Just wanted to say, thanks for mentioning how automated QA would view this — hadn’t thought of it, but makes perfect sense now that you mention it. Currently I’m training people in a role where I’m basically watching them type emails some percentage of the time, and now that you mention it I couldn’t tell you how many…

There’s one additional thing that bothers me, on top of all the others you mention...

My guess, if this was truly an accident, the Juneteenth skin was rushed and the approval chain was so sloppy that they didn’t have oversight from important teams. Yeah, that’s possible, but even then, there should have been someone at corporate who’s job is to ask “we’re rushing the Juneteenth skin? We at least have…

Big technical pipelines can be complicated and filled with in-house tools with weird proprietary names, but the thing is, once a tool has a ubiquitous presence in an organization, it makes it actually less believable that its name was just casually missed on review. Why? Because “Bonobo” isn’t just some random word…

It doesn't seem like a mistake at all. Someone wanted to do some racist shit and they did it. It's as simple as that.

I’m actually fucking insulted that they tried to say that was the name of the tool.

Does it though? I’m usually one to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t know about this one. A codename for an old software tool that isn’t even being used anymore somehow gets set as the name? That seems far fetched. Or, someone tried to make a racist joke and it somehow snuck through? Unfortunately…

The issue that really shitty little wankers who think racism is funny love the kind of plausible deniability you’re offering so generously.

I’d say less “chose not to say anything” and more “too tired and beaten down to bring it up”. QA work is exhausting, and it can really burn someone out who is just trying to do regression tests and making sure everything in the game matches what’s on the sheet.

We know 343 didn’t mean for this to happen, but how did it not get caught? I’d be sweating if I was in QA. I’d take a 50/50 bet that someone on QA noticed it and chose not to say anything...

Sure this may have been a mistake but damn it’s really hard to give the benefit of the doubt on this one. One part of me is wants to believe the good in humanity and cast it off as a mistake and the other part is going “I’ll bet some a hole there, snuck this in thinking no one would make the reference because they…

I completely forgot about this! It looked cool then, it looks amazing now. We don’t get a lot of sci-fi horror games, and this one looks like it has a great creepy aesthetic. It must have been heartbreaking for the devs to realize that five years of work had to be thrown away and started all over again. I can’t be mad…

I’ll take “Things You’d Never Hear Bethesda Say” for $1000.

When you’re an insecure narcissist, the likes are the only thing keeping you going. Otherwise what are you left with? Self awareness, which leads to the disappointing realization that you’re an edgelord that no one truly likes? Fuck that!

I suppose if you’re that rich, you probably feel like you have no money at all. Weird.

Famous Asshole: “Hey, look at this funny thing I found, 95 million followers.”

Imagine being that rich and that thirsty for attention. 

*Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn in Thriller GIF*

Don’t often read the news thinking “What a piece of shit”, but I was getting that vibe from everything he posted including his half-hearted “apology”.

they say their disgusting posts and behaviour was them simply ‘trolling’ and being ‘juvenile’, and that their ‘real views hold no room for hate’.