Looking at this from an optimistic point of view, could this also not be good for the union members to be spread out and be more closely involved with many departments and individual employees? This gives them a greater reach with the rest of the company now that they aren’t isolated in the QA section of the office…

I’d say ~1000 players isn’t even that bad for a budget horde shooter with a light live service element. You say it yourself, the game wasn’t received amazingly by critics, so why is a declining population surprise enough to write an article about in the first place? It’s also important to mention that concurrent…

Buying an expansion in any MMO or “live” game is essentially buying an access pass for the content like you would buy a ticket to a theme park. Sometimes the old rides are going to get demolished to make way for something new.

I’m currently waiting out it’s timed console exclusivity and am hoping it drops on PC sometime within the next 9 months.

While I get that it’s a cheap option, Discord has sort of started to become a hub for several modding communities to share knowledge and solve problems which has been a real pain. If you’ve ever tried modding an old game with a tiny community you, like me, probably know that half the job of creating mods for these…

They confirmed a couple weeks ago that there is going to be new PvP maps in season 17 (with reprised maps coming in season 16).

New exotics will be acquired through crafting most likely. Old ones possibly, but crafting isn’t going to be about changing how exotics work, they will still be completely set rolls but crafting is just a targeted way to acquire them. Same with legendaries. Crafting will be a way for you to target a specific gun with…

Most of what you are saying isn’t true. People who signed the NDA aren’t supposed to say anything about it. Even telling others you are invited at all is probably forbidden. Also, from everything I’ve seen and read about this test, I can definitely say that it is definitely not created for good press. The build is…

The implication from the comment I replied to was that the punishment of getting fired was a consequence for writing those offensive blogs back in 2007. I get the point you are making about how, yes, consequences can be more nuanced and aren’t always in the form of a direct punishment, but in the case of the article…

That’s pretty absurd logic and definitely not true at all. I used to make edge-lord arguments in defense of awful positions to rile people up as a teenager and I suffered no consequences from it, yet I would never do that today because I’m a different person. A person does not need to be punished in order to realize…

Bungie has a function to actually hide things that are in the API, they just aren’t consistent with using it. I know people datamine the text strings right out of the game files as well as the audio, and art assets like npc and environment models, but that all takes a certain degree more effort to do than open up a…

“So much of the game is janky that I don’t understand what QA even did on it.”

Yeah I’d go with this as well. People are flawed. He seems to genuinely believe in his decisions being good and as a human, with a unique combination of beliefs and life experiences, weighed the pros against the cons (as he saw them) to arrive where he did. Don’t really think the guy should get cancelled for this. You …

MS Sticky Notes on Win10 is pretty good for writing quick notes and just saves them in a list when you open it up rather than separate files like notepad.

Look, I know it’s retail and we aren’t dealing with the smartest people, but not only do they not have a line, but also the employees come out shouting things that are just going to put fear and insecurity into the minds of people who are already tense about not being able to get a card. There’s like 50 people here…

Is it really that hard to imagine a scenario where this 10 seconds (with an edit in the middle) may not be a totally accurate representation of what went down that day? But if you really want a plausible scenario here, you go:

His insults aren’t sexist because he’s not using the fact that she is a woman as the basis of his attack but rather the fact the he believes her (individually) to be ugly. Here’s the definition of sexist language so I’m clear: “Sexist language is language which excludes one sex or the other, or which suggests that one…

I mean, whether the things he said are awful or not, they are absolutely taken out of context. The first clip literally cuts past the woman next to him laughing her ass off at what he says, you don’t know what the girl he’s talking about thinks (i.e. is she ok with it), and the line from the host at the end saying “be…

I think the difference though is that the disrespect is targeted specifically to that woman, who is probably just someone who pissed him off and he’s insulting her by using her physical form. There’s really no connection to any other person or women with his insults. Terrible behavior on his part sure, but is it…

I totally agree. The guy is acting like a piece of shit and definitely should talk to other people better, but just because the person he is yelling at happens to be a woman doesn’t necessarily mean he is sexist in my eyes. It’s not like he is targeting her because she is specifically a woman either, she was clearly…