Yeah, the ‘90s in game development were quite different in a number of ways. There wasn’t much competition for jobs, and the skill level required to get into the industry at the time was a lot lower. (Everyone I know who entered the industry back then will cheerfully admit it.) Hierarchies and job roles were a lot…

It’s extra funny because my experience with managers in game studios is they got their positions mostly because they survived the attrition rate of the industry. They became managers because most of their peers with similar years of experience had quit. They didn’t work harder than anyone else, they were just more…

And so you have to respect that these guys know how to create incredible games on reasonable timelines, and not just assume that a culture of working very hard is a bad thing.

Yes, the big surge of interest in Cosby was in 2014, when the story was completely unavoidable, but there were significant spikes around the time of the accusations and when he went to trial, too. (If we accept, for the sake of argument, Trends as an indicator of public awareness, then if everyone knew in 2014, then on…

Google trends has blind spots. For one thing, no one was explicitly calling him a rapist (likely for legal reasons) - I mean, in this article at the time, even his accuser at no time uses the word “rapist” while detailing what happened:

“So everyone is you?”

“Are you saying you knew about it in 2005?”

“I think that applies to most people”

“It wasn’t really public knowledge until late 2014"

There, fixed it for ya.

“At the time, the police said it’s perfectly acceptable to drive slowly to a well-lit/safe place to pull over. I’ve always wondered if that’s really the case.”

“but with that said, good. Fuck ActiBlizz”

“he promised he would make an AI that could pass the Turing test”

“A game company taking in 200 million/year”

“that funding is like... 1% of the game’s goal”

“He interviewed for a job, disclosed his youtube channel in the process, the company (likely) vetted him and knew what they were getting, and he was hired...and there were no overt red flags for years.”

“Ah yes, the old “It could be worse!” argument.”

Leaving aside that he’s the one who “brought the heat” on to his coworkers in the first place, we don’t actually know anything about the circumstances of his leaving. We only know the happy, public face he’s putting on. I mean, people do lie, or he may be quitting because he found a job being a full-time asshole, for…

Your user name is quite self-descriptive, ironically. What is wrong with you? Seriously. You clearly aren’t aware of the facts, haven’t read anything that researchers and epidemiologists are saying about this. In fact, you don’t seem connected to reality at all. A “joke” of a pandemic that killed over half a million…

And it’s stuff like that which is making me wonder if they’ll have to cancel Comic-Con 2022 as well... not enough of Texas has (or will, especially in the near future) been vaccinated to make a difference in terms of slowing the spread, so we’re going to see a whole lot of sick people providing breeding grounds for…