#jonathan mcintosh

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Pop Culture Detective “Marvel’s Defenders of the Status Quo” (2022)

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Slums built on swamp land near a garbage dump in East Cipinang, Jakarta Indonesia, 2004 Photographer: Jonathan McIntosh

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Remember when Jonathan McIntosh called people out for celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden but then a few months later celebrated the death of Christopher Hitchens?

I don't, but wow.

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Does he even know games? He calls himslef a critic and he sereiously thinks that combat automatically limits the storitelling capacity of a game?

Has he played Nier: Auomata?

Kingdom Hearts?

Bayonetta?

Seriously, the idea that the inclusion of determinated feature detracts from the storytelling potential is so narrowsighted.

Videogames are an iteractive media, much like he points out in other tweets. But that they ae interactive media doesn’t mean that they have to be glorified movies. Combat is an amazing tool for interactivity and inmersion. It forces you to adapt, to hone your skill, to think outside the box and be creative to out-smart the enemy.

There are games that cannot be made without combat, how do you make a spiderman game like the one they are doing? The telltale version of batman had combat. Even Detroit. Become human, wich for many is actually a glorified movie, has some sections with combat.

That is not to say that videogems connot be without combat. Many puzzle games are without combat and they are amazing (Portal comes to mind). But the idea that combat is to be avoided because combat-->violence-->bad (and let’s be honest, this is Jonathan Mcintosh, the idea that combat should be avoided becouse it promotes violence and this can have a negative impact in society is one of his "golden rules”) it’s just a lazy, puritanist and moralistic form of videogame elitism.

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Normal-brained McIntosh: Violent video games are bad because they promote toxic masculinity and a culture of violence.

Glowy-brained McIntosh: Violent video-games are bad because consciousness is born out of information processing; and information processing systems exhibiting pain-like behaviors such as NPCs, in all likelihood, do indeed feel pain.

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Germany's USK Support Of Jonathan McIntosh Worries Gamers

Germany's USK Support Of Jonathan McIntosh Worries Gamers | #Gaming #Germany #German

Germany’s rating board, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, the age and youth protection service that rates video games in Germany, was recently spotted retweeting and supporting a video from Jonathan McIntosh’s Pop Detective channel.

McIntosh is an ideological extremist who is against video game violence, against sexuality being portrayed in games, and is against feminine and sexy…

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This is still one of the greatest edits I've ever seen 😂