Ugh, this. I just googled a cheat sheet, because I want knowledge points and no, I did not know that the origin of the term “Magistrate’s Patronage” came from Minamoto no Yoshitsune, whoever that is. Or that Japanese artists and architects use the silver ratio as opposed to gold. Or that while paper money is…

I don’t mean to speak for someone else but I read that as “it should have been given an 18+ as opposed to the refusal to classify”

When presented with the choice between being a pessimist or optimist, I’m going to choose the latter. Maybe these games are just a drop in a big ass ocean. But if even one person does some reflection or feels something because of something they’ve played here, I think that means it was worth it.

We can have both. Creators can spread message of resistance in art and folks can march in the street. Hell, creators can march in the street as well. That’s the nice thing about the world; it’s nuanced and not a zero sum space.

“you play as Will, a shopkeeper who must spelunk dungeons to get the materials for his shop. I died quickly, but it didn’t matter: I still had stuff to sell.”

Yes, remember the SJW inquisition and how it killed thousands? Remember how SJWs told you what days and times you can buy alcohol to not make a magic skyman angry? Your parallel is so well thought out and not specious at all.

Waifu Castlevania would be cool. Oh wait, Bloodstained is a thing.

That Penny Arcade strip was cute!

Marketing

I work at a Target store...a few years ago we stopped gender coloring our toy aisles, and the media went into a full on frenzy about how Target was trying to ruin the youth with their “confusing toy aisles.”

Provide ANY supporting peer-reviewed study for your insistence that the words “masculinity” and “femininity” have any merit in a child’s upbringing. We’ll all sit here and wait for you to prove you’ve got any intellectual legs to stand on.

Awesome, reminds me of my sister’s polly pocket toys when we were growing up.

See, this is what I mean.

Gender separation of children’s toys demonstrably exists because executives want total market separation, not because kids inherently reject items coded for a stereotype of the opposite sex.

Okay, want me to actually respond? Rigidly enforcing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ gender dynamics on children is inherently harmful.

Did you know that around a 100 years ago, pink was for boys and blue was for girls? Also, boys and girls both wore dresses until they were around 6. It’s a social construct.

Hey, guys. We found the asshole.

I’m going to be that person. Applying gender to toys is bullshit, and it’s one of many things we should stop applying gender to.

But in an e-mail, he noted that this interpretation could be reductive. Genre and gaming motivation don’t explain gender breakdown with complete accuracy. 

This is really important, to remember that when we’re talking about genders in aggregate none of the information actually applies to the individual. This is…

It seems like a reasonable request. I can also see how it would be tricky to execute it in what seems like a fair manner.