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Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job by pjc50 on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:08AM (#19582616)
The tech industry in general has a bit of a toxic machismo problem, but it seems to be far worse in games. Probably it's coupled to the wider culture there.
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job by UnpossibleJim on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:12AM (#19583324)
LOL, WTF do machismo and the tech industry have to do with each other? That seems a bit of a stretch to try to connect two disparate topics into a connected "issue". I get the whole problem with Rockstar Games (if that was where you were pointing - I can only assume), but that was a singular studio. As someone who works in the game industry, and has for almost 20 years, that is not representative of the vast majority of game studios. Meek is the work you are looking for, when it comes to game studio employees, at least on the west coast. And that falls in line for most of my acquaintances in the tech industry in general. The only ones who approach "toxic masculinity" (and even then... a hard stretch) are the sales guys.
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job by Pfhreak on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:26PM (#19586678)
I only spent ~3 years in the games industry on the west coast. I was surrounded by machismo and toxic masculinity from the engineers. It wasn't everyone, but it was definitely present to a non-trivial degree.