Posts by FMPONE

It was a critical question, not rude. It’s bad enough you’ve got a million sweaty nerds booing her for asking a critical question, then they had to yuk yuk instead of taking a minute to answer her.

Quote from ThunderKeil

17 minutes ago, ThunderKeil said: Was the response inappropriate? Maybe, but her question was snarky and she completely set herself up for that kind of reaction.

"As a female player of WoW, I would prefer if there were less sexualized female character designs available for us, as opposed to the eye candy designed to cater to the male players." - would have generated a very different response. Or, at least, if a similar response had been given then, it would have been entirely on them for souring the interaction, which I don't find to be the case as it stands.

I think these QA sessions are a bad idea because these aren’t trained media people or from the looks of it, very bright dudes when it comes to speaking with the public in person.

I would have a simple ground rule: just be sincere in your answers, don’t try to be a fucking comedian, that’s not what we pay you to do.

”Great question, we will pass it on to our character design team” — all his dumbass had to say

It’s a shitty, evasive answer to her question using humor to deflect, but it’s easy to fall into that when you’re trying to deflect attention away from a person asking a question which implicitly includes a potentially tough criticism of your game. Unfortunately for those chucklefucks, they ain’t comedians, and it wasn’t effective.

I’ve definitely used humor to try to deflect when I’m a similar setting of someone asking you an awkward or unpleasant question and it genuinely does come across better to take five seconds to actually think about how you’re going to answer. People will laugh and act like they didn’t see the evasion, but they do.

Also, in retrospect, not a great look that the guy named in the law suit as Mr. Bill Cosby is giving her a weird stare

Quote from Buddy

10 minutes ago, Buddy said: That shouldn't really happen this fast, sure nothing else is going on?

I think it’s a combination of my old max being well over body weight, trying to lose some body weight, and also just having terrible leverages for the exercise (long arms). One of the reasons I was focusing on it is, it’s a struggle lift for me

Quote from 0kelvin

35 minutes ago, 0kelvin said: About Levine, maybe he has great skills in storytelling but poor management skills. I have a feeling that bioshock 3 changed the gameplay in many ways due to the publisher's intervention.

Great skills in storytelling relative to the rest of storytellers in video games, yes. Poor management skills I think is clear by this point

The thing about when these big auteurs in the gaming industry get critiqued (people can be pretty critical of Kojima as well)... dude has made some classics. I always like to remember that part.

lost 40 pounds from my benchpress from taking a couple of weeks off. going to the gym really is like a korean mmorpg

Quote from blackdog

17 hours ago, blackdog said: There are some

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/…the-right-thing

Most likely ruled unconstitutional if it gets in front of the conservative-majority Supreme Court.

However, as spa mentioned these are boards, not typical workers, and furthermore if you wanted to conform with this literally all you would have to do is add a person to your board who also happened to be a woman. Not some kind of onerous burden, by any stretch. You can tell that there is no “quota” system because still only like 30% of the company is even women.

In California the relationship between the company and the state seems very frayed at this point, but it could also just be a big production signifying nothing, and they will just settle this case in a year or two for some X millions of dollars, and it all repeats again.

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30 minutes ago, spa said: I believe this is a legal maneuver to not get sued when making frivolous references like that, but I could be mistaken.

Lol. Like the equivalent of when you wanted to call your friend a douche in high school so you sneezed really loud “-OUCHE!”

Quote from dux

1 hour ago, dux said: EA closed Visceral after Dead Space 3 and buried the IP in the ground. Years later Resident Evil starts showing the suits that there IS money in horror. So the EA suits go dust of the Dead Space IP and get a new team to "remake it". Shitty EA being shitty EA.

Damn. Alright, fuck ‘em. I’ll watch the play through on YouTube

What’s so bad about this? I never played the original so it could be fun to experience

Also how the fuck do these state attorneys not know how to spell “Bill Cosby”? They call him Crosby twice, just to make it clear they don’t proofread what they’re filing.

Isn’t he like one of the most famous living Americans, one of the most notorious sexual harassment litigants in recent history, and you work in that field? Ever heard of google/spell check?

Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence moving forward, the victims can’t catch a damn break

Quote from Buddy

7 hours ago, Buddy said: Serves them right for hiring all that mediocre female staff just to fill out the stupid quotas

I assume you’re joking but it’s not quotas. There are laws that say you can’t discriminate on hiring, which is how you end up with a company looks like the Interplay ad you posted when more than half of the population are women. Furthermore, attorneys advising them over the course of decades that when you employ hundreds or thousands of people that it looks bad when the C Suite and employment data says the entire company is comprised of men except secretaries and servers in the food court.

When they do finally hire a woman to management, oops, she has the easiest harassment lawsuit of all time, because take a look at the company, it’s legitimately a fucking shit show and no one is potty trained

Bioshock 1 was the best, 2 was pretty good, by 3 I think Ken Levine... well, I don't know what went wrong exactly. but something went wrong. On paper that game should have been fantastic, and it had a lot going for it even on launch. It seemed like either the pressure got to him, or the management was really fucking things up. Something gummed up the works.

I've read a few articles that try to attribute the "failure" of Infinite to Levine and they seem really disingenuous. There is no Bioshock without him and it seems much more likely that they didn't balance him out with someone very practically-minded on the business side, which is the whole point of having leadership, is knowing what to do with your creative team, other than setting them up for failure and then pinning failure on them.

Blizzard be like “oh we’re the bad guys? ok, we’ll move out of California. Bye!”

Reading their response it looks like leaving the state in the next couple of years is a guarantee.

Started The Boys on prime. was quite hesitant to watch it because I'm sick to death of everything being superhero related or adjacent, but it is good

It’s important to remember that video games are a creative industry and not derivative at all

Quote from Buddy

20 minutes ago, Buddy said: I ordered the 512 and it says Q1 2022

It says "Your expected order availability: Q1 2022", but I heard otherwise on Twitter? dunno. Hopefully it really is Q1

They don't ship out until 2022. In the case of the 512, not until Q3 2022. le sad face

Quote from Radu

8 minutes ago, Radu said: I'm not even planning to reserve it, but

If this is too new, how far into the future do new-new people get to reserve?

Owned, newbie

Sick website. Not

Honestly surprised I managed to get it

Quote from Evert

1 hour ago, Evert said: Always wanted a game gear 2.

Bruh the resemblance is uncanny

I’m a little skeptical about the size of it and— whoops, already attempted to reserve a copy of the highest end model