And you still don't get to have ethics debates now because you're supporting a cause that, like it or not, supports threatening women. It's unethical to support ISIS even if you agree with whatever non-terrorist views they may have.

You are probably a troll... but in case you're not....

Hm. I don't approve of them. If I'm quiet around them, it's because I'm honestly scared of being another target as a female developer. But even straight white cis-men are being targetted if they disagree, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are scared.

Game: MGS3

Yeah. That spin, that "I made a mistake!" line... damn, it got me. Because as a Paragon, it was an easy decision to say no to the Salarians, then a hard decision to say yes while talking to the Krogans during the ride... and then that line. Really powerful scene.

That makes no sense. Are you sure it wasn't really dry sarcasm?

It's not a couple of incidents. It's all the time. It's more visible to the non-female-non-gamer now, and there are louder voices spewing more virulent hatred lately, but it's not that rare, and it's been going on for a while— women in games are harassed and devalued by mainstream gamers an awful lot. The crap against…

Yeeeeeah, I can't imagine that'd be healthy for the kids involved. And public opinion would be against any such women in the extreme, with everyone claiming they don't love their kids.

Well, that's not fair. He probably thought it was in... like... Hong Kong dollars or something. At 7000HKD, with today's exchange rate, he's just over at 900USD, and once you factor in fees, he probably got it right on!

Yes! It was not hacked, it was vandalized.

Ah, pockets. This is a contributing reason to why I bought a tablet. "Oh, but you can fit a phone in your pocket instead of carting that big tablet around in your purse, fbf!" Pockets, gentlemen? A phone does not fit in a womenswear pocket. A wallet doesn't fit in any of my pockets. So I might as well carry the…

Ah, now I get what you're saying. You're not talking about compromise in general, just that particular compromise.

Sure, but their goal is to succeed. Your solution is that they'd never even try. I mean... are you saying that in the course of your lifetime, you have never compromised your vision for anything— that you have always stopped doing things if they didn't work with your vision? If that is the case, you, sir or madam, are…

"If the market is saturated, that they will have to compromise their mobile game's vision, well, I know what I'd do."

I haven't ever worked for one of the major mobile companies, but it goes both ways. If no one wanted the micro transactions, they wouldn't pay for them. The majority of the market isn't kids making 37k euro payments. I don't think it's fair to compare that business model to mugging someone; maybe dealing drugs could…

Yeah. I'm a little conflicted about the model, tbh. I worked for a company that did one of these things. We weren't making that much (net vs gross) because of marketing and development costs. I personally don't understand the people who paid for our highest money pack— it's fun, but not worth what they paid. But at…

It's bad when people spend that much money, I'll agree, but buying in-game currencies doesn't just represent paying someone for an arbitrary bit in a database. That's how it's implemented, sure, but it really represents paying people for the work they put in on the entire game. (It also represents paying for future…

I don't think they do. My mom was a teacher and she was heartbroken when I was bullied (er, not for being gay or non-white or trans), but she felt that doing anything (or asking my teachers to do anything) directly would make the situation even worse. I think many teachers probably still feel helpless to do anything…

... Should I feel bad that I evict all the default families and have never seen these people except as random passersby before I needed their land?

Hang on. Isn't forced drowning how we test for witches? If you survive the legitimate drowning, we need to burn you at the stake.