The Grumbles posted:

I remember that whole shitshow well and the only extent to which they 'continuously took advantage' of her femininity was that she did a couple of talking head interviews because she was one of the key people involved in making the game, and was clearly good at talking to camera/press, which a lot of people in game development are not bc they're too awkward. it was literally just because she's a photogenic woman in games development who had the media training required to do public facing interviews that idiot gamers decided this was some kind of sexual gambit on the part of ubisoft.

hard counter posted:

there's a particular phenomena modern scholars talk about where there's extra pressure placed on visible minorities in the workplace to constantly be front and centre, as if they were an obscurity to be trotted out - if you happen to be the one girl in a programming company, for e.g., rather than being treated as a regular employee who does the required work, who may also volunteer for extra work based on their own taste for them, there's this extra pressure to be conspicuous that both burdens and alienates employees in a way that goes beyond discomfort and it can affect even high level employees; being conspicuous is alright but only if you're actually volunteering for it, otherwise it's a kind of exploitation arising from toxic workplace culture that we more easily recognize today

given the reputation for toxicity video game companies had/have, it's a conceivable possibility if we're trying to think this all the way through but, like i said, i don't think it's likely here, jade probably volunteered because she had people skills the others lacked, and there's no way gamers were upset about this anyway, they acted like ghouls because they felt like they were being patronized

Vic posted:

EDIT: The whole "this was bound to happen if they put a woman in such a role" vibe I get from this and previous post just rubs me the wrong way.

hard counter posted:

there's a particular phenomena modern scholars talk about where there's extra pressure placed on visible minorities in the workplace to constantly be front and centre, as if they were an obscurity to be trotted out - if you happen to be the one girl in a programming company, for e.g., rather than being treated as a regular employee who does the required work, who may also volunteer for extra work based on their own taste for them, there's this extra pressure to be conspicuous that both burdens and alienates employees in a way that goes beyond discomfort and it can affect even high level employees; being conspicuous is alright but only if you're actually volunteering for it, otherwise it's a kind of exploitation arising from toxic workplace culture that we more easily recognize today

given the reputation for toxicity video game companies had/have, it's a conceivable possibility if we're trying to think this all the way through but, like i said, i don't think it's likely here, jade probably volunteered because she had people skills the others lacked, and there's no way gamers were upset about this anyway, they acted like ghouls because they felt like they were being patronized

nunsexmonkrock posted:

I never played the king's quest games but I assume they are in the same vein as the Space Quest games also by Sierra? I actually love those games. Not sure why I never gave king's a try.

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Smik posted:

I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to feel about this.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Raymond was the producer. It's a pretty normal position to have be interviewed (eg Warren Spector was the producer for System Shock, Richard Garriott was the producer of Ultima Online)

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Lodin posted:

It's not normal since those two dudes had classics they had actually worked on under their belt. Ubisoft decided to whore her out since they are a poo poo company. She had no games to her name but here she is because she's hot.
Like good for her if she didn't mind that part of the job but gently caress Ubisoft and their scummy ways.

low key sex master posted:

Whatever it takes to get people to eat their veg

Sombrerotron posted:

The late '00s/early '10s where a dark time for the Sonic franchise.

Theophany posted:

Excellent use of the word "whoring" to undermine whatever point you were making with this hot take. 👍

Lodin posted:

For fucks sake, I'm not calling her that word, that's what the company was doing with her.

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Dip Viscous posted:

Whatever happened to Bushman? The boar spearing thread was the first and last time I remember seeing him.

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Lodin posted:

For fucks sake, I'm not calling her that word, that's what the company was doing with her.

Akratic Method posted: