@Abbycadabra wrote:
Hi there, maybe you'll see this. I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your podcast discussion.
Discourse really seems to tackle a lot of issues that create lurkers like me. My default is just reading. I rarely participate because it seems like the main thing people want to do on forums is be critical.
Like for instance, your exchange with MarkDow. His contribution was an immediate criticism about gender shaming. I relistened to the beginning of the podcast, couldn't find the gender shaming.
Then I watched the duet which was really nice. No gender shaming there.
Then read your article about manuals being unnecessary. Then I finally watched the video associated with the article. The guy was kind of sarcastic so I didn't watch enough of it.
So at this point I've read your article, watched the duet. Spent a few minutes contemplating whether capes with scooped necklines and dangly ear rings were gender shaming.
Then I found it. After 3:32 in the video below the fold on your article on game design, there's a sequence of a cartoon boy hitting a cartoon girl with punching sounds. Uh oh not good.
That's why I always end up reading not posting. Because that's what that guy got out of your hour long conversation was a criticism of another guy's graphics in a video you didn't make, but linked.
Also bananas.