{"id":4214,"date":"2009-07-31T23:45:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T03:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:44:15","slug":"experienced-points-something-for-the-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4214","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Something for the Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6328-Experienced-Points-Something-for-the-Ladies\">This article<\/a> is what you get when you take ten thousand words of ideas and cut them down to 1,500 words.  The article I  didn&#8217;t write dwarfs the one I did, and even at that the final product is a bit too long and leaves too much out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I hopefully avoided was the usual arrogant tone of diversity scolds.  Studies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/93555-Videogame-Characters-Lack-Diversity-Study-Finds\">this one<\/a> begin by point out &#8211; as I have &#8211; that videogame characters trend heavily towards young white males, but then go on to have a &#8220;therefore the designers are sexist bigots&#8221; subtext, and blame designers for making the world a worse place.  I think the most important thing to realize is that the current landscape has been shaped by economics and the tenancy for people to write what they know, and isn&#8217;t the result of anything insidious. <\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m all for seeing a wider variety of characters to inhabit. If nothing else, I&#8217;d like to have a little moratorium on <a href=\"?p=1602\">space marines and their variants<\/a> for just a little while.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is what you get when you take ten thousand words of ideas and cut them down to 1,500 words. The article I didn&#8217;t write dwarfs the one I did, and even at that the final product is a bit too long and leaves too much out. One thing I hopefully avoided was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}