There is not and never has been a meritocracy in any workplace ever. The literature on unconscious bias in hiring is incredibly vast. Women also agree that the best people should get the jobs - that would mean a lot more equality in the workplace than we have currently.

The autistic people I have known in my life were not outright misogynists. Don’t give these creeps an out.

Systemic biases don’t exist, you say? Everyone is equal? Racism and sexism have no effect on the careers people choose? Wow, breaking news here from a guy who has literally never considered that anyone else’s life is different than his own.

In this case, going to far is doing the bare minimum to even recognize that there are systemic problems in the industry, let alone addressing them in any effective way. God, you weaklings are so boring. Do you think a knee-jerk skepticism of women is a new take? Do you think we haven’t heard this before?

First, you’re equating the graduation rates from one year with the pool of candidates as a whole. Math is not your strong suit!

That meme is usually focused the opposite way, on actual neckbeard woman-haters instead of people who care about equality.

Teachers have a responsibility to their students, who are there to learn. Game developers have no responsibility to teach pathetic adults about basic social niceties. I’m not sure why you think the situations are comparable in any way. You are correct that gamers are basically children, though.

You can’t use the word “gamer” for everyone who plays video games. It’s been taken over by the shitheads. And it doesn’t matter how small the terrible minority is, they set the tone for the entire industry. Have you played an online shooter lately? Visited the @replies of a development studio? Seen the comments on…

Anyone who makes “gamer” a major part of their self-identification, yeah pretty much. It’s become a term for the worst kind of entitled gamers who think playing video games makes them somehow special.

I actually don’t know why I’m a grey, I’m not on half the other Gawker Media or Univision or whatever sites.

It was supposed to go to another post, weird. But the sentiment remains: the toxic culture of gaming isn’t due to anything other than idiot gamers. The voice of young, stupid men is overwhelmingly represented in the subculture, and they’re the worst people imaginable. It’s insanely entitled to think that because a…

I agree that victims are to blame. Obviously all the toxicity of gamers is totally not their fault, gamers are blameless saints. We should make changes to everything else before doing one iota of introspection. It’s definitely on developers and publishers to make gamers less shitty, not the gamers themselves. And…

Game developers and studios are not “villains,” and you’re one of the delusional entitled gamers that are helping make gaming worse. There isn’t a more toxic subculture that is so widely accepted. Try playing an hour of PUBG without someone using a racial slur, or literally any length of time being a woman online.

Self-identified gamers are trash people. What about that makes you think it’s anybody else’s fault

You could make that argument, but you’d be disingenuous and wrong.

You’re right, the toxic culture of harassment and hate that surrounds basically every aspect of gaming is totally the fault of the people making games, not the terrible people that play them. Listen to yourself. “It’s okay to threaten to murder someone if a game has a different level of detail between E3 and release.”…

In what world is government regulation of videogame content a reasonable solution to anything?

One Korean movie that’s really overlooked is City of Violence, which had some incredible Warriors-inspired fight scenes and a super-fun OTT plot.

Have you seen every Bond film? Have you read the books?

Yeah, I think the only great failing of Lost Soul is that it doesn’t really go into how badly Richard Stanley handled everything on set. He seems like a nice enough guy but not exactly a commanding presence or a people person.