They don’t need to pass up on John Carmack if he wants to show up. They’d just kick off one of the less-accomplished guys.
Contrary to popular belief, the actual (as opposed to legislated) US public space is not yet fair based on gender or race. There’s absolutely tons of cultural bias.
The only way to fix that is to explicitly push for diversity in public spaces, until the next generation sees that things look fair, and the implicit cultural bias subsides.
If you don’t understand that this is how society improves, or if you don’t agree that society needs improvement along this axis, then that’s a different discussion.
Actually, it does. I’ve seen pretty convincing science showing that women are more sensitive to frame rate problems than men.
Probably something biological related to how womens brains are slightly different than mens brains.
It would be a shame if we didn’t actually capture the full biodiversity of humanity when we actually want to build games for all of humanity, wouldn’t you say?