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  • Am I advocating for forcing adults into therapy? Obviously barring court ordered therapy, no. But children are not capable of making that decision and it is not theoretically possible that an adult who doesn't want to inform them is acting in their interest. Not getting a child rape victim therapy is child abuse.

    Informed consent to not know is not even theoretically within the realm of possibility. There's a reason informed consent is always the requirement for all treatment. It's because no one else can possibly be justified in making the decision.

    The patient must be informed on reality in order to be capable of choosing a path forward. They cannot possibly make decisions while being lied to.

  • The trauma happened. Gaslighting them into thinking it didn't can't make them better. Your brain still processes shit whether you're consciously aware of it or not.

    There is no possible healthy path forward that doesn't involve knowing reality. "Not wanting to know" isn't possible without knowing what you supposedly don't want to know. Not telling them is not, under any circumstances, forgivable.

    They have to know, and they have to have to get therapy. There's no other path to recovery.

  • I don't disagree with that. But he's almost definitely responding to all the vitriol directed at employees losing their jobs as a result of bad decisions passed way down the chain to them, and this article is trying to make it some gotcha hit piece.

    I do think being in charge of monetization at a company that does so in the way almost any AAA studio does is an inherently unethical job and will have a hard time feeling sorry for him personally, since he's willing to do that job, but people are also being miserable assholes to everyone else who just is trying to work on a game for a stable employer. And all he's actually saying is "maybe don't be an asshole to people".

  • What they needed was a lot less empty planets and a lot more that looked populated (not occupied by a small outpost; populated, by a civilization).

    The beauty of Skyrim (and I guess fallout, though I hated the guns so much I struggled to ever get into it) was that you could just wander if you got bored. You'd just point yourself in a random direction and see what popped out as interesting. Many of those places would be moderate sized cave systems that brought you out somewhere completely different, where you were free, again, to just pick a direction and explore.

    It doesn't feel like exploration to go to an empty map with a base that you kill everything in, then backtrack back to your ship every time.

  • I had to make a separate exclusive category on goodreads just to keep this piece of trash out of my read pile.

    It's called power vs force, it's some dumpster fire pseudo-science that's really just vague ramblings of nothing. Don't read it. Seriously.