This shit is a HIPAA violation, they will get sued soon, believe that.

Activision Blizzard bought out Vivendi. The only way Blizzard leaves is if some activist shareholder forces a spinoff. There. Better?

Making the data anonymous is arguably worse, if you’re a data collector working on behalf of a client, you can make the spreadsheets say whatever the hell they tell you they want to see

A lot of companies in the US incentivize wellness plans, bloodwork, nicotine tests, and flu shot participation. This gives them an idea of how their employees’ health is, and allows companies to tweak their insurance offerings.

Someone on the F1 subreddit already bought and received a case from Amazon.  So the product is proven to exist in some form, although I haven’t seen anyone demonstrate that it’s being sold in any clubs or pubs or whatever.

Even if we assume that ActiBlizz are doing this with nothing but the health and well being of those they employ in mind (which to be clear: there is absolutely zero reason to believe that). There is nothing preventing this same set of data from being used to undermine worker’s rights in the future.

I don’t think the point of the article was to say whether the product does or does not exist. They even mention that it’s available online and that some retailers they were pointed to did have it in stock. I think what the author is trying to say is the business model doesn’t seem right. They’re certainly making the…

Yeah, there’s always this one extra step missing in these investigative reports.

So apparently you can buy a case of the stuff on their website. Maybe Jalopnik should order a case to see if it really exists? I’d do it myself but I’m, uh, doing the low-carb thing. They also have a wide variety of logo apparel you can buy... or at least computer-generated images of said apparel...

Or maybe just lazy. The fact that the two most-watched shows of 2018 were Big Bang Theory and NCIS speaks volumes.

I know, like 90% of the “mysteries” were explained at some point during the course of the show, but people need things to be explicitly detailed, because people are morons.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, with the goddamn polar bear already. Why is that always the default question when someone brings up all the things they missed on the show and/or didn’t bother looking up? I know this stuff isn’t obvious, but come on. It’s all been readily available online for nearly a decade.

I think your analysis of the Battlestar Galactic finale is frustratingly inaccurate. If you aren’t a fan of the religious iconography and solutions that end up playing a large role in the finale, that’s fine. But to argue that these elements are added in later seasons or come out of the blue is inaccurate.

Jason has really nailed it over the last few years with his postmortem series about design decision making and direction. The industry writ large seems to be coming to an inflection point with Unions and working conditions. And BioWare’s process shifted the last 4-5 years and moved away from what made them great.…

Damn, the slow corruption of once unique and original studios into a state of homogeneous, stilted, montitization by big publishers is hard to watch. The slow arson of Blizzard by Activision and the destruction of Bioware’s unique voice by EA are the ones that hurt the most for me, but it is a depressingly widespread…

As an attorney and a public figure in the United States, my ethics and reputation are regulated by a code of professional responsibility

Gotta say, given “evidence of the prohibited communications, which, after reviewing, forced them to take action” from the actual devs of the game, versus a tryhard who goes with “I did nothing wrong and am being framed by the devs who are unfairly not debating their decision with me”, I’m gonna go with the former…

Over the last month I replayed through the original Mass Effect trilogy. When I finished 3 last week, I said “screw it” and decided to retry Andromeda. My original playthrough of Andromeda stopped about 10 hours in before I put the game down in disgust.

Jason, honey, you’re blowing us away with these back to back insider reports. Never stop snooping in these times of turbulence for the better.

following the disappointing Mass Effect: Andromeda but has since been warmed back up