{"id":2754,"date":"2012-09-10T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:07:36","slug":"link-blog-archive-women-gamers-gaslamp-games-forums-are-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/09\/10\/link-blog-archive-women-gamers-gaslamp-games-forums-are-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Link: \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Women Gamers: Gaslamp Games forums are amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cake-pie.com\/women-gamers-gaslamp-games-forums-are-amazing\/931\/\">&raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Women Gamers: Gaslamp Games forums are amazing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">I&rsquo;m about to tell you a story about videogames, kitchens, and internet forums that has a happy ending. Stop laughing, I&rsquo;m serious.    What happened here has never happened to me before in my life, or to any other woman I have ever heard of, so listen up. Listen well all of you. If you&rsquo;re a Game Dev or you moderate an internet community, or you&rsquo;re a bunch of women who know how this usually plays out&ndash;no matter who the hell you are I promise you that you&rsquo;ve never seen this before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span>                        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/blog\">blog<\/a>             <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/archive\">archive<\/a>             <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamers\">gamers<\/a>             <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a>             <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/forums\">forums<\/a>             <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/women\">women<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2754'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2754);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2754);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2754);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Women Gamers: Gaslamp Games forums are amazing I&rsquo;m about to tell you a story about videogames, kitchens, and internet forums that has a happy ending. Stop laughing, I&rsquo;m serious. What happened here has never happened to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/09\/10\/link-blog-archive-women-gamers-gaslamp-games-forums-are-amazing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14,363],"tags":[342,151,180],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general","category-women","tag-games-gaming","tag-gender","tag-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3772,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/12\/28\/bbc-news-internet-archive-puts-classic-70s-and-80s-games-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":2754,"position":0},"title":"BBC News &#8211; Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 BBC News - Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games Classic video games from the 1970s and 1980s have been put online by the Internet Archive and can be played within a web browser for nothing. The collection has launched with games from five early home consoles, including\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3476,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/05\/29\/5-gamer-comments-that-give-straight-white-guys-a-bad-name-cracked-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":2754,"position":1},"title":"5 Gamer Comments That Give Straight White Guys a Bad Name | Cracked.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"THIS: They're playing in the comment section of a website about video games: That's three levels of virtual world created only to entertain them. 5 Gamer Comments That Give Straight White Guys a Bad Name | Cracked.com. This is brilliant. A few of my favorite excerpts: If someone says you're\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2147,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/28\/where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2754,"position":2},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been This Week (weekly)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ \u00a0 Why \u201cClear and Easy to Understand\u201d can be bad | Usable Learning So, as an instructional designer, part of my job is to make things clear and easy to understand, right? 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The average age of gamers is marching right along with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HACKR118","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HACKR118.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2422,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/07\/26\/a-call-to-arms-for-decent-men-a-re-post-of-ernest-adams-column\/","url_meta":{"origin":2754,"position":4},"title":"A Call to Arms for Decent Men: A Re-Post of Ernest Adams&#8217; column.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A Call to Arms for Decent Men. This is worth saying again, and again, so here it is, in its entirety: Gamasutra declined to run this column, but I still consider it to be part of the Designer's Notebook series. Contains strong language. 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