I was mostly just likening the situation, but I did also say that maybe the voice director themselves isn’t English. So they made sounds native to them that sound awful to us.

I would imagine they have a series of guttural sounds that are dynamically put together for the zombies to say, but in this instance having n and gr screamed in quick succession… it’s unpleasant and hard to miss.

I get the reference, if that’s all it is, but otherwise I can’t see how anything I said could be construed as such. I was baffled when they split out the gaming from the tech and other general stuff by making Polygon in the first place. As a result, they only “stick to gaming” as it is.

Same. Posted an almost identical comment and experience with Polygon and their moderation team. I called out shitty irresponsible reporting (recommending preorders on big name titles in the same breath and then taking a massive public shit on Alien Isolation preorders, by no means a small studio but very much outside…

They actually write a lot of articles I enjoy and read in my feeds. They generally write their comment a little more succinctly and with less sass than other sites, which is great for a quick neutral read.

I mean they are a “sister site” of The Verge for a start, who love to disable comments on articles where they really shouldn’t be (such as all of the Activision Blizzard debacle ones).

Shady “game” site Polygon Keeps Getting Spammed By Shadier crypto scam also called Polygon

This article and the comments show that for every person that boycotts, there are more that continue to play and pay. People that think they’re harming the very devs that have been victims of Activision Blizzard… They have that little self control and wherewithal that they can’t even give up a game, when it is…

The main problem, is that assholes often go further. Spongebob Squarepants can only go so far before he’s no longer any use. Whereas, less absorbent types whom are perhaps willing to do things in ways others wouldn’t even consider, are more than happy to fill the vacuum. They end up in positions of power and you get…

Oh for Christ’s sake.

Why can’t we make unions the law at every company and in every industry in every civilised country. Just, right now. That’s it. The way these Blizzard employees have. They’ve really got their heads screwed on (how they ended up at this company and stayed I’ll never know).

What an awesome lady.

The big journals and papers have whole systems for reporting anonymously or in a very protected manner. I’m not sure video game websites take it as seriously and have such systems in place.

Those are both wealthy and powerful though, that’s a very different story. The worst you’ll get if you aren’t at that level, is the police will ask you to take down that Facebook post you made because it had identifiable information in (photos, names etc). We just don’t have the same laws or at least the same…

You’re absolutely right. But both can be correct at the same time. I still don’t think we need to know who was holding off on stories or throw wild accusations either, though we very much should expose people that were proactively hiding the truth and never intending to expose what they knew. Furthermore, guilty or…

Well, I think it’s safe for us all to agree that the hate directed at Schreier is probably extremely misguided. If he had enough stuff, he’d be spilling it asap. His kind of reporting though, requires a lot of time and corroboration. For all his sins, he’s not one of the names like D’Anastasio that I’ve seen thrown…

I’m going to run with what you said, quite literally, first.

I understand completely. It’s sad that it requires some specific factors to be news worthy. I don’t agree, but I know that’s the prevailing opinion and they aren’t entirely wrong. They can be right but I can still choose to believe that there is worth in standing apart from the crowd. Obviously, that has ramifications…

I have been unfortunate enough to have had to go to court in much the same way, against my own government no less. They forced it all the way, when at any point they could have just paid me what they actually owed me and been done with it. 8 months of turning my life upside down, again. Whilst I was trying to get…

No one in particular, I was just generally musing about the nature of the beast. I tried not to wax too lyrical or go on at length.