Not a gun person, but darn if that isn’t pretty-looking. Love how the Victorian age liked to bedazzle everything.

Zing!

Yeah I have to say I’m glad that they took it so seriously and acted quickly to change it. Sometimes it’s not foreseeable how your new technology might be abused to harass other people. But I’m glad they didn’t just brush it off. 

I think an on/off switch for the bubble would be a good solution, with the caveat that if yours is “on”, others avatars can’t see you/reach into the bubble whether theirs is on or not. Personally I would prefer if “on” was default.

It’s not millennials, man. I’ve encountered people of all ages with that kind of thinking. It’s an extension of an already-existing issue (sexism) into a new medium, but it wasn’t invented by this generation.

Listen, I know you probably mean well but this is literally what I have been told my whole life as a woman. Police yourself, be higher than others, ignore all the many insults and the denigration. Basically, don’t do anything about it. Why is it on us to just put up with it, for being harassed for no other reason than…

With Halo trolls it’s annoying and stupid, although also creating a hostile environment. Women getting harassed in games is well-documented way before VR came into being. But at least there’s a level of separation. VR is supposed to be immersive, the point is that it feels like it is happening to you, not to an avatar…

I’m actually kind of encouraged by the amount of people defending the developers decision and the seriousness of harassment. You guuuuise!

Maybe, but I don’t really see the downside to the invisibility bubble in most circumstances, to be honest. On the flip side, other players could accidentally get themselves banned by moving the wrong way or backing into someone, etc., in a way that seems unseemly but was not purposeful.

I don’t get that argument either. She could have “just” quit the game, which she did, but that’s basically saying it’s okay to have entire games — genres, even — where women are disincentivized from participating because they have to put up with harassment in order to play.

One where women are harassed in literally every aspect of their lives. Real, virtual, VR which is a combination of both. Just because it doesn’t bother you doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem.

I think what’s important is that developers need to think about it critically when putting their games together. There may not be a one-size-fits-all solution, but having that issue as a part of your development plans is clearly important.

Don’t forget the “comfort women” taken from Korea, too.

I think an avenue for exception to a salary cap would be better than removing the cap altogether. Caps help to discourage taking advantage of overtime (as has happened in police departments, most notably in Boston several years ago during union negotiations during the recession). But there should also be an avenue for…

Especially now that there is essentially no fear of supply problems. When I was a kid you preordered a game so that you could get it right away, without delays lasting days or weeks waiting for new shipments and physically checking the store repeatedly. Now you can just download it and the local shop is almost sure to…

They did, although walking around all day with that leotard up your butt seems mighty uncomfortable.

The body proportions are freaking me out

I think her argument is more that Subway knew about him way back in 2004, and if they had done the right thing and reported it to the police, she never would have married him years later in 2010 and put her own children at risk.

Because she’s not an escort and that’s not her job?

If I was less protective of my kids online privacy I would totally post the video I took the other day of my toddler opening her Halloween Wonder Woman costume. So. Freakin. Excited. Hasn’t taken them off for two days now.