Yeah, and I appreciate YT for that. I was more referring to the Twitter posts, and the kind of shit that regularly rises to the top of subreddits like r/gaming.

Yeah, I should have added more context. I think the problem is that sexual harassment is still kind of a pandemic, and a lot of grown men (especially in gaming) don’t know how to draw the line between what is and isn’t acceptable behavior towards women.

It isn’t, no. But AO3 at least lets you opt into the mature shit. These nerds are being horny on main.

To expand on my earlier comment:

I haven’t made it super far into the second game, but it’s interesting to think about how Horizon as a franchise portrays power structures.

There is literally no other way to describe this other than “gamer moment”.

Doubting if a video game developer in Ukraine cares about the Ukrainian people is one hell of a moment.

On one hand, maybe? But on the other hand, ultimately as an artist you can never truly separate your politics from your work, because your worldview will bleed into your works in ways that are subtle but identifiable.

I was terrified of playing Forgotten City for years because of this reason. Then it came on Game Pass and I kept hearing good things about it so I gave it a go, and it was such a beautiful, thoughtful, kind game. There’s a part of me that’s a bit ashamed I kept passing on it just because of how tainted ancient Rome…

This is the vibe I get too. They’re projecting their own cynicism onto the world. People who aren’t like them—aka people with empathy and compassion—exist only to be taken advantage of. They firmly believe that the only way to not be taken advantage of is to abandon empathy and embrace cynicism. “The world is awful,…

This sounds so absolutely bananas and yet I 100% get it. Just by virtue of wearing a mask, he has already demonstrated that he has a basic level of care/responsibility for the health of those around him, and he isn’t so breathtakingly stupid as to be misled by braindead conspiracy theories. Doesn’t necessarily mean he…

I’ve lost count of the number of women I’ve spoken to during the pandemic who have expressed joy at no longer being randomly asked by strangers to smile. It’s astounding.

Even more fun to unpack is the assumptions the developer makes about the player’s gender and about women in general:

Oh my lord your ending analogy is perfect it is EXACTLY what that is like lol

Irony.

I contend that it will not truly be equal until they modify the vast majority of male best in slot armor to the following options:

“Women don’t make up the majority of the player base so their needs are largely immaterial” ain’t exactly the galaxy brain take you think it is, chief.

Ruh-roh, I think itch.io just fell to the Internet Hug of Death lol

I really just don’t understand how anyone can hate women so much to mute them by default and avoid playing with them. Like… how insecure do you have to be? Are they that much of a threat to your existence? How do you exist in the real world where you have to interact with women on a daily basis?

If any Steam / MS / Sony / Humble / other game store platform peeps are online and reading this, I’m hoping y’all are planning some sales and bundles focused on devs in Ukraine and any other affected regions. Any attention on the conflict would be helpful, and this’d be an easy and surefire way to compel any…