Only days after the schedule was released, the PAX EAST 2013 Expo Hall map has been somewhat leaked...
Will the addition of another PAX event overburden exhibitors to the point of them backing out of certain conventions and hurting attendee numbers? I don't think so.
Here’s some great news, The AbleGamers Foundation, has revealed they raised more than $100,000 in 2013 to help make gaming accessible for those with disabilities.
Penny Arcade has announced a Diversity Lounge at PAX 2014: a safe space where marginalised groups can play games and have conversations about minority issues in gaming. Within minutes of the announcement, the target community of the lounge had largely laughed this off, suggesting that it was woefully inadequate and borderline offensive.
"This first caught up to them when they were called out for making rape the punch line of an unfunny joke in a comic strip entitled ‘dickwolves’."
Good to see BOTH sides are able to over-simplify each other and get facts wrong.
That's not the name of the strip, (it's "The Sixth Slave") and anyone who read it can tell you rape was not the punchline. It was a tiny part of the set-up, for a joke about MMO narrative. Was that okay? It's debatable. But let's not misinform people by telling them the joke was "lol rape."
I empathize with Penny Arcade as some guys who weren't sure where to draw the line, and have no idea how to fix the issues they're blamed for. Krahulik, in particular, seems to be making an effort to turn himself around, but that isn't the kind of thing someone can do just by saying they are. Unfortunately, this is one of those issues where no matter what you do, you'll piss people off.
EDIT: Also, it makes it sound like Krahulik just took to twitter and started bashing transgender people. (Aside from generally making Penny Arcade sound like a cesspool of women/LGBT-hating, but I digress) What happened there was a discussion about a game designed to help women masturbate, somebody said it "wasn't inclusive," it turned into an argument, and that kind of snowballed into him tweeting faster than he was thinking. Again, maybe not okay. Again, not quite as bad in proper context.
note: this is to politically correct people in general, not the author of the article.
*sigh* You politically correct guys have no idea how pathetic you appear to the rest of us when you make your appearances in public venues and try to socially engineer the surroundings to your liking with your hackneyed attempts at pushing your repulsive agendas.
This industry is a culture that grew from infancy to its current stage, not in some gender-Marxist, racially-charged, sexually-influenced, incubatory test tube, but out in the vast expanse of imagination and passion of the programmers, writers and artists who all banded together to make it what it is.
It so happens that most of the people involved in this industry are mostly white, straight, MALES, which to some people, constitutes a problem in today's new-aged hyper-sensitive society; and the solution to this "problem" is always the same: forced parity or attention seeking over-representation. All the while, those of us who are not white didn't ask for this stupid attention, and want only to go about our lives and accomplish our goals, are being dragged into the vortex of negativity that you guys create, and are handed those welfare hand-me-downs that you guys are always demanding, thus having our own value under-minded because you refuse to do anything else but whine and complain about how bad you feel that the industry produces material proportional to the demographic that comprises it.
You want change? Get yourself a degree in Computer Science or art or something and start producing the games that you want to see. STAHP YAW WHINING!! DOO IHT!
Plot twist: I am a mixed-race male who would fall under the description of the target audience of this foolish "Diversity Lounge," and I find such an initiative insulting to me. Accepting something like this means you see yourself as being inferior in some way, and that you need to be coddled or insulated in order to compensate for that inferiority. -Very well. You are welcomed to be inferior, but I will be content to simply attend these things and go and do whatever I want: such is the prerogative of a normal (read NOT inferior), PERSON.
I hope you guys finally run Pax into the ground once and for all. Then you can complain about it being gone.
Nice, I'm going on the Sturday at least i can plan and have a general idea before i get there. Thanks for posting.
Bethesda have quite a large area booked split into 3 I wonder if they will show Doom 4
Weird that Sony has the smallest booth out of the big 3. Wonder what they will be showing, but also what the others have planned
Sorry double post.