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another whistleblower has come forward
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from Obsidian Entertainment providing me
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with some actual
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screenshots of internal dialogue and
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conversations from Matt Hansen and these
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screenshots that have been provided to
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me completely expose not just the toxic
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environment of Obsidian Entertainment
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currently but how Matt Hansen himself is
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actively encouraging it and making it
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worse what's going on guys welcome to
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another episode of Smash JT this is now
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the third different person associated
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with Obsidian Entertainment reaching out
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to me like a one-off would be like oh
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wow okay we got a whistleblower here
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this is becoming like almost a daily
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Trend where someone who works at
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obsidian has had enough of the BS that
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they've been shoving down everyone's
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throat and they want change to
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happen JT hit that subscribe give me a
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like and check out smash j.com for the
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full and extremely exhaustive article
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going through not just these screenshots
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but additional information I've been
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told from other whistleblowers about
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Matt Hansen and his job security
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situation going on at obsidian right now
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because this is getting insane a
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whistleblower with internal information
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from Obsidian Entertainment has come
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forward with shocking screenshots and
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slack messages from Matt Hansen
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completely exposing the company's
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internal toxic culture this Brave
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individual reached out to me with a
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burner email to protect their identity
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fearing that once again of course severe
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backlash for daring to expose the truth
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would soon follow if their name got out
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there and it's a trend we're seeing not
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just at Obsidian Entertainment but the
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video game industry at large has turned
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into this cult-like mentality of
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blackballing anybody who D speak out
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against the ideology the message the
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information they've shared with me is
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honestly pretty troubling not just for
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Matt Hansen but the entire environment
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that's been created over the past few
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years at Obsidian Entertainment and it
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paints a very Grim picture of what life
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is like now at at one time one of the
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industry's most beloved game development
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Studios as with all my coverage with the
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video game industry this Insight I'm
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providing in this video is for
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informational purposes only please do
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not reach out contact or in any way
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shape or form harass any of the people
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I'm going to be naming in this video the
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best way for us to fight back against
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the broken ideology is to Simply shine a
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light on it and let nature run its
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course naturally on this it's the only
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way it's the best way it's the right way
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I've been sent a series of slack
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messages from obsidian internal
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Communications revealing a hostile and
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very toxic work environment led by none
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other than Matt Hansen obsidian's art
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director someone who I've talked about
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in great detail in multiple videos
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previously he oversees many employees at
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obsidian and by all accounts fostered an
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awful atmosphere where ideological
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Conformity is not just encouraged but
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demanded and if you step out of line or
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dare question it you're the next person
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on the chopping block the internal slack
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messages reveal a disturbing trend of
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certain employees at obsidian banding
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together to ridicule and berate not just
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Elon Musk but also going at grum on
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Twitter these people have grum's
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derangement syndrome and musk
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derangement syndrome they cannot stand
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people on the other side of their
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ideologies and with some of the things
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that are said here publicly on the slack
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internally at obsidian is pretty sketch
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schah Alvarez shared the photo that many
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people have already scene where Elon
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Musk was pointing out how pronouns were
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in this role playing game and how
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pronouns have no place in role playing
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and instead of them talking about this
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and trying to maybe put their heads
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together and re-evaluate what the gamers
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want they are celebrating it internally
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on their slack Channel where schah
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Alvarez says we've done it clapping
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clapping clapping sharing the image of
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Elon Musk pointed out how there's
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pronouns and then follows it up with let
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me know if this is too political and
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I'll delete it just thought it was funny
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getting a shout out from the man himself
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and honestly taking a step back here
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sure it was out of line to share this
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but at least schah was like Hey if this
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is too political I'll take it off the
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slack because honestly they realized
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it's probably pretty unprofessional to
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share this and talk like this they're
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just trying to own the chuds and can't
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help but celebrate it but this goes to
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the toxic culture that's been created
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there because Justin bull replies with
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this is a badge of honor we did well and
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everybody's celebrating it with Emojis
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and replying and you notice a trend with
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all of these people I'm sharing for the
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most part include pronouns after their
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name it's pretty curious that the odds
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of all these people have pronouns and
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they just happen to all work together or
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have they cultivated this environment
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making sure that people have gotten
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through the process and that's one of
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the steps you have to pass you share
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pronouns and then you're accepted into
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this cult Daniel Chamberlain replied
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with I've never been more proud and Jay
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Turner said hey everyone pack it up we
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lost grumos think about this for a
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second this is an internal slack
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conversation and this is what these
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people think about instead of focusing
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on making a great game they're looking
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at how do we take down Elon Musk and own
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the chuds and and make grum look bad and
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like this is this how they're
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approaching their work where did we go
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wrong and Rosenberg said LOL this was
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literally my suggestion bug to add
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pronouns to the menu I do this and then
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followed up with I kept forgetting what
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pronouns we picked for our QA saves and
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wanted to make sure our gender dialogue
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was picking the right pronouns which
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coming from someone who was a former QA
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tester I can speak to this and say okay
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I might be able to understand and grasp
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at that stage of the game but keeping
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them in after you've done all the QA
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goes to show that you really don't need
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the pronouns in there it was something
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for the testing potentially required but
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putting them in and leaving them there
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is just giv people who don't want them a
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giant Fu Olivia Burkhead shared the
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photo of triggering conservative
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snowflakes is so hot right now and Matt
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Hansen comes in and you would think this
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is when a leader at a company would say
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all right guys you know having some fun
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okay let's bring it back to work let's
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focus back on what we're doing here we
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had our little Jokes Aside with this and
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we're good with it but okay let's focus
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on the game right no of course not this
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is Matt Hansen this rules I am fully
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giddy over it good going everybody and
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people clicking the evil Patrick looking
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over someone Emoji for people agreeing
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with him this is how a leader cultivates
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an extremely toxic work environment by
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being very negative about things that
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honestly on the whole most Gamers would
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say hey we're kind of on the side with
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Grumps we kind of agree with Elon and
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even the people who don't many people
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just want a good game it's not about us
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versus them and this that the other
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thing it's just make a good game at the
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end of the day and it goes to show just
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how in their heads we are by daring to
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want good video games Bray seal replied
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with stupid will be stupid but I'll
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never get over how insane of a hill
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pronouns are to die on like if you have
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to pretend it's not an effing backbone
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of language SL grammar and then argue
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what you shouldn't be able to choose
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what people effing call you in a
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roleplaying game and I'm like
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bro no that's not what pronouns are for
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that's not how they work you're using
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pronouns as titles not pronouns that's
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the problem how do you not see the
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difference here well they're a she they
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so I think that would probably explain
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why they're so loopy with their thinking
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Matt Hansen replied he is not a bright
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man about Elon Musk okay
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so the richest man in the world or at
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least one of the richest men in the
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entire world who has run an electric car
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company runs a social media company runs
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a robotic company an AI company and has
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his hands in a lot of different areas of
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everything of society and is trying to
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push Society further go to Mars create
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SpaceX like this guy has done more
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things this far in his life than half of
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humanity combined together up to this
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point but yeah sure you can just say
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Elon Musk he's just he's just an idiot
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uh I I just I just think he's really
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dumb when in reality the fact is Matt
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you are jealous of Elon musk's success
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and because it flies in the face of your
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ideology you're calling him dumb jery
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tadisco replied can luminaries have
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negative luminance values and Peter wano
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replied with isn't that a dimwit which I
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guess now they're doing dad jokes
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against Elon Musk because they're all in
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agreeance that he's not intelligent but
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what these people are forgetting is this
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is a public slack channel that people
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are chatting on at obsidian and partner
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networks that are in it so people all
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see this and these people are so
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indoctrinated with their own propaganda
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and ideologies that they just think
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everyone is in the cult with them when
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in reality they're not and they're not
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accepting of this kind of approach to
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life John wior replied with not too late
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to add a rat creature to the game and
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name it elongated muskrat that
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indistinctly mumbles something about
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pronouns and drops shoddy blood soaked
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emeralds when you stab it which I mean
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I'll be honest I'll give them credit
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here it's actually it's pretty funny
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except when you consider that that's a
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person and now you are putting their
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name on them and trying to murder them
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in a game and make light of it which I
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got to take a step back and be like
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where where did we go wrong here where
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do we lose our way with making the RPGs
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fun and having a good time with them
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instead of force injecting ideologies
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into the game and trying to get a win
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just to own the chugs at the end of the
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day what are we doing these leaked
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messages from the internal obsidian
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Slack reveal an environment where
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ideological hostility takes precedence
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over any sort of professional Behavior
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employees are competing and taking
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increasingly hostile Jabs at musk where
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one was even suggesting mocking him
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through in-game content and killing him
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then we have someone like Brianna seal
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who goes by she they joining in
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increasing the fervor with a statement
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saying I'll never get over how insane of
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a hill pronouns are to die on and of
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course somebody with she they pronouns
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would be saying hey saying pronouns
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aren't a big deal is not a good thing
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because we should be putting pronouns
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and everything and if you're trying to
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say they shouldn't be in the game then
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that's your problem and don't die on
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that Hill while this person is trying to
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die on the hill of why they're important
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these people are lost in their own
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ideologies thinking that the rest of the
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world are The Crazy Ones unable to look
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internally at their own faults they're
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latching on to what is accepted and in
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doing so creating an unwelcome
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environment to actual developers at the
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company that care about the game that
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they're working on and like a previous
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inside whistleblower told me is not
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everyone in cidan is a bad person in
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fact many of the developers there are
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hardworking good developers that care
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that want these games to be great and
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they're dealing with these internal
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pressures and struggles from people like
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Matt Hansen creating this environment
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allowing it to flourish there it's
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really as simple as that a completely
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different whistleblower recently reached
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out to me revealing that Matt Hansen is
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reportedly protected by the higher-ups
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at not just obsidian but Microsoft
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proper with his job being completely
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secure at this time despite the growing
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backlash in the constant toxic work
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environment that he himself has
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contributed to to cultivate and taking a
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step back just from hearing that
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information especially considering
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everything else that's come to light
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regarding the toxic behavior and
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leadership styles it makes you wonder if
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the protection is indeed the case here
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why is that it almost seems like
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Microsoft themselves is in agreement
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with or at least complicit in the way
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Hansen is acting and that in itself
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raises serious questions about the
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company's stance on fostering healthy
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and this is what they always say
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inclusivity at the workplace when what
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they're doing is creating an environment
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of hostility and toxicity where if you
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are not a part of it then you are the
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outcast and airgo you are next on The
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Chopping Block because you don't fit in
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with like-minded people it's time for us
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to shine a big Spotlight on these
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actions and hold leaders like Matt
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Hansen accountable for fostering
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toxicity in the workplace Studios like
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obsidian need to be places where
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creativity and Innovation Thrive not
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where employees are bullied into
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ideological submission Gamers deserve
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better developers deserve better and
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most importantly the entire video game
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industry on the whole deserves better
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and at this rate the only thing we can
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do to fight back is to just shine a
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spotlight on it air this dirty laundry
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out for everyone to see and hopefully
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naturally change will happen and shift
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the game industry back to a better place
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and I already feel like that's kind of
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starting but we got a long way to go
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anyways I've already droned on enough
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with this there is a lot more
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information if you guys are interested
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taking a deep dive check out smj t.com
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for the full article I will link it in
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the description below if you guys
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appreciate what I'm doing hit that join
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button thank you so much to this
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whistleblower that reached out I know it
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took a very brave person to do this and
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share these messages because I know I
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know exactly what's going to transpire
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now instead of obsidian taking a step
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back and looking internally and trying
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to re-evaluate what they're doing
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they're going to start looking for who
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this person was and find out what
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happened and how this leak got out there
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which is the complete wrong approach and
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I hope I'm wrong about that but but I
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think we already know better but
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hopefully eventually they start
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realizing internally that the problem is
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with them thank you guys so much for
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watching and as always you stay smashing
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and it goes to show just how in the
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heads people are with
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