The synopsis of a plot has very little impact on its quality — a lot of Shakespeare's plays were essentially reworks of previous stories, and you'll find few people who agree that there wasn't any point in doing a play of them. It's all in the telling.

Second-top thread on this article.

Well yes, but mutually exclusive means that two things cannot occur simultaneously. It's entirely possible to have respect for someone you're sexing up.

Sex and respect are absolutely not mutually exclusive.

That's a strange train of thought.

I flaunt my sexuality all the time. Straight and proud, baby.

But Bukowski is great!

So you're saying that anyone who's attempting murder should make sure they do it right?

Getting hilariously angry at someone for making a joke you didn't find funny is one of the major symptoms of brain cancer. You should get yourself checked out.

@schoolforants, you don't need to write "@Gunneh" when you're replying to Gunneh.

I hate these canned phrases. People tend to distill everything they dislike into these nebulous, tabloid-esque little concepts and parrot them as if that somehow invalidates their target.

It's alleged that he raped Dylan Farrow (his adopted daughter). People are naturally leaping either to defend or accuse him despite having no idea what actually went down.

No no, it's fine if you pretend you only care about the costumes.

Jesus Christ, Marie! They're-

What I'm getting is basically this:

Doom is kind of the quintessential FPS, though. Making anything but an FPS Doom would (unfortunately) create way too much drama to be worthwhile.

No prior warning? Where are you getting that? They almost certainly were given notice. They also almost certainly will receive a redundancy package and will almost certainly be able to land a job after having worked on Bioshock Infinite. And yeah, it reads like Levine was pretty much the instigator.

You hire people to do work. If that work is no longer required, then the people are no longer required. I don't think companies are or should be under any obligation to employ people out of altruism.

I find it strange that people adopt such strong feelings towards people whose circumstances they're almost entirely unaware of.

Well it's hardly fair to expect a company to pay the wages of 15 unnecessary employees.