It was bad enough on Monday when word got out on Kotaku that embattled Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick was withholding information on the extent of the pro-MRA bullshit in his company (by withholding how many people have been fired from the company since the state of California has sued the gaming giant for sexual harassment and other related matters).
It got a hundred times worse on Tuesday: Bobby Kotick basically all but sitting on a pile of money, flipping off all of the rest of us, saying... "I win."
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced, as a continuing portion of it's initiatives to transform gaming in it's favor over the next number of years, they are buying Activision-Blizzard for upwards of $70,000,000,000, pending regulatory approval.
That this company even exists, rather than having it's corporate headquarters leveled to the ground, is an insult to anything regard "if we had laws in this country".
There is, right now, an entire SECTION of Kotaku articles regarding malfeasance on the part of Activision-Blizzard. Much of it is in relation to this situation with the state of California.
The fact is, and this goes back to stuff through the Overwatch League and other Activision-Blizzard exploits: Gamer Culture is one of the most pro-rape, pro-MRA, anti-woman, bigoted things there is out there.
And now, this company, under lawsuit from the state of California for a massive culture of anti-woman situations, is being sold to Microsoft for SEVENTY... BILLION... DOLLARS.
If that is not the biggest endorsement of the "Grab em all in the pussy" culture of gaming in this country, I don't know what to tell you.
Given her recent comments on G4, I wonder what "Frostkinn" (if I have her game name correct) would think of this -- after her comments regarding how offensive many men are, up to and including jack-off taunts, in the gamer community.
It's clear Microsoft's eventual goal is to be the Highlander -- the one to rule it all.
The problem is, they're acquiring a bigoted, sexist, grooming of minors company which accepts, encourages, and reinforces every negative stereotype of the (especially American) male gamer out there.
I think one of my few hopes is in response to Japanese theory that this could drive a fatal dagger into Sony. Hello... Boycott the XBoxes, everyone???
But the fact is simple: This piece of shit and his piece of shit company have just cashed in (and may well have cashed out) to an unspeakable sum, probably with the direct intention of catering to the Call of Duty/Overwatch/bigot/sexist market.
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