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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 away with this stuff speaks to a pervasive culture of mismanagement.

Sieger said:

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 away with this stuff speaks to a pervasive culture of mismanagement.

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There's probably a correlation between them being man-children working in the gaming industry and this irresponsible behavior. It's almost as if when you take incel nerds and put them to work in a place because they're so imaginative and creative compared to the Chads and Working Joes, and then you give them a tiny bit of power, they get delusions of grandeur and start groping Nancy from accounting because they have jock envy from back in high school when they stopped evolving mentally.

Alex seems to be exactly the type of person that turns into a huge asshole whenever offered a modicum of authority, based on feedback from people here that interacted with him on a regular basis in game or in real life. It happened in guildchat, it happened on his website's front page with his insults and "threats" to the devs as soon as he got a tall enough soapbox to be paid attention to, and it happened at Blizzard once he saw himself as the next Metzen-level rockstar of Blizzard.

And the other Blizznerds or other gaming companies with similar issues all share the same kind of background, a lot of repressed frustration that just unleashes when they think they can get away with it.

It only gets worse when you keep seeing it happening around you in your work environment, because it not only convinces some victims that it is normal behavior, but also enables some perpetrators that wouldn't have dared in a more "normal" company but since Alex is doing it I guess I can grope Nancy too, she won't mind.

Araysar said:

One thing I noticed is that almost every witness recollection of Furor mentions how he begs them to get married to him

He comes across as so desperate.

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Lori was a hooker when they met. You have to be wired differently to not only bang a hooker, but shack up with her for years afterward.

I know you're jesting, but it's probably kind of hard to pull the devout muslim card when half of your 9500 employee company has seen you shitfaced at multiple events I guess.

Masakari said:

You're a cool guy Elidroth, we are lucky to have you.

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Nah.. I'm not that cool. I've just moved on from the high school locker room bullshit that's pervasive in game dev and don't give a fuck if I step on toes.

BoozeCube said:

All Alex needs to do is point out that this is the culture normal back in Iran and that he is a devout Muslim being persecuted. The number of bluehairs that would back track and apologize for their intolerance would make everyones head spin.

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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.

Sieger said:

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.

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Note that Kevin Spacey's second defense worked great, everyone that was sueing him is dead.

Fucker said:

Lori was a hooker when they met.

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First time I've ever heard this and seems seriously doubtful.

Gavinmad said:

First time I've ever heard this and seems seriously doubtful.

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It is known.

BoozeCube said:

Muslims are allowed to deceive non-Muslims through "al Taqiyya" to avoid persecution. So technically according to his religion he's allowed to get piss faced drunk around infidels if his goal is to deceive them for the good of Allah.

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Right but that's when you're trying to infiltrate their civilization to destroy it, not infiltrate Blue-Hair Vaxx's pants.

Pretty sure that's go straight to jail, do not pass go, and don't collect your 72 virgins.

Gavinmad said:

First time I've ever heard this and seems seriously doubtful.

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The man himself said so in chat.

Fucker said:

The man himself said so in chat.

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Citation? Cause I never heard a whiff of this when the news of Tri-State Tori first broke and people were posting every single little scrap of info they could dig up.

If Blizzard falls, it'll be Pantheon's chance to rise!