You used to be able to adjust the tab opening behaviour via about:config too, until they took that option away. If you read the Moz wiki thing there are loads of deprecated preferences in prefs.js (which is what about:config is a front end for). Don't think it being in there makes it safe.

The most frustrating part is that they ignore the really good stuff in Firefox, like Tab Groups or Parallels or whatever it is called these days. It's a fantastic feature but almost completely neglected, and long standing issues never get fixed.

I didn't notice her saying "testosterone is a negative trait". Can you link to the specific video and time where she says that?

It all seemed well researched, thought out and not at all man-hating to me.

She does actually point out that many of the games she criticises are actually quite enjoyable, fun games that she liked playing. It's just that they are also full of harmful tropes and sexism, and don't need to be that way to remain enjoyable.

Would Mario be any less fun if he wasn't trying to rescue Princess Peach? In fact in the US version of Mario Bros 2, the only game in the core series where Peach isn't kidnapped at the start, you can play as Peach and it isn't any less fun because the goal isn't the Smooch of Victory.

Game mechanics are often set up to devalue women. For example, a lot of "dark" games have female prostitutes. Paying them for services, and occasionally a sex mini-game, often has the mechanic of restoring the player's health or boosting their stats somehow. It is the same mechanic that is applied to other things in the game like vending machines or med-kits. Essentially those women are a combination of tool and decorative sex object.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I find that sex in real life isn't like that and doesn't give me a health/stat boost, so I wouldn't say these mechanics reflect reality in any way. I doubt that most of the developers implementing them are overt misogynists either, they just build on harmful tropes that have developed over decades of gaming without really considering the wider implications.

Evidence? If you have some why not pass it on to the police and let her be prosecuted for wasting their time and making false accusations?

It's misogyny because it is part of a pattern of behaviour against women.

Okay, but that's just an anecdote. If you watch Anita's videos she provides extensive evidence and examples of sexism that is ingrained in gaming culture and tropes.

Ironically you appear to be the SJW in this instance. Anita's videos use specific examples, where as you are making more general points that seek to discredit anyone who says there is a real problem by painting them as extremists and guilt-trippers. FWIW Anita doesn't use guilt, she simply points out specific examples that she thinks are reprehensible.

This kind of meta-argument is pointless. Address the points she made directly. It's like on Wikipedia where people accuse each other of posting in bad faith, and then accuse the accuser of bad faith because accusing someone of bad faith is itself evidence itself of bad faith.

In the case of sexism there is a lot of evidence to suggest that it runs through society itself. To be clear Anita doesn't blame individuals most of the time, she merely points out that a lot of it is the result of tropes and cultural baggage. To pick a random example female characters often have stereotypical female attributes, such a lipstick, eyelashes, pink clothes, a bow in their hair and high heels, because it's a quick and easy way to inform the audience. It also works when you have few pixels to work with, which was the case with early games.

What she is arguing for is for designers to be a bit less lazy and get away from these tropes. Sometimes they do and it works well, and she gives credit where it is due. She does have a point though, there are things in our society and shared culture that are sexist, and by being aware of them we can at least try to change them.

The conclusions in that image don't follow from the evidence. It's more likely that some troll had it planned out and created an account just to post those messages, and then did so quickly because they knew that Twitter would ban them soon after being reported.

There is no evidence who made the screenshot so the lack of search results or being logged in means nothing. Any random person could have followed a link to them.

And yet you don't offer any evidence.

Why is it that when it's a guy being accused of cronyism it's just a relationship, but when it's a woman it becomes a "sex scandal"? Is the sex somehow relevant, or is it just the accusation that there may have been some kind of relationship between the two of them that lead to a single article being written?

So either, like most human beings, they value their privacy at the start of relationship and don't immediately broadcast it on Twitter, or you are referring to vague rumours that amount to little more than low quality gossip.

While I agree that cynicism is a big factor, I think women have a unique problem due to western history and the fact that men feel their masculinity is being attacked somehow by feminism. Some men seem to feel like they want to dominate and control women personally in a way that they don't feel about say immigrants, religious people or homosexuals. Most men have some kind of personal relationship with at least one woman, so I suppose it is kind of personal for them.

The issue is that by attributing some blame to women it implies that her rapist is somehow less culpable, as if her clothing or the fact that she was drunk somehow induced him to rape her. Kind of like aggravated assault - she was "asking for it".

You are of course right that some behaviour is risky, but blame is the wrong word. In most people's minds there is some amount of blame for something happening that is distributed among all those responsible for it, and in the case of rape exactly 0% should be attributed to the victim if all she did was put on a short skirt and drink too much. It was inadvisable, a mistake, whatever, but she wasn't to blame to for what happened.

If you are going to make ad-hominem attacks you could at least back them up with some evidence. Have you actually watched her videos and can you refute them in any way, or do you just not like her message or her personally?