Mick Gordon seems to have developed an uncanny ability to work with some extremely suspect folks and come out looking like the good guy. Hope the dude gets a chance to just make some more rad music for games and not have to do a PR tour over it in the future.

Im shocked no one is saying the obvious. This is just staff reduction by self-selection. If the Microsoft deal goes through, they will eliminate headcount. If it does not go through, Acti-Blizz will have to eliminate headcount.

While I agree that WFH is better (I’ve been doing it for 12 years!), I guess I am confused on how people got into a situation where they, as the article says, did things like sell/not buy cars, move further away from the office, etc. Did ABK ever give any assurance that WFH could continue forever 100% of the time? If…

The 40% ownership of Unreal is probably the single biggest factor here, because that engine is driving a *HUGE* segment of the market, from AAA to indie. Steam has it listed at roughly 25% of all games on its marketplace, with the next closest ‘competitor’ being Unity at just a little over half of Unreal adoption…

The China references are still relevant because you have to take the global picture into account, because regulators are talking about blocking the deal on anti-competition / anti-trust worries. The important part of it is that Tencent has a bigger slice of the overall worldwide games market than Sony, Microsoft or…

I’m actually disappointed in how uncritical this article is. To say this was “terribly transphobic” indicates that you barely watched or even thought about the clip. The whole bit is “I was thinking about saying some transphobic stuff, but no one ever laughs at it so I didn’t. Wait where is everyone going?”

How is this transphobic rather than a subtle joke about transphobia? At first I thought Twitch’s ban-bot was just dumber than their chat-bot but the article is written as if everyone finds what it said straight up offensive. It sure sounded like a comedian lamenting how jokes about gay and trans people don’t work…

Yep - I’m probably overly-sensitive to these kinds of things (I’m a woke cancel culturer, I guess), and I thought this was... actually kind of insightful? “My comedy sucks, so I’m thinking of trying these hacky jokes, but nobody’s laughing. Hey, where are you all going?”

Honestly, that bit comes off almost like an insightful joke about how washed-up aging comedians try to stay relevant in 2023. “No one is laughing at my jokes. Maybe I should try saying hateful bullshit about trans people and liberals.” Just replace Jerry with Dave Chapelle or Louis CK and you’ve practically got a…

I may be using this term incorrectly, but that seems like a “meta” joke to me; a joke about how bad those ideas are for a joke.

Maybe AI isn’t that advanced yet. I don’t even know if I understand the concept of “meta” humor.

Is it just me, or did it sound like the AI was almost riffing on transphobic comedians? “No one was laughing.” Like it was pointing out that that shit isn’t funny.

That’s a bummer. I hope they can fix it. I’ve been absolutely loving nothing, forever. It’s the strangest thing and oddly captivating.

Plot twist: This isn’t actually a reality show.  They’re filming Season 2.  

Wasn’t there an amusement park that skirted the weight and size requirements for a ride that lead to the death of a teenager? I’m sure that was a wake-up call to every amusement park in the nation to adhere to stricter procedures and requirements for rider safety.

No one seems to be mentioning that children make up a high % of the riders. Making the seats larger would certainly mean some younger children would be excluded from riding. 

Equating waistlines below 40' to “thin people” is the craziest title I’ve read today.

The majority of these comments that say to make the seats bigger seem to ignore the fact that children are a significant portion of the target audience for this ride. Making the seats larger to accommodate additional adults would then exclude children on the lower end of the safety limits of the ride. As a parent I’d…

Yeah, I’m sorry but 40" is quite large. Just because the average American these days is overweight/obese doesn’t mean we should normalize having huge waistlines along with all the health issues that follow.

A few months ago, a kid died in Orlando (?) because he was allowed to ride a ride even though he was way above the size limit.