While that is correct, the nuance you are missing are what kind of games, as well as the more obvious fact that not everyone that plays video games wants to make them. That would be like saying because everyone enjoys eating food that everyone should also want to be a chef, and those that do all essentially make the same kind of food.
That obviously isn’t the case.
He got some massive net worth it’s not going to affect him that much. But it does mean that he’s feeling pressure from the board of executives because well he didn’t do Jack about anything.
I meant the mega rich folk like Kotick. ( Or recently the capitalists that want to bring back child labor to save money )
Oh here we go.
An anti capitalist rant.
You just lost all credibility.
Hate capitalism all you want.
But at the end of the day, nobody has ever tried to escape a capitalist country in a raft
My post was sarcastic.
…one comment. Wow I’m going on such a tirade
I dont see why he had to add computer code to the list. All he had to say was he was hiring more women and be done with it.
Either way I hope this new hiring spree doesn’t cause a bunch of real world nonsense to be shoehorned into the game. We play to get away from that.
We’ll see what happens I guess.
Not very impressive, but still more than many people at the top would do.
Why are you responding to yourself?
When I talk about systemic issues and people breaking into fields, I’m talking about inequities.
Poverty rates are higher among certain demographics as a result of such inequalities. For example, the poverty rate of Black and Hispanic people is over twice as high as white people. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-by-ethnic-group/)
LGBT+ people also experience higher poverty rates than non-lgbt people on average, with trans people experiencing poverty at a 29% rate with people like me experiencing a 33% poverty rate. (https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/the-complexity-of-lgbt-poverty-in-the-united-states/)
Likewise, people with disabilities have an almost 26% poverty rate. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/979003/disability-poverty-rate-us)
These demographics are also underrepresented in fields like STEM. I think a part of that had to do with poverty and inadequate access to the necessary education.
Several years ago Pell Grants were cut from 18 semesters to 12 semesters so that you only have enough funding for six years of school instead of 9. Setups like satisfactory academic performance unit limits are also unforgiving and cut students off from funding required to get a diploma including grants and student loans.
Why this matters is students who are dealing with poverty, such as having to work full time while going to school, or are dealing with housing or food insecurity are going to underperform, fail more often, or drop more classes. It’s hard to do advanced mathematics required for STEM when you can’t concentrate because you are hungry.
Minority, especially Latino, Black, and Indigenous students need more support, as do LGBT students, especially Transgender students. But overall we need to better support all students suffering from poverty so they can focus entirely on their educations. That’s how we increase those demographics in STEM including the game industry.
And yes, maybe in some countries people don’t want to work in STEM as much, but what is the reason for that?
Honestly it’s very hard to detect sarcasm on the net. I’ve also seen people defend it unironically as well
People should never be sarcastic. It hurts peoples feelings…yeah I just cant say that without cracking up. To your point however that is apparently why some folks use the /s
Easily pleased, it did its job.
imagine if construction/trades wanted to impose diversity/gender quotas.
LOL I’m glad you caught it at least. It was simply a mistake and I couldn’t be bothered figuring out fixing it from mobile.
This is absolutely correct, but ultimately the breakdown along broad ethnic and sexual orientation categories for the purposes of remedying poverty are ultimately arbitrary.
This is exactly it. Why gather up children who are suffering and then go, “Alright, now line then up by their race and sex and that will be the order we help them in!” It feels as gross as any other hierarchy based on race that has ever existed.
Why not treat each child as an individual and help them according to their need, regardless of race or sex? On the scale of the U.S, this would advantage the poorest communities, regardless of they are white kids from West Virginia(15% below poverty line), or black kids from Maryland(12.8% below poverty line)? Just help the kids that need it, and you inevitably help the communities that you are referencing disproportionately, but equally in accordance with their need.
Culturally, mostly. Even within the U.S, it’s obvious that the group most lacking in STEM education are the Amish and Mennonites, actually. But that’s purely based on culture, though that of course may change with time.
As a nontraditional student attending a university I know plenty of bipoc, disabled, and LGBT+ students who want to be there studying stem who want to study STEM that are struggling because of lack of resources and inequities.
Even scholarships are less accessible from the people who need them most due to things like community service requirements (not a lot of time for working students to do that, and sick students struggling to make it through are equally strapped) and GPA requirements (working/poverty lowering GPAs) eliminate financially struggling students.
This is why the student org I run has a goal of endowing a small scholarship or two by the time I graduate.
Good thing what I’m talking about isn’t political and it won’t be actioned.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has leverage on Anduin development. He’s her baby like Malfurion/Thrall were Metzens.
I think that the idea that it’s possible to overcompensate in this regard is a little silly due to the dearth of certain statistics being more present in stem than others.
It would take as much six years to train more people to be engineers. Plus support programs and scholarships and all that. Even then it would be a drop in the bucket.
See, I think viewing it through that lense gets a little dicey… I’ll try to explain:
I’m not familiar with the qualifications of the scholarship that you reference, but I’m assuming that it works along the dimensions of being LGBTQ, and lack of financial resources for education. Do correct me if I’m wrong.
That being said, looking at the recipients and going, “Well, this can’t be right… they’re all white! There’s simply no way that those people could be the most financially disenfranchised to apply for the scholarship…” inherently assumes that individuals in that smaller community are beholden to national statistics.
Furthermore, I generally am rankled whenever such judgements are made about individuals. I can understand the statistics on poverty in the black community, for example, but it would be abhorrent to treat a black individual I met as if they were inherently poor, even if I devote some of my time or resources to that community, personally, understanding the statistics of the population.
It’s a subtle nuance but I think it’s extremely important.
Ultimately my position is this: It is important to understand statistics like this to get a gauge of where we are at in terms of equality, and where issues still occur in the country, but the moment you are addressing an individual, you need to put that lense away and handle them on an individual basis, because you cannot discern a persons background or nature on an individual basis from national statistics. To do so is to be the shadow of nationalistic/ethnocentric movements of the 20th century.
To clarify, I was referring to blizzards proposed hiring techniques. “We hired too many men before specifically, so now we’re going to hire women specifically.” Just stop hiring on the basis of gender altogether…
We’ve tried that and it doesn’t actually work.
why would you want 50% of your workforce to be non binary… we are talking roughly 1% of the human population…