I’d say interpreting “not surprised by either outcome” as a 50/50 chance is a reasonable way to go about things. I for one would be very surprised if this was a dog whistle, and am surprised even here that people are suspecting it to be.

I suppose, but that strikes me as a very convenient, selective way of caring. Salient images is a great way to start off, but the anger about the depiction of WP seems to have stopped there and isn’t actually about weapons used as war crimes, but rather people just getting mad at CoD because it’s CoD and Activision is…

You wouldn’t be surprised if a game developer/artist snuck in a white supremacist dog whistle because the game is also about modern war? So there’s a 50/50 chance that a developer/artist at Activision is a white supremacist because they’re working on a CoD game? That’s equally likely as them having seen the…

That’s...not very compelling context. It is, again, a tremendously common chain of numbers. If it was 14, I’d say the same; the bar of evidence is a little higher than that. I mean, it’s not an entirely zero % chance, but definitely not even close to 50/50.

Yes it is. I’m pretty sure the guidelines about hate symbols mention context, and 88 is also sometimes just a series of numbers which is *unbelievably common* in the real world.

Criminal use of weapons is incredibly common in games, yet for some reason people got real up in arms about WP and little else. What about autonomously triggered landmines/claymores and cluster munitions, highly controversial in the real world yet all over the place in games? I’ve never heard a peep about those.

I often visit my friends place; they live about 10 minutes *walking distance* from the main Google campus, and have a network set up and paid for by the Google network engineers who live there; it does not get 100mbps down and nowhere even remotely close up. The infrastructure is very not there. 

Electability over all - if you don’t win, you get less than nothing. 

Being terrible at Halo MP, I can’t feel qualified to say whether it’s the best of he series or not. I did, however, spend *way* too much time in Forge, and the SP is absolutely the peak of anything they’ve ever done.

The absolute *only* time someone’s vest should match their pants is when wearing an impeccably tailored suit or they have some wild accessory. Do not have your vests match your pants on their own unless you want to look like a weirdo and/or a waiter.

Kotaku created gamergate?

I’ll be honest, I can’t find any source at all which says to wear wet clothing in a fire. In fact, a lot of the stuff I’m finding says that wet clothing will be especially bad since it’ll start to warm up from radiant heat a lot faster than the air contained in dry clothing would.

If I was going to make a list of all the offenses for an online shooters which would lead to a permaban, using an honest to goodness aimbot would be at the absolute top. This is open and shut; these rules have been around for decades. Epic shouldn’t waste their time with the most obvious, most clearly detrimental rule…

Very fair - I can’t think of any suitably gravitas wielding actors that age though.

What kind of wishy-washy nonsense is this? If you want the job, tell them you’re in it for the long haul. In fact, not only is this position ideal, this company in particular is the completely perfect next step in your career path and you’re willing to fight to the death once on the job to make that future (at that…

“This has since given way to a discussion: if someone is rich and popular enough, should they face the same consequences as The Poors when they break well established rules?”

No. Absolute zero tolerance for hackers. If Sakurai wanted to go online and hack in Smash, I’d want him banned too. “He’s a kid”, “he made a mistake”, “it ruined his life”; that’s all completely irrelevant and just falling for the apology video when thousands of anonymous hackers rightly get banned on the daily. No…

Lol this isn’t “a conversation”, this is “disingenuous dipships think rules apply for thee and not for me because they’re popular”.

Actually, it’s very fair. Hackers get permabanned all the time, as well they should. No exceptions should be made for the popular kids. 

“Was bought by many people” is not the same as “important”.