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Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] Claims of racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9 on Debian mailing lists
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From: Marcin M. <mar...@gm...> - 2015-05-05 09:54:43
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Yep, the folks on debian-women made my day :) -- Marcin 2015-05-05 0:28 GMT+02:00 <zkd...@op...>: > Heya! > > There will always be retards yelling about sexism and racism. These people > should not be pandered to, unless you want to see more bullshit like > Dalhousie or Nash Grier. The following videos give a good explanation of > what I'm talking about: > > http://youtu.be/11Rry9hU8ZY > http://youtu.be/im25MN5AwIc > > I love the game. Keep up the good work. Don't let identity politics ruin > everything ;-). Best regards > -Zach > > Le 4 mai 2015 08:29:52 GMT-07:00, Nimda <sl...@ni...> a > écrit : >> >> Greetings All ~ >> >> As a compete outsider to STK, I wanted to chime in on two quick items. >> >> Regarding the latest release, congratulations! As part of "Philly Tech >> Week" I recently did some public demos of three Open Source Tux games. >> Supertux Kart was hands down the winner in the Fun Department. We had about >> two hundred people drive a lap on SuperTux Kart. Everyone smiled and >> laughed along with Tux ... it was such a hit with the crowds! >> >> Regarding the recent comments on sexism in STK, my seven year old >> daughter chooses Sara and like her very much. Her mom seems fine with the >> character and was happy to know she's not the only girl in the game. As a >> family, we are all fine with this character. >> >> Keep up the great work and *Thank You* for sharing it! >> >> (Kids playing SuperTux Kart) >> http://gluebox.com/sites/gluebox.com/files/kids_tux_0.jpeg >> >> (Crowds playing SuperTux Kart) >> http://gluebox.com/sites/gluebox.com/files/Tux_at_Philly_Tech_Week.png >> >> S.Groundwater >> -- >> >> On May 2, 2015, at 8:41 AM, sam <sam...@gm...> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm from the SuperTuxKart development team and some people will probably >> not care/twist what I'm about to say. >> However I think it's important to clarify some stuff. >> >> It seems a lot of people criticized without even playing the game. >> >> The character Sara is one of the many playable characters in the game. >> She isn't the only woman playable. Several others are present. >> * Suzanne (Blender's mascot) >> * Xue (XFCE's mouse) >> * Amanda (A panda and the mascot of windows maker) >> >> Sara isn't just for background decoration. In fact she has an airport >> (Princess Sara Airport) an airline company (Royal Cupcake Airways) and >> many other things. >> Focusing only on her bikini or the number of time she is in a track is >> narrowing the character to only one aspect. >> Also the character in STK was mainly designed by women (including the >> bikini). >> >> * Her airport https://i.imgur.com/wd1mckn.jpg >> * A warning for a networking antenna https://i.imgur.com/ubSk8ug.jpg >> * The following picture https://i.imgur.com/fNo3HDj.jpg is a bug and >> this should be reported. Her face should not have a strange blue artifact. >> >> For the beach we will add men in swimming suit. It was planned but >> unfortunately the guy who worked on it had some delays, so the release >> was done before it could be finished. >> http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6325 >> >> SuperTuxKart is in constant development and we will improve it in the >> future. We are expending STK's cartoon universe. Each character will >> have a track. >> That's the reason Suzanne (the monkey) is presents in Cocoa Temple. For >> instance Puffy (OpenBSD's fish) will be in the underwater track. >> >> There is no real life country in stk (and we are working to remove if >> they are presents in track). We use a fictional universe with fictional >> country so you can't pretend it target something specific. We also are a >> cartoon game not a realistic depiction of ancient civilizations. >> >> Working on all those details take time, we are a volunteer project so we >> can't aim at a polish like a commercial game. So we progress slowly and >> we have a lot of work to offers to players the best experience possible. >> >> That being said I think nobody wants to censor something. >> * A lot of other games, animation movies, comics, etc use similar tropes >> * When vlj raised the issue basically nobody in the SuperTuxKart team >> find something wrong with the poster (and the vast majority of people >> are perfectly okay with it). He wanted to put himself on a strike and >> that is right. >> * Like in other game a warning for instance (Comic Mischief) could be >> included. >> * It's virtually impossible to please everyone :(. If we remove >> something we have equally protest from the other side of people who >> wanted. >> * The game main target audience aren't white men but simply Humans ;). >> >> Kind regards >> >> >> >> On 02.05.2015 11:57, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >> Hi Supertuxkart developers, >> >> you might be interested to know that claims of racism and sexism in >> >> Supertuxkart 0.9 have appeared on Debian mailing lists. >> >> Please see >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2015/04/msg00029.html >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2015/04/msg00008.html >> >> for the start of the discussion. Note that it continues in the archives >> >> for May. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ansgar >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >> >> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >> >> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >> >> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >> >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Supertuxkart-devel mailing list >> >> Sup...@li... >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/supertuxkart-devel >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> _______________________________________________ >> Supertuxkart-devel mailing list >> Sup...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/supertuxkart-devel >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Supertuxkart-devel mailing list >> Sup...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/supertuxkart-devel >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Supertuxkart-devel mailing list > Sup...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/supertuxkart-devel > > |
