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Okay, so I’m rather pleased, ATM.

I’m a fan of the Sims, but I haven’t been able to play it in a couple months because my PC isn’t working right.

With this gender stuff that just came out I wanted to play it again. So out of curiosity I googled to see if I could play it on Mac or if it would make me rebuy it (which i would not do, I’m not paying twice)

Well, to my surprise and delight, buying it on one allows you to play it on the other, any of my origin games that work on mac.

So, needless to say, I’m downloading sims right now…

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sodomymcscurvylegs:

Video games don’t have to have good graphics to be good:

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Video games don’t have to be about combat to be good:

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Video games don’t have to be linear to envelop players in their worlds:

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Video game bosses don’t have to be difficult to be fun:

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Video games don’t have to lack color simply because they are “post-apocalyptic”:

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Video games can have lighthearted art design and still carry deeply dark themes:

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Rethink video games.

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I have met some of the most amazing women I have ever known through the game industry. Larger-than-life, funny, warm, sweet, razor-sharp, overeducated women, the kind who laugh too loudly in quiet rooms. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard most of them laugh. One of them IMed me today about how she was leaving the industry and she couldn’t handle the idea of disappointing me but she just couldn’t take it any more, and I told her it was okay, it’s fine, self-care is so important, because it is.

The truth is that after our conversation ended, I put my head in my hands and cried.

I could tell you stories about the voices we’ve lost, the women we’ve scarred, the people we’ve left behind. I want to, but I’m not sure you’d get it. I tweeted earlier today, We should have a war memorial for all of the women we have lost to this. We should lay flowers and grieve and see our reflections in stone. And I meant it. I wish there were a way to honor the people our industry has wronged, and a way to visualize the enormity of what we have lost because of it— some representation of the gap between what games are and what they can be, and the pieces of the bridge between that have fallen away.

Elizabeth Sampat writes on women in the games industry, spinning off Zoe Quinn’s situation. Read the whole thing. It’s a shotgun blast of a piece. The last line of the whole thing is my takeaway from the last few weeks. (via kierongillen)
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fandomstuck:

do you ever get so frustrated with a video game that you are no longer rational and you start literally jumping into pits because maybe thats the fucking solution to this bullshit of a dungeon puzzle