A hard part of indie dev is that you don't have an organization around to correct you when you start slipping off the track.
Indie devs, please pace yourself and take time to keep your mind healthy. As @GameOnGardner always told me, it's a marathon not a sprint.
@pixelmaven: Wow. Memory Lane.
@pcgamer @ELahti @SamMGreer @pcgamer has added a clarifying note.
Considering how personally damaging false implications like this are, I wish they were never published.
But I'm appreciative they addressed it relatively quickly.
@A_Soft_Rewind @pcgamer Hoping some day we'll all have more freedom to represent individuals as (messy, flawed) individuals, and not as idealized puppet-symbols for a belief system.
But to make that happen, we'll need to change norms to be more understanding of differing individual perspectives.
@snailtec Some day, of course (the future is many years long) but don't hold your breath. It was just released a few months ago.
@Prestophobia @pcgamer It's definitely something to be concerned about. I can see others devs reading that and just deciding to avoid the whole issue.
It would be unfortunate if someone had to limit their creativity due to such concerns.
@ki11deer @pcgamer No need, there's lots of mods that modify sexuality. Here's a well loved one - Psychology:
@pcgamer I am asking @PCGamer to issue a correction to clarify that these words they're calling "reductive" and "bad taste" were written by players describing their own trans self-perspectives, not by a game writer.
@ELahti @SamMGreer
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@pcgamer We were inclusive to the varied self-perspectives of our diverse players - and it's used as a point against the game.
The review gives no indication of where the quoted words came from, misleading readers into thinking that it was all written by some misguided game writer. /3
@pcgamer This part of the review implies that I, as the developer, was supposed to be writing trans backstories in a more correct way.
But what words can possibly be more correct than the actual words of a trans person? /2
I usually wouldn't comment on reviews but this part of @PCGamer's review needs addressing.
All trans character descriptions were written by players through our "Backstory in Game" program. I don't think it's my place to censor how people describe their own experiences. /1
@cliffski I agree; this may be the best film of the last several years.
I wish I could find more science fiction movies that were actually science fiction and not just action or romance with spaceships.
@KalleVahlman The world of books suffers from the same issues. The degree is slightly less due to some structural differences, but not much different.
@Raven67854 The issue is that it's not just a few files. It's every installed program, update, setting, file, saved permission/password, etc etc.
I have a workable solution, but it's not a good solution.
@Raven67854 Small market? Everyone with a desktop and a laptop, I think.
I want a laptop that I can easily slot into a larger desktop-mounted machine with more storage, CPU, and GPU power.
Is there any hardware company doing this? Currently keeping desktop and laptop synced is a big pain.
I need to visit Germany one of these days - they love my kind of game.
@Commissar197 I feel the pain. So we've managed to optimize this significantly; this improvement should be in a future update.
Twitter is an oddball clique where ~99% of the engagement goes to ~1% of the users -- often the users with the most extreme and atypical views.
Don't mistake social media prominence with true importance or popular belief.
The 1% Rule
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