Look, I totally buy what people are saying about how he probably wasn’t aware at all... But that’s just as huge a failure. He *created* this company. He created the culture, both though his participation in it and through the people he hired and chose to run things. If he was so far removed, SO out of the loop that he…

EXCELLENT comment! Should be top level.

The only particularly good thing about these post-accountability apologies is how damning they are for Blizzard's case.

I’m curious to see how they changed the scene, but it wouldn’t be that hard to change the scene a bit while still preserving most of the mind-fuckery

Depictions of self harm and suicide in VR are, at least anecdotally, much more triggering than non-VR depictions. I, myself, struggle with media that depicts cutting—I can’t imagine how I’d react if something like that happened to me in VR without warning.

My only solace is that the new writers Kotaku has picked up over the past few years feel like they've always been here. Moreso than at other GO sites.

SAME

The point isn’t to change the kid, it’s to affirm to the LGBTQ community that Epic isn’t okay with the behavior, and to deter other creators from doing something similar.

I mean they maintain a public presence and create content for hundreds of thousands of people all around the world

Lol wut

“Words are not violence”

Replacing a few letters with asterisks won’t lead to any loss in meaning, and certainly doesn’t need to trigger the snowball effect you describe. 

Here’s hoping it's more than lip service and we won't get similar reports about Bungie.

I mean

“Not the workplace of TODAY” is the best accidental admission of guilt I’ve ever heard

I think OP was saying the pride event itself is pandering, not the punishment against the kid

Oddly enough, I’m not even mad about the shitty apology because he’s a literal child (who obviously hasn’t been raised right in the first place). Like, I expect adults to understand how to apologize properly, but the majority of kids barely understand what apologies are for.

Question: is anyone else a bit uncomfortable seeing the f-slur spelled out in this article, even as a quote? Like, I'm not that pressed about it, but it was a bit of a shock, especially here of all sites

The fuck is this the featured comment

Very happy that people are still calling it Plunkbat.