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	[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="Rock, Paper, Shotgun"]<b>Nevertheless, I believe changing games will ruin them. They’re supposed to be about escapism.</b> Escapism is great! We love it. We all need to escape. Even the people analysing and criticising want to escape for a while. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to do. It’s not all that games can do, though, is it? Games can be about real world situations. The same systems that run games are used to train pilots and soldiers. Game developers are using them to talk about social situations, personal issues, and to explore the real world from an interactive perspective, just as books explore it from a literary perspective. There are games about politics and social lives, economies and history. Games are a big old toolbox, and using them as escapism is just one application. Let’s not limit them.[/quote] First of all, Rock Paper Shotgun's response to this idiocy is fucking wank, like everything on Rock Paper Shotgun. Here's a less unreadable response: some of us would like to escape into games that are LESS disgusting than the world we're escaping from. That being said, this guy's response to their response is somehow even worse: [quote name=""Frogboy""]Women tend to like different types of games than men and vice versa. It has nothing to do with how “inclusive” the community is. 5 of the most popular games for women include Candy Crush, Bejweweled 2, Crosswords and Soduku, Cake Shop 2 and World of Warcraft (this is before Sims 4 was released). In short, generally speaking (WoW aside) women tend to like different games than men. And that’s fine. Gaming really is for everyone. But gaming is a relationship between the people who make the games and the people who play them. The level of “inclusiveness” in the communities nor the sensitivity of the journalist has little to do with attracting women to a given game. It’s mostly the game itself. Is the game fun and interesting to a woman? My disinterest in playing Cake Shop 2 is not because the women playing it are filled is misandry. It’s really not their fault.[/quote] So since I would rather play games with BLUE SKIES and HAPPY GIRLS than GREY SKIES and VICTIMIZED ONES, instead of making my preferences known I should just go back to Cake Boss 2 and leave the real games for the real gamers? That's fair enough, but can I hear it directly from the publishers when they tell me to put my wallet back in my pocket instead of some random asshole who probably couldn't program a decent game of giggly jiggly volleyball if his life depended on it? I can't believe I'm even talking about this. Of course every reasonable netizen believes in freedom of speech. Shitty developers should have the freedom to make their shitty games, the SJWs (described as either the most powerful and influential lobby in entertainment or a confused gaggle of toothless poseurs, <i>often in the very same sentence</i>) should have the freedom to criticize them, and pseudonymous internet pricks should have the freedom to moan about it from morning till night. But reasonable netizens also understand diminishing returns. SJWs bitching about video games is going to be a million times more interesting than anti-SJWs bitching about SJWs, if for the simple reason that video games themselves are a million times more interesting than SJWs. By the time we get to my bitching about their bitching about etc etc I can't even see the point of finishing this sentence, <i>that's how far we've gotten from anything I can pretend to care about.</i> I would like some harder achievements and more rap songs in the next Forza please. If someone at RPS would like to put Dan Greenawalt on the hot seat about that I would not complain.[/quote]