If you havent been paying attention to our lovely namesake you may have missed one of the numerous articles that have been circulating the "tech" sphere about sexual harassment and a "frat boy" atmosphere. This has now escalated to an "open letter" decrying Activision for saying the allegations are false. I want to make sure you read this right, company was accused, company refutes accusal, people protest company for not instantly ceding guilt. The term victims was already used in the open letter which is making me scream allegedly more than Micheal Jackson. These troglodytes dont want to make you games, they want to parasite off of the company that was supposed to make you games.
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Yeah and places like r/gaming are eating it up. These are the same people who claim mug shots are racist yet they're happy to believe one-sided accusations in this case.
At the same time Soros is invested in Activision and Blizzard sucked the Chinese cock when it was presented for some extra investment.
I think the allegations are mostly bogus, but it couldn't happen to a worse company. I'm sure some is true and they are going to get screwed for it...but hey Soros and China investment makes me care way less.
I've been pointing out that the incidents all began occurring after Soros invested...people don't like to hear that so much.
Apparently this is the complaint:
https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
They openly state their contempt and spite for men who play video games:
They hate gaming - which apparently they should be paid a lot at a game company and constantly given big promotion. The "evil men" who like gaming should be fired from the gaming company, and apparently no one who likes gaming actually let in.
There's more, but I run out of energy. It's every female-self-centered "give me more privilege because I'm a woman" collected in one document.
What I found to be odd is how many inside Blizzard are decrying the behavior like they know it is true. This includes heads inside Activision, you either knew and did nothing or you did not know, you can't have both. This are not people that would be fired for expressing their concerns, fuck in this political climate the janitor can complain about it and would be showered with money, not get fired.
My spider sense is tingling.
It's not the things that are in the charging document, it's the things left out.
Like drunk "cube crawls" are talked about like they happened at 2 pm outside the HR office, or were they at 2 am after working 16 hours straight to fix release bugs? This happened in "The Office" where Jim, Andy, Karen are staying late doing work drinking. No public outcry about it because this kind of drinking happens all the time in these sweatshop overtime workplaces.
Another case somebody was inappropriate with two "inebriated women" at an convention afterhours party. Maybe they said exactly what happened, I just glanced at some excerpts, but if you're a woman getting drunk at an unofficial party -- just don't do that. Well maybe they were made to feel like they had to go get drunk to keep their jobs or something.
Like I'm sure there's substantial wrongdoing there, but I'm also sure that California has misrepresented / exaggerated parts.
It's like Dongle-gate all over again.
Either way I foresee the company settling, no one is going to jail for making a woman "feel uncomfortable" (i.e. smiling at her while ugly/fat/short).
I'm not saying that what happened is right, but am I wrong for thinking that if getting drunk with the boss is "required" for you to keep you job, then maybe this isn't a job worth keeping? Its the same with the women who slept with Weinstein, maybe starring in that lead roll just isn't worth your dignity.
I actually think in both cases, a lot of it is that these women realized that these behaviors would lead to career enhancement as opposed to keeping whatever career they already had, and were more than willing to trade sex for money, power and status (which is a story as old as time).
I also wonder if the person doing the inappropriate behavior towards the drunk women was even sober.
I suspect they figured that Blizzard is finally dead, one could claim that the SJW nonsense and oversensitive new and most likely diversity hires were to blame, but now they can say that it is do to the backlash against boy culture and is toxic masculinity that finally killed it.
Do not let a crisis go to waste.
I trust California Investigators as much as I trust KGB Investigators. All I saw from the documentation is a muddled bunch of “accusations” clearly told from only one perspective, this eliminated this being anything other than a shakedown from California in my opinion. California wants blood from the stone and they will damn sure get it.
Where are you finding them talking about specifics?
I have what someone said was the complaint, and I can't find anything specific other than their "we hate gamers so hire us into a gaming company" and "women should always be paid more and promoted before men" generic stuff.
The layoffs I believe were customer support jobs for destiny after bungie ended their publishing partnership with activision. Some things are also something that sounded like a one time thing that probably happened and got dealt with by he immediately like the drunken cube crawl. Other allegations are next to impossible to prove without it being written down somewhere. there is no way to prove that you were overlooked for promotion because of sex and race. No one admits that they are mediocre or bad at their jobs.
Eh, I've seen how this actually comes about.
1. They imply to women that software dev is where the party is happening.
2. They force the company to hire women.
3. The women show up and are like "where's the party??" and encourage men to start one. Naturally a group of women encouraging men to start a party...what do you think normal men are going to do?
4. Women want to sit back and have the party come to them, then decide if they feel like it that day or not, or want to party with those people or not, so they get the men to come to them in a way they can join or not join depending on however they're feeling that day.
I've heard a phrase "going around creating problems, so you can be called into solve them" that's pretty close to what it looks like they're doing here.
I saw this ryan long video where he talks about "just talking fast enough and constantly switching the subject so eventually you just give in and believe what I say out of exhaustion" and that's what these remind me.
If it's this one:
https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
It's literally a collection of every female-centered manipulation they could find put into one doc.
"anti rape" organizations quickly run out of easy cases and needing to justify their existence they create more and more dubious "studies" and redefinitions because they need to keep claiming they're doing something.
"anti racism" organizations also ran out of real cases and needed to justify their existence, thus the endless broadening of "racism" and fanatical promotion of fake racism incidence.
"anti sexual harrassment" organizations....yada yada yada...
In some EUropean countries there is a crime called 'inciting racial hatred' - because it is well known that people have a tendency to racial hatred.
I believe we should also have a law called 'inciting female hatred' - because women have a massive tendency to see hatred of men in situations where they are actually receiving massive privilege and benefits.
If aliens came to earth and saw that one group of beings lives longer/does less work/retires earlier/spends more/initiates 80% of all divorces/gets affirmative action hiring into jobs they don't even have to study/gets affirmative action into university places despite being the majority....
Then the aliens would clearly see that there is a privilege in being female.
We cannot see it because our journalists are swimming in a pool of 'female hatred'
Blizzard is a converged company that is in the process of being completely hollowed out by its SJW infiltrators - with the help of the communist California state government, of course. No one in this fight is good, and that includes the useful idiot gamers cheering on the radical feminists as they dictate the new industry norms. Sure, California just outlawed high-end gaming computers, but I'm mad about World of Warcraft!
Shit like this is why I gave up on mainstream gaming years ago. These days if it's Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft, I generally just don't touch it. Maybe I'd buy it on a deep sale, but that's about it, and it better be because my friends are also playing it. Titanfall 2 and doom are the only recent(last 3 years) big publisher games ive played.
I don’t know if the letter should be trusted at face value. It’s conveniently positioned so that Activision can have its cake and eat it too. The staff, who we had thought we’re all frat boy rapists just a day before news of this letter starts circulating, are now portrayed as virtuous and blame shifts away from the company’s actual assets and one to a few bad apples. The company is both hero and villain thanks to this convenient letter story that’s getting major traction in spaces we already know are astroturfed to hell. Maybe that’s too much of a conspiracy theory though
These are people who don't even believe in the concept of giving a defence. Your guilt is predetermined by your caste - even if a high-caste did something, it's the fault of "society" - the low-castes.
Buddy, this is REAL. I don't give a shit about the sexual harassment part because at this point I disbelieve any such accusations unless they're made by my own friends that I already trust. But there's a lot more to it than just "muh sexual harassment", A LOT more. And all that stuff has been evident for the longest time now, look at the quality of WoW.
I kinda understand why people wouldn't believe this if they aren't WoW players or former WoW players, but to us, it's obvious what a disaster Blizzard is. Anything that kills it faster is good, especially since they're SJWs (and this sort of abuse is expected from them).
I'm celebrating the death of wow. It hasn't catered to me in over a decade, and has spawned so many bad copycats that it has strangled the genre. Now we might get some forward momentum again as a gap opens up.
I read the complaint, while the allegations in the complaint are bad, at this point that's really all they are, allegations.
That's not to say that California doesn't have evidence to back up these allegations and it's very likely that they do. However, like all lawsuits, there's going to be a discovery period where Blizzard's lawyers can examine the evidence and present their own. Witnesses will likely deposed for testimony and there will likely be pretrial hearings about evidentiary issues, it's possible that some of the evidence won't be admissible because it's hearsay, speculation, etc.
It's possible, hell I'd say probable, that this whole thing ends in a settlement agreement where the State of California and the people who claimed to have been victimized will end up getting an undisclosed amount of money, that Blizzard will be forced to pay some type of fine to the state of California or be required to implement/publish policy changes in order to demonstrate that this type of incident won't happen again.
Or it could be that the allegations against Blizzard can be disputed/disproven and that going to trial is the best option. It could be that Blizzard wins the lawsuit and doesn't have to pay anything.
The thing about most trials/lawsuits is that unless you were there in the courtroom you probably have no idea what is actually going on. But unfortunately news media and social media is full of armchair "legal experts" who do more harm than good.