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I think the original genesis of "Believe Victims" was specifically as a pushback against the organizational stance that the default behavior should be "ignore victims and sweep complaints under the rug." I put it akin to what if someone shows up at a police station saying they've been defrauded...

Frankly I don't even think most WoW fans want new content, we want content that actually makes the game fun again. I don't think the core structure of the team has changed so much since Legion that they physically can't produce good content anymore, I think it's more that bad decisions are being...

I don't doubt that an otherwise reasonable employer who just fucked up would make things right. In my experience most employers that really fuck people on back wages are smaller, and often in various states of financial distress. One of the shadiest fucks I ever worked for owned a few...

$20k in back overtime is largely an uncollectable debt. If it was $200k, maybe. Employment lawyers unlike many plaintiffs attorneys generally do not work on contingency, you're going to pay for every hour of trial time and discovery, and then if you win, you're going to probably pay for appeals...

I mean I've done crazy drunken shit in the last year that I 100% guarantee no one has video of, it's almost like in small social gatherings it's easy to tell when someone is shining a video recording iPhone in your face.

I mean so would I, unless it was me and like 1000 other people, then probably not. There's a reason collective action is actually a thing in workplace history.

For what it's worth the 1000 employees didn't sign a letter saying they had all witnessed shit, they said they disagreed with ActivisionBlizzard's official response to the DFEH filing.

I can agree with most of this, but keep in mind the DFEH investigation says there are clear instances of HR being notified and HR not investigating claims, and retaliating against people who made the claims. Those are people who did come forward, and if the claims in the DFEH filing are true...

How did so many priests get away with raping kids for so long? Few factors were present: Hierarchy actively complicit in helping cover cases up. Victims who were generally marginalized in society (the Priests were often targeting lower income kids from broken homes) Government officials...

It’d be highly unusual for government attorneys to just make shit up in their filing documents, unlike plaintiffs attorneys they can face serious career consequences for wasting time/taxpayer money on frivolous cases. My experience is that often times government agencies like this will do...

Generally getting reamed doesn't have to include a trial. If you're on the wrong side of cases like this it's usually borderline legal malpractice to even take it to trial.

The only bit of mitigation I can give him is among a lot of devout Muslims it's actually felt you should know Arabic (to read the Quran in its original language) regardless of what the native language is where you grew up. That being said Iranian identity and the fact it practices a sect of...

It's almost like it's such a fucked up company that the state of California is suing them, after a two year investigation (and one most companies would have agreed to settle w/DFEH to avoid this publicity), including claims from their investigators that: All the incel mouthbreathing in this...

This feels like the same logic that was used to cover up priests raping kids for like 100 years.

The Maw expanded over time and had a decent amount of stuff in it. I also think individual zones have a lot more content now. Going back to Legion or so the model has been 4-5 zones but much more content packed. Like Suramar in Legion probably took longer to get 100% quest completion in than...

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.

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...

Not to at all detract from sexual harassment bullshit which needs addressed and idiots need/deserve to be fired, but the last story reminded me of this scene from Seinfeld:

I used to go to business conferences with marketing/sales teams, never once saw anyone (drunk or otherwise) attempt to grope/kiss etc female coworkers. Consensual hook ups happened here and there, but those people even kept their handsy shit to their hotel rooms, work isn't a frat house.

Some of these stories are funny, I've worked in Fortune 500 America my whole life, never once heard a rape joke at work, and have 0 doubt if I made one I'd be walked out the moment HR heard about it.

I’m sure someone has it but Prathun eventually years later just posted the AC script in SK. It’s something like a 10% spawn chance and iirc the PH is usually a desert madman and I think it can only spawn the AC in certain hour ranges. Someone probably has a copy of the script that Prathun posted.

Yeah, this stuff was done with autoclickers, lot of in game time, but minimal "at keyboard" time. As someone who didn't care to try and cheese the Kunark levels I was frankly a little amused when Daybreak slapped down on them.

I didn't record any rigorous data, but I went through the GoD launch and DoDH launches on both Lockjaw and Selo, and I think they were around like a 10-15% exp jump, they aren't huge. Another wrinkle in quest exp by the way was the change in stacking tradeskill items to 1000. Agnarr launched I...

I was actually bored during the downtime and tested Red Wine on test. 3 40 slot bags of Red Wine = 120,000 red wine, cost around 7200p on a level 1 Dark Elf Wizard. On Test Server turning all of those in got me to level 24.4. This took about 25 minutes doing all the purchasing and turning in...

On a live server red wine gets you to the low 20s in like 3-4 minutes. He slows down precipitously after that, I haven't tested it on a TLP but it would be slower there. Red wine is definitely less XP per rat ear (probably 1/10th) and costs more, but because this stuff stacks to 1000 and you can...

I would argue Luclin is self-contained, you can start off at level 1 and get to 60 without ever leaving the Moon, but TSS was the first full relaunch of the level 1 player experience with follow on zones that would take you all the way to 75.

Paladins only worship good Gods, since Dark Elf Clerics can only worship Innoruuk it would not make sense.

When talking about a hybrid class, when a race already has the two base classes it always seems logical. You can have GNM WAR and CLR so GNM SHD is logical. You can have HLF WAR and DRU, so HFL RNG is logical.

Right, I mostly am not a huge fan of the art style of later EQ, but there are a few exceptions that I think are good. I think they actually did really good with the zone revamps in EoK and RoS, and I think the RoF and Underfoot zones are all really well done. But I also really dislike when old...

Most of what he's suggesting would just be enabling already complete features onto TLPs. Offline Trader I'm suspiciously certain is a thing because it is a revenue generator. I believe to go into Offline Trader mode you need to be a Gold Status account, so they derive revenue from all the bazaar...

What about having sex?

The only revamp zone that slightly bothers me at all is Freeport, and that's just because it made the city too big and tedious to move around in. I frankly don't see any real issue with any of the other revamp zones. I have zero real emotional attachment to those mostly empty and boring old EQ...

There's a lot of later era EQ players, the EG7 release didn't give us much of a server by server idea but we've been told revenue between TLP is and live is about even. The average live player I know is much more likely to sub 4-6 accounts, all paid via credit card, and is much more likely to...

Agnarr is actually relatively decent as a long term server, long term so far, every TLP to make it past Underfoot has experienced massive population die off. Phinny and Selo basically finished with 1 guild or so. Fippy died before reaching the end in COTF. Coirnav is in a rough spot from all I...

I'm a little surprised that triggered mob isn't * since it was one of the more common Epic mobs stolen on previous servers. I generally won't turn a crown in if I see anyone in that little area because of the historic troubles. I'm kinda curious if that's the same Sakura who was in Faceless...

They well could be, I don't know about it for sure though, I just know for sure 70+. I think Monks and Rogues do a lot more of their damage from auto attacks earlier on which is why I'm not sure.

Warrior passive dps isn't amazing at the moment but they are basically the best auto attack DPS in the game level 70+, and get stronger at that over time. Even at 115 they lack a lot of dps cooldowns and active use dps abilities which is why their burn DPS is usually weak, but with the right...

Me / Frank / Reese got an SWC to drop while leveling boxes in Kennels, dropped off the Kennelmaster. Frank ninja looted it. :confused:

I like that I see a guild called "No Cuks Given" in the background.

Truebox is complete trash to be frank, it's one reason why I largely told myself I was done doing "serious" TLP after Agnarr, and I broke that vow for Selo basically because it was a very unique opportunity, outside of that I've basically only touched TLPs very casually. The core issue with...