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da beeper king BABY posted:You have a dim view of friendship sorry I forgot friendship meant defending your buddy no matter what even if he's clearly a serial sexual harasser
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I mean, this is just what people have publicly shared. Who knows what Chris Grant/Ben/Kessler have seen that caused their reactions.
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Nick's Friends Immediately Severed All Ties is a weird fiction people keep repeating in this thread. actually, yeah, in fact: https://twitter.com/PackBenPack/status/893573721222389760
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Aug 5, 2017 22:05
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also, yes the stuff we seen so far isn't the grossest and most gently caress up poo poo ever (its still weird and creepy) but that doesn't make this all suddenly ok the problem here is this is a pattern of behavior that Nick has apparently done to a ton of women in the industry and that is own position let him be this creep. like what is the exact line for you people to be like "yeah this is creepy" Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Blockhouse posted:actually, yeah, in fact: Sorry, can you highlight the part of this tweet where he publicly denounces Nick or Cut All Ties?
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Even if this is the worst of it I wouldn't really want to be friends with someone who does this and certainly not professionally associated wiith them lol When podcasts / Youtube content is as personality driven as it is, would you really want the personality you're attached to be The Thirsfty Guy
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https://twitter.com/alolanmeowth/status/893887369434116096 nick putting a lot of effort into being a weirdo lmao
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Sorry, can you highlight the part of this tweet where he publicly denounces Nick or Cut All Ties? no I was saying I was slightly wrong/agreeing with you and showing that at least Ben's left forgiveness as an option sorry should have been clearer
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Blockhouse posted:no I was saying I was slightly wrong/agreeing with you and showing that at least Ben's left forgiveness as an option My bad
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May I remind you guys that send nudes literally became a meme lol
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Send nudes via magic eye is kinda funny let's be real.
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I think we need an age check in the thread. Lots of olds in here it seems
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The REAL Goobusters posted:May I remind you guys that send nudes literally became a meme lol it's definitely a meme that's made the front page of reddit several times
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It was almost certainly just taken directly from Reddit. Elaborate gifs and poo poo that end in SEND NUDES is a dumb and common meme. Not that he wasn't very deliberately "kidding on the square"
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I did forget about Ben and Kessler. That was pretty damning. Still, saying that all of Nick's friends have disowned him is a definite exaggeration, and I'm not so sure that his career is over. This is always going to be hanging over him for sure, but most people seem to be waiting to see what the people who are really in the know have to say.
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Bogart posted:Send nudes via magic eye is kinda funny let's be real. In context it's not really https://twitter.com/AlolanMeowth/status/893921380927799296
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The REAL Goobusters posted:May I remind you guys that send nudes literally became a meme lol as i cut my victim's throat i whispered "cake is a lie" and they knew i was ironic
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Snooze Cruise posted:I currently have an oil pastel portrait of Nick Robinson I got my mom to draw as a Christmas present for my friend as a joke and now I don't know what to do with it. Just paint thrifty thrifsty thirfsty thirsty over it in red.
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His job is one where he's publicly engaging an audience on behalf of a larger group, he's not some behind the scenes tech guy, he's a public figure. It's something our generation struggles with because a lot of positions that weren't under constant public scrutiny and amassing large audiences suddenly are (nobody was hounding the Rocko's Modern Life storyboard team like they do with cartoons now). You kinda forfeit the right to send horny texts, like it or not That's without getting into leveraging said internet fame / position over women
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Pinterest Mom posted:In context it's not really The context doesn't really matter in this case since he just sent a dumb send nudes meme. Also I'm the bearded guy asking for context lmaooooo
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nerdbot posted:His job is one where he's publicly engaging an audience on behalf of a larger group, he's not some behind the scenes tech guy, he's a public figure. It's something our generation struggles with because a lot of positions that weren't under constant public scrutiny and amassing large audiences suddenly are (nobody was hounding the Rocko's Modern Life storyboard team like they do with cartoons now). You kinda forfeit the right to send horny texts, like it or not Wait what lol
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Blockhouse posted:sorry I forgot friendship meant defending your buddy no matter what even if he's clearly a serial sexual harasser by what definition is anything that's surfaced thus far sexual harassment?
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I think it's less that Nick sent some weird awkward flirting like a loving goober, but that this is apparently a pattern of behaviour for him. It's not a crime to misread signals or to be bad at flirting, but if this is your standard way to treat women when speaking to them in private, that's indicative of some troubling views. I don't have any proof he treats all or most women like this, but that was definitely the impression of the earlier tweets that it was an open secret among women in the industry. I don't think any of this is beyond redemption, for Nick as a person or even for him in his current career (although I do think Polygon is going to make an example out of him to protect their brand), but he has to throw himself on the mercy of the internet and commit to not being a dumb idiot anymore.
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Ending podburglers, a podcast that no one cares about and no one would notice if it never updated again, definitely seems like cutting personal ties and salting the earth to me considering that it probably won't come back even if he apologizes. Even Kessler, whose job isn't public facing and doesn't have any professional relationship with Nick, denounced him
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Believe it or not, you can be Mad At Your Friend for Doing Bad Things and still be friends on the other side of the finish line. There's ways of handling friends with bad behavior other than severing.
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da beeper king BABY posted:Ending podburglers, a podcast that no one cares about and no one would notice if it never updated again, definitely seems like cutting personal ties and salting the earth to me considering that it probably won't come back even if he apologizes. Even Kessler, whose job isn't public facing and doesn't have any professional relationship with Nick, denounced him What do you think the word "denounce" means?
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Using memes like that to have a veneer of plausible deniability is actually somewhat more insidious, so you can back it and say "Oh I was just kidding! Just a joke!" if it doesn't go well for you
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Pretty funny that his friends severed over this poo poo lol Yeah mother fucker we all saw when you made this post the first 100 times
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Oh you mean the racers who got turned into a tree and Kravitz being imperiled in the darkness? It's kind of a frustrating cliche/trope as a writer because it means you can't really have a storyline wherein a character who is gay has their loved one die or something similar without being accused of doing this for the sake of doing it. On the other hand, it's extra kind of bullshit when most of the time there's a gay couple in a series at least one of them gets offed to make it extra sad and dramatic. It's something I'd say usually would weigh in more on the quality of the story and the writer before accusations of using poo poo stereotypes and tropes are leveled at someone but having been on the internet for so long I know that would never actually happen.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Using memes like that to have a veneer of plausible deniability is actually somewhat more insidious, so you can back it and say "Oh I was just kidding! Just a joke!" if it doesn't go well for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting
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yeah actually they will posted:Yeah mother fucker we all saw when you made this post the first 100 times Yeah and guess what Gonna make it again!
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i can't believe my friends were not cool with the fact that I repeatedly asked women in the same industry we work for nudes in ways that made them feel very uncomfortable
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Someone more committed to the joke than me please edit that in
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To put this in sports broadcasting terms, this looks more like a Steve Phillips situation than a Marv Albert situation. This is, of course, assuming that what's been released is indicative of the worst of Nick's actions. It's still not acceptable to attempt sexual relationships with people you could only contact because of your work, especially when those people have an implicit need to not burn bridges with you and your employer in order for their business to survive. Professional relationships need to remain professional. That's why they're called that. When you proposition a work contact for sexual material or activities, you have immediately placed them in a position where they can either cut you off completely (which opens them up to reprisal), attempt to laugh it off (which means unwanted sexual advances will continue), or accept (which then makes reprisal when things go badly even worse, or creates a professional conflict of interest if things somehow don't go badly). None of these options is good for either party, but it's especially bad for the person receiving the proposition. I'm relieved that it currently appears that Nick doesn't appear to have sexually assaulted anyone, but he has sexually harassed several people who he shouldn't have harassed, it's apparently gone on for years, and that needs to have consequences. It's not okay, no matter how young and awkward he is, or how many other nerds think they'd do the same. He made unwanted sexual advances on many colleagues and business contacts. This is a problem that his employers now need to address with those colleagues and business contacts in order to mend their professional relationships. This is not the biggest thing, but it's not a small thing, and treating it like it is just clears the playing field for more people to abuse their power and harass others.
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Snooze Cruise posted:where is the section for misspelling thirsty in this article It's right under the section titled "gullible"
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Moatman posted:It's right under the section titled "gullible" oh, poo poo really? let me-waitaminute
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Why wouldn't he just try to gently caress people on tindr or bumble or whatever the hot gently caress app is this week
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Tricky Ed posted:To put this in sports broadcasting terms, this looks more like a Steve Phillips situation than a Marv Albert situation. This is, of course, assuming that what's been released is indicative of the worst of Nick's actions. Dad is that you
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