An Elder Scrolls Online Developer Was Allegedly Denied Health Coverage for Being Trans
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Faren was allegedly gaslit, deadnamed, and denied coverage for gender-affirming care while at the company...

Yes, I have played Bethesda games for decades, going all the way back to Elder Scrolls 1: Arena.

Yes, I play Elder Scrolls Online even to this day, though I am now reconsidering that.

That does not and should not have any consequence whatsoever when it comes to my, or anyone else's, opinion when it comes to how fucked up Bethesda/Zenimax are as corporations, and the corporate ownership at Microsoft for that matter.

My interest in Starfield has diminished significantly and the hype wave is already putting me off. Yes, it's only one individual's story and not the first from the company, but I'm not reddit-logo enough to LARP as a perfect logical machine that only does perfectly Rational(tm) calculations regarding whether I should care about something or not.

I expect Hexbear to have a lot of "let people enjoy things" discourse about Starfield in the upcoming weeks and months, and a lot of it will ride on the "everyone does these bad things in game development" thought terminating cliche that primarily serves as a palate cleanser so the consumer can avoid feeling as much guilt or disgust for what they're now consuming.

Fuck that.

And fuck that corporate empire.

  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    someone made a thread about it on the ESO forums, it's funny to see some users jump in to preemptively defend the company like 'what if they really got fired for something else' and also ask for the thread to be closed

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/638703/so-does-zenimax-studios-have-an-explanation-for-this/p1

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      As a paying employer, it is well within your right to want employees that aren’t constantly creating their own schedule due to an elective surgery, or process.

      Which doubles back to the point I was making.

      The reason they were fired encouraged to resign had nothing to do with their transition, and everything to do with how their work ethic was being impacted.

      Tyrant Tim

      ONE DAY THE LICKS WILL BE COUNTED AND TYRANT TIM WILL WEAR THE BOOT! bootlicker soypoint-2

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        As a paying employer, it is well within your right to want employees that aren’t constantly creating their own schedule due to an elective surgery, or process.

        Literally the misogynist argument for underpaying or even refusing to hire women due to the "risk" of them getting pregnant.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          You're well within your rights to want anything. What an employer prefers isn't always what they get, same with everything else in life.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Treatbrain is an advanced case of brainworms that will say anything, believe anything, just so they can try to not feel even slightly bad when consuming a product.