People insist sexual harassment and assault just don't happen and women make it up, and you think wow that person must be pretty sheltered, and then you see someone literally writing scripts to remove any mention of it from their life... Deliberate ignorance.

Strider83 wrote on Jun 26, 2020, 22:28:
Wonderful! Let the modern day witch hunt commence! Let the anonymous accusations fly and let's ruin some lives and careers! I love 2020!

Many of the accusers in this recent flurry are not anonymous at all. Not sure how that affects your narrative.

The Eurogamer story is pretty vague. A Polygon article says he was accused of cheating on his wife with fans which is the kind of thing Ubisoft would not be happy about.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 18, 2020, 23:25:

fakespyder wrote on Jun 18, 2020, 23:13:
I wonder if you'll be able to manage and transfer energy to shields, weapons etc. Somehow I doubt they'll get that detailed.

Read the blurb? You can also see on the dashboard the indicators for power levels.

A Polygon interview made it sound just like the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games, you can redirect power to engines/lasers/shields (for faster recharge, faster speed, or more damage), redirect shields front and rear etc.

jdreyer wrote on May 2, 2020, 18:41:
Would this have been banned outright in Australia in the past?

Possibly. Australia's always been fairly lenient with straightforward violence in the past. The main reason why stuff gets banned is if there's sexual violence or drug use related to "rewards". (E.g GTA3 was banned back in the day because you could have sex with a hooker, then run her over and collect money (a "reward") from her body after.)

So there could be drug use and sexual violence, or "references to" it, in this game, but if the player doesn't get rewarded for doing those things it might still have been OK in the past. And even today, if the player were rewarded for those things it might have still been banned. That's what's written in the guidelines, i.e. "Implied sexual violence related to incentives and rewards" results in "Refused classification" (banned).

The president of the company making CoD games is named Coddy?

Kotick's phone number was in Epstein's little black book. Doesn't mean anything of course. Just sayin.

Now that Bethesda's in charge of it all, it would be a funny turn of events if these devs ended up working on ... Prey 2.

It looks amazing, what's wrong with you all. Is it just the Epic exclusive you're still pissed about? Reviews seem good so far too.

El Pit wrote on Sep 24, 2019, 02:13:
So - Earth, this planet, has no problem. We are just a temporarily dominant species and will go the way of the Dodo one day with most likely one huge difference: we made ourselves extinct. But life and evolution will move on, we are not this important, really.

Also I got to say that I think Greta Thunburg has psychological problems.

lol @ these two paragraphs. "The annihilation of countless species including billions of human beings is no big deal, we deserve it really, embrace your extinction. Also this girl who's trying to prevent it seems all messed up in the head!"

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Sep 1, 2019, 17:05:
I'm not saying Zoë Quinn is the same type of person as my aunt, but it's uncanny how similar they both are. The most frustrating part is that we need to support the victims but keep our heads on straight to know when we are being manipulated.

It's important to remember that half a dozen people corroborated parts of Zoe's accusations. Other people also made accusations. Other people had also cut ties with the guy over the past few years because of his behavior. You put all that together, it seems really, really, really hard to believe the accusations are false.

Obviously this is a tragic end that no one wanted, but I hope people listen to his sister: "don’t use our grief as an excuse to harass people".

Kxmode wrote on Aug 29, 2019, 19:06:
How many false accusations should you consider as immoral to justify the 92% that is true? If your answer is zero then, you sir, are correct. A single false allegation is WRONG. There's no such thing as "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." When one false accusation can destroy a person's life and reputation, and potentially lead to suicide, there's no room for false allegations.

Another thing that can lead to suicide is rape. It might sound nice to say "innocent until proven guilty" but that's exactly why the majority of sexual assaults are not even reported. You're concerned about the occasional man who might be wrongly accused but don't seem to care about the majority of actual victims who have to live with the trauma, while the offender probably goes on to abuse others too.

Putting this here because it's at the end of the article and most people won't read it of course:

Schroeder isn't worried about white male youth themselves, she said, calling this generation "the most open-hearted potentially kindest critical thinking loving group of boys that I've ever seen," she said.

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 18, 2019, 15:08:
A developer who can think beyond the money bags?

Massive, MASSIVE kudos to him.

This is the wrong take. The guy said himself it's in his own best long-term interest to turn down a deal. He's just making a decision based on where he's at at the moment, as is everyone else.

Kxmode wrote on Aug 7, 2019, 19:53:
What a clueless dingbat.

I don't get it. The worst thing you could find to cite there is "nobody owes you the game", and meanwhile the dev is being called a f----- n----- k---, a piece of shit, and told to kill himself. And you're suggesting it's somehow his fault? Don't stir the angry gamer nest!

SabreT wrote on Aug 6, 2019, 06:59:

Titus wrote on Aug 6, 2019, 06:44:
I've seen no proof of actual threats other than those devs claims. Seeing the way they already behaved on their blog, reddit and discord, I have zero confidence in them not lying.

Come on now, receiving threats in the gaming industry is not new. Do you honestly think with all the hate shown from this vocal minority they haven't received any threats?

It's like gamergate all over again. People detail the hate campaign they've been subjected to and gamers stick their fingers and their ears and go "nananana don'tbelieveyoudon'tbelievedon'tbelieveyou"

VR hardware is outselling literally all games on the platform? Surely Valve is using this list for advertising purposes.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 11, 2019, 10:19:

Creston wrote on Jun 11, 2019, 08:45:
I worry that this is going to be MP only...

From Arkane? Was there even multiplayer in Prey or the Dishonored series? Honest question I played all the games but never even glanced if there was multiplayer.

I should hope they wouldn't abandon single player like that, but anything is possible, I guess.

They added a multiplayer mode to Prey in an update but no one played it. It was probably an experiment for future games.

I saw some mention that Deathloop will be co-op, but I'm sure you can play it single player too. The robot things in the trailer suggest the main enemy will be AI.

It's almost like competition is making Valve work harder.

ledhead1969 wrote on Feb 16, 2019, 03:09:
his answer was "I try to find out ways to rip the company off".

lol if that was his answer instead of "I try to find ways to make people's working lives better" then he sounds like a shitty union rep.

Some unions are bad for sure but they're basically the only thing preventing employers from completely fucking our lives.