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#twoMartianManhuntersinVermont

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'Male non-playable characters can sometimes be bigoted, and bigoted characters will give the player attention even if their Spacebook profile says they're not interested in men. This won't happen with other species—it'll only happen with the Asrion. You can, however, turn this feature off when you start a new game.

"It is a species meant to satirize the awful sexist trope of blue/green-skinned alien space babe, of course, which exists throughout various sci-fi media, from tv to games," Mitu Khandaker, the developer behind Redshirt, explained to me today in an email.1

"It is a dynamic which intends to call out a few different aspects of sexism, from fetishization and othering in general (someone, after I blogged about the Asrion, reminded me of http://creepywhiteguys.tumblr.com/ which is incredibly apt!) to awful people who don't respect women's sexual agency, and define it only in terms of their own. These are things which exist in both sci-fi, and the worst bits of social media culture in general, both things which Redshirt is lampooning," she continued.

Her intention was to make the player uncomfortable, sure—but hopefully, in doing so, also get the player to think about the problematic trope. It hasn't always worked out that way—recently a note on Tumblr criticized the game because it seemed as if the player paid for the 'privilege' of being harassed. Thankfully Khandaker was sympathetic to this complaint, and promised to make this mechanic more apparent to players who want to play as Asrions. The necessity of doing so is apparent when you consider that harassment toward women is kind of normalized and expected, both from players and games/developers alike.

"What I definitely did *not* want was for the player to experience any actual distress they did not expect, and so as soon as it was brought to my attention that this had happened, I realized what I'd done wrong, which is not to properly frame the experience for any player who might have the potential to be triggered by the dynamic, and allow them to opt-in to it," Khandaker said.'

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TW: Everything

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"Comstock, who works as a nurse, said doctors gave him a clean bill of health, told him to take Tylenol, gave him a tetanus shot, and told him to go buy a lottery ticket."

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"After establishing the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Burns and his men fought on the front lines of one of America’s first wars on terror: In 1911, Burns and his agents helped to apprehend the McNamara Brothers—the two radical union leaders who orchestrated the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. During that case, Burns posed as a hunter in order to enter an anarchist colony near Tacoma, Washington."

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"In 50 years the Doctor meet many strange creatures, but maybe silicon-based species are the most fascinating for a geologist."

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