not really, Nolan is a pioneer and there’s no doubt about it

This is the gentlest assassination I’ve ever seen, like a marshmallow fired from a sniper rifle. 90% of the article shows examples of how he hired and promoted women, gave them opportunities they wouldn’t have gotten elsewhere and treated them better than they would be anywhere else until he left the company and they…

Its a good thing a bunch of Twitter activists drug a mans reputation through the mud based on nothing!

Bragged about what tho? Being flirty half a dozen times in 1976? Looking back fondly at an exciting era of his life? God forbid. Nothing he did, no, EVERYTHING he did, combined, doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. No one was hurt or offended, and As this article evidences, the ladies who worked there look back at it…

That’s a lot of great insight!

May be wearing fur coats is wrong today, but 60 000 years ago it meant life or death for half the worlds population. Same for clubbing baby seals, clubbing them is wrong for today but before there were blades and guns it meant your family ate tonight or not.

So, surprising nobody, listening to a twitter mob of people who weren’t even there at the time wasn’t a good idea.

This may be one of the best things I’ve read on Kotaku in quite some time.

Sounds like a wild place to work, Laid back doesn’t even begin to cover it. I think the key take away is there wasn’t any ill intent. Most of the activities would put the modern HR department crisis mode.

Goodness gracious it sounds like a good place to work. We’re entering a very illiberal age and we will lose something along with the improvements. Who wants to work in a soulless, funless, open plan (so they can watch you) office where personality is forbidden as other people with personality are not always nice.

It should also be noted that Bushnell met his wife in late 76 and were married a year later. This past November they celebrated their 40th anniversary. He may have played the part of a 70s swinger, but at best I think it was aspirational. He deserved the GDC award, and in a few years when they offer it to him again,…

So Atari did the whole tech org thing right and majority of their female employees seem to back it up. But we shouldn’t celebrate it because THEY are responsible for the garbage treatment the industry has given women afterwards. Somewhat I’m not entirely convinced.

Loved the article, but I don’t understand your conclusion. it seem like you already knew you wanted to paint Bushnell in a bad light, regardless of what the women you interviewed said/thought of him...?

You’re basically ‘#AllLivesMatter’ing my statement. You clearly do not understand the meaning of that phrase. Obviously we need to learn from history. That’s not what I’m referring to. For example, by today’s standards smoking is clearly unhealthy. However, to call the people in 1775 idiots for smoking, is pretty…

To work in a time when men and women actually knew who they were sounds amazing.

why does anyone care about ‘snoop dogg’ anymore? His weed smoking antics are old. He does nothing of worth. I can just go down the hall and watch my local smokers get high if I wanted.

What happens if, you know, it’s FEDERALLY ILLEGAL?

Only because not enough people think that way.

No grown adult should care about “gamer cred.”

Can I get paid to pretend to find the man tolerable?