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According to the ESA 46% of the most frequent game purchasers are women, and you can't buy Facebook games. Also, really? We're just going to keep narrowing down what a "game" is in order to make sure we don't include women? What's the real difference between something like Farmville and...

No worries! The place where I draw the line is whether a person is able to legitimately make their own decisions. So if a woman decides to wear a particular thing, she is making that decision for herself. A model in a Victoria's Secret ad, on the other hand, isn't really making her own...

It's really funny, because you can actually become evil by taking something out of a fridge and putting it back in repeatedly if that something is designated as "not yours".

That's actually the part that doesn't make sense to me. I don't find a woman making her own decisions about her own body in real life to be equivalent to a team of artists deciding what a fictional woman is going to look like (though they do clearly have the right to do whatever they want...

I don't see why it would be hypocritical to say that a real woman is allowed to make whatever choices she wants to make about her body (though she is definitely influenced by the culture around her, since we all are), while a made-up character can be objectified by being dressed/portrayed in a...

The difference is that real women are actual human beings and video game women are characters who have been designed by another person. Character design is political because imaginary women can't make choices about what they do with their bodies. Characters are designed for a specific effect and...

Sounds like a Spiderweb Software game. Probably one of the Exile/Avernum iterations. There was a "Shareware demon" at the edges of the world that you could get to in the demo that told you to buy the whole game to get past it.

I don't think it's as simple as a sexist/not-sexist binary switch you can flip, or making non-sexist games would certainly be easier! The way that the character is being talked about in the media makes me uneasy though. Not just because of that oogy implication one guy made about her finding her...

Considering how many people actually bought Mirror's Edge, that might not be the best example.