I’ve been listening to too much about how fucked up the law is lately and... well, non-compete clauses suck. And while a lot of bad has already happened from allowing this man to open his mouth, I think more good can happen from non-compete clauses everywhere becoming an illegal infringement on free speech. Carlson is…

I’m rooting for the bloodthirsty lawyers bleeding both side for as much a possible.

“Free speech may be free, but paid speech? We get a cut.”

I don’t think anyone expects the PAX operators to be able to fully police every tangential activity happening around the conference. To your point, that’s not reasonable or even really possible. But, in my opinion, they should take a stronger position directly with the company who DID throw the party. Someone gets…

It’s kind of wild to watch conservatives turn on Fox News so quickly. They are now basically accusing it of being fake news/mainstream media, which is ironic because it was always fake state-propaganda and the most mainstream media source in the country.

“is this really worse than any other big convention?”

I’ve been to Dubai. You don’t “live” in Dubia.

Dubai is a really strange choice for someone with a notorious substance abuse concern. Cocaine is a serious problem there and the seizures each year would make Scarface blush!

The elephant in the room is that “cultural change” requires men in the industry to take this shit seriously and take action to stop it - and by taking action, that means shutting bad behavior down, not just sitting back and pinkie-swearing to “take it seriously” if a woman complains. Imagine if gaming companies…

It’s nothing weird at all.  It mirrors society in general, that “being a man” basically implies this being allowed.

Yeah, pretty much — or just outlaw the conventions part and parcel and be done with it. A lot of these conventions only are allowed to exist because of the money they bring in to the C&V Bureaus, and if the authorities knew what went on in them, they wouldn’t be happening.

Its so weird that nothing has really changed in the “nerd” community, despite the fact that being into things like games and comics is nowhere near the anathema to being “normal” that it was when I was growing up.

It’s like we took the worst part about the culture and the stereotypes and doubled down on it.

Back when…

“PAX has a zero tolerance policy”

The leopards already ate your face Tucker. You letting them eat it more is hilarious.

The sad truth is the majority of “gamers” are just fucking losers. Look at every idiot lining up to give blizzard money after all the revelations. Pathetic

Is Anyone really surprised? This is the same Beyonce who performed a private event for Muammar Gaddafi.

I hope all the slaves in Dubai appreciated her effort.

I mean she played for Qaddafi so...no surprise?

Beyonce has always been and always will be a capitalist. If you thought she cared about social justice issues, it’s only because it was part of her “brand” that could make her money. It was never, ever because she cared. Being a feminist and anti-racist are a means to a very wealthy end for her.