The same reason they keep saying that America's gun ownership is a magic spell to ward off tyranny. It's a security blanket that makes them feel better.
Isn't she almost 40?
Oh look, a woman infiltrating a male space and telling men they need to change it and claiming they were never the core of their own hobby.
Conservatives were always an enemy too, they simply lost enough cultural power to stop being the biggest threat.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that people like this calling the shots is why Bioware has been steadily in decline for at least a decade.
Is there a literal prohibition on white male leads in western game dev?
Almost certainly.
Is this the equivalent of turning on the bat signal?
Since I learned how to navigate DOS to launch Commander Keen, Episode 1: Marooned on Mars. Sorry, it's probably before your time so you wouldn't know it.
Don't question my credentials child, I predate you by a generation at least if those are your benchmarks for legacy.
They're not people.
You absolutely are. Get the fuck out of my hobby and don't come back. It's not about the sex, it's about the censorship and hostility towards the medium. This attack is as unwelcome today as it was in the 90s and the people supporting it don't belong here.
Sounds like the normies need a visit from the Inquisition.
It's a stale and mean spirited meme in my opinion. I think it has genuinely done a lot of harm to society and creates malevolent incentive structures.
The bread is too expensive and the circuses are all shitty.
Stereotypically bad take from a handshake. Get the fuck out of here.
Banish the tourists from my hobby. If you want to ban this shit you don't belong here and I want you gone. You aren't welcome and you never were. This is just a resurgence of the Jack Thompson and his ilk.
Just because the Left came for my games doesn't mean I've forgotten when the Christian Right did the same. They're both outsiders that need to be driven out with fire and sword.
Jesus, that really does come across like a woman moment.
probably because you've spent too much time following stuff like this on the internet like the rest of us. It's all confirmation bias at this point.
It was never about money, it was always about waging a holy war.
I"m so tired of having to explain this. Everything they do they because their god commands it of them. Money is never a consideration at any point. Their behavior is dictated solely by their moral framework. That's it, that's the entire fucking puzzle solved.
What!? You mean random .jpgs can't be trusted? Who could have foreseen such a thing?
Deport every single gaijin. I want Japan to be Japanese. They gain nothing from having foreigners in their country.
I missed that. When did we learn that Tony is a she?
This is the real problem. It'd be fine if everyone was honest about the nature of the human animal and structured society around that understanding, but instead we're in some sort of twilight zone where up is down and left is diagonal.
On the grounds of "fuck you, who's really gonna bomb us to take it back?"
Wow, it's almost like they orchestrated it.
He's just being hostile because he's brown.
Lots of people out there want to control the medium as nothing more than a vehicle with which to push their own worldview on others. These attacks can come from either side of the left/right divide.