply

      • Kromas

        May 16, 2014 at 11:34

        Well yeah but that does not change the fact that if you wanna change the brother in a brother/sister comic you have to change the sister as well.I mean the original Nick Fury was white yet I prefer the new Nick Fury. The change did not alter him too much. Then you get idiots who want to make Wonder Woman a descendant of kryptonians and I am not happy with that.

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    • Jedi JJ

      May 16, 2014 at 11:31

      Like how people lost it when Resident Evil (set in Africa) had all black zombies.
      Total racism, clearly.

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 16, 2014 at 11:33

        YOU SAID THE B WORD!!!! I’M OFFENDED!!!

        Reply

        • Jedi JJ

          May 16, 2014 at 11:33

          All Black? I know. Sorry, didn’t mean to bring the sheep humping people into this.

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:34

            But surely that name is wrong, I see lots of colours in that team

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:34

            That too is just pure racism.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:35

            I suggest we ban the team, or they should change their name

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:36

            All Whites. Or would that also be a problem?

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 16, 2014 at 11:40

            Sounds too colonial

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 16, 2014 at 11:48

            It should be called All Human.

          • Jedi JJ

            May 16, 2014 at 11:49

            You speciest!

  22. Jedi JJ

    May 16, 2014 at 11:26

    People love going aapkak about things just for the sake of it, or to draw attention to themselves.
    I don’t think it’s always about sensitivity.

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  23. Milesh Bhana

    May 16, 2014 at 11:28

    Mass Effect had multiple (human) races & same sex relationships.

    So Mass Effect > Nintendo Games + Sims

    Case closed.

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  24. Kensei Seraph

    May 16, 2014 at 11:35

    Personally I’d actually be more insulted they included someone of “color” simply to have the correct diversity and completely ignored the lore of the world they had built up to that point.

    The Mushroom Kingdom seems (to me) to be loosely based on medieval
    European kingdoms where the vast majority of people were of the same
    race as anyone who even painted their face differently was likely to be
    treated as an invader.
    Maybe if there was another kingdom or empire or something introduced they could have the people from there be of a different “color”.

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  25. Ultimo_Cleric N7

    May 16, 2014 at 11:43

    Yes, just yes.

    Reply

  26. Lardus-Resident Perve

    May 16, 2014 at 11:53

    Political Correctness is a damn disease the way some of these people “find offence” where there is actually nothing to be found – the arses actually CREATE offence if they cannot find any! “Diablo 3 has not LGBT relationships, I find this offensive that they have not yet adapted to include blablabla”. I ignore these overly PC moaning biatches most of the time. My blood pressure is high enough without those morons.

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  27. Devourer of Small Bunnies

    May 16, 2014 at 11:53

    Absofuckinglutely. I see this time and time again. And its not even just down to games tbh

    Reply

  28. Sageville

    May 16, 2014 at 12:08

    My take on this is that Mario’s World was always white / Mushroomed as per how things were back in the relatively non-racially-sensitized 80’s. So it’s a reflection of an old IP which was, back then, not very diverse at all. As such they have kept true to the IP’s character, albeit a bit pale.

    Personally I believe all new IPs should be more sensitive to these things, if there is a game where a player can choose a character to play, then they should be afforded a selection of characters representative of a more global demographic. In games where there is a single character (E.g. Tomb Raider etc) I don’t think race is that relevant, more relevant is the story and its link to that character. I do think it would be great to some new IP solo characters that have color, I don’t think we’ve ever seen a black guy as the main protagonist in a game (Infamous Second Son… was he a Native American? Looked uber pale to me).

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