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Activision Blizzard Re-Elects Bobby Kotick To Board of Directors, Rejects Employee Representation
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I haven't given Blizz any money since 2010.
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Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Incidentally I think he is culpable and should go. But I don't think it is down to media journalists and a social media mob to make that decision. Everyone deserves their day in court before they loose their job and are branded as a deviant. Likewise considering the amount and depth of the allegations I think he should face a courtroom; but that also is down to the legal system, not social media.
Not to discount your overall point, but holding companies hostage to employees short of a criminal conviction (or even civil liability) is absolutely, 1,000,000%, positively, objectively *not* a good idea.
Just as an apropos example of why: generally, making crude jokes about titties and vaginas in front of women who do not want to hear you make them is still not illegal. If we take your position regarding employment, nothing can be done about such behavior. Even more apropos: condoning such behavior is not illegal, either. Even in the workplace. So again, if we subscribe to your philosophy, he could be on tape encouraging male employees to behave in this way, and there's still no crime committed and no legal liability for him unless he encourages real criminal behavior.
Harassment requires pervasiveness, but companies still shouldn't have to endure a sexist employee making jokes simply because the employee doesn't do it daily or directly to female employees.
If it gets to the point that harassment can be proven, that's an indicator not *just* that things were happening... *But that they were so pervasive that it created a hostile work environment for female employees.*
By the time the courts are involved, we're well beyond mere tasteless jokes every once in a while. Businesses shouldn't let things get to this point, and they definitely shouldn't feel pressured to let things get to this point before they act.
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Mainstream media across the west has seen their share of news consumers fall heavily, this really took of in the UK for newspapers in the early noughties and for TV in the very early twenty tens; but everywhere in the west has gone through this. This was the cause of the move to more drama in news, drama had already been on the rise since 24 hour news started, but starting to lose their dominant share of consumed content really pushed the hype meter up in first papers then TV. I don't need to explain how if you present the news in a more dramatic way bias creeps in.
Also mainstream decided to tried to turn back the tide by adopting another editorial method from the tabloids, this time narrative. This upped the importance of "related" stories and the use of repeated items on the same issue to drive the narrative home. Again I don't need to explain how moulding the news to follow a narrative brings in bias.
It is not like paper and TV mainstream had not used drama and narrative before, it was their increasing dependency on those methods that brought in so much bias. Today their is a mixed picture of stability and falling figures, so it has somewhat paid of but not taken them back to dominance and has lead to further problems.
These are two reasons that trust in the mainstream media is failing across the west, I understand this is happening in the US and many European countries. This is not just about what the TV channels in our countries are like, it is a reaction to these changes in the way the news is created to pull back more readers and viewers.
Even before you get to court for civil matters corporations have managed to get their legislative flunkies to limit their liability with all kinds of legislation almost everywhere in North America by highlighting mischaracterized, fear mongering examples like the infamous McDonald's hot coffee incident (all she wanted initially before suing was $20K to cover her medical expenses) to get the general public to go along with the new laws that only favor the corporations.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED