This is mentioned in the article early on, but just as a reminder to people: this is not about Dontnod, the developers of LiS, LiS2, and Tell Me Why, but the company who took the series over after...
This is mentioned in the article early on, but just as a reminder to people: this is not about Dontnod, the developers of LiS, LiS2, and Tell Me Why, but the company who took the series over after them.
That was...a read. Garriss seems like he's in that anti-social/sociopathic territory. Super charismatic, knows just what to say and always has an answer ready meanwhile he's highly manipulative,...
That was...a read. Garriss seems like he's in that anti-social/sociopathic territory. Super charismatic, knows just what to say and always has an answer ready meanwhile he's highly manipulative, coercive and predatory.
Management did the typical shit that all C suites tend to do.
Also I don't buy for one second that whoever was inserting the "memes" into the game assets was doing it unintentionally. Especially since they hired a legal investigations group after nothing was found and it was deemed internally to be "unintentional". They got caught and started to cover their asses legally.
Shame about it all. Not my type of games but I know a bunch of people who those games meant something to. Glad to see the games aren't tainted but the studio seems fucked.
Sometimes I feel like I should remove the 88 from my main email account that I made as a kid... Then I realized it was just a number I liked, and Hitler can go fuck himself. So help me, I WILL...
Sometimes I feel like I should remove the 88 from my main email account that I made as a kid... Then I realized it was just a number I liked, and Hitler can go fuck himself.
For what it's worth, if I saw 88 in someone's email address, my first thought would not be This person is a Nazi, it would be This person was born in 1988. So unless your correspondence for some...
For what it's worth, if I saw 88 in someone's email address, my first thought would not be This person is a Nazi, it would be This person was born in 1988. So unless your correspondence for some reason makes someone suspicious that you're a Nazi, I think you're probably okay
I tend to agree; I'm of an age such that when I see numbers in one's email account, I figure they're either birthdate numbers (year, month, day, whatever) lucky numbers, or what not. Having...
I tend to agree; I'm of an age such that when I see numbers in one's email account, I figure they're either birthdate numbers (year, month, day, whatever) lucky numbers, or what not.
Having experienced the last several years in American culture, though, combined with my podcast diet (Behind the Bastards, Knowledge Fight, etc) ... I now also have a keen eye for when the numbers 14 and 88 show up, particularly when they show up together. It's kind of a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon situation - when you know that certain numbers/phrases have a particular meaning, you do start to see it everywhere.
I was never worried about my email until the last few years - in fact, I didn't even know the significance of the number until then. Now it seems like everyone is on a crusade against the number...
I was never worried about my email until the last few years - in fact, I didn't even know the significance of the number until then. Now it seems like everyone is on a crusade against the number 88 (which is fair I guess, if people are using it as a dog whistle), and I am going to get cancelled because I used to be a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Replacing a ~14 year old email is not a straightforward process unfortunately. And I've used the same alias in so many places... damn nazis always have to ruin everything.
One thing you could do is make a new email address and set your original email address to forward everything to your new one. I don't think people would assume your email is an endorsement of...
One thing you could do is make a new email address and set your original email address to forward everything to your new one. I don't think people would assume your email is an endorsement of nazis though.
I mean ... you probably won't. And in the meantime you run the risk of being mistaken for a Nazi. You're not wrong to want to resist having a number important to you co-opted by Nazis, but the...
So help me, I WILL reclaim these digits.
I mean ... you probably won't. And in the meantime you run the risk of being mistaken for a Nazi.
You're not wrong to want to resist having a number important to you co-opted by Nazis, but the fact of the matter is, that association is there; it's your choice as to how close to it you wish to be.
I say this as someone who enjoyed having a bald-shaved head for a stretch in college, only to be mistaken for a skinhead. Sure, I liked the look and feel of my bald head, but it put out wrong signals - haven't been bald since.
Skinheads are still a broad-spectrum group (depending on where in the world you are), the neo-nazis haven't fully taken over. There's people who are just in it for the music (traditional...
Skinheads are still a broad-spectrum group (depending on where in the world you are), the neo-nazis haven't fully taken over. There's people who are just in it for the music (traditional skinheads) and SHARP (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice) has been active since 1987.
Given the context of where I was when this interaction happened (doing security for The Wailers at a college concert), the implication was that I was assumed to be a neo-Nazi.
Given the context of where I was when this interaction happened (doing security for The Wailers at a college concert), the implication was that I was assumed to be a neo-Nazi.
This is mentioned in the article early on, but just as a reminder to people: this is not about Dontnod, the developers of LiS, LiS2, and Tell Me Why, but the company who took the series over after them.
That was...a read. Garriss seems like he's in that anti-social/sociopathic territory. Super charismatic, knows just what to say and always has an answer ready meanwhile he's highly manipulative, coercive and predatory.
Management did the typical shit that all C suites tend to do.
Also I don't buy for one second that whoever was inserting the "memes" into the game assets was doing it unintentionally. Especially since they hired a legal investigations group after nothing was found and it was deemed internally to be "unintentional". They got caught and started to cover their asses legally.
Shame about it all. Not my type of games but I know a bunch of people who those games meant something to. Glad to see the games aren't tainted but the studio seems fucked.
Sometimes I feel like I should remove the 88 from my main email account that I made as a kid... Then I realized it was just a number I liked, and Hitler can go fuck himself.
So help me, I WILL reclaim these digits.
For what it's worth, if I saw 88 in someone's email address, my first thought would not be This person is a Nazi, it would be This person was born in 1988. So unless your correspondence for some reason makes someone suspicious that you're a Nazi, I think you're probably okay
I tend to agree; I'm of an age such that when I see numbers in one's email account, I figure they're either birthdate numbers (year, month, day, whatever) lucky numbers, or what not.
Having experienced the last several years in American culture, though, combined with my podcast diet (Behind the Bastards, Knowledge Fight, etc) ... I now also have a keen eye for when the numbers 14 and 88 show up, particularly when they show up together. It's kind of a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon situation - when you know that certain numbers/phrases have a particular meaning, you do start to see it everywhere.
I was never worried about my email until the last few years - in fact, I didn't even know the significance of the number until then. Now it seems like everyone is on a crusade against the number 88 (which is fair I guess, if people are using it as a dog whistle), and I am going to get cancelled because I used to be a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Replacing a ~14 year old email is not a straightforward process unfortunately. And I've used the same alias in so many places... damn nazis always have to ruin everything.
One thing you could do is make a new email address and set your original email address to forward everything to your new one. I don't think people would assume your email is an endorsement of nazis though.
That, or reader of an aviation manga or player of the subsequent video game.
I mean ... you probably won't. And in the meantime you run the risk of being mistaken for a Nazi.
You're not wrong to want to resist having a number important to you co-opted by Nazis, but the fact of the matter is, that association is there; it's your choice as to how close to it you wish to be.
I say this as someone who enjoyed having a bald-shaved head for a stretch in college, only to be mistaken for a skinhead. Sure, I liked the look and feel of my bald head, but it put out wrong signals - haven't been bald since.
Skinheads are still a broad-spectrum group (depending on where in the world you are), the neo-nazis haven't fully taken over. There's people who are just in it for the music (traditional skinheads) and SHARP (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice) has been active since 1987.
Given the context of where I was when this interaction happened (doing security for The Wailers at a college concert), the implication was that I was assumed to be a neo-Nazi.
That sucks, a reggae concert is exactly the kind of place I'd assume a skinhead isn't the right-wing variety.