You're thinking of TERFers, not women in general. TERFers are not rational humans.

I had my first true experience with VR over the weekend. My partner brought me over to her friend's house so we could try it. Like many of you, I do wear glasses, and I found that I could comfortably wear the Playstation VR headset without having to remove them or make further adjustment to the focus of the lenses. That was fairly nice; apparently this will not be the case for the Vive? It was also very smooth and didn't give any obvious latency when moving your head around. Any movements were accurately recorded and presented in the game world. It all felt so natural, but there was some pixelation and some weird other visual anomaly I'm not even sure how to describe, something like having thousands of tiny little imperfections in the lens, which distracted from the realism.

Of course there's not much in the way of games yet. We just played a few demos. There was a street louge game which I thought was actually rather fun. The shark dive demo was nothing special. My ladyfriend really liked the shooting gallery game and I have to admit it worked really well with how accurately the game seemed to record movements. Her friend got really into some alien shooter thing which bored us to death--or at least to making out on the couch until he finished and caught us in the act. Must have been quite the surprise considering he thought we were straight. But I digress; it's certainly some interesting technology and clearly needs some improvements, but it's still very fun. I think the hardest challenge is going to just be in making proper (ie. non-gimicky) use of the controls in a way that feels natural.

Speaking of which, my friend and coworker is working on exactly that. We've been discussing how to create a VR game in which you control a character from a 3rd-person perspective. After I had contributing some code and ideas, he's gotten around a few of his hangups and was able to get something working which is pretty cool. I don't want to say too much on how it works out of respect for him, so I won't be going into any detail on it, but take my word that it works and feels "freaky."

No. There were multiplayer options but we didn't play anything online. Mostly there was things like score ranking or time trials; "real" games are still largely a work in progress. I have had guys creep on me in other multiplayer games in the past (for example, one weirdo apparently thought I had a sexy voice and asked me to masturbate and record the audio of me moaning to send him a copy of it. I'm not sure why he thought this was an appropriate request) and expect it to be no different with VR. I do not see it as a threat; it should be treated just like any other form of trolling or griefing in any other online games. People have said and done inappropriate things in online games since their inception and I do not think this is any different.

However, outside of the VR world, we did end up at the bar last night and some guy had stepped over the line. My partner and I were doing our own thing when he came over and started talking with her. Didn't think anything of it but since I couldn't hear what he was saying I had no idea what he was trying to do. After a minute or two I noticed he kept eyeing up her chest (she was wearing a Dirndl and is a very large-chested girl). He was moving his hands in a weird erratic way and I for some reason had the impression he was going to grab her. Then he really started leaning over her and staring right at her cleavage. "You have really nice boobies," I heard him say, and that's when I lost it. Threw my hand over her chest, wrapped my other arm around her and pulled her away, and went off at him for being so inappropriate. He of course slowly backed away and disappeared.

Had this type of behavior been done in a VR setting, I probably would have felt disgusted and annoyed with the person (though, admittedly, not to the same degree), but there would (should?) be an option to kick and/or report the offending player, or just switch to a different match.

Missing might be because of some script or something to ignore people?

The mentally unstable:
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Someone said basically the same about the game industry "burn it to the ground, rebuild it and keep men out". I'm sure that makes companies want to rush and be more inclusive.
Getting offended over a game that has zero details about it yet:
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Little did you know, those idiots are the ones wielding power in our society. Largely because sympathetic, well intentioned, ignorant people implicitly "rescue" the idiots whenever they cry out, assuming the idiots are disadvantaged and weak.

The non-idiots in this space are either in the humanist/equalism/mrm/mra camps, and therefore dissenters of the church of political correctness, or are ignorant of the entire debate and participate out of a misguided sense of honor.

The ignorant "non-idiots" are the pawns that run in to beat down the dissenters, rescuing the idiots and their idiotic ideals, ultimately keeping the idiots in power.

Logic, reason, evidence, and science have no place in political correctness. Political correctness is a religion. You are not welcome to disagree with it. Disagreements that are noticed by the hive will be swiftly settled with angry mobs of ignorant pawns trying to do the right thing without stopping to analyze what that might be.

Because those total idiots lead to things like this being taken serious:
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Sorry, have to bring up GG once again as it is the best example of why those are dangerous. When I first read the Zoey Post, I viewed it as nothing more than a jilted ex-lover whining about his loss. It wasn't until I saw Quinn's twitter where she said he dumped her that I started wondering about the claims. Upon looking into it Nathan Grayson covered Quinn's failed game jam, only telling the story from her side. Then found two articles where he name dropped her game, positive coverage. All three articles didn't mention they were friends.

Then the claims got more complicated when it was revealed she was friends with people that were on the IndieCade board where she won an award. Then Anita started her Tropes Versus Women series where she lied about games to sell her narrative. When gamers, myself included, contacted game sites to find out why they weren't calling these women out on it like they did with Jack Thompson we got greeted with the "Gamers are Dead" articles from people at game sites: http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php?title=Gamers_Are_Dead

On top of that we had game developers shitting on gamers. Devs like Tim Schafer, Manveer Heir. Writers, like Sam Biddle calling for bullying of "nerds" for fighting their narrative. Actors like Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton (and his wife) all started attacking their fan base because they dared to challenge the false narrative feminists were telling about gamers outraged over proof of writers covering their friends, former lovers, or former roommates without disclosing they were friends.

This site spawned because of the media blitz attacking gamers: http://deepfreeze.it/

In two years there have been zero proof that gamers or GamerGate have done any wrong doing. On the other hand the anti-gamergate people have a huge history. Randi Harper, creator of the GGAutoBlocker, has a history of bullying people as well as doxing a debt collector in order to scare him from contacting her. Yet she is praised by the media for being anti-bullying. Quinn started Crash Overdrive Network (CON), an anti-harassment group, but recently leaks called the CONLeaks, verified by former CON members like the Gameranx EIC, showed they fabricated most of the harassment to garner positive coverage. One member of the CON group was outed as using CON to further harass women that were seeking CON assistance. There are more cases of the people who spin the narrative that GamerGate is terrible being accused of sexual assault and rape, apologizing for the claims and then resigning from jobs. Wu, used to be a moderator of a transgender message board where she was dismissed because she treated other trans like shit. Yet the media teats these people like they are the paragons of wholesomeness, the deities of the internet while ignoring their actions in order to continue their narrative. "Games journalists" even tried to avoid the conversation of ethics by claiming they were just bloggers, upon which Stephen Totilo said he doesn't hire bloggers only journalists. Jason Scheier flat out stated on Twitter, that Objectivity was a silly thing to strive for.

There are tons of examples of members of the game media admitting they aren't ethical and lied about gamers, but the media just keeps pushing the narrative that gamers hate women, don't want women in tech (which would ignore successful women like Jade Raymond, Amy Hennig, and the endless list of women that were and are a success in the industry. Instead they promote Wu and Quinn like the are the queens of tech (even though Wu couldn't even quote specs correctly for the Playstation or claims to be a programmer and can't build a computer from scratch, claiming it is too hard to do). The more idiot rants there are, like the one I linked in the previous post, are what the media use to push the narrative that gamers, comic fans, etc. are women hating men.

CNN, Clinton News Network, is another prime example of the media wanting to stick to a narrative. They went on about Trump giving Miss Universe Machado a hard time over her weight, but tried to hide the fact that they ran an article giving her a hard time over her weight too.
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We'll just ignore them while the media push them as examples to push narratives and force change in media they don't like.

All I see are dumbasses white knighting for a woman that gave zero evidence of her claims. As soon as the article dropped on Medium, gamers started trying to find BigBro442 in order to condemn his actions, but was treated to a screen saying no user existed. Gameranx Editor in Chief, Ian Cheong was just the most credible I could show that pointed out he didn't exist. Yet everyone's reaction is still, "He doesn't exist? Well his actions are still terrible!" Who's actions? If a person doesn't exist, then they can't harass anyone.

Seems everyone is missing what that fact implies. The oddities in her story, the user she named not existing, and her abrupt shutting down of all her media pages (Facebook, Twitter, Medium, and her book promotion site) blocking any verification attempts. Makes the article seem like a work of fiction rather than fact, but that hasn't stopped anyone from blindly believing it and condemning a non-existent user.

Jordan is a feminist, and we have already seen feminist try to demonize gamers and men for the past few years now. Her story has different media sites demonizing gamers as sexual predators using VR to heighten their perversions.

Why should we worry about the rants of idiots? Game developers have quickly removed tweets that weren't offensive, but because idiots ranted and complained about finding it offensive. Developers, especially indies, have admitted to self censorship due to fearing the outrage of the easily offended instead of just simply making the game.
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The bottom page is a Kotaku article, an alleged game site. Game sites are supposed to be reviewing games (story, mechanics, graphics, sound etc.) and major news events in the industry. Instead they spend 98% of their time writing pieces that whine about political correctness and social justice issues not being forced into games. I've linked to the article where a reviewer removed points for a game because it objectified women. MovieBob even went on a rant via Twitter about how meritocracy is terrible. These morons don't want people to have jobs based on their abilities and don't want games to be enjoyed, they want them to force ideologies (particularly feminist ideologies). That is why they praise Gone Home.

I agree with Edgar.

Personally, my life has improved since I've stopped giving antagonistic individuals my attention!

You should try a little self-reflection exercise. Try and determine how you're approaching the issue, and how you're going about enacting change.

Are you discussing the issue with others, online or in person? How? Give your self 0 points if it's online, 1 points if in person.

Are you actively following some organized efforts to enact change, such as protesting in-person? How? Then give yourself 2 points.

Are you actively organizing efforts for you and others to enact change? How? Then give yourself 4 points.

Are you leading efforts to enact change? How? Then give yourself 8 points.

Add up your points. What did you get? If you got 1 or less, you're doing nothing for the issue, and you might as well not bother yourself with it. If you got 3 or less, you're doing better but only on a personal level, and are as Hendry David Thoreau would say, "a majority of one." If you got 3-7, then you're actively working to enact change. If you got 8 or more, you're actively leading change.

For example, on the issue of corporate surveillance, I discuss it with others online by voicing my opinion, so +0 points. But I've also gone to campaign stops to discuss my concerns, ask possible candidates to consider my position, and have contacted senators and other politicians by phone and mail. So +1 point.

I have stopped using almost all services offered by Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, and use proper privacy tools (browser add-ons, and Tor when feasible) to prevent any mistaken tracking. So +2 points.

I'm not currently organizing efforts to enact change. No points. I'm not currently leading efforts to enact change. No points.

(This exercise is a work in progress. It probably has some flaws.)

You're not being coherent.

I said, they were too self conscious. I said, they let them have power over them. I said, there was nothing offensive about them. It was a mistake to remove innocuous content. They shouldn't have kow-towed to a bunch of whiners.

Men shouldn't be getting harassed either. The double standard is that men are told to 'man up' and deal with it. What the women are fighting for is valid, and that is the right to have a safe, inclusive gaming environment. You should be fighting for the same thing.

So women aren't equal to men? Thanks for admitting that. It takes courage. I happen to agree with them, men have been putting up with this shit for the longest time, and it's about time someone did something about it. That it takes a woman to do it says a lot about men in general, because they're generally apathetic, insensitive, and rude. Don't deny it, you know it's true.

That is sexist and it does objectify women. Not saying I don't like cleavage, but they have a valid point.

He shouldn't have caved in to them. It was a lousy poem, but he has the right to his own opinion about what is proper and what he finds to be humorous.

Just who are these people you keep going on about, and why do you care what they think? If people would stop listening to them, nothing they say would matter.

Read that and then read your first comment again. You just gave the fix. Men don't take the harassment because of being told to "man up", they take it because they don't give the words being said to them any power. A good example of this is how some African Americans have absolutely no problem with their African American friends saying the N-word to them, but if a white friend said the exact same line in the exact same context they get offended because they give the word the power to offend them. Another example is the Feminist campaign of "Ban 'Bossy'"

No, I said the women that whine about not being equal are just wanting special treatment. The women that are equal don't stress over it.

Except these people are culture critics, developers, IDGA, DiGRA, and journalists whom hold extreme third wave feminist views and that are considered well respected in the game industry. If they deem something wrong their followers hound developers until the developers have no choice and have to cave. Some game sites have even went so far as to deny reviewing any Indie game that doesn't meet their feminist agenda. Can't remember if it was Polygon or Kotaku, but they said if your game has a white male hero they have no interest in reviewing it. Though they do whine when Bethesda added them both to their blacklist for shitting on gamers who enjoyed their games.

While it may be a buzzword, it does describe a real phenomena, and this idea does seem to be an expression of transphobia to me.

It seems fine to ask someone to change a poem like that. This is a very serious issue for some people, and if I were working on a project with someone and they wrote poems like that which got bad attention and prominence, and which is something I wouldn't really want to be involved in, I would hope he could understand the misstep. It's very common for trans women to be murdered by men in these situations, and it's a hot button topic for millions of people.

You're free to express your opinions, but not wherever the hell you want to.