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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by agbrrw on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:49AM (#38392707)
Boys clubs have created many if not most of the best games in history (not talking about GTA only), so I thank boys clubs everyday.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by paulryanrogers on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:54AM (#38392763)
Because they were boys clubs? Or survivor bias and in spite of their demographics?

IME the only consistency I noticed among boys clubs is bullies rule and out groups are mocked.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by asylteltine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:39AM (#38393216)
From my personal experiences, yes because they were boys clubs. But not because they were men, because they weren’t pc or driven by diversity. It would be great if the “boys club” was 50% women, as long as it wasn’t like a modern Ubisoft dev team that looks like an HRs wet dream. The end result are sterile boring games that aren’t funny or interesting.

Remember when you could make jokes?

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:49AM (#38394044)
Isn't it funny that the least funny people always complain about their inability to make jokes anymore?

Plus the misattribution of watered-down safe products from corporations as being because they're "pc or driven by diversity" instead of driven by profits and avoiding controversy because it would hurt their bottom line.

It's like saying that babies are to blame for bad children's programming.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:58AM (#38401578)
> Isn't it funny that the least funny people always complain about their inability to make jokes anymore?

Maybe you really don't know, but John Cleese is considered extremely funny, and has been for decades: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/10/john-cleese-...

Bill Burr is also widely regarded as a good comedian, making funny jokes: https://actorsareidiots.com/bill-burr-people-taking-offense-...

Dave Chappelle made a similar complaint (that he will not be changing his material to bend to some people's demands) and is also widely regarded as funny: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1049113893/dave-chappelle-res...

How about someone who is not widely known, but still considered quite highly as a funny person? Here's what she literally said: "Jokes used to be accepted as jokes [...] Morality police now dictate what we can and can’t say. " - https://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2023/02/10/52508/go...

Yup, the actual funny people are complaining that they can't make actual jokes anymore: https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/comedians-online-censorship-...

I feel you should think long and hard before making a statement as orthogonal to reality as "The least funny people complain about their inability to make jokes".

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:26AM (#38405556)
I think you're really missing the point, so I'm not going to go source my anecdote about regular people in a conversation about boys clubs in the office. I've summed it up quite thoroughly throughout this thread.

If we really want to talk about these actual comedians (who are all very funny in their own right), I would say that Bill Burr is a snowflake who had a bad set, Dave Chappelle should really learn to not make jokes at the expense of people who are currently facing severe systemic oppression, and John Cleese is an over-reacting octogenarian, far past his prime and aligning himself with an anti-vax fake news network; not the arbiter of truth you think he is.

They aren't coming across as particularly sympathetic to me, and the comedy scene will forget them if they're not able to adapt their material to a changing generation. Comedy is temporally bound and what is good comedy changes over time.

People find different things funny, so there should be a diversity of choice in comedy. I've been to sets that I personally didn't find funny, but the audience was locals with a different sense of humour than me and they loved it. It wasn't bad, just not my style, but it didn't operate at the expense of someone else. I've been to sets where the comedian on stage floundered and lashed out at the audience for being too sensitive, and the next comedian killed it without being 'sensitive' to the audience, just by being funny.

Here are some funny comedians that I've seen this year that managed to not be transphobic or align themselves with conspiracy theories about vaccinations:

- Arthur Simeon

- The Lucas Brothers

- Malik Elassal

- Alonzo Bodden

- Joyelle Nicole Johnson

- Fortune Feimster

- Steph Tolev

Plus a bunch of others that I can't remember off the top of my head. Check them out if you care to. I don't think any of them are complaining that they can't be funny anymore, they're doing just fine, and I think they're bringing fresh comedy to the scene.

In my opinion, if the old guard wants to show themselves out because they feel like they can't compete, they should feel free to.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:57AM (#38405892)
But none of that matters: you said that unfunny people are the ones complaining that they can't make jokes anymore.

I refuted it, with actual evidence of funny people complaining that they can't make jokes anymore.

The fact that other funny people are not complaining is irrelevant, because that is not the claim you made.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by skyyler on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:03PM (#38405955)
if you wanna be precise, they said that the least funny people are the ones complaining;

because they can’t come up with material that isn’t at the expense of people facing systemic oppression

There are plenty of very funny comedians (with edgy acts, even!) that aren’t complaining about “cancel culture”. Check out Stavros Halkias maybe

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:32PM (#38406209)
> if you wanna be precise, they said that the least funny people are the ones complaining;

Exactly, which is at odds with reality; see the list of complainers who are extremely funny people.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by skyyler on Sunday November 26, 2023 @02:02AM (#38419753)
eh, I think the funniest people are just out there touring and making jokes, not complaining about cancel culture
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:59PM (#38406483)
> none of that matters

I explicitly didn't intend to scope my brief comment about "the least funny people" to encapsulate the entirety of humanity and I don't care to discuss this pedantic claim that "well technically N>0; QED".

Most of the comment you're saying doesn't matter was just me talking about comedians because I like comedy. If you don't like comedy, don't continue the conversation. If you disagree with something I said in a human capacity, not a "prove me wrong" capacity, then say so. I'm not as invested in this "claim" as you are to disproving it, clearly.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by ciicco on Friday November 24, 2023 @01:33PM (#38406755)
> Dave Chappelle should really learn to not make jokes at the expense of people who are currently facing severe systemic oppression

Men trying to force their way into women's spaces on the basis of some imagined 'gender identity' aren't facing oppression, they are the ones doing the oppressing - lobbying for laws and policies to be changed to eradicate female-only spaces everywhere.

It's the same old invasive misogyny we see from men everywhere, except this time it's supposedly progressive.

I'm glad that comedians like Dave Chappelle are poking fun at the ridiculousness of this. Laughing at an oppressive ideology really does help to undermine it.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Friday November 24, 2023 @01:36PM (#38406785)
Oh shit I summoned the TERFs. With a 6 minute old account no less. Go away.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by skyyler on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:35AM (#38393861)
I have no problem making jokes in the workplace.

Maybe it’s the content of your jokes that are the problem?

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by pests on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:57AM (#38393386)
I just finished a TV show that was set in 1850ish in Texas after they joined the union.

They had a character that was proud to have been part of the once great Taxes Nation, and I remember he too said something similar. Reminded me of what you just said.

"Remember when you could just hang the Mexican and Indians?"

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by moduspol on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:15AM (#38393603)
> Your perspective reminds me of people who'd just murder those who are not like them.

Really deep, thought-provoking insight.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by pests on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:48AM (#38394698)
The guy said he can't be racist or violent or sexist in his jokes anymore. Why can't we compare that to people who used to murder those who were different than them?
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by moduspol on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:55AM (#38394779)
Why stop there? Let's just go straight to calling everyone who disagrees with us pedophile Hitlers.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:58AM (#38394809)
> Let's just go straight to calling everyone who disagrees with us pedophile Hitlers.

Really deep, thought-provoking insight.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by moduspol on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:25PM (#38395118)
It's not exactly a huge leap.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:36PM (#38395224)
Such big strong literary quads you must have.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by moduspol on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:42PM (#38395294)
yawn
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by fodkodrasz on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:05AM (#38393485)
Wow you manage to mix ad hominem, and anecdotal evidence, based on a fiction tale made by current mainstream propaganda industry! "Remember the time when American people had decent education and could use other reasoning than references to TV/streaming series?"
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:58AM (#38394164)
>Remember the time when American people had decent education and could use other reasoning than references to [popular media]

No. Do you?

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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by fodkodrasz on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:19AM (#38393653)
> Where is the ad hominem?

implicit comparison of GP to an unspecified made up character making racist comments

> I'm not even going to argue with you.

I see, because you brought no valid arguments in your comment.

> Now where is your god?

This phrase alone proves that discussing anything with you is of no use. Have a nice day.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by pests on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:48AM (#38394688)
> implicit comparison of GP to an unspecified made up character making racist comments

The guy is implying he can't make jokes anymore because the jokes he wants to make are no longer politically correct, aka racist or sexist or whatever else. Yes I'm going to compare it to times when people lemented they could no longer be racist. What?

> This phrase alone proves that discussing anything with you is of no use.

It was a joke.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by asylteltine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:28AM (#38393758)
See that’s the problem with people who think like you. I say “remember when you could say jokes” and somehow you hear

“Remember when we could just like lynch black people lmao XD”

Something is wrong with you guys.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:54AM (#38394106)
Sure, that's over the top but don't pretend like "remember when you could say jokes" is anything but a dog whistle for "remember when you could openly mock and deride minorities without them being able to make you feel bad about it" a la Andrew Dice Clay or the terrible shock jocks from 30+ years ago.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by asylteltine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:24AM (#38394456)
A joke is a joke is a joke. Anything can be funny while at the same time some “jokes” are not. There’s a lot of nuance you guys are missing. Luckily the tides are turning back to normalcy and this fad is over
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:36AM (#38394569)
>There’s a lot of nuance you guys are missing

Hilarious that you talk about nuance while explicitly removing nuance from the discussion by saying "A joke is a joke is a joke".

Ok dude, I'll look for your comedy special where you tell women to make you a sammich or put on a terribly racist Chinese accent and talk about eating cats or whatever.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by asylteltine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:48PM (#38395367)
The jokes you mentioned just aren’t funny anymore. They were at one point when they were new. Of course you wouldn’t understand why they were funny in the first place though, as most comedians (after the 1950s I guess) said them because they were ironic, not because they literally though women belong in a kitchen. It’s making fun of stereotypes, but you wouldn’t understand that.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:19PM (#38395768)
>not because they literally though women belong in a kitchen

Someone should have told that to the 12-18 year olds that would scream it at women as soon as one opened their mouth online in early xbox live during the "videogames are for boys" marketing era.

Since you seem to be arguing in good faith (albeit also in poor taste), when you ask a question like "Remember when you could make jokes?" it pegs your sense of humour to an era where women and minorities were the butt of oft repeated derogatory jokes. These jokes are not even worth considering for their comedic value because they were almost devoid of it in even the scenario that you outline.

A throwaway joke that relies on its shock value to derive any merit because it is not clever in the slightest. A category of joke that oversaturated the online landscape at one point, and now those with any sense of humour are numb to it.

When you repeat these types of jokes where the punchline is "racism" or "sexism" and people roll their eyes and don't laugh, it's not because they're offended, it's because your sense of humour is immature and underdeveloped.

So I repeat my earlier question: "Isn't it funny that the least funny people always complain about their inability to make jokes anymore?"

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:05PM (#38395581)
> don't pretend like "remember when you could say jokes" is anything but a dog whistle

If it's a dog whistle that you can hear, then it's your whistle, summoning you, not the dogs

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:19PM (#38395761)
You got an argument, or just pedantry?
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:40AM (#38401480)
> You got an argument, or just pedantry?

Well, honestly, I wasn't responding to an argument anyway, so why would I present an argument?

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:28AM (#38404920)
I argue: "I can't make jokes anymore" means "I want to make sexist and racist jokes"

You argue: "Well technically a dog whistle is only audible to dogs so that means that you're a dog"

?? ok.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:46AM (#38405079)
> I argue: "I can't make jokes anymore" means "I want to make sexist and racist jokes"

But that's not, to me, an argument - it's a expression of opinion, and you're free to hold one.

If you're saying that I misinterpreted it, maybe consider that it doesn't look like an argument - there's no evidence presented, there's no sequence of assertions, there's no antecedents, no consequence, no logical connectives ...

In short, there's no logic presented, which is why it looks, to me, like an opinion, and not a completely unreasonable one. One that I felt was made in good faith and so I could engage with in good faith.

> You argue: "Well technically a dog whistle is only audible to dogs so that means that you're a dog"

Ever read the last psychiatrist? A favourite phrase of his is "If you're reading it, it's for you." which sort of applies here - the claims of dog whistles/nazis/whatever are not to alert the general audience, but a rallying call to others of the same ideology.

It's a way to say "Come help me fight this argument because we believe the same things."

It is a dog whistle, but it's your dog whistle.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by bradjohnson on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:45AM (#38405789)
Dog whistle, social shibboleth, coded message, fill in the blanks yourself. It's just leading a reader to the start of a path and if they're aligned with your thinking, they will follow it one way. If they're not, or not critical of the patterns associated with this argument, they will be more charitable, or not do the exercise at all.

Being able to identify the conclusion that is not being said does not make me the target of the message. It just makes me someone with too much time invested in the 'culture wars' of today.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:34PM (#38396560)
No, it's Gamergate's dog whistle. Don't pretend it's not, or that you don't know.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by lelanthran on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:39AM (#38401473)
> No, it's Gamergate's dog whistle. Don't pretend it's not, or that you don't know.

My observation is that "Dog whistle" is the new "They're a Nazi", which itself is the new "Think of the children".

They're all cognitive kill-switches and all mean the same thing - "I need to shutdown this conversation immediately".

Maybe there's a legit reason for shutting down a conversation, maybe there isn't, but the legitimacy of the reason is irrelevant to the fact that they are intended to shut down the conversation.

It's shaming language, designed to shame the other party into silence.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by pests on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:53AM (#38394748)
Lets hear one of these jokes then.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:15PM (#38400592)
Here's a very funny joke that uses a very un-funny word:

Prejudice by Tim Minchin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:26PM (#38396472)
2014 called. They want you back to help them coordinate harassing, doxing, and threatening to rape women for Gamergate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign...

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:50PM (#38396767)
The replies to this comment are like reading reddit. People, the GP is allowed to share his personal anecdotes. It shouldn't be contraversial to say that teams that have a laugh and meld naturally seem to produce better outcomes than teams pieced together based on arbitrary quotas.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by paulryanrogers on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:57PM (#38398651)
That's a generous interpretation of the comment. IME "boys clubs" are largely a negative phenomenon I'd rather my loved ones avoid, or at least evaluate critically.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:27PM (#38409084)
Granted, I'm not saying it's a positive term or the one we should keep using, but it is the one we've ended up with.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by account42 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:35AM (#38393860)
Because they didn't care about being a boys club or not and just focused on making games instead.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by the_gipsy on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:04AM (#38392848)
Boys clubs give seats to some incompetent boys just because they are "boys". It follows that there would be a smaller amount of incompetent people if it was not a boys club.

You shouldn't thank boys clubs if you enjoyed those games - there could have been more, better games.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by agbrrw on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:15AM (#38392977)
Non-boys clubs give seats to incompetent workers to increase percentages in a report. Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable with no regard to those percentages.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by MattRix on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:58AM (#38393411)
“Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable”

Surely you can see how this logic is absurd. You can’t limit your pool of workers to only “boys” and then claim you’re hiring the most capable people. You will miss out on all the capable people who aren’t “boys”.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by account42 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:27AM (#38393739)
Most so-called boys clubs don't limit their hiring to boys. It's just that they don't go out of they way to specifically hire non-boys.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:05PM (#38399261)
What evidence do you have for that, or are you just pulling it out of your ass?

What games have YOU shipped? Have you worked on a team at Rock Star or EA or any other game development company?

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by MattRix on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:05AM (#38400789)
They absolutely do reject people who are “not a culture fit” all the time, how do you think it stays as a boys club? On top of that there’s all the high caliber people who would intentionally avoid applying to work there because of the workplace culture.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by the_gipsy on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:48AM (#38393299)
You must either acknowledge that boy clubs are more incompetent, or that you believe that boys are inherently more competent. In the latter case there is no point in discussing further.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by account42 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:27AM (#38393748)
Those are not the only two options. For example if the distribution of interested candiates is already skewed towards one gender then forcing gender quotas means you need to hire inferior candiates even if both genders have the same distribution of capability.

That said, not only discounting that either gender could be better at certain jobs but refusing to talk to someone because you suspect that may be their opinion is beyond absurd and that kind of politicized gut-based and evidence-fearing thinking may be another reason why organizations that don't pay attention to gender politics are more capable than those that do.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by the_gipsy on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:24PM (#38395103)
Unbalanced pool of interested candidates is a factor, that's true, but the lack of interest is again a "boys club" syndrome from as early as school. And it's not like this "boys club" only happens at school stage and goes away at the workplace stage.

There are some physical jobs that have some gender bias due to their physicality. Software development is not one of them. This is like debating e.g. covid deniers or whatever nutjobs you will, not worth my time but not evidence fearing.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by notyofriend on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:57AM (#38394137)
At a working level boys clubs work well. The culture dives commotion and high levels of cooperation. The problem often arises in management where the Alpha male gets promoted but doesn’t actually have the organizational skills to handle delicate problems or manage work effectively. The resulting management culture becomes toxic and unproductive quickly.

For a short while diverse leadership and management structure was an indicator that companies were promoting based on competence. But once someone realized that that was the case companies started stuffing the pool to pretend they were promoting competency without actually doing that.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by skyyler on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:37AM (#38393877)
I don’t think a non-boy’s-club is necessarily driven by affirmative action…

The fact that you think that’s the only way a non-boy’s-club can exist is rather telling :x

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by zlg_codes on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:39AM (#38394603)
Generally, diversity agendas are poorly veiled attempts to force a given group of people to match census data, regardless of that industries realities such as the number of available graduates, etc.

What's telling to me is male college attendance and graduation are both below female levels and yet everyone still act like men run and rule everything and have every advantage. That is patently untrue.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by op00to on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:01PM (#38399228)
How the hell does college graduation relate to … men ruling everything?
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by zlg_codes on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:44PM (#38425835)
If someone complains about opportunity, you usually look at statistics for said opportunities to see who's excelling and who isn't.

If men were really as on top of everyone as claimed, we'd dominate in every major avenue of life. But we don't, so it pokes a hole in the narrative.

Socially speaking, we are abondoning men in droves. Boys are not getting the social and emotional upbringing needed to integrate in society, and many people just plain don't want men around.

Serial killers and school shootings are predominantly perpetrated by men. There may be a social component to that. I strongly suggest that not only is there an element, it's the primary reason it happens at all.

Men who feel excluded or taken advantage of will eventually strike back at those they consider responsible for harming them. This can be stopped by proper socialization.

That will never happen though because we're so quick to consider little 10 year old Bobby as a potential rapist. I'm sure that's a healthy environment for men, alongside their peers hating masculinity with no adequate replacement!

The world has a problem with men and it needs to get over it. We're an entire half of the species and we're not fucking going anywhere.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by MattRix on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:14AM (#38400831)
“everyone still acts like men run and rule everything”

Uh have you looked at the Fortune 500? 459 of the companies are run by men.

Women make up only 28% of members of congress.

The world IS still run and ruled by men.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by zlg_codes on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:38PM (#38425768)
So because there's skewed results at the top, we gotta fuck with the whole group? It's not my fault or your fault that shit's that way at the top. The vast majority of men are just working to pay their bills and live their life like everyone else. Misusing statistics to make it seem like every man has it easy is what I take issue with, because I can straight defy any of those assumptions.

Show me where AVERAGE men have an edge deserving the treatment of a cheat code.

It makes no sense to harm someone because they look like someone else, who misuses their power and status to steamroll others.

Some will claim their actions are equality but can't match those words with proof or evidence. There's just a cultural distaste for white guys because we're all assumed to be living the high life, when we're not. It's simply not fucking true, and I don't care how much hate I get for it. It's founded on prejudice anyway, the same one those people claim to oppose.

If I have it so easy, why has a judge never once acknowledged my legal rights? Why have the police never helped me when I was the victim of crime?

Fuck a society that's comfortable with the angle of discriminating against common men because rich and powerful men have it easy.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:43PM (#38396678)
We had many female and LGBTQ+ designers and artists working on The Sims because they were excellent at what they did, and their unique perspectives that most straight white men simply didn't have were essential to the game's popularity and success across all genders and ages and cultures, and for you to slanderously claim with no evidence that they were incompetent, chosen because of their gender, or to increase percentages in a report, is idiotic, incorrect, insulting, assinie, and misogynistic.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:01PM (#38396867)
You seem to be taking the term "boys club" as "straight, white mens club". It can be used for that, but as a casual term it just refers to a group with a shared driving force - e.g shared humour, cultural background, niche interest, experience (experience is where you see specific races or sexualities often forming a "boys club").

There are LGBTQ+ boys clubs (and indeed LGB boys clubs and T boys clubs), as well as age and cultural ones.

Broadly speaking, teams who mesh well produce better outcomes. This often works when a boys club is formed naturally (e.g the old guard who just finished a 2 year project, new hires aren't "in") but can when people are forced into situations where they must get along.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:32PM (#38398400)
Since you're a racism apologist who defends Musk's anti semitic trolling with bigoted bullshit attacking American Jews like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316831

>"Americans Jews seem to have this weird way of crying oppression on any criticism whatsoever." -averageRoyalty, November 18, 2023

It's pretty obvious that you're not a sincere person arguing in good faith, apparently just another zombie Gamergate troll who shouldn't be taken seriously, since you're carrying the water for ignorant misogynistic arguments falsely and unfairly accusing women on game development teams of being incompetent, just like you so recently and gleefully carried the water for Elon Musk's anti semitic white supremacist bullshit.

Read the misogynistic comment I called out that you're defending again, which is as idiotic and bigoted as Musk's anti-semitic troll you also defended, just aimed at disparaging different people:

>"Non-boys clubs give seats to incompetent workers to increase percentages in a report. Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable with no regard to those percentages." -agbrrw, November 23, 2023

I have first hand experience and objective evidence that non-boys clubs can include competent women and LGBTQ+ people who weren't just hired to increase percentages in a report. What experience do you have with working with a team on a successful game, all boys or not? What games have you shipped? How successful were they, what awards did they win, and how many billions of dollars did they make?

The Sims Franchise Has Made Over $5 Billion In Revenue (And Counting) (2019):

https://www.thegamer.com/the-sims-franchise-revenue-over-5-b...

In case you weren't aware, the fact that there were kissing lesbians in The Sims was instrumental to its break-out success at E3 in 1999. It happened to be designed by a mix of men and women, straight and gay, and Will Wright dedicated to the trans game designer Danielle Bunten Berry. And it sold so well and made so much money for so many years, because it appeals to all genders and orientations, instead of limiting itself to only straight boys like you Gamergate incel apologists angrily and childishly demand.

The Kiss That Changed Video Games:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-kiss...

So what is your evidence that your bigoted claims are true (including your anti semitic ones, and your misogynistic ones), and that you have the real life experience in the industry to know what you're talking about, and you're not just pulling it out of your ass?

It's always the people who would never be hired to work on a professional team simply because they're insufferable assholes, having nothing to do with their gender or minority status, who whine and complain so bitterly about diversity holding them back and causing all of their problems, usually from the unemployed safety of their mother's basement.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by dongstop on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:50AM (#38403007)
You really need to tone it down and stop writing these long essays full of personal attacks. HN isn't your soapbox to go around insulting people. Do better.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:25PM (#38409070)
A few points:

- I'm not American and don't understand American-Jewish culture. I understand the common American need to insult and assume about those who dare to ask a question though, thanks for the example.

- I have no idea what "gamergate" is and I've never stated or insinuated women in game development are incompetent. This seems to be your own mental fantasy.

> I have first hand experience and objective evidence that non-boys clubs can include competent women and LGBTQ+ people who weren't just hired to increase percentages in a report.

That's fine. The GP wasn't speaking absolutely - that non-boys clubs don't work ever. They were stating the freedom to hire the person who clicks (who can be of any gender, race, sexuality, etc) - as opposed to enforced poor fits to tick a box - will often result in better outcomes. Nobody, anywhere here is saying women or LGBTQI+ people (who you're the one who brought up, by the way) can't be competent .

> What experience do you have with working with a team on a successful game, all boys or not? What games have you shipped? How successful were they, what awards did they win, and how many billions of dollars did they make?

Team building and delivery success aren't a unique concept to the games industry. I'm unsure why you want a pissing contest though.

> In case you weren't aware, the fact that there were kissing lesbians in The Sims was instrumental to its break-out success at E3 in 1999. It happened to be designed by a mix of men and women, straight and gay, and Will Wright dedicated to the trans game designer Danielle Bunten Berry. And it sold so well and made so much money for so many years, because it appeals to all genders and orientations

Good. Are you looking for praise here? Well done. I have no issue with that, only the strawman you've conducted does.

> instead of limiting itself to only straight boys like you Gamergate incel apologists angrily and childishly demand.

Ah ok, you're just a cunt. Got it. Anyone who has a difference of opinion to me is an incel.

I've not at any point complained about diversity holding anyone back, I don't believe women or queer prople are incompetent, and you need to get your psych to up your dosage my dude. I understand you sound noble in your head, but you're presenting like a crazy person on the street screaming at strangers about the rapture.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:03PM (#38410475)
That's all unmitigated bullshit. If you don't understand American-Jewish culture, then why are you making sweeping racist generalizations about them:

"Americans Jews seem to have this weird way of crying oppression on any criticism whatsoever." -averageRoyalty, November 18, 2023

Saying racist shit then pretending to be ignorant and incapable of understanding what your own words mean doesn't fly. We all already know you're ignorant because you say racist and sexist shit, and none of your arguments hold any water, but that doesn't absolve you from being racist and sexist.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:59PM (#38417118)
I'm discussing a religious group, I'm unsure why race is even relevant here?

In the context of the full comment, it's pretty clear I'm asking a question. My personal experience is that the American Jewish community seem to not handle criticism well at all, and any slight against them is marked as oppressive. I then asked for more information.

I'm unaware of anywhere I've brought up sex or race. Again, you're the one talking about those, not me.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by zlg_codes on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:36AM (#38394570)
Better, on the basis of them being not-boys?

I see double standards are still alive...

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by averageRoyalty on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:55PM (#38396810)
Reading your lower comments, I feel the need to interject a clarification. Boys clubs don't necessarily refer to a specific gender of their members. It's a colloquial term for a closed group with shared culture/experience/humour, etc. These groups exists across men and women.

You may know this, but the gender driven discussion below makes me feel I should note that for anyone reading who is confused.

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:45AM (#38402573)
I should note that for anyone reading who is confused, that you're an anti semitic racist apologist, as well as a misogynist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38398400

Reading your previous anti semitic comments, I feel the need to quote them here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316831

>"Americans Jews seem to have this weird way of crying oppression on any criticism whatsoever." -averageRoyalty, November 18, 2023

Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by parthianshotgun on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:55AM (#38392771)
You're looking at the egg but ignoring the chicken
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:38PM (#38396604)
The Sims is one of the top selling and most profitable game franchises of all time, the original and current teams were anything but a boys club, and it had and has a lot of women and LGBTQ+ developers and artists working on it and players playing it. And it was around and successful long before your precious Gamergate.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by Gibbon1 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:09PM (#38398779)
Working on the Sim's was the best job my GF ever had.
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by op00to on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:55PM (#38399171)
Imagine if they picked the best talent and not simply the best talent that tolerates a locker room environment. How good would the game be then?
Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by DonHopkins on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:28PM (#38399436)
Are you aware that there is an entire three season, highly rated and ravely reviewed Apple TV series that makes fun of boys clubs and misogynistic Gamergate trolls like you?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/mythic_quest

Mythic Quest is an extremely well written and acted, biting, realistic parody of the game industry and gamers, like HBO's Silicon Valley is of the computer industry.

Anyone who's seen Mythic Quest, and is familiar with the pathological personality types the brilliant characters parody, can guess which character best represents you (I'd bet on Pootie Shoe).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_Quest

Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet Season 1 Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Yz1apB7iw

Mythic Quest: The Best Sitcom No One Talks About:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PYkRYS05hw

MYTHIC QUEST: Raven's Banquet – My Four Buttholes' Season 1 Review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_Zd6SDIPM

Pootie Shoe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_Zd6SDIPM&t=263s

https://mythic-quest.fandom.com/wiki/Pootie_Shoe