I get what you’re saying and why you’re not shocked. And at the same time, as someone who works in a creative field myself, I am so tired of “creatives” explaining away their bad behavior by claiming they’re just “passionate” about what they do. Yeah, you may be passionate, but you’re also a professional. Act like it.…

Is this the TI who is currently the subject of an ongoing investigation into sexual assault accusations or the TI who bragged about forcing gynecologists to do annual hymen checks on his teenage daughter? 

Despite the fact that video game players literally span the ages of 4 to 80 and span the whole spectrum of sexuality and gender, many game designers and most companies still zero in their target demographic as white cis-gender straight males between the ages of 13 and 30. Especially the really horny ones. It doesn’t…

A prominent local tech TV columnist and interviewer once confided that a very high percentage of decision-making people in the gaming industry actively sexualize and market their games around that sexualization. I don’t remember the rest of the conversation as it has been 10 years or so, but this bit stuck with me as…

“I guess Greg Street now knows who I am now. Cool. OK. And also that wasn’t really an apology, but sure you do you. Whatever gets you to sleep at night,” she said. “I was joking with a friend when I saw it, when I saw everything he was writing about that, just, you know, ‘Oh, I couldn’t see her react, I couldn’t see…

Amazing choice of header photo here, especially regarding the news about DaBaby’s recent downfall.

I was working as a contractor at Microsoft Game Studios several years ago, when some game studio (I can’t remember which one) made headlines by setting up a pavilion outside the Expo that included a stripper pole. I said something about that being not at all cool, and some of my (male) coworkers spoke up in defense of…

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

“I couldn’t see her reaction, so I didn’t know I was hurting her,” says man who employed a sneering, hurtful tone, and dismissed a perfectly valid question with a weak joke.

Still shouldn’t have taken 11 years to gain coverage or repercussions. One of the few things that’s always stood out to me about gaming is how the bar for something to be recognised as sexist was at least twice as high as anywhere else.

Wait till you see Kanye perform.

As someone else pointed out in the last AVC post about this, it also seems oddly specific—like maybe he’s working out some personal stuff.

did they also throw out DaBathwater?

Such a strange and random thing to yell out at a concert

oof, he did the one thing you cant do in hip hop, saying stupid shit outside of a song :/

DaBaby is cancelled but the Boss Baby is free to wreak havoc across the nation!?

People thought Mephisto was in WandaVision because of a couple of pieces of dialogue that they overanalyzed.

I don’t really get why people keep comparing the Mephisto speculation to Kang.

The “modicum of order” involves brutally exterminating timelines, one of which was Sylvie’s own.  Why would anyone expect her to go along with that?  It’s fascistic.

The biggest concern many of us had was that Kang would feel just like Thanos 2.0 and I am happy to see they did not go that way, or maybe they will. That is kinda the cool thing with Kang, he has a ton of variants that are all different so the now dead version may be completely different then the next one we see. Plus…