Michael Burnley

Hello! This is the personal blog of me, Michael Burnley! I'll mostly be writing about video games and random crap going on in my life. Feel free to stop by and talk. :) I also run two anime stores: Doki Doki Desu Unique anime goods! Kawaii Crate Subsciption service for anime and japanese snacks!

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Listen/purchase: Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

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Some Tracks

Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

Collection Cliché by Ciara Sophia

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Kawaii Crate

A subscription box for the Anime-minded! Use Coupon Code: FOUNDERS for $10 off your monthly subscription!

Hey all!

Today we’re launching a new website for our anime subscription box, Kawaii Crate!

For our first 50 customers we have the coupon code: FOUNDERS for $10 off a monthly subscription for the first 6 crates. I hope some of you will sign up, we’ve got a lot planned for y’all.

Talk to you soon!

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Watch the 2nd episode in our ongoing miniseries highlighting positive female characters in gaming. In this episode we focus on Jade from Beyond Good & Evil.

Full transcript available: http://wp.me/p5WxZG-8gQ

[michaelburnley]

Hi everyone! We're doing our first giveaway with one of our most popular items, the Hylian Shield backpack! Just follow the link and you could win, yo. The contest is going for about two weeks ending on May 19.

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We literally put this up less than a week ago and we're almost all out. Give it a look! And if you buy one, put a note that you're a Tumblr homie and I'll throw some extra stuff in there. :) Mystery Anime Box - Get up to $250 worth of free Anime and Video Game merch for $25

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Hi there :)! excuse for asking, maybe you can give me a hand for a sec. I'am setting up own designed site game on my BLOG here. Would you please play a bit? Be the early ones to see it:) I believe you like! Thank you! Trix:*

Sure! Do you have a link?

[revengeance-deactivated20150809]

He kinda has a point :/

[patrickklepek]

wow kojima

[d0nt-pray-for-us]

It's important to remember that the grand jury wasn't supposed to be deciding if that officer was guilty. The idea behind a grand jury is to determine is there is ANY evidence AT ALL that might suggest the officer killed Michael Brown without reasonable cause. And so by him not even so much as being indicting that jury is saying that without a shadow of a doubt not a single shred of evidence suggested he was wrong to kill the unarmed 18 year old. And that's what's fucked up.

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First Day of Real Tester Work

Wooo!

[spytap]

Games have always been laced with political agendas. It’s only when the political agendas change from ‘fuck yeah military industrial complex’ to ‘hey women are people too’ that the anger seems to arise.

#GAMERGATE: The Threadening — NeoGAF (via spytap)

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THIS JUST IN

Anita Sarkeesian & Co. have begun lobbying for internet censorship laws and coordinated, expansive, mass blocking of anyone who posts certain types of content.

Under these laws, publicly insulting or disagreeing with someone using digital communication would be considered a hate crime. Using this standard, anyone who’s ever had an argument online could be fined or jailed.

This is what feminists and social justice warriors want — the end of free speech, and the beginning of totalitarianism on the net.

[ace-pervert]

The cyber bill of rights I agree with , as it would pretty much end the harasment people have been getting from anti-gamergaters and sjws.

[kr-studios]

Apart from the pseudonym line, all of those are already being considered by the whoever. The second slide, however, is Sarkeesian trying to force censorship via trojan horse.

[michaelburnley]

Asking social network sites for better blocking tools isn't censorship.

C'mon guys. Try a little harder.

[worldsandcenturiesfunposting]

I support this ORIGINUL CARACTER DO NOT STEEL because nothing represents the social justice warriors bitching about diversity in video games better than a well off looking blond hair blue eyes white girl wearing pink. Heaven forbid they have any of those damn dirty darkies representing them. 

[disneyvillainsforjustice]

That’s nice. But none of that has anything to do with GamerGate. 

[ace-pervert]

But they did steal it from gamergate

[kr-studios]

This really fucking pisses me off to no end. I can’t… what the fuck is wrong with people!?!?!? Vivian James, the every-man designed to support gamers, diversity and acceptance, and someone gets it into their head to do this:

Anti-GG people are nothing but professional victims; whining babies who steal from those who need it. You people make me absolutely sick.

The fact is, I’ve tried my hardest not to hate you people, I really have. I’m a gamer, a game developer and a member of one of the greatest communities in the world. But now, I’ve had it. 

You win, I’ve officially blown a gasket. 

[michaelburnley]

I guess I'm a "professional victim" and whining baby, then. Good to know.

[patrickklepek]

About comparing Jack Thompson with Anita Sarkeesian, you might not like it but I think it's valid. She and her partner, Jonathan McIntosh are speaking similar tones that Thompson used to say when it comes to video games and the negative influence towards those who plays them. The games journalists who criticized Thompson, how come the same people are not doing the same for Anita and Jon? Why is there double standards? It looks like mainstream games journalists are afraid to criticize them.

Jack Thompson wanted to ban certain kinds of video games.

Anita Sarkeesian simply criticizes them. 

Big difference.

[michaelburnley]

Doki Doki Desu | The Best in Anime and Cosplay Stuff!

Welcome to Doki Doki Desu, fellow otaku! We're doing our best to share our love of Anime through only the best in Anime Merchandise and Cosplay!

Did you guys know that I run an anime store? :)

We're running a promotion for 20% off everything with our coupon code: SPACECOWBOY

Check it out! We're constantly updating it with new items and crap so if you like Anime, I'm sure you'll find something you'd like.

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Gaming does not need feminism.

It needs feminists to stop pretending that it’s an industry that shuns women. From the very beginning, the gaming community has been accepting of people of all genders, nationalities, and religions.

These women have found excellent careers in the game industry. Not because of feminism, but because of meritocracy — because they were the best at what they did, and because they believed in their work.

[michaelburnley]

Women are underrepresented in video game development, as a whole, though the number of them in the industry is growing. Only 22% of the industry is made up of women (though this doesn't take into account indie development, obviously.)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/06/25/female-game-developers-have-doubled-since-2009-men-still-dominate-industry/

Just because there are some women in the industry doesn't prove that there isn't a problem with representation. Feminism isn't about making the world suitable only for women, it's about equality between the sexes. Games very much need Feminism (along with Racial Diversity, but that's a topic for another time.)