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Metzen handpicked Afrasiabi as his replacement. I guess his self-insert Thrall picking such an awful person like Garrosh as his successor now makes a lot more sense.

Also, it’s not immediately clear how many of them can retire at 42 to spend more time with their families.

I want to believe this and take it at face value, and yet there’s still a voice in the back of my head bleakly saying, “The woman who died didn’t get an exit interview.”

I worked at Blizzard as a GM in the EU office for 4 years between 2008 to 2012 and let I agree, if Mike didn’t know, he didn’t know. He was one of the most genuine, honest guys I’ve met, extremely humble and quite shy at times. If he had been made aware that this was going on, he would have been mortified. When we…

Yeah, this whole thing taints not only Dreamhaven but all the studios that have been set up by ex-Blizzard employees (Second Dinner, Frost Giant, etc). How many of those are run by devs who were either complicit in the abuse or involved themselves? Ugh

I was hoping someone would have some sort of inside perspective, thank you for sharing.

Cher Scarlett, an ex lead on the software side in 2015-2016, says she tried to contact Morhaime about harassment she received and was reprimanded for it (not by him), and now believes he was kept in the dark (by upper management?) after talking with him about it at length today.

Honestly don’t think the clip was really that bad, but nice that people are showing Arita some respect. I was very captured by the artwork on a number of the cards I owned as a kid, and sometimes nowadays I wish I could purchase (or just even find online) larger versions.

Also, all of the Noble Team NPCs take their helmets off throughout the game’s cutscenes so...

I mean Red vs Blue has a decade plus of storytelling and popularity that rejects that point.

Seriously though, while the Canon-7 RF f0.95 50mm lens ain’t all that common, I’d hesitate to call it “rare”. Hell, I’ve seen more of them in Austrlaia than Nikon F-mount f1.2 50mm - or even Pentax f1.2 50mm...both of which were made for decades after Canon stopped making rangefinders, and for lens mounts that are…

Albumin—not to be confused with albumen, the protein in egg whites

Which is the more interesting thing to think about beyond celebrities being screwed: how NORMAL it is now for private equity firms to grab assets from failing or bankrupt companies, and strip them and transform them into new actual value divorced from any old responsibilities, and whether or not that’s a good thing. An…

I expect there are people TWC owed money who never read the AV Club and whose existence also isn’t known to AVC. It’s a bit like the topic of contractors working on the Death Star, as discussed in Clerks (a Miramax acquisition!).

So if Weinstein were a really nice guy, completely fair and ethical, never assaulted anybody, was a really crappy business man who lost all TWC’s money, had to declare bankruptcy, then sold off the company, how would these stars be any better off? Because the way I understand it, it’s the bankruptcy that gets…

My family has told me that I would repeatedly reach for a nun’s habit as a baby, so there were nuns holding me at some point.

This is tough for me. I’m an adoptee, from one of her orphanages. So, this idea of her as a saint was a huge foundational belief throughout my childhood/teenage years. My parents still lay my survival (abandoned at a MofC chapter house in Western India) squarely at her feet.

I was a very lonely 11-year-old whom everyone bullied. My teacher let me stay in the classroom during lunch so I could read in peace, and she gifted me with the first Harry Potter book (which was controversial, because it was a Christian school). I instantly connected with the character, and eagerly awaited the second…

New York has a big permanent Times Square store devoted to M&M candy. I’m unclear on why the writer of this article finds a “permanent gimmick like this in New York City” for Harry Potter at all weird.