Thank you to all of the gaming journalists who brought this story to light and created a discussion for this to happen. However you may feel on the outcome, I am sure the workers at Rockstar are appreciating the quality of life changes that all seem to be moving in a positive direction.

At the two video game studios I worked at, flex time was always in effect, and the studio had various on site testers that were full time.

There’s 2 brackets (winners and losers) in fighting game tournaments, and it’s double elimination. Everybody starts off in the winners bracket, but once you lose your first match, you’re sent into the losers bracket. If you’re in the losers bracket and you lose, you’re taken out of the tournament because that’s your…

A transgender panel on the same type of issue would be good too. I've seen that group have to deal with comparable levels of abuse and disrespect as women have in the gaming community. I realize that women are a larger group but the scale shouldn't matter when the substance of the issue is the same.

“In some clinical studies, Yellow Dog With Cone has caused large companies to avoid paying taxes. Please seek medical treatment if you go more than 3 years without paying taxes. “

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Yellow Dog With Cone.

This article should really say somewhere that the yellow dog is a reference to pop artist Jeff Koons, well known for making large balloon-animal style installations.

Interesting question! Not only did I do college, I went ahead and dug the hole deeper with law school. However, I only did that because income based repayment really only became a possibility as I started college (thanks... Bush? But then Obama for strengthening the program). There’s no chance I would’ve done what I…

Stories like this piss me off even more about this scam. There are many kids out there who should be able to apply for need-based aid without being tied to the assets of their parents, but because parents typically have to be somewhat on board for jumping through the legal hoops for emancipation (and because some…

It’s all circular. Way more people graduate from state schools and are fine and hireable. Unless you’re going to be a doctor or a lawyer, 95% of people hiring don’t care. They just think it’s important, and they get in with a group who tells them it is, but it’s just a mirage. 

30 year old people riding horses in New York City in 1910 thought the same thing about the fancy horseless carriages. *shrug* By the time they were 60, the horse was a sport and breeding animal only used in its traditional fashion on farms and in distant, rural communities.

I was on a full ride scholarship in college but I still had to fill out the FAFSA. I could NOT get my parents to understand that yes, I actually did need to know their adjusted gross income from their most recent tax return or I was GOING TO LOSE MY SCHOLARSHIP.

I was actively dissuaded by my mother from going to college. She told me I ‘was only going so I could find a husband’. Forty years later, those words still sting.

There are three necessities if we ever want to fix this country:

I actively tried to do this back in 2007, when applying for college. I was effectively disowned by my upper-middle class parents (moved in with my grandparents at 16, they said early on that there would be no financial support for college), but still had to apply to college with their ~$140k income tied to my name.…

Making aid for adults dependent on their parents income is wrong in the first place. Those parents are not obligated to pay for their children’s college. And when they don’t want to support their adult children in college, it can be a burden for people to get the aid they actually need. I know more than one person who…

She might very well have spilled the beans accidentally. These sound like fairly sheltered kids with helicopter parents who don’t let them encounter any real difficulties in life.

I mean? Desperate to get their rich kids into a college that is “worthy” of their presumed status.

Are you kidding? Little Timmy or Becca won out here. They got an early lesson in the inner workings of the US (grift early and grift often) and cheap college to boot.

they were apparently tipped off by a high school kid who told her guidance counselor about it