Here’s hoping Google not only sees your logic but cares enough to allow it to happen (ie. they care enough to allow developers to port their games over or perhaps they even send them back their source discs if they held on to any)

Either this guy is completely apathetic to what work culture is being fostered in his company or just plain incompetent  to not know what is going on. I get that when you steer a ship as large as Ubisoft you are not going to know about every shit head employee that you happen to employ but the hand waving he dose…

made him hard to manage

...when confronted with complaints about Ancel, the CEO allegedly said Ancel’s stardom in the games industry was both helpful for Ubisoft’s public perception but also made him hard to manage, and that it would be up to staff representatives and HR to protect the people who work under him.

Even beyond the simply dumbassery of his comments and how it shows the toxic culture for women in particular won’t really change until he goes, just the simple act of framing inter-team cooperation as “friction” or “tension” says a lot about why Ubisoft has so creatively nose-dived over the last decade or so.

It’s like how children see their parents. They’re there to provide for and protect you (if you’re lucky). There’s no way they have their own dreams and aspirations that don’t involve you.

Yeah, reading this article reminded me of kids I went to high school with. This isn’t anything new; it’s just teen douches being teen douches. There’s no need for moral panic, although it’s gonna happen anyway. It's as dictated by the cycle.

i feel that it rooted in a weird sort of macho toxic masculinity. young men without any direction or means of expressing themselves emotionally in a constructive manner, browbeaten into ancient and archaic roles and gender expectations...the “hero” is who they’re supposed to be. the “hero” is the winner, gets the…

That’s what you took from his post?

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s like how getting ahead in corporate culture can have more to do with presenteeism and performative importance, rather than actually being productive. It doesn’t matter if you actually have an interesting life full of meaningful accomplishments; if you’re not performatively…

Out of all the philosophical consequences of simulation theory of course we have to be narcissistic enough to pick solipsism.

As a person who also didn’t hype it up and finally played it some months ago, you are correct. The anime is the better version. I like the gameplay, outside of the driving and the idea of what it wanted to be but the execution is bad. The open world is dull and the story is meh. Feels like a high production value…

There certainly is - this is just a new flavor of an age-old trend. The easy access to audience is certainly new, and likely provokes more of it (or at least more visible) than we might otherwise have, but ‘pranks’ in the form of “Watch me go do something to this random stranger it’ll be hilarious!” and treating said…

It’s easier to believe a problem is new and has easy answers, rather than old and long-unsolved.

Yeah, crappy prank videos are the latest symptom of a disease as old as history. And I think today’s Very Online shutins would in times past have been trolling forums or living in books; like I said in another reply, it’s not like everyone was getting out and mixing before social media either.

Yeah. It’s easy to feel in your early twenties like your generation’s uniquely flawed, but none of this is new or special.

So I was one of the like...six people on the planet who didn’t hype themselves to Mars prior to the release of this game, never pre-ordered it and got to watch the *WILD* fuckin’ fallout of the game. And I have to say after watching the Anime I did kinda feel myself going “you know, what if I bought the game now?”

And…

I feel like there’s gotta be something more at work here than merely social media and a digital upbringing, though I’m certain they are contributors.

Part of the problem, I think, is that a lot of these people are big on individuality. So when they see someone doing something that they consider boring or blending into the background or commonplace, they think “everyone expresses their individuality... except people like this”. NPCs, to them, are people without…

The push to get rid of physical buttons on phones as much as possible was a mistake. Hell, just swapping out actual buttons for capacitive buttons was bad.