PAX Will "Roll For Diversity" Next Year

[CloudAtlas]

It would seem that all the people who jumped to conclusions about these things being unnecessary, restrictive or downright oppressive, despite nothing in the text depicting them as such, are themselves not part of the listed minorities. Why, that is truly shocking and unexpected.

Duffy13 got it right.

Yes, he did.

I feel tempted to respond to a few things said here myself, but it's just of no use to engage in discussions with people like Res Plus, who can't manage to write down a single sentence that isn't full of hyperbole, diatribes and barely-fitting buzzwords.

 

[Immortal_Engines]

So, you are wrong, you don't appear to want to have any discussion on the matter so I don't know how to help you. You say that murder gave your bf's dad ptsd, well I think that is made up. PTSD is a myth perpetrated by whiny people that just get off on lying. He has never seen battle and sure you could cherry pick some elements from the 3rd world where murder caused PTSD.

Wow. Just wow.

Are you for fucking real?

 

[Smeatza]

Dude, so yeah you can make bad jokes all you want and get roasted by people who hate your bad jokes.

I don't recall ever being criticised for making insensitive or inappropriate jokes, perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

I don't understand what you are saying, comedy is nuanced? Yeah I know. You maybe didn't read my post, I'm saying that jokes fail if they are un-nuanced and terrible.

What you wrote (word for word) was "Rape jokes fail if they don't denounce the rape in some way, or if the butt of the joke is the victim." I was pointing out that isn't always the case.

A rape joke like "I raped that girl, she deserved it" is a bad joke. If the context is such that I was pretending to be some horrible person so that the joke is on me ala "haha, look how stupid he is" then the joke is more than just the quoted joke above.

But the criteria you listed covers much more than that single joke.

IE TWO THINGS, ONE BAD, NO MATTER THE CONTEXT, ONE (POTENTIALLY) GOOD DUE TO CONTEXT. Those are two different jokes! But yeah, to concede to your point, if you don't know how to draw you can decide to fail as an artist, go nuts.

You would have done well to make that distinction the first time around rather than setting a sweeping, arbitrary criteria.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Can't wait until I've moved out to BC and can then maybe find the time and money to get down to a PAX event. Stuck out in the middle of Canada, it's always cost way too much to go to anything.

I really hope developers take these rooms seriously and do have sit-downs with the other people who buy their games. It would be very good for them to actually hear what people of all different backgrounds have to say about the industry. Especially after learning what Naughty Dog had to deal with in focus testing. Hopefully things will start to change.