Forum Overview :: :: GTA5 banned in Target, in Australia

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I was part of an interview panel a few years ago. The position was for that of a development manager. This role would have the candidate interfacing with both devs, natch, as well as the ten other layers of bureaucracy that went on. Candidate was a good guy. Canadian, always a plus. Our most senior dev (that lacked the desire to get into management himself) asked what the candidate would do if development was telling him that a given task was impossible for a given deadline, which the CTO (or whoever) was demanding it by a certain time. The candidate stated that he would work with both parties, attempt to get a compromise, have everyone work together, etc. The senior developer then asked him what he would do if he were given a specific task by upper management and his development team was completely against it. Again, the reply was more consensus building, let's all work together, and so forth. He was very eloquent. The interview went on for another half hour. I thought the guy did a good job in a group interview with six people asking him questions from various disciplines. When it ended, the senior developer said no way. Thumbs down. I asked him why. The reply was that the development manager must be an advocate for the devs. He's got to be on their side. Management has their own managers, and in this role the guy needs to fight for who's working for him, but really, who he is working for. * * * GTA5 was banned at Target. This is an island continent it's happening in. You (apparently) had 40,000 signatures stating that the work was simply one of misogyny, which means that it was a work that simply had stuff that 40,000 people didn't like. We've been talking for months about the current gaming press. It should be expected that all of them, individually and in concert, would be against the private censorship of the sort of games they cover. Journalists must understand that there is a sizable userbase of gamers that they are advocates <i>for.</i> This is who they are reporting to. You can't be on the side of the "burn the books" crew. If you think that GTA5 has unfair depictions of certain groups... well, you're wrong - it's a dystopia - but maybe you write opinion pieces on how the game's tone could be improved if it matters that much to you. Not Brandon Keogh. He's 100% of the belief that banning the game was a great move, a gut step and was absolutely necessary. [quote]<a href="https://archive.today/Wt5UX">https://archive.today/Wt5UX</a>[/quote] [quote]Gamers are angry that Target Australia and K-Mart have taken Grand Theft Auto V off the shelves following a petition. But the petition signers are right. There is no denying the deeply rooted misogyny and sexism of the series. Brendan Keogh writes.[/quote] This makes more sense if you realize that misogyny no longer means the hatred or mistrust of women, but instead means, "something I don't like." Sexism isn't at the root of the series. Show me the sexism of GTA1, GTA2 and the GTA London expansion. So that's misleading. The protagonist in GTA3 <i>didn't fucking talk</i>. GTA3 was really the game that launched what very stupid people like Keogh think of as "the series." But the deal is, if you're writing about games and you hate games, want gamers to die and are writing articles that are pro-censorship, you're no longer a games journalist. You're a piece of shit that is so taken with being on a different "side" than your hated enemies of GamerGate that what's right is whatever the other side would object to. Brandon decided a long ago that he's on the anti-gamergate side. It's his football team. This means that he's got to be against what they believe in, no matter how objectively correct the other side happens to be. This is gaming journalism in 2014 and this is why the entire thing is getting blown up. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]