A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard

[Dirty Hipsters]

I don't know if this is old news, but apparently they're planning to ban alcoholic drinks in the workplace. Which is just crazy to me. I can just imagine a bunch of game developer nerds bringing drinks to the office because it makes them look cool. It wouldn't surprise me if this is how it all began, a bunch of losers thinking they're hot shit for making hip and cool video games and using that as an excuse to act unprofessionally.

The drinks were probably provided by the company. It's pretty common in the tech space actually. I work in gaming and we always have beer in the fridge, and parties tend to have bartenders making drinks. To date I've only seen a couple of people actually get "drunk" and most people are adults and understand how to pace themselves and drink responsibly. The company also pays for people's ubers/lyfts on party nights so that people don't drive drunk.

It's not an alcohol issue, it's an asshole issue. Having a couple of drinks doesn't make a normal person become a sleezy groping piece of shit.

 

[BrawlMan]

Remember The Guy Game?

Sucked hard, and they got in trouble with that, because one girl was 17 at the time, and put her in the game without her consent. My older bro used to have copy of the game, but even he does not have The Guy Game anymore. He did not regret buying it though. He likes controversy.

Prince of Persia Warrior Within (2004)

You know what really was ass? God of War (2005) would not come until the next year (it wasn't even announced yet), so Ubisoft literally made edgy and horny for no reason. Other than to appeal to edge-lord teen/adults who would not have bothered in the first place.

Remember Dead or Alive Xtreme 1? Remember the general horniness in games themselves?

Oh please, many Japanese games were horny long before the 2000s kicked in.

Heck I go as far as to say the 2000s was entirely a very horny decade in media. They had commercials on TV showing Girls Gone Wild.

I remember things, but I know not everything was horny.

 

[Gordon_4]

I don't know if this is old news, but apparently they're planning to ban alcoholic drinks in the workplace. Which is just crazy to me. I can just imagine a bunch of game developer nerds bringing drinks to the office because it makes them look cool. It wouldn't surprise me if this is how it all began, a bunch of losers thinking they're hot shit for making hip and cool video games and using that as an excuse to act unprofessionally.

See I've always found that very odd. Every place I've worked, outside of official functions, has had a strict policy about drinking at work, and it was not to.

It's not an alcohol issue, it's an asshole issue. Having a couple of drinks doesn't make a normal person become a sleezy groping piece of shit.

You drink with a much better quality of person than I used to.

 

[thebobmaster]

"The article also describes a 2007 party Oneal attended, along with Kotick, in which “scantily clad women danced on stripper poles,” while a DJ “encouraged female attendees to drink more so the men would have a better time.”

This seems entirely in character with the gaming industry in the 2000s. Remember booth babes in conventions? Xbox Original was certainly the biggest example

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Remember The Guy Game?

Even by 2000's standards, The Guy Game was something else, man. Jeff Spangenberg used to work at Retro Studios (yes, the Metroid Prime guys), but resigned in the "quit, or you're fired" sense because Nintendo found out he'd been, essentially, using company assets to run a porn studio. I'm not even making that up.

So, he left with a payout, used the payout to fund Topheavy Studios, made The Guy Game, and the rest...is history, of sorts.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

See I've always found that very odd. Every place I've worked, outside of official functions, has had a strict policy about drinking at work, and it was not to.



You drink with a much better quality of person than I used to.

Yeh even while a student the labs weren't keen on you drinking in them lol.

I mean technically there was alcohol and not the poisoned kind that is normally used. Proper duty free pure alcohol. I had to use it once due to the tainted normal lab variety interfering with experiments. Had to read through and sign 2 pages of legal documents and permissions slips saying I'd only use it for research and wouldn't drink it or sell it on. I mean i was like 99.99% pure so it was probably basically lethal to drink anyway without the poisoning but yeh no drinking in labs, not even water, that's what breaks are for.

 

[Samtemdo8]

I remember things, but I know not everything was horny.

They certainly were in video games though

 

[BrawlMan]

They certainly were in video games though

My point being that I played plenty of games from the 2000s that weren't horny or toned down the horniness. Hell, most of the games I own on my GameCube and PS2, are not that high on the horniness scale.

 

[BrawlMan]

Even by 2000's standards, The Guy Game was something else, man. Jeff Spangenberg used to work at Retro Studios (yes, the Metroid Prime guys), but resigned in the "quit, or you're fired" sense because Nintendo found out he'd been, essentially, using company assets to run a porn studio. I'm not even making that up.

So, he left with a payout, used the payout to fund Topheavy Studios, made The Guy Game, and the rest...is history, of sorts.

I am still shocked everytime I am reminded about how Retro Studios started, or how Nintendo saw potential and kept them around sans Spangenberg. I am glad karma caught up to a scumbag like him, and Retro Studios became a high pedigree game studio.

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[Specter Von Baren]

Why does it feel less threatening for someone to say, "I'm going to kill you." as apposed to saying, "I'm going to have you killed."?

 

[Kwak]

Why does it feel less threatening for someone to say, "I'm going to kill you." as apposed to saying, "I'm going to have you killed."?

It implies more lethal power at your disposal than those who have to do their own dirty work.

 

[Schadrach]

So, he left with a payout, used the payout to fund Topheavy Studios, made The Guy Game, and the rest...is history, of sorts.

Honestly, if it weren't illegal, I'd want a copy for my shelf just because it's obscure and rare. Like my copy or rule of Rose, except I'd never have actually played the Guy Game. Even back then it was easier and cheaper to find better porn on the internet.

Remember booth babes in conventions?

I remember when PAX explicitly not allowing them was seen as a strange rule. And one that devs tried to circumvent in various ways with various degrees of success.

 

[Samtemdo8]

I don't know if this is old news, but apparently they're planning to ban alcoholic drinks in the workplace. Which is just crazy to me. I can just imagine a bunch of game developer nerds bringing drinks to the office because it makes them look cool. It wouldn't surprise me if this is how it all began, a bunch of losers thinking they're hot shit for making hip and cool video games and using that as an excuse to act unprofessionally.

Alcohol brings out the worse in people.

Fuck Liquor

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Activision Blizzard Announces They’re Changing Bobby Kotick’s Name

Following various allegations about CEO Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard has announced they are solving the issue by changing Kotick’s name.

hard-drive.net

 

[BrawlMan]

Activision Blizzard Announces They’re Changing Bobby Kotick’s Name

Following various allegations about CEO Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard has announced they are solving the issue by changing Kotick’s name.

hard-drive.net

That solves nothing. Same shitty douche-bag.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

That inconvenient moment when you're not sure if somebody's just playing into the satire or if they ate the onion

 

[Trunkage]

Why does it feel less threatening for someone to say, "I'm going to kill you." as apposed to saying, "I'm going to have you killed."?

I personally don't

But I'll have guess anyway. Most people have to get real worked up to murder someone they know. Outsourcing this issue could bypass the problem allowing it to happen more readily

 

[Dalisclock]

That solves nothing. Same shitty douche-bag.

While I agree, I'm pretty sure it's a joke site.

Particularly when some of the other articles are "This article can run DOOM" and "Breadtuber eaten by birdtuber".

 

[BrawlMan]

While I agree, I'm pretty sure it's a joke site.

Particularly when some of the other articles are "This article can run DOOM" and "Breadtuber eaten by birdtuber".

I did not realize it was a joke site. I did not click the link.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

While I agree, I'm pretty sure it's a joke site.

Further proof that satire is dead. There are no longer any situations so ridiculous that there is no possibility of them happening.

 

[Gordon_4]

Further proof that satire is dead. There are no longer any situations so ridiculous that there is no possibility of them happening.

Satire isn’t dead, reality just made it redundant. It’s now spending its time tending to its garden and drinking scotch as retirees are wont to do.