Recent content by Alterego-X

Not really, it just brings us back to the previous point about how really it's the changing of previously known content that makes this into a big issue. No one would receive the message from Beyond Good and Evil that it's disempowering to women because it's denying the option for Jade to...

You don't get to plead subtext, when your entire point is resting on pretending not to get the context of inclusivity towards demographic groups. Maybe if the he said "we want to make everyone equally happy", you could play an overtly literal nitpicking and point out, that technically...

Anyone who would receive that message from the fact that a single female character with her painted-on pants is NOT striking pinup girl pose, would already receive the same message from every anime that fails to have a panty shots, every novel that has an asexual character in it, and every film...

Even if you really wato get technical, he specifically DIDN'T say this, but that "We want everyone to feel strong and heroic in our community". No one feels weak, or unheroic, by not getting to look at a particular pinup girl pose. The reverse is not necessarily true. This should be an...

Props for this paragraph, it does add a lot to what would otherwise be a hypocritical mess. I mean, it doesn't actually make much sense, after all the whole point of beta releases is to release things into the public while making it clear that you are still in the process of modifying them...

The problem is exactly that they have been only making them, instead of coherently owing up to them and their main goal. Anyone can say "Actually, you are the real sexists" as a cheap talking point. If the rest of the debate continues to be framed as censorous SJWs trying to force a studio's...

However, when cries like that about fearing the SJWs censorous forum posts, are mixed with angry arguments by the same people about how Blizzard's recent choice is offensive to women, and with demands of what they should have done instead, that does mean that they are probably full of it.

And apparently that "enough people" is exactly one person making a politely worded comment in a feedback thread.

And that would all be relevant, if the people disagreeing with the change, would owe up to these points. "We have our own beliefs about standards of appropriateness, and about respecting women, and want to enforce those instead of the ones that this commenter believes in" would be hard to...

The Syberia games are brilliant, but maybe more appropriate for someone who does like point and click games. Their atmosphere largely relies on the ambient sceneries and music, as they burn into your brain while you are wandering around pixel hunting and combining inventory tools. With a quick...

But the precedent has ALWAYS been set. Back when Fatpeoplehate has been running, it's moderators censored any post that wasn't properly hating fat people. There has never existed some mythical status of everyone-can-say-whatever-they-want-on-the-internet. Sites, sub-sites, threads, and...

Yes, it was a Dark Souls joke, except that Dark Souls was brought up nowhere in the thread, that was about a girl's Planetside themed photo, and her gender getting repeatedly questioned by posters until she deleted her account. Ok, so it's not transpobic, because it's a joke about...

For the record, absolutely anyone can "own" a subreddit. This is a random redditor's opinion. r/koans in particular is an incredibly obscure sub, full of it's owner's self-posts, 0-5 comments on them, and 0-10 upvotes. The resignation post has 600 replies and 2400 upvotes at the moment...

For the record, this is not true. This [https://archive.is/5LxLK] is what r/whalewatching looked like before the ban. The last whale-related picture was posted there two years ago, and all of it's current mods were people who were simultanously squatting on hundreds of non-used subs...

No, they don't. They are allowed to kick literally everyone out, and reorganize the website as their personal blog, if they want to. But again, that's a practical argument, not a moral one. You may be right, and one of the the biggest online communities will crumble without the inclusion...