Message from @Shurik
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damn, thats gay
personal experience with it?
If you want to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC, Free) with us, type `!wow`. See ya'll on the realm!
That seems like a poor choice
If you want to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC, Free) with us, type `!wow`. See ya'll on the realm!
Please no
Not that I've played the game in years
But fuck off kotako
kotaku slut
Let's hope they have the same amount of brain as arenanet and tell kotaku and the inevitable flood of other articles to fuck off
interesting read I am curious if it holds water
If you want to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC, Free) with us, type `!wow`. See ya'll on the realm!
riot is a shit company anyways
not as bad as valve
but its up there
"When someone is visually different from you, your brain can trick you to think different things about them based on stereotypes or biases that might just unconsciously appear.” El-Sabaawi says that Riot leadership is also trying to pivot on what they mean when they say “core gamer.” She says she wants to make sure “there’s no PC Master Race bullshit happening here,” referencing the tribalistic term that many hardcore PC gamers have used in order to establish elitism over other types of video game fans. In the 2016 internal talk by a Riot producer, that producer made loud proclamations about the “PC Master Race” to enthusiastic applause."
the fuck
Isn't their game PC only?
Yes
" In job descriptions, hiring leaders removed the word “ninja”—as in “code ninja”—because seniors at Riot believed it might intimidate or deter female candidates."
can you honestly be more patronizing
why in the fuck are they going full retard?
"Riot looks for aggressiveness and passion in potential employees and rewards them during evaluations. “Stay hungry; stay humble,” reads Riot’s manifesto. “We help each other improve by being open and honest, even when it hurts.” What that can look like in practice, over a dozen sources say, is meetings in which the loudest person in the room—usually a man—is the most heard."
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Isn't that par the course in every discipline?
Like on one hand
It would be shitty if massive sexism existed within the company
but at the same time
either stand up or step away
"Another former employee says her majority-male division often derided her when she turned down secretarial work, like adjusting the temperature or changing the office’s appearance, despite her non-secretary job. “I feel like that type of working environment caters to men,” she said. “When I went to a stand-up meeting it’d be a lot of men talking over each other. I knew a lot of women were used to being interrupted or not feeling comfortable talking over men. I didn’t feel like I had the ability to talk over them.” she said. Her more introverted nature made her feel like a doormat at Riot, she said, until the day she quit, in 2016."
"Over a dozen women and three men, across different disciplines at Riot, agreed that women were regularly spoken over by louder, male voices. In an e-mail, a Riot representative said Riot does not “value aggressiveness and extroversion as part of our culture.”"
ya don't think
jesus
at least the ex ceo while being a dirt bag
has some sense
"“A label does not excuse people to behave in an ineffective manner,” Merrill said in a reply to the e-mail chain. “All people need to be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses and learn to overcome the latter.” While managers should help everybody participate in meetings, individuals who struggle to fit into Riot’s meeting culture “shouldn’t be surprised” if managers and teams don’t want to work with them, he said. He continued on to say that many introverts at Riot have overcome the tendency to clam up in meetings and not provide feedback, adding, “The thing to guard against is when someone has the expectation that the world will bend to accommodate their unique situation to an unreasonable degree.”"