No, because this is a problem everywhere. Look at San Francisco. Pretty much every place you find a group of white men in charge, they think it’s a meritocracy, when really it’s sexism and racism being used to exclude women and people of color.

Isn’t it funny - the talking to randos school of journalism totally has its place. The key is, you talk to randos and then you use these conversations to figure out what’s going on. You don’t know what’s going on first, and then look around for people to talk to who will confirm or liven up or lend local color to your…

I’d think the most terrifying thing to those who promote the idea that we already live in a perfect meritocracy is a popular movement for a genuine meritocracy.

Ashley going to the Peggy Noonan/Tom Friedman Journalism By Talking To Randos School. I like it.

I will never understand why asking questions automatically sorts someone into the “outraged” box. I don’t care what an indie game turns out to be like, but I’m curious as to why he made these decisions, I don’t feel like his answers really cover it and that he contradicts himself at times, and I know that if I was…

Soccer? I’d barely rank her!

That’s true. I wish he’d been more upfront about what he was selling, though. The relationships in the game sounded like one of the coolest parts, but ended up being the most annoying (in my case, not so much because of LGB issues as because of the male colonists all being super sexually aggressive in a way that made…

That’s just being lazy. If your going to create something and take the stance that you don’t have to do anything better or more diverse, that’s totally fine. But you can’t get mad when people criticize that.

Diversity in all it’s forms is not even an “ideal” societal concept. Especially in the west, that’s simply a…

The “all women are up for sleeping with other women” thing isn’t inclusiveness. It’s just straight male fantasy.

Let me get this straight.

I missed the part in the article where the dev was arrested and all his assets impounded, his business shut down and his bank accounts seized?

He doesn’t “need to,” but his choice not to can certainly be criticized. He doesn’t have any obligation, but people are free to share their opinions on his creation. That’s how that works.

“Could it not be more likely that programming all possibilities that can occur in life might be a lot more cumbersome/costly/require more time/etc. than programming the most prevalent occurrences?”

Why is straight up commentary labeled “Thought Police”? Obviously, someone did an investigation and presented the results. I disagree with your characterization.

You’re against “thought police” but are upset about the idea of..... someone having a thought.

I don’t care to go after the guy for only basing attraction on physical features—why do a bunch of extra coding for just one unrealistic thing?—but the lack of strictly straight women is bizarre.

I wish developers who create things with strong implicit biases, could just admit they did so with bias involved. As humans, certain experiences make it very easy to create things that cater specifically narrow standards, right?

I feel like admitting that we are flawed and can always do better, is way more acceptable…

It’s an offensive caricature of a Native American, complete with stereotypical red skin and oversized nose. See also:

no, the term “SJW” was invented as a weak retort by assholes in a pathetic attempt to defend the indefensible.

Nah, it was invented because people who either don’t understand or don’t give a crap about considering the concerns of marginalized people needed something to shout into the void.