The issue comes down to what happened to Pornhub. Pornhub got hit (and rightfully so) because it was hosting non-consensual/underage videos, and hadn’t made any efforts to address the problems, even when made aware of them.

I hope you’re talking about the UNIT-01 model.

like the game’s keyboard + mouse control method being almost unusable since the on-screen prompts still only appear for a controller.

Add people faces on the horses, and this is a masterpiece.

So, in other words - they got the rights for Monster Hunter, had a script laying around where a military unit got sucked into a world of monsters, mad-libbed some Monster Hunter terms onto it, and voila! It’s a totally-faithful-to-the-source-material Monster Hunter adaptation!

We don’t know how long their days are right now; if things are rough enough that they’re going back on a public promise of no crunch, I’m assuming that the workers weren’t working 40 hour weeks recently.

I think the big issue is that the Smash community (both players and audience) trends much younger than a lot of other fighting game communities. So it’s not that fighting game communities don’t have pedos and assorted other predators, it’s that there’s much more frequent interaction between adults and minors in the…

How about the original article about him, which is linked at the top of this article?

Well said. And yeah, the incels are out in force in the greys. Stay grey, schmucks!

If by “severance”, you mean “the trebuchet they launched him from the roof with”, I hope it was pretty damn big.

Before anyone starts whining that “He was just cheating on his wife, sure that’s bad, but why is he being fired for that?!”, a couple of points:

Omar had some missteps early on, being a bit too loose in how she talked about sensitive issues, but she genuinely apologized and seems to have learned from her mistakes, which is what you hope to see from a public figure.

I also love the “I didn’t call him the n-word, I called him the n-word in Bulgarian!” defense. Well, that changes everything!

Yeah, I think we are. Yay for reasonable discourse on the internet!

I don’t disagree with your point about Twitch’s history of favoring top streamers making them a bit suspect as the “agent of change” here. But the response to them going to light on top streamers is to press them to be more strict with those top streamers, not to throw up your hands and say “Well, if they’re not…

Twitch isn’t a court of law dealing out criminal penalties like jail time; they don’t need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil court (in the US, at least), the standard is “a preponderance of evidence”, which basically means “is it more likely than not that the claim is true?” or “is it more that 50% likely the…

Dariani, she wrote, proceeded to tell a story about a woman who slept with men to get ahead at a company, eventually segueing into how “relationship-based” the industry is and how some women in the industry had been “blacklisted” for not “doing the right thing.”

Oh, no doubt. This is doubtless just the tip of the iceberg, both in terms of  racism/homophobia/etc. and myriad predatory behavior.

Completely agree. They likely saw the talk after FChamp was banned, realized that they’d be getting some awkward questions about ChrisG soon, and decided to cut ties before it became a PR debacle.

I suspect the banning of FilipinoChamp led to this - when he was banned, there was a lot of talk about “FChamp got banned, but what about the shitty stuff ChrisG said?”