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Especially considering how it's a qualitative judgement about sartorial choices and not their value as a human being too, which many other people get on a regular basis. No one is saying you can't wear what you want when you're out living life and certainly think a lot of dress codes are restrictive but what is being asked here is if you are a game developer in a professional space, at least put some effort into it.

Having your clothes mocked sucks and I empathize a lot, it's just interesting to see this discussion occurring here. Especially as someone who is painfully aware of what I'm not allowed to wear as a fat woman.

Maybe it's because you can be considered a professional/authority in dumpy nerd land in a metal t-shirt and jeans whereas if you're dressed up as a woman at these events, you're probably still considered a booth babe? I don't doubt that a lot of "lol dumpy nerd" articles are rather mean but on the other hand, the vast difference between what women thought was presentable and what men thought was presentable at E3 was a gaping chasm and it has to do with what is considered "appropriate" for women to wear as professionals and what men can get away with in nerd job spaces. I have to say though, it's interesting the kinds of reactions that happen when people make fun of how regular ol' nerd dudes dress. It sucks when you're constantly judged on your appearance, isn't it guys?

I wanted to but my boyfriend said it "wouldn't be practical"

We got both of our sofas from my boyfriend's parents. Yes, we have two sofas. Don't ask.

GB comes off as bro-ing it up to me, as someone who does not listen to many podcasts with exclusively male hosts. A lot of the times what people (usually guys) describe as "just cool people (guys) I could hang out with" is intensely alienating to me because the idea of hanging out with a huge group of guys reminds me of when I used to do that and how awful it was after a while. I've relaxed my feelings on Giant Bomb after E3 but I have listened to one or two of their episodes in the past and it felt like morning radio.

I wonder if voice differentiation is similar to how some people are poorer at differentiating between colors as well - there's never a time that I couldn't NOT hear the difference between Jake, Sean and Nick. They all have very different patterns of speech and slightly different pitches. Then again, there's people who cannot tell me or my podcast partner apart despite both of us having wildly different pitched and regional accents to our voices but I suspect that's because a lot people generally think all Women Sound Alike.

This discussion about eating proclivities is really fascinating to me as someone who has compulsive eating issues.

Oh yeah, we recorded the first episodes of JP on very old mics or headsets, using Mumble's in-house recording feature. It's mono track audio of both of us and prone to dropping packets, hence why a lot of it sounds very garbled! We both now having professional recording mics with pop filters and I also have studio monitor headphones, etc. I also have everyone record local audio and I mix it all together.

*drives by* which way to the baby war But no seriously, Steven Universe is amazing.

I think the Just Cause guy made that joke.

Yeah, I suppose. Look, I'm not even disagreeing with you guys. I think I've just passed through so much fucking shit in gaming by this point that I've become the unaffected person I've never wanted to become.

Oh yeah, it's kinda darkly hilarious.

Honestly, Persona has never struck me as an overly aggressive series (but I barely know about it) in terms of oversexualing women, especially since aren't all the characters teens? That outfit barely even registers as objectionable to me at this point, given that it doesn't even have an upskirt, her hand is covering her boobs, and she's actually dressed somewhat appropriately for a dance club.

Nothing too different. But now with a swank new mic set up. (and cat)

I'm still really happy that people said such nice things about JP on Idle Thumbs. Idle Thumbs comes across as so much of a "bigger" podcast in terms of production and audience so them saying something nice about a tiny little project I do just kinda knocks me over. Then again everyone on Idle Thumbs seems like really nice people so I'm not surprised. Edit: I listened to Checkpoints and jeez, I loved the kind of open-ended banter on that show. Very crisp audio production, very nice work.

The Campo Santos/Just Cause 3 discussion was easily one of the best longform absurdist humor skits I've ever seen.

There's cultural appropriation, appropriation and then being able to use white privilege to your advantage but a lot of this all gets lumped under cultural appropriation. A lot of times appropriation is often just, as a white person, being able to neglect that specific groups, ethnicities and racial groups are discrete, different and generally have to suffer through racist garbage, often times to the detriment of their livelihood. No, a white person wearing locs is not harmful to anyone, really, but it means a white person gets to neglect what happens to black people who wear locs - they are often denied jobs, they are often touched without their permission, they are seen as dirty and unkempt, despite the fact that white people's hair is generally never the correct texture to actually loc, meaning you HAVE to make it matted and dirty to "loc" it. It shows a white person's lack of understanding of what locs actually are (which is coarse textured hair that naturally can be wound together) or the political meaning behind them (dreadlocs) or what black people suffer through to wear their hair in natural styles. Same goes for a white lady taking a "geisha" picture wearing some approximation of shoddy makeup and the wrong clothing - it is ignoring that a geisha has VERY specific outfits, face makeup and years of training and is an actual profession that women undertake in Japan. It ignores that Asian women, Japanese women in particular, are often highly fetishized and that geishas are often painted as merely "sex workers" despite the fact that geishas are not. It ignores the really rich cultural history of what they are and what it means in Japan, etc. Basically a lot of this just ties back to the fact that colonialism, imperialism and the slave trade basically made it so white people felt comfortable destroying, appropriating, mocking or otherwise stereotyping cultures that were not designated as "white." There's entire cultures and languages that are straight up gone from the earth because white people didn't feel like leaving them alone and killed or otherwise educated people out of it.

$20 per feature is low, wow. Like criminally so.

I'm so excited. I had no idea you guys were going to do this and now this gives me extra incentive to watch (but I was going to do that anyways.) I was on the fence about watching Season 2 since I left Season 1 with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth but honestly, I am excited to see what direction they take this season in.

Finally, the pen for me, the magician with a bondage fetish!

Oh yeah, people routinely steal content for upvotes. It's such a mind-boggling thing. People do this on Tumblr too, for reblogs. I'm sure there's some level of monetization somewhere but most of it is really stealing other people's artwork and stories and content for...popularity?

When I heard that there were specifically MRA plant mods that ran the r/feminism subreddit, I knew that there was some problems with that site. Heh.