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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It was based on the belief that Mortal Kombat artists could easily "take their talent elsewhere" and therefore it was cool and good to obligate them to watch psychologically traumatic videos to feed the hogs with greater authenticity. When I refused to budge that worker abuse was worker abuse, that's where the frothingfash came out, and immediately after that, crybully whining about how I was uncivil because I refused to acknowledge his oh so very wise point that the artists were supposedly so coddled and pampered that they could easily find work anywhere else but chose to stay.

    I used to enjoy Mortal Kombat when the fatalities were silly and over the top and even campy. When it became "realistic" hog feeding I lost all interest.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        They still post regularly and frankly I wonder why they weren't banned after that. Even their avatar is freeze-gamer associated in the worst way, so that checks out too.