American Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy, abusive practices, and the creation of serf classes.

Power Dynamics 101: if you are the CEO, or have any kind of unilateral power over someone who works for you, at no point in time is threatening to punch your employee ‘a joke’ to the employee.

But much like Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’, how could anyone have seen this kind of behavior coming? I mean, what were the signs? If only there was something people could have done before it went this far!

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“Riot is doing the right thing by having a forcible court order to pay these women, and avoid further legal ramifications! It’s so good that they desperately tried to cover this up, failed, and now are being dragged by the law. Truly, they have done the right thing!”

That’s not how sexual harassment lawsuits are settled, you intentional nitwit. This isn’t about wages being paid, it’s about the sexual harassment and damage to these persons lives.

Ah Riot, setting the bar lowers every time they’re in PR.

It’s a quick little blanket.

Riot was valued at $366 million in 2011. It’s earned roughly $20 billion ever since being bought by the Chinese. (Forbes)

Okay Boomer.

That Bioware died over ten years ago. It’s never coming back.

Thank goodness you posted this very relevant piece for this article.

It’s a lot easier to kill someone than it is to live under blackmail. Especially someone nobody will miss.

They weren’t originally Games as a Service. PoE was a D3 competitor that was bought out by big fish once it became something and monetized. Overwatch was a Team Fortress clone that wanted to tap into the FPS renaissance that was taking place with Battle Royale games.

I would agree with you (thought I admittedly don’t know much) regarding Fortnite 2. They’re a lot more benign with the whole process as far as I can tell, and not asking for much money outside of the Battle Pass.

Hot Take: Sequels in the era of ‘Live Services’ are cashgrabs and DLC-lite designed to drum up press in order to sell word-of-mouth marketing, and has nothing to do with an actual ‘sequel’.

Here’s the thing: GOP nominees not winning the popular vote is very much in line with tradition. 

To be fair, anything with Kristen Stewart is going to be.... not good.

“Don’t call me out on the thing that I did!”