As much as realism is an inherent part of the open-world genre I think there’s a line. I don’t mind that all the NPCs exist for the player’s benefit or to interact with the player because I still realize that, ultimately, I am playing a video game. Every mechanic in the game exists solely for me to manipulate and…

Actually, you should do that too.

I work in gaming with an AAA developer, and I am a woman. The environment is not perfect, but it’s getting better, and every developer is different. Let’s hope in 20 or so years when these girls are ready to work it’ll have progressed even more. But I wouldn’t steer women away from working in gaming because of those…

I work in gaming and I disagree. I’m still passionate about games and I think the gaming industry can be a great one to work in - it depends on where you work and what you do.

But that’s not how children’s interests work. Children don’t develop their interests in a vacuum; they develop interests based on what they’re exposed to. It’s no accident that a lot of kids are interested in their parents’ interests. A child isn’t organically going to become interested in video games unless they are…

Are you intentionally missing the point, or just by accident?

I choose to see it this way - by presenting myself as a gamer, I am changing people’s stereotypical ideas about what a “gamer” is. I don’t look like anyone’s stereotype of a gamer, and I have lots of other hobbies and ways to spend my time. Gaming isn’t even the first hobby I go to when I’m bored or have downtime. But…

Or we could just teach them not to be assholes online. There’s that.

What’s wrong with Roblox? Not every gamer wants to shoot something in games, and this is coming from someone who really enjoys shooting things in games.

The current brand director of Minecraft is a woman who started off as a Minecraft YouTuber so...I wouldn’t despair too much about it :)

I looked up Maj Toure because his shirt intrigued me (not in a good way). He seems all kinds of twisted up. He grew up in North Philly, and admits to not knowing much about guns at all. He started Black Guns Matter because he saw “all these guys across my community catching the same case,” aka getting arrested and…

You hit the nail directly on the head with this one.

I mean, I have definitely had this happen before. Something interrupts you at the wrong time and all of a sudden you’re walking out with shopping bags, $50 broker and no memory of how you got there.

I have no horse in this race, but isn’t a hate song and a Mean Girls comparison a little over the top for stealing some backup dancers during a tour? Although admittedly, that was a great song.

This kind of attitude baffles me. Of course Rockstar can do what they want, but that doesn’t mean we can’t criticize them if we think their practices are shady.

I think 25 is well past the age where we can keep giving people a pass for being shitty to other people.

I think the point is...who the fuck cares? Elizabeth Warren grew up like a white woman and society treats her like a white woman. I probably have a more recent white ancestor than Warren’s distant “Cherokee” ancestor, but that doesn’t mean society is going to treat me like a white woman.

There are two reservations on Long Island (Shennecock and Poospetuck) and ten in New York state alone.

I want to know where people think all this overflowing money is for black and brown kids for college. I mean, sure, there are some scholarships for students from underrepresented backgrounds (that also tend to be very competitive), but the way people talk about it you’d think there was a Fort Knox’s worth of money for…

Yes! For several years, actually. Gay bars actually led the charge - they stopped ordering orange juice; instead of screwdrivers, some bars served cocktails with vodka and apple juice (and called it the Anita Bryant cocktail). Some also put signs outside of their establishments’ windows to proclaim why they were…