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Most people would have refused to continue with the interview after that first RPS question. In my opinion Molyneux came away from that interview looking like someone who doesn't want to hide from his failings, even in the face of overly aggressive and unprofessional interview tactics with the obvious intent of ruining his reputation even further for the sake of more clicks. Meanwhile, John Walker and RPS came away looking like the worst place to conduct any kind of interview. RPS used to be such a good site... what the hell happened?

The sad reality is that the absurdity of that episode is what a certain section of the games/tech media have been reporting on their sites and saying on Twitter. If the non-existent threats from gamers towards certain women both existed and were acted upon, then what you saw would be fairly accurate. Many people are too ready to believe this kind of garbage when it's written online by a so-called journalist, but when it's acted out in front of their eyes they're quick to call it a gross exaggeration.

My advice is that when you next read a story about how gamers are threatening women, ask yourself if that is you, or your friends, or any gamer you've ever actually met. If it isn't then maybe you shouldn't so easily believe those things about the demographic of which you are yourself a part.

Getting Danny and Mary in on this is just all kinds of an awesome idea. Really hope that's the plan.

Male and female game characters look the way they do for the same reason that it's primarily attractive people, made all the more beautiful by their highly skilled makeup teams, that succeed in acting. It's a non-issue. The way a character looks need not say anything about the character at all. More often than not, in games, tv and movies, if the character's appearance isn't somehow important to their character (i.e they're meant to be sexy, or meant to be ugly, or meant to be non-descript looking) then they'll be attractive for purely aesthetic reasons, and that's just fine. In actuality, it's much more of a potential issue in tv and movies than in games because then you're dealing with hiring people based on attractiveness rather than acting talent. In games, it doesn't matter how attractive the voice actor portraying the character is, the character can still look beautiful while the actor has a hunchback, a peg-leg and two glass eyes.

There perhaps is an issue with the depiction of female characters in some games; Not visually, but narratively. Unfortunately, the discussion has been co-opted by a certain disingenuous someone, at least in the public forum. It's also worth mentioning that there is just as big a problem with male characters. Ultimately, most characters are poorly written and have no depth or complexity.

It's this simple: No content should ever be censored anywhere in the world for adults. The only exception is content where real people are really hurt or abused in some way, or the content is directly trying to insight that to happen.

@onarum: I don't think Jeff is the kind of person to hire for the sake of tokenism. If they hire a woman I'm sure it will be for the right reasons.

I kind of feel bad for Patrick. Working for a blog makes logical sense with him being stranded out in Chicago though. Hopefully he can find a route to going independent on Youtube or something, because he's way better than the low standard of a place like Kotaku. Big get for Kotaku though.

Bye Patrick. You've produced some great content, and I hope that you continue to succeed in whatever comes next for you!

Sounds like a cool experiment. Not sure where the notion that kids appreciate anything other than high-budget, AAA, mainstream games comes from though. I mean, Minecraft disproves that completely.

@jack_lafayette said:

Actually, I'm not. I'm noting how they're a bunch of inherently privileged middle class, mostly white guys, living in San Francisco.