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And like literally any PR person with any experience at all could have predicted this is exactly what would happen, corporations don't have a ton of rules and boring cultures because the upper execs jerk off over how thick the Employee Handbook is, it's because it's an effective way to manage...

As I've said a number of times DFEH isn't looking to prove specific cases of harassment. Its looking to prove disparate pay, promotions, anti-pregnancy discrimination, and HR practices out of compliance with California law. It doesn't have to prove a single case of harassment to carry the case...

I must have missed the part where anything in the story about Tiggs shows inappropriate corporate behavior? She was told told to do something and refused (insubordination) and was fired. Part of a corporate PR job (which is what a CM is), is messaging the way the corporation tells you to, your...

Man, again--have you never worked in corporate America? Bro I was being told in 2007 when I graduated college "sanitized all social media, get rid of any drinking photos you have on Facebook, don't post on social media from accounts that could link you to your employer." This stuff isn't new...

I don’t really remember anyone saying Afrasiabi raped 60 women over 40+ years by drugging them like Cosby did. You’ve really Clarence Darrowed here refuting that completely unalleged strawman. Some of you guys have never worked in corps and it shows. You absolutely get in trouble for “words” at...

Maybe people shouldn’t be cucks.

Funny thing—the movie Moneyball which was about Billy Beane applying sabermetrics to running the Oakland A’s actually featured Bobby Kotick doing an uncredited cameo as Steve Schott (the A’s owner.)

My corporate bro analysis of the current situation is that the first statement the company put out was circling the wagons, especially around J Allen Brack, who is specifically alleged to have known of various things and done nothing in response. The new statement feels a lot like Bobby Kotick...

The MeToo shit gets all the soy boys, incels and feminazis ramped up so of course it gets more coverage. But yeah a big part of the meat of the filing actually relates to things like the California Equal Pay act violation. Violations of that act tend to be pretty easy to prove since DFEH likely...

The girl who posted the pile on tweet isn't directly linked to the lawsuit, supposedly she had never said anything before her tweets. Afrasiabi was highlighted in the lawsuit for being involved in reportedly a "pattern of reported behaviors, and Blizzard President J. Allan Brack gave him verbal...

For me Shadowlands was already kind of like a last chance for Blizzard to demonstrate that it still had its old chops. The disastrous Diablo Mobile bullshit, lackluster games like Heroes of the Storm, failing at a remaster of Warcraft III (how do you fuck up a remaster?), Battle for Azeroth...

As much as HR is oft-reviled at like every company I've worked at, I do think the most egregious shit like this is no longer very common at "normal" large businesses. HR just has so much power for structuring legal liability mitigation that they tend to have the organizational heft to kind of...

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.