You wake up one day with the ability to freeze time at will for as long as you want with no repercussions. What’s the first thing you do with your newfound powers?
I think the funniest thing Toby Fox could do is not have Papyrus show up in Deltarune at all and then in the post credits after you you beat the game you'd see a message appear that says "you can now play with Papyrus" and then he'd be retroactively inserted into every single chapter like some kind of new game+
Goldilocks: The story of a girl who gets lost in the woods, impulsively breaks into a stranger's home, and immediately is too absorbed in finding the right temperature of food and the right texture of mattress to care if she gets eaten by bears.
i really need to stop using the explore tab because tumblr keeps putting posts there that blame every absence of women and minorities on sexism and racism and holding my tounge is something i am notoriously bad at
like, there *could* be selection bias for how speedrunning tournaments are all men, but it seems far more likely that women aren't *as* interested in going as fast as possible in video games, or at least not in a publicly competitive way. do you know of any?
yeah this is a terrible thing, and it's also like really damaging because "if there is not perfect representation as determined by The People Who Like Representation, it is presumed you are intentionally Doing A Racism" is the official stance of the law in the US. it's crazy.
the FAA air traffic controller scandal was entirely due to this. black people just did not apply to be ATC operators. if they accepted every single black person who applied, they still would not have enough black people to not be judged as Intentionally Doing A Racism, so they had to intentionally lower the supply of ATC operators just so the percentage of them that was black would be higher. nobody noticed this was insane.
when you look at the communities or fields that have a Good Ratio of minorities, zero of them ever do it by the means that progressives demand. Capcom and Midway and SNK did not do anything in particular to intentionally make fighting games more welcoming to black people, and black people fucking love fighting games. Japanese anime studios didn't do anything to intentionally make anime more welcoming to Latinos, and Latinos fucking love anime. Nail salons are almost entirely Vietnamese and Jews do a lot of work in finance.
the fact of the matter is that members of An Identity Class usually hang out with members of the same Identity and you pick up interests from people you hang out with. a bunch of Vietnamese refugees got taught how to do manicures and pedicures by Dusty Coots in the 70s, and they ran nail salons with that knowledge, and then the people they hung out with were mostly Vietnamese and those people were like "huh, nail salon, that's a thing I can do," and you knew people who could train you how to do it. other ethnicities could have done that -- Dusty Coots learned it from somewhere -- but it's not really on the radar.
Jewish people historically did finance because they were some of the only people in the world who didn't erupt into a blood rage at the concept of an interest-bearing loan. so they had a culture of being good at it, and if you hang out with Jewish people all the time you probably know a lot of guys in finance and have several family members in it so when you're thinking about what you wanna do "finance" is one of the first things that comes to mind, you know people who can get you a position somewhere and you know that it's a nice living to make. other ethnicities do it too but non-Jewish people probably don't have nearly as many acquaintances in finance.
Latin American countries did not have a big TV industry in the 80s and 90s with a bunch of original Spanish or Portuguese-language programs, but Japanese anime was cheap to license and easy to dub so a bunch of Latinos grew up watching anime, and now if you hang out with Latinos you know a lot of guys who want you to watch Naruto and Dragonball because they think they're super cool.
In the 1990s, arcades were far more profitable in high-density urban areas and high-density urban areas have a lot more black people in them. fighting games were the main draw of arcades because Internet matchmaking didn't exist, ports to home consoles were always much worse quality, and their main draw was player-vs-player (good at a place where a bunch of people meet up) rather than player-vs-CPU (can do that at home). so a bunch of black people really got into Street Fighter II, and if you hang out with black people, you probably know a disproportionately large number of people who love fighting games and have fun with them and want to play against you.
sewing and quilting were economically vital but less physically taxing tasks that don't require a lot of movement, so traditionally women did them in the house while looking after the kids. and if you're a girl you hung out more with your mother even after this division of labor wasn't necessary. now that it;s no longer a necessity in any household, the people who still do it as a hobby are people who like doing it, and if you're a woman you hang out with other women who are themselves more likely to have found out they enjoy quilting and knitting and so on.
all of these things are historically contingent reasons + people generally hanging out with members of their own Identity. none of these things are an effort to make something More Inclusive.
autistic nerds loved Dungeons and Dragons because in the 1970s and 80s, fantasy in general was seen as far more nerdy than it is now, it required a far smaller but far more dedicated group of people than other hobbies, and it had lots and lots of delicious charts to pore over. and the guy who invented it was white so he mostly hung out with other white nerds. so if you were a white nerd it was more likely you knew people who played dungeons and dragons who wanted you to play with them and clearly had fun with it. they're not the unique outlier here who are singularly hostile to minorities, it's the same process as everywhere else.
When people get mad about 50's aesthetic like "don't you know there was racism back then" it's like that post about the ships. Once again do you think this was the fault of the soda fountains
"Don't you know there was racism back then" yeah because y'all won't SHUT UP about as if you think the suburban housing and soda fountains were the cause of it
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