Have you even tried VR? like, ever? Maybe grandma isn’t going to buy a $400-800 headset and the hardware to run it, but she probably owns a reasonably powerful smartphone, and there are an awful lot of cardboard/gear clones coming out in the near future that aren’t even remotely near the price point you’re quoting.…

This! Women are gamers, women are developers, and women drive most purchasing decisions across the board.

There are always more players, fullstop, than there are developers - so your statement makes little sense. But there are plenty of female developers. I spoke to more than one female developer who went to this event. Yes, we are outnumbered everywhere we go, but not in the numbers you apparently think we are. And we…

That’s also not exclusively men.

Real games? Plz define real games for me. I mean, I make video games for a living, but obviously you know better than me what a “real game” is. I work in mobile/vr though, so I guess I’m not a “real game” dev.

You also don’t see microbes in daily life, but I bet you still wash your hands.. Just because you aren’t seeing something, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Did you attend the convention? Because I did. And not even half of the content there was about AAA games. There were a ton of mobile devs, VR devs, etc. And your 65 year old auntie IS a gamer. She’s part of the audience, she’s part of the people that we are creating games for. There’s no such thing as a “REAL GAMER”.…

... Are you actually this clueless or just trolling for kicks? You do realize that there are women who attend these events too, right? A lot of us, in fact.

Yeah, I had similar experiences to this as late as the early 90s..

My thoughts exactly.

I work for a startup, and we actually set aside money to make sure there’s always a bottle of scotch in the office for the days when we need it...

Yeah, I kept it to one basic point - my dislike of the term “Overachiever” and why people should stop using it. The other valedictorian (we had two, one per quarter at my graduation) had a speech which was about 7 minutes, had been thoroughly prepared and discussed with and reviewed with an instructor, and I can’t…

I really want hanging ogre to be a new cool phrase, now. Like “Yeah, wanna come over and hang ogre?”

Yeah, I could read and write at age 3, so by the time I got to school I was already far ahead of the other kids, and by the age of 8 or so, my reading level was functionally adult (of course some adult concepts may have been beyond me, but my language and vocabulary skills in general were up there..) I frustrated many…

Yeah, it’s not like Tess of the D’urbervilles is the ultimate page turner, you know?

I had to give a speech at my graduation. It was supposed to be “2-5 minutes long”.. I was like, who the hell wants to hear me speak for 5 minutes about bullshit? Nobody. I kept it right around the 2 minute mark, and everyone thanked me afterwards, specifically for that reason.

In english class, they’d make the whole class read along in a book while someone from the class read out loud. This is understandably slow and annoying, so I frequently would just read ahead and go on with the story. My teacher realized what I was doing at one point, and was like “No, you must follow along with the…

It’s good that you’ve made him aware of the consequences of his actions - what happens next isn’t your fault, but his choice.

Haha, feel free to use it if you start one.

But this is all so soon.. I.... I think I love you too?