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Many of the ideas I study and write about are motivated by my personal experience and by what surrounds me –interesting patterns of behavior that often, at first glance, make little sense. She answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook.

What are the psychological forces that send people off the rails? In Sidetracked, she argues that to succeed we first need to know our enemy, the often-unconscious factors that stop us from getting things done. Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, also wants to help you achieve your goals, but she begins with the negative.

There is an area of self-help devoted to advice on completing tasks, and the focus is generally on the positive: How to get organized, how to choose good goals, how to stay motivated, etc. For other Situationist posts on video games, click here. There is never any option to be a decent human being and just stop the rape. You can either leave the distressed female to get beat up and/or raped, or you can stop the attack and then have sex with her yourself. What is far more disconcerting, in my opinion, is that the “sex reward” is basically forced upon players. The most obvious issue is that almost all of the female characters in the game amount to nothing more than objects for Jake to eventually have sex with. I’m not inherently against including sex in video games, but the circumstances surrounding the repeated sex scenes in Ride to Hell: Retribution are extremely offensive and troubling. After killing the hostile males, Jake is “rewarded” with a short cutscene of him having fully-clothed sex with the distressed damsel. At some point during each mission Jake will spot one or more male characters threatening (either physically or sexually) one or more female characters. The other thing to note about Ride to Hell: Retribution‘s missions is that each of them contain at least one impromptu, and very creepy, sex scene. Justin Alderman, a video game critic for We Got This Covered, explains the controversy: In addition to receiving horrific reviews for its shoddy game play and pointless story - Ride to Hell: Retribution has one of the lowest scores of all video games on Metacritic - the game has attracted much scorn for “forced” sex scenes and its demeaning depiction of women.įor an example of the sexual content in Ride to Hell: Retribution, see from the 10:00 minute mark in this video:

The action game, which is available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, has players taking on the role of a Vietnam War veteran who wages battles with a biker gang. In late June, Deep Silver published a new video game called Ride to Hell: Retribution.