Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
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Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#2Better, she should save Donkey Kong from Mario, to address the real issue of animals enslaved by people. The reverse doesn't really happen.
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#3Better, she should save Donkey Kong from Mario, to address the real issue of animals enslaved by people. The reverse doesn't really happen.
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#4Donkey Kong was highlighted as one of the first examples of Nintendo's overuse* of the "Damsel in Distress" trope in the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's series on the portrayal of women in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q
Very cool to see a parent help try to correct that for their kid as they introduce them to video games.
*changed wording for clarity
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#5I will harp on about the importance of code literacy and open source / free software till the cows come home but this is the best example I know:
We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace, as are pens and paper commonplace and as are the legal frameworks to be allowed to alter the published version.
In software world only the pen and paper analogy are commonplace. We need to change that
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#6He seems to have moved the location of the first hammer too. :/
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#7This is a clever hack, but I question the motives of both the father and Ars Technica. Must we erase—or invert—all aspects of yin and yang, simply to appease the gods of equality?
You may have heard the French phrase vive la différence, which translates as "long live the difference", but do you know what it refers to? It means "let's celebrate the differences between the sexes." Nowadays it seems we are only allowed to celebrate their sameness, or their inversion. This makes me sad.
Vive la différence!
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#8Donkey Kong was highlighted as one of the first examples of Nintendo's overuse* of the "Damsel in Distress" trope in the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's series on the portrayal of women in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q Very cool to see a parent help try to correct that for their kid as they introduce them to video games. *changed wording for clarity
Overused? This is the first Nintendo game that ever used that trope. Mario wasn't even called Mario before this point, and there was no princess. It was just Jumpman (renamed to Mario starting with this very game, who got his name from one of Nintendo's landlords at the time), Pauline (who got her name from the wife of an employee, but just "Lady" in the J version), and Donkey Kong.
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#9Donkey Kong was highlighted as one of the first examples of Nintendo's overuse* of the "Damsel in Distress" trope in the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's series on the portrayal of women in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q Very cool to see a parent help try to correct that for their kid as they introduce them to video games. *changed wording for clarity
Overused? This is the first Nintendo game that ever used that trope. Mario wasn't even called Mario before this point, and there was no princess. It was just Jumpman (renamed to Mario starting with this very game, who got his name from one of Nintendo's landlords at the time), Pauline (who got her name from the wife of an employee, but just "Lady" in the J version), and Donkey Kong.
Overused in the sense of storytelling more generally, not Nintendo in particular.
Re: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
#10Donkey Kong was highlighted as one of the first examples of Nintendo's overuse* of the "Damsel in Distress" trope in the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's series on the portrayal of women in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q Very cool to see a parent help try to correct that for their kid as they introduce them to video games. *changed wording for clarity
It's a very abstract game that simply takes imagery from the classic King Kong movie.
At this point trying to read more into it is a tad paranoid IMO.