It’s just another dog whistle.  He’s from a rich enough family to be able to send him to college (in case buying him a pickup wasn’t enough of a signal) who can be Expected To Do Well In College, meaning he’ll go to a school he can coast through and get a job with Daddy when he graduates.

Which author? There were apparently three, and from the comments on this article 1) only one of them was interested in having this piece out in the wild right now and 2) he might have been the one least involved in the work.

Which is why Gamestop has them, because no one wants to put up with that shit. Damn near walked away from a purchase (wanted an actual physical copy of a game for a last minute birthday present) the third time the clerk tried to push the sale on me.

This seems like a phrase that’s too simple for legal protections. Unless it was very specifically styled, it seems like it would fail the distinctiveness requirement. The only thing along those lines in the designs on the shirts in the header image are the font and the star above the I. Even if those are enough to…

They have to file the suit to be able to ask for court orders to get the ISPs to identify the subjects of the suit.

Game developers typically aren’t hourly workers.  Overtime in this case means working more for the same pay, not time and a half for coming in on Saturday.

Suspending evictions was a dodgy call in the first place (from a legal basis, that is; like you I think the CDC should have broad authority during emergencies and that in a sane world people would recognize that sometimes common sense should win out over the letter of the law.) Worse, it’s one that could have been…

How the fuck has Lifehacker fallen to the point where pop spiritualism is being treated as a serious subject?

This guy is not the world’s finest example of logical thinking.

Because “may include references to” and “features as a central part of the story directed at the protagonist” are a couple orders of magnitude different from each other, especially on a loaded and highly sensitive topic.

I got past pre-screening for a QA job at Blizzard--web sites, not games--and then talked about salary ranges.  With (at the time) 10+ years in QA and more than half of it in e-commerce, they were talking about 50k as a long shot but possible.  I might have been stupid enough to do it if I were single, but with a wife,…

Surely there’s a better example image than hooking it up to a device that only does 720p?

Surely there’s a better example image than hooking it up to a device that only does 720p?

While the apology and most of the thread appears sincere, this—along with other recent ex-Blizzard head honcho apologies—does little for the women who were harassed endlessly while they worked at the company.

That, and I am 99.999% sure that his love of—or even obsession with—anime isn’t the culprit here. He might have broken under the weight of a failed social support system. He might be evil or nuts. But making the story about “this guy just couldn’t let go of his anime time”, *especially* on a site like this, is the…

Yes, and that’s horrible. But the reasons for that go far beyond “Dad interrupted my anime.” Yet it’s all the stories are about.

Yes, lets sensationally lock on to the most absurd statement of an obviously unwell person, and use that to play into stereotypes of fandom as obsessive and unstable on a site primarily targeted at fandoms.

I was really hoping when I saw the headline that the article was “Don’t. Stay home until you get the shot. No one worth spending time with wants to date an unvaccinated person.”

The problem is that there are numerous soldiers who have viewed police operations and pointed out that had they done such things while on a mission, they’d be subject to military discipline. Local cops violate the rules of engagement, trigger discipline, and treatment of prisoner rules that we teach our military to…

It’s really weird how cops are supposedly simultaneously Big Damn Heroes who put their life on the line every day to protect the community AND allowed to commit murder because they were afraid some guy running away from them was about to gouge the officer’s eyes out with their bare hands while simultaneously stabbing…

It’s really strange how the only unions Republicans typically like (law enforcement unions) are the ones most guilty of protecting bad actors.