Video games are often assumed to have an even playing field, but they facilitate skill transfer from game to game, allowing certain players a built-in advantage.The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games identifies deep-seated challenges in the culture of video games--but all is not lost. As Paul...
However, the vast majority of women never reach the professional level, which could be attributed to the toxic gaming community. Anyone who has ever played a multiplayer online game knows that toxic comments, trolling, and cyberbullying are commonplace. This phenomenon has been a problem in the ...
There are some people in life that you meet, get on with, hang around with, and drift away from, left with a few objects and a few memories, to moulder or fade away. There are others who cause you to realise, years later, that you’re not at all the same person that you were w...
Sometimes, people who seem uptight are really just awkward or misunderstood, and Squidward Tentacles of "SpongeBob SquarePants" is a perfect example. He's depicted as constantly put-upon, but a closer look reveals that he may actually be the best character in the series. Although he's always ...
”coming in October co-written with Rob Hart; a Bruno/“Encanto” novel prequel from Disney Books;“Nightmares and Sueños”in December; a Spider-Verse prose anthology in October; and lots of comic book work, including Spider-Society from Marvel, Dick Tracy and a few things that are...
Why are so many apps adopting the same look? How Boris Johnson's premiership collapsed on Twitter Musk may be taking a page out of rivalMark Zuckerberg's book by trying to change what for many has become a poisoned brand. But even in his desperation to distract ...
“If you take a young person and put them into a dirty plaster room, you're not going to engage that person,” said Ashley. “They don't want to work in messy, toxic environments. They want to produce nice work in a clean environment, working normal hours. Digital really helps us do...
and played in the final beta. My encounters at launch with toxic players drove me away after about 2weeks. I didn't know what I was doing, as a console gamer I found the m/kb controls annoying, and I just wasn't having fun. But after watching all the class stories on YouTube, I...
It’s a bigger ask, but those people do in fact have a lot to do with your reputation for new adopters. If they had worked to keep more types of players, we wouldn’t be having these back and forths to nearly the degree we are. Massive wall, sorry about that. 1 Like Veszerin...
Walking away from toxic people is not a failure. Outstanding leaders don’t create followers Instead, they develop other leaders who inspire greatness in those around them. This year, I started paying attention to those who lead and inspire versus those who merely execute well. ...