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Cythereal posted:So, it looks like that senior writer at Blizzard who left the other week didn't just leave on his own. It's now looking like he was pressured into resigning by Blizzard HR because he was corroborating and supporting complaints by women at the company, judging by a couple of videos looking at his social media history and other communications.
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Thing is, for Blizzard this has always worked before. They don't have anybody capable of imagining it won't work this time.
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The Gadfly posted:This makes no sense to me. What's the practical difference between having 5.5 billion and 5.8 billion? Are they scared of having 9 yachts instead of 10? And even then, a single yacht doesn't even come close to a billion USD.
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It's not as though there is sworn court testimony from the cabin attendant he harassed, or as if he himself admitted, in public, to having threatened to kill an employee. Hey, denial is working just fine for other men in power.
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Hint: The board, like most of the senior staff at Actiblizzard, think nothing all that bad happened.
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Finally a chance for that  dream job in games.
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I love the followup. https://twitter.com/Shannon_Liao/status/1469367846878674947
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Goddamn it, Berserk Games (makers of Tabletop Simulator) https://docs.google.com/document/d/...=h.vqqwfq48sggg Player Xoe Alfred is kicked from chat for mentioning that she's gay. quote:Transcribed Highlights quote:Xoe: Okay, so that makes sense to me, so then, why is it that I get kicked for sharing that I'm gay? Or banned for asking if being gay is considered family friendly?
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Endorph posted:The devs and the mod have apologized, and they've disabled global chat because surprise its currently unreadable.
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Golden Goat posted:https://kotaku.com/riot-games-offers-resignation-bonuses-as-company-announ-1848348892
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I think we now have an additional explanation for why (A) Microsoft backed down on "Actiblizz is bad" and (B) the board insisted on keeping Kotick. I mean, apart from capitalism and the old-boy network. Merger negotiations take months, and nobody wanted to change CEOs in the middle of a merger. Similarly, Microsoft didn't want to leave any more anti-Blizz comments in the open record when they expected to announce the purchase within weeks. In my experience  of the software industry, the acquired company's CEO doesn't stay in power longer than a year-ish, but is shifted to some high-titled position and expected to leave to spend more time with their billions. The only exception I can think of is YouTube, although I'm sure there are others. Also in my experience, absolutely nothing happens at the acquired company for at least six months, because all departments stop dead to explain to their new overlords what exactly it is that they do, and why they should get more money to do it.Sucks to be support staff (legal, in-house services, anything not related to the core business) because they get shoved out ASAP.
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I am waaaay out of the loop. Can somebody tell me if Microsoft is still where good game studios go to die?
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The 7th Guest posted:gently caress capitalism and gently caress everyone involved with this. :/
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fez_machine posted:but the indies are dead or going to die when the last purchase of an indie studio that killed that studio dead was the valve acquisition of the Firewatch studio
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Shooting Blanks posted:The main question right now is - what feature or features does Discord lack, that a replacement could bring to the table? Another good feature would be able to create subcommunities on the fly: select N people from this server and create a subserver to, say, play Among us. Dissolve the subserver when the short-term game is done.
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Timby posted:Kotaku did a lot more good reporting before Stephen Totilo and Jason Schreier both told G/O Media to go gently caress themselves. Nowadays the best reporting comes from Schreier, but he's at Bloomberg now and they've got a paywall. The Onion did not form G/O Media. Rather, a rump group of Gawker properties, owned by Univision for a bit, was sold off to the investment firm. The Onion hasn't been a separate media company since 2003, when the founders sold it to a different investment firm.
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Timby posted:That ... isn't at all what I was talking about, though? I'm well aware of what happened to Gawker and G/O Media. I was just saying that The Onion's union staff is under a different union than the GMG union that's currently on strike. God, I'm an idiot. So sorry.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Regarding the botched IGDA investigation into a harasser from a while back If you don't have time for videos (who does?) she says this page is the basis for a lot of her investigation. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-02-07-igda-mishandled-complaints-of-harassment-conduct-violations
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Based on counting the dots, it is either 0-9 or 1-10. People have also pointed out that the character is still "McCree" internally.
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I suppose they think they're distracting from their PR problems. That means that tool has actually been used in production for some time, doesn't it?
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ColdPie posted:Frank worked at Bungie since I think pre H2 days. He was their public face back then, doing most of the dev blog posts etc on bungie.net from H2's development through the 343i split. He was part of the contingent that started 343i, and he's now one of the higher ups at that studio and on the franchise. Some of those are stretches, but there's absolutely no defense for "k*ke".
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Achmed Jones posted:it gets way milder than that. the only tweet i read was "said a black lady was too angry" (which is a bad look, and he should probably consider his biases, but it's not exactly the end of the world) and then a bunch of posts where people were like "hey that's not nice," which i legitimately cannot understand why they were included in the tweet. Here you go. https://twitter.com/haileyx24/status/1540442425893834752
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Arzachel posted:We know for certain that
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Feels Villeneuve posted:given how poorly the workers there are treated, i'd imagine they're also used because of low labor costs. The point of contracting is that it lets you treat workers as completely disposable. They are obligated to do the work, and you have no obligations (other than paycheck) to them.
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The worst thing about using Firefox -- I switched after Google announcing the change a year or so back-- is that some websites only work on Chrome. This isn't advertised, it's just a fact. The Washington Post comments section, for one.
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Clarste posted:Sorry, but I need those tabs. Those are my emotional support tabs. Stolen from Twitter, still true. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Julian Gough, the guy who wrote the End Poem on Minecraft, never signed a contract waiving rights with Notch/Mojang/Microsoft. In a long, rambling essay he explains that he's "setting it free"; he now claims it's under one of the many open-source plans. It'll be interesting to see how this one shakes out. Given that he admits he accepted the money without signing the contract, I'm guessing Microsoft's lawyers will win.
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Regulate loot boxes as gambling.
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