RATTY524'S PROFILE

You might want to add that the animation for the doors are effect graphics. If one wanted to change the way the doors animate, they have to find their respective effect graphic and change it.

Excellent tutorial, though. I didn't know the fence sliding thing was a glitch. When I experienced it in a level of SRMNB2, I thought it was something deliberate.

So you've made more than just SMBX levels... I might try mage quest now.

Wait, then how did you get those blocks to fully display in your third screenshot without the cut-off?

What a coincidence that this was put up at the time I am studying Gender Roles and communications over the summer.

A very good article, indeed. One of the biggest problems in Western society, in my opinion, is how people feel forced to live in an idealistic role rather than live in a way that is best suited for an individual. No, I don't care about having to succeed at all costs. No, I don't want to hide my feelings because not only are human emotions supposed to be natural, but they are effective for strong communication. The main thing that irks me about how men and women are portrayed in video games, or in any commercial media for that matter, is that they almost shove these roles are almost unvarying, and that people actually formulate their personalities based partly on these stereotypes.

It is this enduring image of a man who must be strong and violent and eschew anything unmanly that persists even to this day. You see it everywhere, in marketing, in movies, in everyday products. I remember one commercial in particular, I think it was a Nivea for Men Body Wash. It had moisturizers, but moisturizers are unmanly so instead they called them hydrators because it sounds cooler. The commercial began with a bombastic voice proclaiming “Prepare to defeat dry skin!” because men are fighters and must solve everything with violence. I don’t remember the rest of the commercial but I guarantee it ended with a woman draped over the man in question, because a man’s primary role is to be attractive and alluring to the opposite sex (that’s right ladies, it’s not just you who has to do that.)

This is basically an example of "masculine" versus "feminine" language. As in Western culture, men are expected to be "competitive, strong, and stoic" of course they would such language as "Prepare to defeat dry skin!" It supports the notion that men should be "warriors".

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So every one gets brainwashed, but reading this article i really had the sense it wanted to deal with the fact that machism is also (if much less than for women) damaging to men, no?

Did you mean Machoism? Being assertive isn't too bad of a trait, but it shouldn't be exclusive to just men in my view.

I honestly think to be truly successful in the world, you 'ought to have both feminine and masculine personality qualities. You should be able to feel and listen to people's thoughts and emotions, like the stereotypical "woman", yet you sometimes need to be aggressive to achieve in a competitive world, like a "man".

... Am I taking this whole thing too seriously? xD

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Don't be prejudiced, his games are actually better than what you can gather from the screenshots, it's just that he has been unjustifiably labelled by the community and fallen into infamy. Try them, you might be surprised. I know I did and I'm quite fond of his games.

Are you serious? I played Doom 2 and I can't get that anime cut scene where a naked woman is being graphically sacrificed to Satan out of my head. The bedtime story series was also, in a slightly humorous way, mind-numbing... With that said it still doesn't exclude him from being considered 'auteur'.