Trun.  I remember a documentary where a small time video game developer at the time hired prostitutes to help relieve stress within the company; the video game industry was built on this sort of stuff, unfortunately.

Perhaps the most ridiculous and inane aspect of all of this for me is that, in the middle of being the biggest case study for gender-based discrimination in the US at the moment, when given the chance to publicly hire two people for the *exact same co-lead position* the leadership STILL decided to pay the female less…

The article also describes a 2007 party Oneal attended, along with Kotick, in which “scantily clad women danced on stripper poles,” while a DJ “encouraged female attendees to drink more so the men would have a better time.”

Just burn the company down and salt the earth.

Well I for one am shocked that the reason for her leaving the company that treats women badly after a couple months was because she was treated badly.

Speaking as someone who actually lives in the region the game is supposed to be representing, yeah, we get big ocean storms coming through. I’ve had the pleasure of driving on So. Cal freeways when I could barely see in front of me on a number of occasions.

Apart from the shoddy effects...just came to say you will absolutely find downpours like this in major cities. Houston says hi.

As a cyclist, I have transitioned about 90% of my rides indoor via trainer and training app. After my kid was born, and several near misses including getting hit by a car while running, it was time to mitigate unnecessary risk.

“according to police reports he failed to control his speed”

Haha.This is Texas: cyclists are always presumed to be in the wrong because they should have been in a truck with firearms, like all normal people.

Main question is how the fuck did the police know about the stalking issue, know about the thrashing of their apartment and STILL managed to not catch this guy before he got around to killing 2 people? Like what the fuck were they even doing to let this happen?

And many of those games improved upon what needed to be improved upon.  D2 just feels very antiquated by today’s standards.

Fuck! That’s all I really wanted from Resurrected but I can’t in good conscience play it.

Well, Vicarious Visions, the developers who actually did this, understood the assignment, Blizzard just gave it to them.

Did you read the section of the article where they brought that up and the elephant in the room and talked about the reason why they decided to cover it? Or did you just skip down to the comments to whine?

I’m a former WoW-fugee that moved over to LOTRO a few years back. I was feeling the turn from “create content that engages players” to “increasingly repetitive trash that fails to tell much of a story”.

You should really read the book “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives”. The SEC is as much a part.

Oh boy, they are in trouble now. I am sure they are going to face severe consequences that lead to lasting and meaningful change within the organization!

I’d never seen the guy before - has Kotick always looked like a pervy Hobbit?