Your wife is badly underpaid for a job with that requirement.

Well, with No Man’s Sky reaching its actually “finished” state with Frontiers, some other game had to take that slot in the game industry’s shorthand.

Good lord, what is it with Blizzard and naming their characters after employees?

I’m just thinking of the jank in Fall Guys in the game modes where you have to actively interact with other players rather than just bounce into them occasionally (i.e. tail-snatching).

Okay, I’m genuinely baffled here at why “defending the use of sociopath as a casual insult” is a hill worth dying on, but you do you, I guess.

“Proper netcode” is a nightmare that plagues major dev teams, so pardon my skepticism of a single dev hashing it out in a month with some tutorials...

Sociopathy is a common medical term for antisocial personality disorder, which is massively stigmatized by society and the medical community as “evil”, and comments like his (and yours!) actively contribute to that. I could rant about *that* for hours (including how the diagnostic criteria for APD literally defines it…

“befriend off-planet neighbors” it says. But I want to know if there’s aliens to romance! It’s not a farm game without dating game mechanics!

Having raided in both WoW and FFXIV, the community overall is still very different. Like you say, the XIV raids are extremely unforgiving, to the point I was honestly shocked going in that they weren’t *more* socially toxic than WoW’s. While they’re not great, outside of a few groups on the very bleeding edge, the…

“being a bit of a jerk” and “sociopath” are extremely different things, and equating them is both ableist and just generally shitty.

A thing where? Twitch didn’t exist when WoW came out. Hell, youtube didn’t exist when WoW came out. (not a gotcha, I just genuinely never ran across anything like these big personalities back when I played WoW, Vanilla->WotLK)

Anyone here who actually believed the apology? Anyone? Bueller?

Just the entertainment journalists then? Thought so.

Yeah, I think that was the point of the comment. It’s bare freaking minimum and *shouldn’t* be political, but people insist on treating it as such anyway.

Straight Cishet “regionally dominant ethnic group” then.

You’ll get a settlement check for $0.10 after the lawyers get their cut.

Late-stage capitalism sure is a trip, innit?

Spoken with the courage of someone who has no clue what it takes to be the best gymnast in the world.

Didn’t they say that due to ‘exceptional performance’ he’d be earning double the new base rate (i.e. his original salary) plus bonuses?

Looks like from the page name, they already did once and changed it back.

The entire concept of “libertarian” just comes down to one of two things: “rich sociopath in a position of power who doesn’t want to ever face accountability” or “smoothbrain dupe”.