How do you know that? According to google analytics, I’m a man between 18-24. In reality, I’m a 44 year old woman. You’re counted as a man when you like ‘man’ things, which in turn reinforces that a thing is for ‘men only’ because only men are reading it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Games are games are games. Smartphone apps included, friend. I don’t go in for “No true scotsman” bullshit when it comes to what is and isn’t a game. Entertainment-based feedback loops are pretty much all that are required.

What data? All the data I’ve seen points to nearly half of the gaming populace as women.

Do people find the manchild-husband/ballbreaking-wife dynamic funny? It always seems lame, as a comedy bit. As a personal arrangement it just seems...sad.

God fucking damnit this is some absolute bullshit. Why why WHY IN THE FUCKING WORLD is it that this is where I find myself being most embarrassed? I feel like the sheer amount of vicious, casual apathy these walking vomitoriums spew has turned the word gamer into a slur. Fucking Christ!

As a concept artist, I think asking that question consistently is really empowering, actually, as long as it’s responded to appropriately. It’s not a “can we fit a female/nonbinary/minority into this character?” sort of thing, it should be moreso “is this character better as something other than a while, straight…

Video game ‘culture’ is an embarrasing tire fire.

Ugh at this topic. I’m glad you got someone who actually does localization as a profession for the podcast, because being bilingual and playing Japanese games, I feel like a lot of these anti-PC, anti-“censorship” people don’t fucking get that a lot of shit in Japanese games literally won’t make any goddamn sense in…

Well, sure, but for cinematic effect, it’s going to be far more interesting than sitting on an examination table with a VR device. Sometimes you have to take certain liberties with the setting and props to maintain visual interest. It’s not like the Animus device itself is critical to the experience, other than its…

So Gamergate has become so toxic that a publisher would rather promote a negative review of their own game than be associated with them. Quite a rep those kids have built up.

I expect trans will be their next big target now that they’re losing grip over fear of “the homosexuals.”

Good for them. Trans people have been using whichever restroom they are comfortable with for decades now, and there have been no issues. It wasn’t until the GOP decided to make it against the law that it became an issue. We only ended up with weirdos in the women’s restrooms once men from conservative organizations…

That’s a key point in this kind of thinking. Like being an a-hole is somehow noble or just or a brave political stance. I recall being a young teen and having a feeling that there was something politically significant about being an a-hole. But it turns out I was just a young idiot and eventually realized that it’s…

He literally went after a guy who had just given him $5 and paid him a compliment. A person told him “You helped save my life” and his response was to go on a rant designed to hurt this person and people like him.

They aren’t beholden to any feminist moral code.

Yeah, maybe you are in the fandom for the wrong scifi universe.

I’m pretty sure the golden age of non-modern movies when they didn’t play fast and loose with the laws of physics and continuity is a figment of your imagination.

This is the best gif to illustrate this story. Thank you.

Finally I get to share my story publicly in a setting where people WANT to hear it!!! In December 2014, I started having really massive stomach cramps. I thought perhaps I had eaten something bad, or was PMSing, but these cramps were constant. I couldn’t sleep, I stopped being able to eat. I couldn’t stand up…

I feel like I can’t compete with the writer’s story, but for me it was a period/virus combo. I had clots the size of guinea pigs dropping out of my vagina as I sat shaking on the toilet shitting my brains out while throwing up into a trashcan.