Game writer Jennifer Hepler said some things in an interview 5 years ago that she’s being harassed over now. Susana Polo writes about what she thinks Hepler’s story is all about: “This intimidation in regards to inclusion (of easier play modes, setting aside the inclusion of characters who are something other than the majority demographic) is the same sort of thing that Patton Oswalt was talking about when he railed on geekdom becoming mainstream. It’s the hipstery fear that if others can like what you like than you’re not as special a snowflake as before, except with the added gamer claim that you’re a special snowflake because you completed a challenge.”
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