Doesn't make it okay.

SuperWhoLock was mostly just... hugely cringe inducing. It was awkward and weird and mostly filled with nerdy young girls bolstering each other’s most cringe inducing habits and tastes. But fandom was different in those days.

Considering Sweeney considers Fortnite a “media platform”, and it’s whole damn thing is collabs (what’s the current one, street fighter?), then of ALL the games that should reach out to a smaller indie dev for a collab vs stealing the ideas wholesale, Fortnite should be that game. Especially when Sweeney says that…

Cool. So talking about separating the role from the actor - in the comments section of an article dealing with that very thing - is something we should avoid talking about in favor of the several existential threats we’re dealing with?

This ain’t rocket science. The disclaimer was fine. The people freaking out need to stop giving the people who mock things like Content Warnings unnecessary ammo.

The inability of these people to clearly separate fiction from reality is alarming. It reminds me of Wyatt Russell being harassed over the actions of the fictional character he played in Falcon & Winter Soldier. What is their goal? Do they just want stories with no villains and no characters that ever do bad things?

I really reflects badly on Anthony Hopkins that he took that role of the guy who eats people.

This is the dumbest discourse. The concept of villains in fiction shouldn’t be “cancelled.” Just because someone voices a villainous character, it doesn’t mean they condone their villainous actions. 

Agreed. I think the word “entitled” has reached that point where it’s so overused that it is losing any kind of bite, but if people saying “I don’t like this storyline, you should have made one more to my tastes instead” isn’t entitled then I really don’t know what is.

People calling for the removal of the content are frankly crazy. Not in a mental issue way, just utterly divorced from the reality of what art and media are. I’m all for accessibility, including on the front of content, but it feels like some people suffer from permanent FOMO in that they need to experience every and…

So, the content warning accurately reflects the game's content, but people made bad assumptions about that warning and are now mad at the dev and want the dev change the game itself? 

The fact that they’re changing the design of the PSU and offering returns speaks rather clearly as to whether they truly believe the statement they put out…

bread and roses. everyone deserves to look nice.

Good for you! I’m a certifiable workaholic in my forties now and have just recently (in the last year) started to pursue a healthy work/life balance. I’ve spent the last 20-25 years working (on average) 60-90 hours a week. I’m lucky enough to have enough sway and trust at my job to pretty much come and go whenever I…

They mention that the $50k is the industry average via Glassdoor, at a national level, not that it’s the salary at Blizzard. Blizzard is *below* that average.

The problem is, if they are making 50k a year, that isn’t enough to afford an apartment in south OC. The current income estimate is about 80k to afford to live here.

This is what happens when we continually attack Unions and strip the workforce of its protections that had been so prevalent decades ago. Without collective bargaining a company is going to exploit the worker as much as they can and let you burn out.

While I imagine you weren’t going to veer in this direction, this reminds me of people complaining that people wouldn’t want to work because unemployment offers too much money. That sounds like less of a problem than the fact that people need to get paid far more for what they do across the board. 

You have to factor for cost of living at the specific place. $50k means one thing in San Fransisco and another thing in Mobile, Alabama. 

50k isn’t what the ActiBlizz folks are making. That’s the national average. From the numbers in the article, they’re making at most around 35k/yr... and they’re probably working/living in the most expensive cities where that 35k won’t cover rent.