Masakari
Which way, western man?
- 12,598
- 47,492
World of Warcraft: Current Year
- Thread starter hodj
- Start date
-
Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Sieger
Trakanon Raider
- 343
- 395
I'm not going to say other industries don't have sexual harassment issues but you nerds in the game industry need to grow up and act like professionals. One tenth of this shit would get you fired at any corporate / Fortune 500 job I've had, and fast. The fact that people even feel they can get away with this stuff speaks to a pervasive culture of mismanagement.
- 10
- 1
jooka
marco esquandolas
- 14,885
- 6,391
It has since been cleaned up but my early days at google had this same type shit going on. My first years the holiday party were atrocious with stories of crazy shit. Many, many firings happening from those nights.
Runnen
Vyemm Raider
- 1,857
- 4,521
There's probably a correlation between them being man-children working in the gaming industry and this irresponsible behavior. It's almost as if when you take incel nerds and put them to work in a place because they're so imaginative and creative compared to the Chads and Working Joes, and then you give them a tiny bit of power, they get delusions of grandeur and start groping Nancy from accounting because they have jock envy from back in high school when they stopped evolving mentally.
Alex seems to be exactly the type of person that turns into a huge asshole whenever offered a modicum of authority, based on feedback from people here that interacted with him on a regular basis in game or in real life. It happened in guildchat, it happened on his website's front page with his insults and "threats" to the devs as soon as he got a tall enough soapbox to be paid attention to, and it happened at Blizzard once he saw himself as the next Metzen-level rockstar of Blizzard.
And the other Blizznerds or other gaming companies with similar issues all share the same kind of background, a lot of repressed frustration that just unleashes when they think they can get away with it.
It only gets worse when you keep seeing it happening around you in your work environment, because it not only convinces some victims that it is normal behavior, but also enables some perpetrators that wouldn't have dared in a more "normal" company but since Alex is doing it I guess I can grope Nancy too, she won't mind.
- 5
Fucker
Log Wizard
- 12,692
- 28,857
Lori was a hooker when they met. You have to be wired differently to not only bang a hooker, but shack up with her for years afterward.
- 1
- 51,634
- 302,958
All Alex needs to do is point out that this is the culture normal back in Iran and that he is a devout Muslim being persecuted. The number of bluehairs that would back track and apologize for their intolerance would make everyones head spin.
- 6
- 1
- 1
Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
- 80,328
- 160,797
Nah.. I'm not that cool. I've just moved on from the high school locker room bullshit that's pervasive in game dev and don't give a fuck if I step on toes.
- 4
Sieger
Trakanon Raider
- 343
- 395
This is actually a variation on the Kevin Spacey “Live as a gay man” defense, the problem is it doesn’t actually work as well as you’d expect.
Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
- 80,328
- 160,797
Runnen
Vyemm Raider
- 1,857
- 4,521
Note that Kevin Spacey's second defense worked great, everyone that was sueing him is dead.
- 6
- 4
Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
- 43,778
- 52,385
First time I've ever heard this and seems seriously doubtful.
- 1
Runnen
Vyemm Raider
- 1,857
- 4,521
- 51,634
- 302,958
Muslims are allowed to deceive non-Muslims through "al Taqiyya" to avoid persecution. So technically according to his religion he's allowed to get piss faced drunk around infidels if his goal is to deceive them for the good of Allah.
- 3
- 1
Runnen
Vyemm Raider
- 1,857
- 4,521
Right but that's when you're trying to infiltrate their civilization to destroy it, not infiltrate Blue-Hair Vaxx's pants.
Pretty sure that's go straight to jail, do not pass go, and don't collect your 72 virgins.
- 51,634
- 302,958
That's just arguing semantics. Pretty sure if he knows enough Arabic he could pull it off.
Fucker
Log Wizard
- 12,692
- 28,857
Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
- 43,778
- 52,385
Citation? Cause I never heard a whiff of this when the news of Tri-State Tori first broke and people were posting every single little scrap of info they could dig up.
- 1
