Oh, I’m aware of his history at Activision. But he didn’t just jump into that position from no where. He has a history of being promoted specifically because of his sociopathy. He bought Activision by way of the money he made as a result of being hired and promoted when he should have been passed over -- hired and…

This is true. Blend shapes are essentially an advanced application of vertex animations (like those used in the original Quake), where literally every single vertex is individually animated, which makes them much more computationally expensive than bone-based character/face rigs that almost immediately replaced vertex…

The real trick is making the performance captures portable. It’s far, far simpler (which isn’t to say it’s simple) to apply a performance capture to a 3d model that is designed to be an exact duplicate of the physical reference. You can be sure that all the subtle subsurface motions of bone and muscle structures…

Activision Blizzard’s CEO should have resigned a long time ago

The continued existence of people like Tucker Carlson is proof that there is no karma, no justice, no civilized society, no God, and no hell in which they all belong.

And they’re all known Proud Boy members — ie the Racist-Pride Group. Rittenhouse is as racist as they come, in the proud of tradition of KKK lynchings, church burnings, and so forth.

While superficially this will have some impact, Kotick and his protectors will still pull in their bloated salaries, while the employees who’ve had to put up with this bullshit will take pay cuts or be let go. Which is why the executive culture is a festering cancerous wasteland — there’s no effective way to attack it…

And you think this bro culture only exists at the top of Activision? That it and an army of apologists and sycophants don’t represent a sizable portion of Activision’s customers? You’re dreaming if you think there will be enough customer traction to change corporate executive culture, be it Activision or anywhere…

If corporations are persons and can thus sue for damages, and Bobby Kotick has caused hundreds of millions in damages to Activision Blizzard, it seems like a lawsuit for the damage he’s done to that sum against Kotick’s earnings is in order.

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.” — Tone-deaf CEO.

Yeah, that’s not a ‘despite.’ It was specifically because the whole thing was a racist clown show. Of course he was going to get away with murdering two people. That was the intended outcome all along, and the whole process, from start to finish, was structured to ensure it would happen. From racists, to racists, for…

It’s the rabid religious-conservative mindset. Their beliefs leave no room for ‘error’ in their shared delusion of a divine plan. So in their minds, if you’re in prison, you deserve to be there, one way or another. It doesn’t matter if you’re ‘innocent’ of the crime you committed. ‘God’ must have seen fit to put you…

The only job either of them are ‘qualified for’ is someone’s prison bitch.

Number of people injured or killed while ‘protesting’ BLM? None.

Except that the racial disparity you’re citing is almost exclusively a US phenomenon (appearing again only in nations with similar histories of extreme prejudice). The gender ratio of prison populations is actually is even more dramatic in other countries.

Maybe. On the one hand, the gender ratio of prison populations clearly indicates that the overwhelming majority of criminal behaviors come from the male gender. On the other hand, *SOMEONE* is going to step into a power vacuum, and women are not immune to the attitudes and behaviors on display in people like Kotick.…

Maybe management ‘systems’ that foster and heavily rewards sociopathic behaviors aren’t really so great as a long-term strategy. But, you know, ‘I got me and mine, so fuck you and yours’ didn’t become the American way because people are good at long-term thinking.

Well, it was either this, or it was a giant publicity stunt that was worked out and agreed on in contract as part of her being hired. And I couldn’t honestly say which one was more likely, given the level of short-sighted stupidity on display inside Actiblizzard.

What’s the difference between a sociopath and an indifferent algorithm? One of them can *somewhat* be relied on not to act in self interest whenever the opportunity arises.

To say nothing about melee weapons being made of wet cardboard.