The G/O people seem amazingly thin-skinned and petty, so I could imagine them wanting to exert their control and make people do this just because-like, why can’t people go to the NYC office?

$5,000 for relocation isn’t nearly enough to move, unless you’re twenty-two and in your first apartment. 

Filling a new build would be a text book example of a sunk cost fallacy, it’s like the first thing they teach you in business school to watch out for, so if that’s the case then oh boy, it’s a miracle the shot callers at G/O ever survived to adulthood.

Yeah - same here; I still hang around here because I’m not ready or really willing to go to another site, but even without knowing about all the trouble at the AV Club office until now, I could tell by the overall tone and quality of the articles that things were not well. That, combined with the messed-up Kinja stuff…

I mean best case... and most likely case from having read the article... is he is wildly out of touch.

Yeah, super-gross.  I feel bad for the writers, who really have so few options at this point.  The one beneath it, about Jez, is also terrible.

Woof, there’s a number of extremely shitty moves in that article.

I just imagined saying that at my place of work, and... yeah, it wouldn’t go well. I guess me and my imaginary vagina will just have to keep our mouths shut... so to speak. 

Jesus Christ. It’s way past time to be done with this site. The new editor sounds like a tool. Writers don’t engage with the readership. It’s just empty content with a few exceptions thrown in every now and then.

Speaking of gross behavior, did everyone else all ready know about this?

Saying “Oh, my vagina” in a jokey way is one of those things that’s probably perfectly acceptable to say in front of a group of friends, but if I said that at work I would be called out. Even if I was a long term employee, you still need to watch what “jokes" you're making in front of mixed company. That should be…

In the VF piece, he just keeps repeating variations on “this is my process - can’t anybody take a joke?”

“that’s how I’m funny on camera” is by being a jackass off camera?

I forgot they were that close to each other. As if anyone needed proof Gamergate’s “actually it’s about ethics in journalism” was a massive lie.

Doritogate happened a few days/weeks before Gamergate.

He also went out of his way to shit on Konami at the VGAs over Hideo Kojima. So he has a history of breaking character, but I think in this case Ubisoft and ActiBlizz paid him enough money to shut up. The real telling thing will be if they cut the mic of any award recipients that go out of their way to call out the…

Why would he? His job exist to shill for gaming companies.

I think he’s compartmentalizing the guilt he feels for being involved in ending a person’s life away from the guilt that he’s actually at fault for it. Which landed him in an awfully bad looking place, showing why this interview seems from the outside like a terrible idea. From a psychological perspective, he wants to…

If he let go of the hammer and it immediately went off, then he didn’t actually cock the gun.

Also, he shot someone.  Even if it’s not technically his fault, you’d think a vaguely empathetic human being would feel SOME guilt over pointing a gun at someone and then shooting them.