Unfortunately my words are only based on experience. My degree is in Data Analytics so I have been on these teams I speak of and Ive seen it far too many times.

“And I’m like, bigger doesn’t matter because I believe in impact over numbers.”

I think his main question was how the statement that we need more options so more people can make characters that look like themselves could be followed immediately by a statement that people should stop making characters that look like themselves and they should “switch it up a little bit, as a treat” can coexist.

That’s a pretty extreme workload your demanding of the studio for a game you have zero investment in making.

hi im from asia I saw some youtuber criticizing your article so I cam here and Im honestly confused

You paying for my $60.00 game? Cause if you’re not, I’m gonna need you to stfu about what character I decide to make. Would recommend the same for the devs. And get out of here with that racist BS of ultimate power fantasy being white. What do you have against white people? Why can’t white kids make white characters…

To me it means that most of the players are White, and choose that as the option.  Much simpler than your statement but, also, likely more accurate.

If I can’t be a ninja in feudal Japan... there is no power fantasy to be had for me

In your other article, you lamented the lack of options that let you create a character that looks more like you. But in this one, you’re bashing players for doing the same. Seems kinda strange to me.

The ultimate ultimate power fantasy involves skipping character creation and getting to the game ASAP.

How are the beard options? That’s the part of character creators that usually disappoints me.

Your first point speaks more to the sad condition of the American workplace and at-will employment, rather than what’s fair and just.

A star for the thoughtful answer. And I don’t know if you’ll even see this, since it’s been so long since this was posted. But it’s being taken as a given that he WAS threatening to black ball her, and that’s what I disagree with. Just because she interpreted it that way doesn’t mean that’s how he meant it. That’s why…

Like who?

I seem to have given you an aneurysm. I do that on occasion.

It says at that time Ayala was someone who was trying to break into the industry. He can’t fire her, and it doesn’t sound like she was interviewing for a job with him.  It seems like the only power he had is her worry that he could blackball her.  Is there any evidence he tried to do so after she DID turn him down? …

I don’t care about streaming, and I don’t know any of the people in this article. I have no dog in this fight. I just want to ask one question: Am I reading correctly that this Dariani fellow asked a woman twice if she wanted to have a threesome, she declined twice, and he left her alone after that? And that’s the…

Yep. The common criticism to this is reflected in our world history: it repeats because we never truly learn. Gen Z is already pointing fingers and summarizing Millenials as the “complicit” generation, meaning they know of the injustice and wrongdoings in the world, but they don’t want their Netflix queue interrupted.

“I say this as a man who hates memes to begin with”