Imagine creating an organization that celebrates conspicuous consumption and unearned wealth and then having either the extreme self-awareness, or the extreme lack thereof, to call your organization One Percent.

She wasn’t terrified...she was entitled.  

“Your honor, my road rage was triggered so I had to pull out my gun!”

And yet it’s the way people all over the world watch many movies that were shot in English. Indeed, they may watch them with subtitles in multiple languages.

It’s not harassment, it’s an email. They’re doing their jobs, dude. 

I too, hate media companies attempting to do the due diligence of verifying information before posting a story that might impact people’s lives.

“I mean, by those standards, approximately 80% of the workforce should be fired.”

Having worked with Zaimont in the past, I can corroborate that he’s kind of an ass. Just very cynical and abrasive. These tweets reinforce that. However, if he’s being an ass outside of the work to someone he doesn’t work with, should that have any bearing on his job? I mean, by those standards, approximately 80% of…

“suddenly act uncomfortable with a conversation YOU initiated and are PERPETUATING.”

“Man who makes game featuring sexually suggestive women makes sexually suggestive comments to women.”

Uh, read the texts.

Dude definitely should have just taken the compliment and walked away. Definitely not the kinds of things I’d ask somebody I don’t know, or even in the way I’d ask them if I did.
I don’t even know what he’s talking about. Time to look up “thirst culture”. 

Microsoft has a long, long history of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Seems unlikely. People have talked about him not getting the boot a ton for a long time and without additional bad behaviour it would be a non-story. I kind of suspect the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories he was apparently pushing recently (David Icke) might have something more to do with it.

i’m sorry, are you saying a guy sharing misinfo about a deadly plague is less banworthy than making a bad joke? 

A lot of google research went into it.

You can’t even escape it if you’re trying. I come to Kotaku to read and talk about actual video games. But like a car crash or a dead body, I see this Twitch/YouTube/”influencer” “celebrity” crap and I gawk at it even as I hate myself for doing so.

My understanding is he really isn’t a Doctor of Disrespect. It was more of an honorary degree, like Mr. Phil.

Any time I see a list of famous streamers I’m forced to rethink my definition of the word famous.

I’m not banned from Twitch...

One of the most exhausting things in video game culture these days (in addition to all the bad stuff that is not new) is just “keeping track of who all these inexplicably famous twitch people are”.