“Given an infinite amount of time and actual economic pressures, all adventuring groups become…”
“Given an infinite amount of time and actual economic pressures, all adventuring groups become neutral evil.”
Archive - September 7th, 2014
“There were doubtlessly people who said, “Well, it’s useless to think about building something to…”
“”There were doubtlessly people who said, “Well, it’s useless to think about building something to ward off the barbarians! There’s no guaranteed solution!” And what they never considered was that the shrug advice was pretty shitty […] the problem with that “shrug” advice to deal with the current situation is that, like the peasants trying to deal with barbarians, the advice to get by for today condemns women everywhere to a horrible future forevermore. “”
“It took me a while to realize that the feminists were asking for action, support and consideration….”
“It took me a while to realize that the feminists were asking for action, support and consideration. Anita Sarkeesian wasn’t saying that I was personally to blame, or that because I had played games with objectionable content that I was directly promoting misogyny. She was saying that I was operating within a certain framework, a framework that I should really take a step back from and regard. And then consider what I might do to change that relationship. It was one of her Feminist Frequency videos, about how female characters in games are often reduced to a single class (the tall one, the fat one, the weird one, the girl) and depicted using pink coloration that finally made me understand.”
– The Sorry State Of Gaming’s Truthers And Their #Gamergate.
“I understand what you mean when you say your relationship with advertisers and developers is…”
“I understand what you mean when you say your relationship with advertisers and developers is complex. But your readers, the people whose blogroll is occupied by your websites and then Reddit and 4chan and 9gag and on and on, they may not understand – or worse, they may misunderstand that relationship. This is where you need to spend time clarifying everything. You need to let some sunshine in on your operations so that no one can credibly accuse you of shady dealings again. This has the added bonus of lending some credence to the idea that games journalism is actually becoming more professional.”
