Instead of replying, why not just code your own bbs? 
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Programming actually isn’t as hard as making a car from scratch! In fact you can program a basic game in a weekend! Maybe even in 24 hours!
And coding itself isn’t that difficult. You can give it a try!
But thank you for the shining example of a non sequitur and I am glad that you were able to make my argument more solid.
Have a good one!
Why would I when there are open source BBS in which I can manipulate to my liking?
Again, thank you for reminding me of something else : frameworks. There are plenty of frameworks out there accessable to everyone that helps streamline the development of games, such as the Unity Game Engine
I mean, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, right?
Have a good one 
You do realize there is a huge gap between coding an asteroids clone versus coding up a new game engine for the PS4, and then slapping on a dungeon crawler demo on top of it? AAA games take anywhere from around 2 to 100 million to develop and market. You think you can work out that sort of code, models, art assets, and story by yourself?
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Oh come one, he’s just being friendly when he suggests the commentator stifle & build her own game.
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I feel that I’ve been mansplaining mansplaining to men. I will cease to post.
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I agree with your comments wholeheartedly. The blockquote is not from me.
H’ray, thanks! Durned matriarchy.
Wow, that was actually really great. I love the Matrix–They Live revelation of what nice guys are really saying.
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Oh, come now, you gotta pull yourself up by the bootstraps and become a AAA title publisher first. THEN you can complain that the others are being assholes. That’s how Freedom™ Works!
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Yeah, I’ve been watching my SO play it on and off for about a year (while biding my time until we got a second TV because he’s been hogging all the video game time) and it looks like the kind of nearly-open world that I like exploring, and I also dig the decision matrix. My one lament was “why no lady wasteland maurauder for me to play,” but that’s fixed now. The only thing left for me to do is get one of those controller switch boxes so I can play it using the PS3 controller instead of the xbox controller (which I loathe, and always have).
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Thinking about it right now makes me want to go play. It just keeps unfolding.
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Notch did pretty decent for just one guy. So do plenty of other indie developers.
I believe you mean stalking and throwing out logical fallacies.
You are ceasing to post because you have been called out.
ITT: AAA titles are the only games capable of being played and if I can’t be instantly gratified, I’m not going to bother working towards a goal and blame it on capitalism.
Knitting sweaters is super easy, too! Why aren’t you off making your own clothes out of string right now?
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No, more lampooning the idea that no-one should complain if they don’t like the situation vis-a-vis this kind of nonsense perpetrated by the games industry with monotonous regularity. The fact of the matter is, that any worthy attempts by indie producers is pissing in the wind if AAA producers are allowed to slide on stuff like this. Yes, people producing little, low-budget games with less divisive, exclusionary bullshit in them is good. So is lambasting the big players for not doing so. I hate coding with a passion, I know full well it ain’t for me, but that doesn’t preclude me from being able to call producers out for what they do, does it?
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You have no idea how difficult it is for a man to get into the textile industry. Unless I invest seven figures into needles and yarn, there is absolutely no point for me to even bother learning how to knit a sweater. How dare you. It is not my job to educate you.
You’re fatih is indie developers shows how little you know the gaming industry.
And why is it that you think that there are so much male roles in video games? Perhaps because only 12% of CS graduating classes are women? You explained it yourself. You don’t want to make games because you hate coding. The same goes for the majority of women, apparently. The problem does not lie in the AAA developers, because they are more than likely made up entirely of men.
The problem is society is not encouraging women to develop video games. Encouraging women to program and develop video games is the solution.
Throwing a temper tantrum isn’t going to have that much of an effect.
Promoting learning to knit is one thing, thinking it makes up for what the textile industry does is another. “If you don’t like it, go make your own” is only ever a cheap excuse to dismiss real problems.
And I can say that as someone who has coded the odd game, and so knows exactly how easy fun one-offs are to make and how little they are like the industry titles that make up part of our common culture. Yes, Minecraft, but the very reason you keep bringing up that same title is that it’s an exception.
Of course it would be nice to have more women working on developing video games. That’s circular, though; it’s less likely to happen if the industry doesn’t show any interest in them, one symptom of which is what we are discussing here.
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