I’m already seeing the comments, so let’s be clear about something here:

“Cancel Culture” did not kill Alec Holowka. We don’t yet have the full picture of how he died, but it sounds as if he died by suicide, and had been suffering from a host of psychological and personal difficulties prior to that final, tragic act.

No…

So not this ? 

“With a real goddamn job.” Not that your argument had much to stand on before that but you know without people having those jobs you don’t consider real, the country would collapse right? I assume of course you mean the more common jobs like fast food or waiters or the like. Think about if tomorrow no one showed up to…

You know what else hasn’t kept up with inflation? Wages. You know whose back the industry is built on? Ours. Yes, AAA suits fuck over their employees, like many huge employers, but that’s not on us. It’s like that so investors can put off realizing double digit year over year growth is not infinitely sustainable. If…

You mean you want gamers who pay $60 of their hard-earned cash for a broken  AAA title to be nice and friendly with the fucks who ripped them off?

This is my issue with people scapegoating people who work in video game development

Imagine being such a corporate cheerleader that you demonize consumers from organizing and giving feedback. Maybe instead of being a bootlicking megacorp apologist, you could find your moral center and realize that these companies don’t want complaints and that most of this narrative is designed to serve them. 

You mean you want gamers who pay $60 of their hard-earned cash for a broken AAA title to be nice and friendly with the fucks who ripped them off?

Pete and Malificent especially stopped being of use to the story around halfway through Kingdom Hearts 2, which is...annoying and not to me. Like poor Pete, still stuck in his KH2 design.

UNIONIZE.

I’ve been working in games for just a little under a decade now, and have been hit by layoffs, both expected and not, a few times. I’ve started wondering about unionizing and wondering why there didn’t seem to be any momentum. And then I wondered if maybe it’s something I should learn about and take a more active role…

Remember when Iwata (and the rest of the board) took a 50% cut to his $770.000 salary because Nintendo wasn’t doing as well as expected?.

A shame that the Activision CEO only makes like $30 million and can’t afford it 

Hopefully this is a lesson for the smaller game makers. Don’t get swallowed up by the big dog just because its the easy way out.

It’ll kill your soul and destroy your dreams.

What you see here hinges on whether you believe that “Make America Great Again” is a dog whistle meant to unite racists, misogynists, and homophobes under one umbrella, or you’re delusional and don’t care about people who aren’t white men.

Close friend of mine holds a very high position for a Fortune 500 company based out of Tokyo. His job is to manage the offices in South America.

Can we just stop letting cable and internet service providers also own all the content as well?

shut up chud.

An important and I’m sure very likely to be disregarded reminder: believe victims. The likelihood of a given accusation being false is incredibly small.

If you read something as anodyne as “men should be able to express their feelings” as a personal attack, then you’re part of the problem. 

uh last I heard harassing people online and threatening to doxx them for lying about a video game is still bad. You should get yr priorities in order.