I went downt he rabbit hole and now I cannot get out... Will I find Wonderland?
I love Warcraft, I dislike WoW
Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
You mean the same behaviour that has been brought to light to exist on a day-to-day business at work, and is being called out as 'frat boy culture' that enabled sexual harassment, abuse and gender discrimination?
Context, my dudebro. Context.
We're not talking about you and your friends when you were young. The situation is so far removed that you can't equate this as one and the same as your shootin the shit with your buddies. None of that lead to sexual harassment, abuse or discrimination did it? Think of how the situation changes if you were complicit in knowing a friend who was actively sexually abusive, and you were still hanging around with them and cheering em on for it. That's quite a difference don't you think?
Last edited by Triceron; 2021-07-28 at 09:06 PM.
From the Kotaku article which clearly a lot of people haven't read:
No, it wasn't about sex at all. How could anyone come to that conclusion.In one image procured by Kotaku, a group of women are sitting on a bed in the room with the Cosby portrait. One of the women appears to have a hand on another’s breast, which is cheered on by the men in the comments. The images procured by Kotaku, and two sources with knowledge of Afrasiabi’s alleged predatory behavior, Cosby’s reputation was apparently the point of why the group of men gathered around his picture in the photos.
“It was such a boys club that creating something like the ‘Cosby Suite’ was seen as funny,” one source told Kotaku. “Only you could get an efficy laid, Alex [Afrasiabi],” reads one of the Facebook comments on the picture. “#CozApproved,” reads another written by Kosak.
https://kotaku.com/inside-blizzard-d...=1627495648163
Last edited by MoanaLisa; 2021-07-28 at 09:07 PM.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Allegations that were sufficiently backed to get him sacked. I’m quite sure if there wasn’t the evidence he could have claimed for wrongful dismissal. Seriously, sacking someone from a post like that requires pretty overwhelming evidence.
That it didn’t go to trial was probably an agreement to protect the company’s reputation. You know, how they tried last week when they put out that statement denying everything. And have since kind of accepted it but individuals have made efforts to try to distance themselves personally.
Good luck trying to remove Thrall from WoW's lore, as well as hundreds of Warcraft characters that are based on all the guard. Good thing Blizzard are good at retconning cos thats gonna be a doozy lol.
Blizzard just need to end all their games and make new IP's their old ones are fucking dead.
Last edited by Orby; 2021-07-28 at 09:08 PM.
I love Warcraft, I dislike WoW
Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
Found a new picture, this time with a bunch of Booze!
In the OP.
And, more tweets by hidden IDs. I wonder if they are some of the people from the Picture?!
JFC dude how far down the rabbit hole are we going?!
If the women were consenting then this should technically all be fine. Just bros having some fun.
Edit: didn't know they were employees. This changes things.
Last edited by GreenJesus; 2021-07-28 at 09:14 PM.
I'd quip the only way this gets worse is if we find out they were also abusing crunch to get games done, but then I'd return from work and another batch of abusers would have dropped.
This is the house of cards falling down at this point, nobody is safe, everybody is complicit, and frankly it may destroy 30 years of legacies.
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