Springfield resident here.

Editorial and Sales are completely separate as they should be. You think editorial is writing about games while also trying to sell ad space to those companies? You don’t need a journalism degree to see that conflict of interests.

Writers all over Gizmodo’s website have spent more than 2 years saying they have no control over the number of ads or where they are placed on the page (nor how broken kinja is). With that end mind, I doubt they have any influence over what gets advertised beyond “theinventory.com” and all other ads are probably just…

Yep.. Stepping down and probably has enough money to never ever need to work again while living extravagantly.

Exactly. This isn’t fixing shit and he’s bowing out with a nice exit package in case groups do look into is like California but don’t bother cause he’s no longer there.

For those keeping score at home...

I would love to spend hours and hours playing a game where a bunch of fat male characters waddle around with their fat bellies hanging out from under their shirts.

It reminds me of the Pixar changes to the “Knick Knack” short. The original (done by the largely male and white studio team) featured characters with enormously enlarged breasts. When they re-released it, they reduced the size because - quote - “It was just crossing the line for me personally as a father. So I decided…

In the wake of that and other abuses that it still carried on for so many years so systemically and without a peep?

The moderator (presumably they had one) should have done that outright. The reason I am not shocked the people on stage took the tone though was because creatives can get very touchy when someone questions their creative vision. When you question the design direction of the people at the top, the response can range…

After all the Hollywood and Weinstein shit that has gone on longer as open secrets you're still surprised this shit goes on for so long with no consequences?

A prominent local tech TV columnist and interviewer once confided that a very high percentage of decision-making people in the gaming industry actively sexualize and market their games around that sexualization. I don’t remember the rest of the conversation as it has been 10 years or so, but this bit stuck with me as…

You know what I call “good cops” who protect “bad cops?” Bad cops. Full stop. 

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

Agreed. No excuse for leaving the scene, or for other officers not filing the report, but there is nothing in that video to suggest that the cop was at fault for the initial collision.

Yeah, but if you or I hit this kid and drove away- we’d probably spend the night in jail.

This sounds like the sort of thing Section 1 (42 USC § 1983) of the KKK act was built for.

That is a nasty bit of law to run afoul of. 

Interested to see how the bootlickers defend this one.

Pigs are gonna pig.