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by jmull 2852 days ago
> ...and very soon, all the people will be exactly the same, bland, smooth, completely passive people.

As opposed to the brave people who dynamically and forcefully sit quietly by as asshats bake offensive rape jokes into company culture?

How can someone who is against being too sensitive argue against criticism, anyway? You should be like, “Fuck Yeah, bring it on!” Instead we get this sniveling whining.
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m3mpp 2852 days ago
Not sure where you're going with that, but anyway. If someone is an ass, confront him, don't quit and go whining on your blog trying to look good, is all I'm saying.
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Apocryphon 2852 days ago
By publicly resigning and publishing why, he's literally confronting them in the most effective way possible.
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humantiy 2852 days ago
>By publicly resigning and publishing why, he's literally confronting them in the most effective way possible.

It wasn't public though. From the post: "I chose to leave quietly in February 2014, and not publicly state why I left."

He didn't say anything until now. If he was confronting it don't you think he should have done so in 2014 instead of almost 5 years later and after Cecilia D’Anastasio’s Kotaku article? This seems more like a means to distance himself from ever working at Riot.

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subjectsigma 2852 days ago
The article states explicitly that he did not publicly resign and only released his story years after. He even tried to go back.
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panzagl 2852 days ago
Not really effective- it's the most confrontational way, and the most divisive, but I doubt it will really change anyone's minds. Instead you'll get zealots from both sides of the issue yelling down any reasonably conciliatory approach as they use it to further their own agendas.
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rectang 2852 days ago
He tried everything he could with the conciliatory approach, but it didn't work. It's time for confrontation.
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Apocryphon 2852 days ago
Public scrutiny will force Riot to address these allegations, at least.
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jmull 2852 days ago
> Not sure where you're going with that

I think I was pretty clear. Don't be so afraid of confrontation that you won't actually parse a difficult response. If there's something you don't understand let me know and I'll explain it to you.

If we believe the OP's story (I don't see why we shouldn't) then the asses were confronted, face-to-face, at the time, were they not?

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