She wasn't glad he was dead. She was glad he couldn't hurt people anymore.
He was not even mansplaining. Do you understand what the context of their twitter exchange was?
The person wanted to explain branching dialogue to an experienced game dev - coating it in politeness doesn't change the fact the person was trying to explain her job to her, something female devs especially have to deal with all the time. I don't know about you, but I've had to deal with people with no experience trying to tell me about my field of expertise before and it is rude. Full Stop. You wouldn't go to a mechanic and tell them how to fix a car cus you like cars, you wouldn't go to a doctor and tell them how to cure people cus you read a few articles, and you wouldn't tell a chef how to cook cus you like food. So the dev was a bit rude in response, but just cus the original commentater was polite in tone, didn't mean the message was actually polite.
The fact her colleague was also fired for being verbally supportive of her in this instance illustrates how she was absolutely not fired for being on thin ice, unless he was also making similar comments in the past.
The 'people defending this are terrible' part was not aimed at you, but at some people in this thread. Just used your comment as a jumping off point, but I can see how it could be interpreted differently, sorry.
So that was manplaing? how does one ask a question or talk about something or explain a personal viewpoint. Without it being constructed into manplaining? because that term gets abused and is used as a blanket term to stop discussions.
She said she was glad he couldn't hurt people anymore.
Weak as in what? It's a professional work world, if you act like an ass, you get the boot. Especially towards paying customers or potential paying customers, who mind you, did nothing wrong.
This.
This is bullshit, considering we have threads where we high five each other over Hideki Kamiya trashing people bugging him on twitter.
Honestly my second impression of the situation was that Arena was looking for any reason to fire her because most people would get a slap on the wrist like a public scolding for this. If she has a problem filtering her statements after a guy recently passed her filter at work could be lacking as well even if not as extreme as expressing happiness over a celebrity with an overbearing ego passing away.
I agree. You shouldn't go to people of trade skills with more experience and tell them what to do.
Might depend on who they insult and what the context was. That the guy who made the polite tweets is a big name in GW2 community sure doesn't help.
You can be happy that somebody isn't able to cause shit anymore without being happy that they are dead.
So she's jaded from the jump and can't take criticism? so it's okay to be rude? when the optics look like your attacking someone and calling them names. When they didn't all. I mean do you think other devs don't get those type of questions? did you see them response that way? fan bases almost always think some thing thing could be better and at least this time it wasn't "fuck you, you suck" or "your a lazy developer".
I mean the Youtuber brought it to reddit and encouraged a pile on, when they could have just brought it to management if they really had that big an issue. Also explainig branching dialogue to an experience narrative designer is ridiculous,
Did he really? May I ask to see the reddit thread where he asked to pile on?
This sums up the whole situation perfectly.
It's not that ridiculous at all, it's like explaining their point of view on it. No matter how experienced, doesn't mean your a untouchable god.
