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I hope you guys understand that society does change when enough people stand up against abuse. You don't have to just accept it as the cost of being online.

Probably because there's no real harm in it. You get to vent, I get the laughs. All's good. Ah the old stick and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. Yeah, that's not really a thing. There is literally piles of research and evidence stacked up against that old idiom.

I received at least a few death threats (among a great many other kind of threats, such as promises to do horrible things to my mother) just this last week, with a couple of them being particularly gruesome in how I was to meet my demise. My reaction ranged from 'oh yay, another zit popping twit' to laughing out loud in amusement. I am sorry that you have to deal with that type of vitriol. Hopefully you do not have to do business with such toxic people. edit: How is that an acceptable way to interact with people?

It is actually the only action Steam took. They didn't publicly shame him, they didn't tell the developer to get rid of him, and they didn't get law enforcement involved. They distanced themselves from his company. Seems pretty tame, honestly.

Trashman, unless you live in the Big Brother house, it's really not comparable to Twitter. No need to make bad analogies. Twitter is a social media platform. There are public and protected tweets. His were very much public.

I think I already said this, but if Gabe Newell decided to press charges, he would be well within his rights, and we should all expect that law enforcement would take such a threat seriously. Do you really want them to ignore death threats just because they are made on twitter? Their investigation would probably show that the threat was not serious in any way, but it would be on record, which is important if this individual ever did follow through on one of his outbursts. The police are supposed to err on the side of caution in these situations. Their job is to serve and protect. I fail to see how it serves us if they make a habit of ignoring death threats.

I'd have no problem with people signing it, or Steam putting the game back up. The guy stepped down and apologized. I'm not sure he learned anything, but his partner issued a very well written apology and seems to be approaching the situation with humility and intelligence.

Life is not fair. I'm used to saying that to my kids, and pretty much emphasis it as I teach History to 7th graders, but I am surprised it would come up here with all us adults having adult conversations. Don't count on life to be fair. Protect yourself and expect the worst. It should probably be brought up that this guy was on a two-man team. With a larger company, Steam may handle it differently. http://codeavarice.com/

I think forums are more like the muck filled trenches.

I've always been more under the impression that organic implies a lack of pesticide use, compared to your typical crops in fields. Of course the trade off is you might get a few bugs in your artichoke.

I've gotta agree with everything Drowsy Boo says (good to see you posting.) I would say it's a decent little expansion, but not worth the full price.

It's true, I felt bad posting it, but I was dying to know.

It's weird, but a lot of people don't really get how good the Giants are offensively now. They won it in 2010 based almost completely on pitching. They basically needed 3 runs to win any game that year, even 2 would do it sometimes. Then in 2012 they were a bit better with the bats, but still had multiple aces. Now they are a hitting team, the lineup when healthy is going to give pitchers trouble. That's good, because their pitching is more suspect.

Well it isn't over yet. But yeah, the Giants have been winning because they pressure teams into making mistakes. Not only are the Royals playing with enough confidence that they aren't making them, they are starting to force the Giants into mistakes. But I'm not going to count them out, I did that twice in 2012.

Dental bits get me every time.

Doesn't matter that it was on-line. What if the man was walking on the street complaining to his buddies and the boss was sitting in a caffe? Doesn't matter how the boss found out, now does it? Either way, no harm done to the boss. No harm done to ANYONE. Except for the other poor people working on the game that now suffer. I consider such thing petty. If your boss overhears you complaining about him, then yes, your job may be forfeit. That is how the real world works. There are consequences to throwing temper tantrums. Out of curiosity, how old are you Trashman? My guess would be about 18. Many of us here are about twice your age, and have worked in numerous industries. We are all saying the same thing, so maybe take it to heart and stop trying to make excuses for this developer's ridiculous behavior.

Is it really hard to go through life without saying your going to kill people online? Regardless of the intention, it seems like a pretty easy thing to avoid.

Not putting death threats up about your boss is hardly an impossible standard to meet. That is a pretty low bar to clear.

I suppose I wan't clear enough, because I agree with you. Our society is more tolerant in general, which is wondrous, and we have all these amazing ways to communicate and express ourselves to a wider audience. So yes, as Volo says, the world is much better than the old days. But we are sharing this amazing platform with a lot of stupid people, and they are really thriving on Twitter, and they are getting a lot of their own reality shows.

I hope Mattingly keeps his job, he is not a great manager and I like watching Bochy outsmart him.

This is the problem with raising kids with little understanding of real world consequences. There is a huge lack of common sense here. You should assume everything you put on the internet can come back to bite you in the butt. I spent my entire career being very aware of the fact that my job is at risk if I do something rash and emotional. Every adult should be aware of that.

Ha, our society is way more tolerant of stupidity than it used to be. Accountability is a rare thing, it is refreshing to see someone deal with actual consequences to moronic actions.

I'm super impressed that Anita Sarkeesian makes money doing what she does. It's bloody genius.

The worlds are pretty neat. The science tree is also off the hook. I don't regret my purchase, but yes, I can see the Civ V expansion talk.