He kind of is, and I’m a Nintendo fanboy. All I do is pay attention to his actions and decisions for certain projects. Power and success tends to draw out our demons after all.

Not everyone has the capacity to be considerate, let alone empathetic(those that don’t have empathetic abilities have ASPD, and imo, this is a haven for “unfeeling” people), and worse, our society rewards this behavior, especially if you want to be at the top in a materialistic culture.

This is peak right wing humor. 

I’ll only be out if it turns out Miyamoto is a monster.

We live in a world where a show like Rick and Morty exists to deconstruct the notion of geniuses getting a free pass to be assholes, and a sizeable portion of the fanbase instead sees him as an aspirational figure.

Oh for Christ’s sake.

From what I’ve seen, it’s cultural. There’s a lot of media that encourages this behavior. Alone, people may refrain, realizing it’s not good, but once they learn that some of their colleagues were raised on similar ideals, they tend to fall in with others. Then, people who don’t want to make waves because it will…

While I’m happy to hear this isn’t something far worse, like what’s going on at ActiBlizz/Ubi, has anyone in this industry just tried not being an asshole?

I know, I know...that’s stupid because it sounds too simple...and it is! You really can just be kind and patient and empathetic to people, it’s not even remotely dif…

I wouldn’t be surprised if Kaplan was a major enabler of Afrasiabi’s behavior. The timeline the suit lays out doesn’t start when they were hired, but more around the time Kaplan would have been his boss. When your best buddy is in charge, why not do anything you want?

Yeah, and Afrasiabi was in Fires of Heaven.

And yeah, they were very close — between the two of them (and their followers) they ground EQ to a halt over making EQ paladins a good tank -- among other shenanigans. 

Brack consistently missed the point. Even if all this shit hadn’t been going on, he’s been putting his foot in his mouth since well before he became president. I don’t really know how he wound up in the position at all, unless he just drew the short straw.

Basically this is going down exactly as most people expected it to: A sacrificial lamb for the mobs, except he’s not really getting punished, just moved somewhere else within the company and told to stay quiet. No substantial changes in structure or culture..just gonna wait this out, hope people for get,

Yeah, I misread the intent of your message -- probably because of personal bias in that I’m pretty sure there’s gonna be dirt on Kaplan surfacing soon -- he has to be dirty. You can’t be that close to Afrasiabi for decades and not get shit on yourself. 

All Jeff did was get out before the shit hit the fan.

Jeff? The guy whose EQ name was Tigole Bitties? (as in Big Ole Titties), that Jeff? The Jeff that is best buddies with Afrasiabi, that basically ran the infamous FoH guild in EQ with Afrasiabi?

Jeff is the only one I’m still holding onto hope for. Admittedly, that hope is dwindling.

I’ve been asking the same thing, it’s just SO WEIRD that he smoke bombs right out, not long before this all starts coming out. I *hope* he’s not a part of this, but I am lacking in the hope department at this point.

Hey they had a very difficult esports moment and they failed to do....something. What more do you want?

“Jen and Mike have more than three decades of gaming industry experience between them.”

Not the point.

Well, I guess Blitzchung is never getting that apology. Let’s take bets folks, what emote is Blizz going to remove next to make it seem like they are doing something? I’m betting sitting.