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Ubisoft’s been ignoring reports of sexual harassment and abuse for YEARS. The culprits were not even fired, but given the chance to resign honorably. Meanwhile they claim their games are not political, while also using BLM imagery in their latest game’s trailer while the movement has been exceptionally present in mainstream media the past few months.

Activision-Blizzard has fired over 200 people after a record breaking year in which their new CFO got a starting bonus of 15 million dollars, their CEO makes more than 40 million dollars a year and its staff gets paid so horribly that they can’t even afford lunch in their own cafeteria.

EA’s been recycling the same sports games with the same bugs, glitches and content each year while charging the same price for it. They’re refusing to acknowledge the ultimate team modes in these games as gambling, while the number of stories this year about how many people have gotten addicted to buying FIFA card packs have only been growing.

EA, Activision and 2K are going to charge for upgrades for next-gen if you buy a current-gen copy while Microsoft has created a system on Xbox Series X specifically so that publishers wouldn’t have to charge extra (CDPR is not charging for a next-gen version of CP2077 for example), even though most of the changes will only include performance upgrades. Basically it’s if like you’re playing on PC and they’re charging you for a higher performance setting.

Here's his White House petition. As of August 17, 2020 it has 81,578 signatures out of 100,000. It closes on the 24th.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-pervis-payne

rick famously wont commit to a canon timeline and has everything happen in the unspecified ambiguous present day but he’s been writing this world since 2005 and technology has advanced so far since then that it’s created a very weird dissonance

in 2005 when rick wrote that demigods couldnt have phones it was like, darn, that’s a bummer, oh well! when i read the series in 2011 i still didn’t think it was that big a deal, the fact that our heroes could only sometimes communicate over long distances was convenient for the plot and inconvenient for the characters but it wasn’t like hearing that someone wasn’t allowed to have an arm yet. i didn’t have a phone then, and for years after i got one i didn’t take it with me most places like i do now.

what’s more, phones themselves were so different. i can’t remember if rick actually wrote annabeth or any other characters “flipping” phones closed but that is definitely what i visualized when i read the series in middle school

but now we essentially have to pretend like percy was 16 in 2009 and was 16 until he finally had his birthday in 2018 or whenever and annabeth has a flip phone and everything is happening in the same vague “present day”. like there is no established year, by rick riordan’s own design, but these books are unarguably set in our world and full of pop culture references that reflect the year they were written

just kinda wild to me that percy jackson, if he is a 17 year old in the year 2020 as the recent books suggest, squarely a Gen Z-er if we go by that (..boy do i feel weird realizing that), a kid who probably would have had a snapchat account in fourth grade if he was mortal, who might have stayed up late watching youtube on an old ipod touch as a kid (even though youtube was founded the same year tlt came out)—

it’s just funny that now rick has established that these kids don’t have phones and that technology is too dangerous for them to risk using even though now these books have aged into a world where it’s both deeply implausible that they’d be able to avoid technology to that extent and would also be extremely weird and conspicuous behavior for them to not have phones.

and rick couldnt have known, but also, funny how if he had moved on after writing TLO this just would have amounted to an endearingly dated feature of the original books, if it occurred to anyone at all

Drawing a good boi behind a random citizen’s car