Post AWuyWR2ER9xyRLHdMe by Haeckse@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AWuuzxwYlOE95LSLVQ by grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-06-21T13:08:47Z
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A studio "didn't hire women because women don't play first-person shooters"Ah... Maybe that is why you SHOULD hire women. 🤦♀️ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/men-need-to-speak-up-against-toxicity-targeting-women-and-on-their-own-behalf-opinion
(DIR) Post #AWuuzynNb0ThjAAWps by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:12:29Z
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@grumpygamer you typically hire people who are more likely to know and understand the end users. Like, you don't really focusing on hiring men to design TAMPAX.
(DIR) Post #AWuvNecUGC1c6UMYfQ by sigsegv@floss.social
2023-06-21T13:16:36Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Didn't know FPS games were made exclusively for men?Guess I need to tell my FPS gamer friends who are not men that they can't play that then.
(DIR) Post #AWuvQtfcl6xteQNOxk by Sonikku@techhub.social
2023-06-21T13:17:17Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer absolutely absurd take.
(DIR) Post #AWuvmHDoOGbUm9Yuhs by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:21:13Z
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@sigsegv @grumpygamer who said exclusively? On average you will see more men play FPS games.
(DIR) Post #AWuw230V0Z47K4r5jk by fringemagnet@mstdn.social
2023-06-21T13:23:55Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Ridiculous take. You would hire gynecologists, or generally anyone with expertise on the bodily function of menstruation to design products for people who menstruate, regardless of their gender.On top of that, leaving aside the fact that quite a large number of women already play FPS games, it is to the interest of any company to increase the demographic interested in their products and appeal to a larger audience, because, spoiler alert, this is how profit is made.
(DIR) Post #AWuw9tl5HJ6MxIO9p2 by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:25:28Z
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@emptyfortress @grumpygamer it's not because you design for a specific target user that you end up with a market that is only such users.
(DIR) Post #AWuwdYzt24dzFkSRiC by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:30:51Z
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@fringemagnet @grumpygamer Gynecologists are 83% women in case you don't know. I will let you ponder why.
(DIR) Post #AWuwqY9zSK2iQCNNiq by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:33:11Z
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@RonanLK @grumpygamer There's no lack of games to play in this time and age. If women chose to play different games than FPS, it's probably not JUST because they feel under-served by the FPS market, but they find (on AVERAGE) other genres more appealing.https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/657430/fpsyg-12-657430-HTML-r2/image_m/fpsyg-12-657430-g001.jpg
(DIR) Post #AWux9cRDm69LBvWpgO by a1ba@suya.place
2023-06-21T13:35:39.193130Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Fediverse will remember that
(DIR) Post #AWuxGAFuxELVoRMXQm by tshannon@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-06-21T13:18:46Z
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@Sonikku @boilingsteam @grumpygamer Right!? I'm really hoping that was sarcasm or very dry humor.
(DIR) Post #AWuxGB4buktaLf51Rg by ste5e@mastodon.social
2023-06-21T13:36:44Z
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@tshannon @Sonikku @boilingsteam @grumpygamer did Boiling Steam wake up and decide to role-play a misogynistic video game executive in the early 2000s?
(DIR) Post #AWuxGBpl5Sbqht8fw0 by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-21T13:37:47Z
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@ste5e @tshannon @Sonikku @grumpygamer LOL
(DIR) Post #AWuxYyAw5pB5qe01Y0 by xerz@fedi.xerz.one
2023-06-21T13:41:05.838225Z
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@grumpygamer I literally know women who do, cis while at itthey can shut the hell up for a while
(DIR) Post #AWuy0LCMbNeD4UicsK by xerz@fedi.xerz.one
2023-06-21T13:46:06.127910Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer you say that as if there weren't trans men, or women of any kind playing ridiculously popular stuff like Overwatch, Valorant or even CS:GO/CS2that's not even to mention the fact that you don't need to have a vagina to know how to make things that absorb
(DIR) Post #AWuyEAvLbBqRGBM9TM by fringemagnet@mstdn.social
2023-06-21T13:46:15Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer The statistic you googled in 3 seconds and sloppily pasted refers to "current gynecology students" and is part of a study on the recent increase, where for decades male gynecologists used to consist 93% of the field. You can continue equating two totally different things while also disregarding the fact that not everyone who menstruates is a woman, and not all women menstruate.It's pretty clear where you're coming from and it's not worth wasting more time here.
(DIR) Post #AWuyWR2ER9xyRLHdMe by Haeckse@chaos.social
2023-06-21T13:51:52Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Sounds like you have no Idea of how games are made.
(DIR) Post #AWv01SiUKpPyaQPJOC by dfyx@social.helios42.de
2023-06-21T14:08:46Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Even if your assumptions were correct and women didn't play shooters (they absolutely do) or there were no men involved in designing tampons (there very likely are), your conclusion doesn't make sense. You hire a diverse group of people to broaden your audience. Hiring a woman won't make the game less attractive to men but they might have ideas that make them more attractive to women and in the end you sell more copies. Nobody says you should *only* hire women.
(DIR) Post #AWv0J2du13POvqe2ZU by Woedenaz@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-06-21T14:11:57Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Posts like this make me wish there was a downvote button...This is a ridiculous statement.
(DIR) Post #AWv0voCNeToBQeG0Qq by dfyx@social.helios42.de
2023-06-21T14:18:56Z
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@boilingsteam @sigsegv @grumpygamer You did. Or at least you implied it. The post you replied to never asked for anyone hiring *only* women or even 50% women. It only mentions hiring women *at all*. And that scared you so much you just *had to* post a whole bunch of ill-informed nonsense to reinforce your outdated worldview.
(DIR) Post #AWv3fhy5LhUZKmaKdU by samthurston@awscommunity.social
2023-06-21T14:49:38Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Earl Haas invented the tampon in 1931. Any more brilliantly wrong observations?
(DIR) Post #AWv8D9pFCEu96aefWS by pthenq1@mastodon.la
2023-06-21T15:40:32Z
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@grumpygamer Pretty much how things are done in corporations
(DIR) Post #AWvLgZmf3t7DPpnyaG by jpelletier@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-06-21T18:11:30Z
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@boilingsteam @sigsegv @grumpygamer the quote implies exclusive
(DIR) Post #AWvadMvFul3wkihTWa by serjor@mastodon.social
2023-06-21T20:59:00Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer clearly you don't understand your audience, and that is why you are losing a follower.If your sentence were right (which isn't), that only would mean that there should be women designing FPS games, so the genre would be interesting for more people (i.e. me, a 40 yro male that finds FPS like CoD and the likes super boring)And not only that, but a toot is not enough to explain what is so wrong in your way of thinking, so, simply, good bye.
(DIR) Post #AWvh1NDF5RoqKLwWES by anthk@paquita.masto.host
2023-06-21T22:10:32Z
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@boilingsteam @fringemagnet @grumpygamer In your dreams, maybe.
(DIR) Post #AWw7elSbSw4ldGZUum by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-06-22T03:09:02Z
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@jpelletier @sigsegv @grumpygamer we found a mind-reader!
(DIR) Post #AWwl1ibW9DBxe9g3Qe by thomholwerda@social.tchncs.de
2023-06-22T10:30:06Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Tell us you've never (consensually) touched a woman without telling us you've never (consensually) touched a woman.
(DIR) Post #AWwrs9OyMK4NXdC6oS by PalePimp@poa.st
2023-06-22T11:44:09.314795Z
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@grumpygamer Ron, maybe you need to apply that rule to your games, women have been known for centuries to produce better art than this, and better scripts too.
(DIR) Post #AWwvNe0QvHzXIYQQFc by bezorp@mstdn.ca
2023-06-22T12:26:07Z
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@boilingsteam @RonanLK @grumpygamer is this average woman in the room with us right now?But seriously, think about what you're saying, and why. No one's saying demographics don't exist. Further, current manshoots are not threatened by the inclusion of more women. What's the downside?
(DIR) Post #AWwwZ11nlf1Rq73FRY by reflex@retrogaming.social
2023-06-22T12:39:26Z
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer "Earle Haas, D.O. (1888–1981) was an osteopathic physician and inventor of the tampon with an applicator, marketed as "Tampax". He graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1918 and spent 10 years in Colorado as a country general practitioner, then went to Denver in 1928."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Haas🤨