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if I remember right, the same restrictions apply to Unreal Engine 4 -- that is, that you need to use the Apple version to build an Apple executable. so it's not that unexpected. irritating, though.

Lib, thanks for the clarification! it's easy to forget, sometimes, that the resource pack creators are mainly freelancers -- we've been getting some really high-quality stuff lately.

I can't believe luigi killed a man

hush. it's better now than it's been for a long time, and we have your absence partly to thank.

there's not a lot there to jump on your throat for, Zeig. I'd say that I want a bit more than that, but there's certainly room for disagreement here. I understand if you're not comfortable putting yourself out here at the moment, though, and that's fine -- I promise, though, that if that changes I'll give you a fair shake. my problem is never with people who disagree with me -- time and time again, the thing in these threads that gets me riled is people coming in to argue in bad faith. while I can't claim to know you as well as I know some people, I believe that you are an honest person, and that's basically all I ask for.

I don't think this is about what WetMattos 'wants', though -- this thread is more of an ongoing dialogue on the subject of ongoing representation. it's certainly not a list of demands, at least! like with many things, issues of representation and audience perception are an ongoing process, and I don't think that there's a singular list of things that would mark the whole problem as 'solved'. (though there are a couple very good places to start -- communities taking a stand against transphobia and sexism so people affected by it don't feel alone, developers branching out to other demographics so it's not a sea of boob-plate, etc.)

Solitayre, thank you. it's incredibly frustrating seeing people act as though 'well NORMAL people don't care about this!' is a statement that deserves respect and engagement.

you probably already read this, but this is the big thing wrt 'acting not-racist'

tldr, people's actions aren't the focus here as much as it might seem -- it's important to protect people from those blatant behaviours, but the real priority is changing the systems that taught and normalized those actions to begin with.

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that's why that thing I mentioned is so important. bigotry is defined not by individual bigoted people but by the societal tendency toward bigotry, the decades and centuries of influence that those attitudes have had on how things are structured and how we view the world.

activism is not just some sisyphean struggle to make everyone Act Nice -- properly practiced, its purpose is to root out and replace systems of oppression so that they can no longer have that terrifying and subtle impact on vulnerable people's lives. ingrained white supremacy, ingrained sexism, ingrained xenophobia -- these and more are all present in our culture and our way of life, and they're not going anywhere until we learn to recognize them.