[llvm-dev] I am leaving llvm
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.html
David Millington & Marco Cantu@embarcadero - approach him and if he is for hire - go to your boss and tell him they should hire him.
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.html
I'm reminded of the time a Dragon Age game included a gay character and some female characters and this upset some people on its message board. One man actually complained...
ReplyDelete"Its ridiculous that I even have to use a term like Straight Male Gamer, when in the past I would only have to say fans.... In every previous BioWare game, I always felt that almost every companion in the game was designed for the male gamer in mind. Every female love interest was always written as a male friend type support character. In Dragon Age 2, I felt like most of the companions were designed to appeal to other groups foremost, Anders and Fenris for gays and Aveline for women given the lack of strong women in games, and that for the straight male gamer, a secondary concern. It makes things very awkward when your male companions keep making passes at you. The fact that a “No Homosexuality” option, which could have been easily implemented, is omitted just proves my point."
The head writer responded to the post with a point I'll never forget....
"The romances in the game are not for “the straight male gamer”. They’re for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention.... The majority has no inherent “right” to get more options than anyone else.
* ...And if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don’t see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what’s everyone’s fuss all about? That’s the way it should be, and everyone else should be used to not getting what they want." *
code rot !
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