According to over a dozen current and former employees, Life Is Strange developer Deck Nine’s management has long let a toxic work culture fester at the studio, including protecting multiple abusive leaders, encouraging crunch, and allowing bullying of individuals advocating internally for more authentic representation.
  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    How is it that gaming as both an industry and as a hobby so consistently manages to attract the worst people you can imagine?

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s an escapist thing. People just trying to escape the reality of their lives.

      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I definitely play games for the escapism (have you fucking seen this shit that’s going on?) but I manage to not be a bigoted conservative sociopath just fine. I don’t think that’s the cause

        • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          You know there are mods to remove/replace all the pride flags around the map in Spider-Man (2018)?

          • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I didn’t but that does not surprise me at all. Apparently reich-wing chuds even made a mod to remove the ability to choose “they” as a pronoun in Starfield – I guess the fragile little flowers felt that they were being forced to accept the existence of us queers?