What part of the word “anymore” do you not understand?

Ooof. Is this really the best you can do?

Why? What’s the issue? There’s an entire “Politics” subsection - what are they supposed to do while the debates are airing?

Yuck. Way to project your own baggage onto the rest of the world. What a fantastic trait to cultivate.

You brought such great data to the discussion. What an incredible contribution! Thanks SO much for participating, and proving to all of us what thoughtful people there are on the pro-burning-gasoline side.

Wait, so who out of the current crop of candidates has better policies for black people? Because Bernie is SURELY better than Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar. Elizabeth Warren is my favorite candidate, but Sanders has to be a close second as far as addressing institutional racism goes.

No substance? In a TRAILER? Say it ain’t so.

Yes, the only options are a Hummer or a Honda Fit. There’s definitely NOTHING in between those that could possibly fit a tall person. Not a single roomy sedan or crossover. You really nailed it, ya big baby.

What a dumb take. Convicted criminals are routinely banned from behavior that is legal for others. Registered sex offenders are frequently banned from entering or working in schools, for example. In the US, felons often lose their right to carry guns or even vote in elections. Your premise that it’s impossible to ban…

Maybe you should just tell people this up front then, so they can “guard their time more wisely” instead of wasting it on someone whose response to an earnest friend is a desire to punch them in the face for saying something marginally off-putting. I sure would appreciate the advanced warning that you have serious…

Then the answer to that question for you is just “yes” and then you get to avoid the anxiety. So for you, this question is no different than someone just dumping the info on you right off the bat. No harm done. But to someone else, it might be VERY helpful.

Ain’t nobody dying on any hills here. All anyone in this thread has done is type a few paragraphs of text.

“It’s a long game.”

“if a game studio doesn’t want to make a game with women, why should they be pillorized?”

Since I didn’t make that argument, I can’t defend it. Perhaps address your concerns to someone who actually asserted that.

That’s fine. We just have different defaults. I’m automatically mega suspicious of any developer that omits women entirely, and you’re willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. Fair enough.

If the question is “why does anyone care if any one game is or isn’t inclusive,” the answer is that no game exists in a vacuum. Inclusivity is a problem across the industry, and every game is a part of that industry and thus either part of the problem or part of the solution. Excusing every individual game for its…

No one is “forcing” anyone to do anything. You can make whatever you want, and other people can critique it for whatever reason they want. What people seem to be asking is “when will you stop critiquing art” and the answer is, as it has always been: never. Art will always be critiqued.

Yovargas’s question is answered in literally the first sentence of the article above. Why is it a problem if Tarkov specifically omits women?

“In a 2016 interview, Escape From Tarkov designer Pavel Dyatlov said women weren’t in the game because they “can’t handle that amount of stress.””

It’s only an “argument” because people seem to think every piece of criticism is a personal attack on them. You don’t HAVE to have this argument at all. You can say, “Huh, that person has a different critique than me. Interesting!” and move on. The fact that people think criticism MUST be responded to and crushed into…