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After Roberto Rosario's excellent blog post, here's an example of the kind of thing you see more and more in tech these days:

https://archive.is/bJ1Ll

Edit: that didn't archive correctly... pics
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Guilt-tripping, privilege-pushing "empathy talks" that are always hailed as "groundbreaking"... mainly because they are the tech equivalent of a revival. It's always hollow platitudes that completely ignore that actual effect "diversity efforts" have had. i.e. Careers ruined, events shamed, and ever more hyperbolic codes of conduct introduced.

A weird thread was posted and then deleted about Penny Arcade and SJWs, how their stance might seem inconsistent. In between the shitstirring I think there was a worthwhile point to be made, so I'm making it.

Why is Penny Arcade so sheepish despite their history with SJWs?
 

PA has been the story of two guys growing up with their audience through their alter-egos, including marriage and kids. Especially after the Child's Play charity, PAX conventions, they went from being the cool uncles to being the dads themselves. PA's rebellious facade has softened into a schtick, an outlet for people who have mostly settled down and given up on that stuff, both them and their original audien

http://kotaku.com/5991145/shes-sexy-now-kill-her
https://archive.is/7M9qV

Stephen Totilo takes 1500 words to say he's uncomfortable when stabbing a female monster's tits in a video game that consists of non-stop mythological violence and features a rich cast of male and female monsters.

it's not like we could see any of the Gorgon's below-the-waist reproductive organs. She's a snake down there. For her part, at least, we only can discuss toplessness.

Dear Vancouver,

I don't think you understand at all. What's so wrong with this place. It's simple really. You confuse labels with reality. The idea with the execution. The first step with a long-term plan.

Let’s start with "world-class city". Nobody seems to know what it means, the people using it don't know what other cities around the world look like, that's for sure. A "world-class city" here means antiquated traffic and transit infrastructure, puritan liquor laws and entertainment, and no functional public space. The architecture is designed for one thing: looking good from a single angle in the real-estate brochure. This isn't how it's supposed to be. I think you fail to notice bec

So Double Fine retweeted this article on Indiewire: https://archive.today/RgZJ8

In light of what insiders have told us about people using their connections for positive coverage, consider what this article is doing:

It makes some vague statements and predictions about coming of age tales, by comparing the movie "Boyhood" to Broken Age and Gone Home. One is an unfinished game by Double Fine with production and financial troubles, the other is a game that received very favourable press. It makes statements about things that are becoming "more common" in video games without providing any supporting evidence. It waxes in emotive language about Gone Home's gameplay, characters and story,

Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

**Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents

I saw this question in a Skype interview with Eron Gjoni, as well as variants in the way people like Max Temkin were treated and bashed in the follow up by Patricia Hernandez.

"If you knew how people would react, and what would happen, would you have done it differently?"

The stronger version is, "Do you regret what you've done, knowing the fallout?"

Nobody can predict the future and we all act according to the available information. So people might try to counter this by saying "Well, I did my research and talked to the people around me, because I knew I wasn't entirely neutral myself." But this is a trap, because the journalist can just force the issue: *"But you really didn't kno