Especially when sites like Reddit/StackExchange use admin to mean employee and moderator to mean volunteer community leader.

Whenever my wife and I are talking about our washer and drier we joke that it has “13 left” (instead of “13 minutes left”) because the UI only says 13 and it often goes up again lol.

I’m not interested in exploring 100% of content either, but I hate when games artificially block content off. For narrative reasons, I don’t care. I don’t mind the idea of mutually exclusive companions based on choices in game. But something as minor as gender at character creation? Come on now!

If it were me, I’d do something like not really focus on what their actual “real” sexuality is unless it is somehow relevant to the plot. Then if it is so something like make them a 1 or a 5 on the Kinsey scale instead of a 0 or a 6.

I don’t think games should be required to do, I’m not trying to force some sort of universal bi/pan agenda. I’m just saying it personally annoys me when I am locked out of pursuing a character just because of the gender I happen to be playing as because I typically don’t play games multiple times. It also annoys me when games don’t allow you to pursue all characters. Like in BG3, as far as I know, all characters are bi/pan but not all are poly. The game forced me to pick between Astarion and Karlach, for example. I put 100 hours or so into the game before I quit. I’m not willing to put over 100 more hours into it just to see what would’ve been different. It’s just a waste of my time.

An alternative approach is only having “sex scene” type content gated behind gender, but everything else can still be seen by friends. E.g., anything a character would eventually tell a lover they still tell close friends. Which is still sort of annoying but not really as bad because you can easily just look up a sex scene, but experiencing things like dialogue and special quests in game isn’t comparable to looking it up on YouTube.

You can do that while still not locking any content behind gender though.

Yeah, I’m usually only playing games once. I don’t want to be forced to replay just to see content like that.

I still think asexual characters should be “romanceable”. Like, there shouldn’t be increased-friendship related content behind gender.

The closest thing to DEI I can even begin to think of in Frost punk 1 was that you could manufacture prosthetics for amputees.

Any game that doesn’t make all NPCs “opportunistically bisexual” pisses me off. Quit locking content behind my character’s pronouns.

I never said it wasn’t morally reprehensible. Only that it’s less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.

Yeah, I don’t really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it’s not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don’t do it someone else will. It’s not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn’t worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.

The pipe is throwing me off because usually I have to do parentheses for that to work…

Relevant comment chain: https://programming.dev/comment/12187727

I’m not talking about what should versus shouldn’t happen.

Philosophically I agree, but legally the reality is different.

Ironically it’s a very human error to miss a username change.

I don’t think free software/open source has ever guaranteed the ability to maintain a specific project. Only the freedom to modify the software. They haven’t been stripped of that core freedom from the GPL which is the closest thing there to what I think you’re talking about.

It wasn’t so long ago that Java developers had to download the unlimited strength cryptography extensions separately from the main Java development kit because of export restrictions involving encryption.

Edit: Links for the curious.

• https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-jce-all-downloads.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Cryptography_Extension

neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.

Ughhh, it was so infuriating hearing that guy rant about how Rust was bad and was trying to take over at that conference. I felt so bad for the speaker.

The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.

A lack of freedom from being screwed over by companies stealing your code.