Agreed. Intent and context always matters.

In my opinion, this article feels a bit damaging to general cultural progress if you’re trying to handcuff someones intent to something they didn’t intend. Historically, there is a million ways we all could be up in arms against every facet of everyday life if we want to deadlock ourselves to the negative and ignore…

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion but to suggest the “Dude’s just talkin’ about a video game name” when it’s pretty clear the conversation Paul is trying to start is so much larger than that is pretty stupid - respectfully.  

This article is an EXTREME stretch. The game is meant as satire- it’s clearly so. It’s driven home in game. Not everything has to be a moral /existential validation crisis.

You’re super good at logical fallacies. Like, crazy good.
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What an incredibly disingenuous take on what I was saying and how incredibly naive to think a words meaning and context can’t change over time or isn’t inherently tied to how the person is using it in their language.

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

Nothing in this particular article states what exactly the crunch conditions are for CDPR for the next 6 months, other than they will be working overtime.

But does every game have to have every option for diversity in it? Is it unacceptable to tell a story if it’s not completely representative of all marginalized people? If I create a Warhammer 40k game and you can’t play as a female space marine because of the lore, does that game not have a right to exist? If you are…

If you’re implying that this article is an answer to my questions, I disagree. The article is written with the assumption that the reader already knows and agrees that it is a problem we should be upset about. It does not really make that argument, it assumes that argument has already been made and won.

But....why is it a problem if Tarkov decides it will do a war game where the soldiers are male? Nobody really makes a good argument for why that’s a problem, or why that is an issue worth writing long articles about. “Representation is good!” Sure, cool, we agree. But that isn’t the same as “I should care that this…

A big reason you don’t have standardized credits for a game is that team make up is not standardized. One studio might say go so granular so they list out Vehicle Engineer, Sound Engineer, Weather Engineer, etc while another studio just lists Engineer because that’s just how the teams and titles are. At the studio…

You aren’t wrong, but it isn’t quite as bad as you make it sound.
When hiring, companies don’t go scrubbing through the credits as a proof of a potential employees history in the game industry. It’s a waste of time.

In addition, we care more for general years of experience, skill and talent set, and at what company. Not…

That’s an easy generalization to say Ethan. We have no idea what their development cycle was, we don’t know what decisions were made and which were cut. Often times in budgeted projects, not just video games, if you want to add something you have to cut something from the plan.
We don’t know for sure what this game…

Is it a “bad decision” that you can’t play Gone Home from the perspective of a heterosexual male? Each developer can choose how they feel their game should be made. You can expect every developer to make a hundred different versions of a game to cater to each individuals world view.

The genre is entirely based on repeated mysteries starring the same detective. For that reason I feel like this gets a strong exemption from the general discontentment with recycling IP, particularly since the movie itself was an original work.

Personally what I found objectionable was not that he does not like Indian food. It is when he insinuated that anyone else who likes it is lying and just saying it to be be PC, is what I find objectionable.

1. You don’t need to be a doctor to know that men have a biological physical advantage over women in terms of height, weight, strength, reach etc.

It’s absolutely absurd to postulate that only a doctor may weigh in on this subject.

I’m cynical and trust the motives and intent of very few human beings. I have no medical opinion. So, it’s just funny that a person with no fighting experience decides to enter professional MMA (with one amateur fight for experience) in their 30s (ancient to start), and have a combined record of 6-1 against people who…