My ex and I were looking for new games to play together and we landed on this one being pretty fun. I made a ton of friends on League but they all moved on to Dota and I stayed. Nowadays I have plenty of friends to play with tho :)
thanks to u/riotnyanbun for carrying that one :D
Thank you for the fun game!
I bet it'll make you happy that I'm going to get a neotraditional style Nami tattoo as well at some point later this year <3
I love your positivity. Rock on! That's awesome that you feel so connected to League and wanted to memorialize it. :)
It's more that the reason I resort to fart jokes is that I genuinely don't understand if any of the things in the article does anything.
I see a lot of stuff but I can't visualize how it improves anything, like what does making a "Riot Noir" actually accomplish? OK, a group got made. What did it prevent or create? It might be understandable to people familiar with the process and the direction it's all going in is very real and clear. But to people outside the process it's pretty alien.
But someone farting on someone else vs NOT farting on someone is a visceral, easy image that everyone is familiar with, which is incidentally why it also makes for an easy joke.
That’s fair about not understanding the impact the work going on inside. When all the reactions are jokes tho, it really puts a damper on real efforts.
As someone on the inside, and helped create one of those groups, it’s a grassroots effort from within the company for people to talk about inclusivity and how to best support folks in a particular identity space. We’re not doing it to look good to folks on the outside and frankly what jokes people make about it isn’t going to stop us from doing this work. It’s not like Riot is special in this either, plenty of other orgs and companies have resource groups based on identity, they’re more commonly referred to as ERGs.
Read moreFrom someone who has worked in the corporate environment for almost a decade now, I think a lot of the sarcasm and jokes come from the fact that the public perception is that it's just a lot of lip service.
Were any offending people fired? Was there any meaningful change in management? At the end of the day, the responsibility lies squarely on those in leadership if there's a toxic atmosphere. It's exponentially worse if leadership is actively contributing to the toxic environment.
If this exact thing had happened in a government position (for example, the "farting in faces" incident), that manager would've been thrown out faster than you can say "Yee Haw". It reeks of an "old boys club" atmosphere when the toxic members of your work culture are still there.
I've spoken to half a dozen LoL players who are engineers and technical folks and they are all extremely put off of the idea of working at Riot specifically due to how the last year has been handled. That's going to have tangible impacts on the bottom line over the coming years if a significant chunk of potential applicants are no longer fired up to work at Riot.
I’m an engineer who works on LoL. I’m still fired up to work at Riot. I applied before the Kotaku articles came out, was still in the interview process as it blew up, and I had to ask myself the same questions about the company’s integrity and policies. I grilled my interview panel about how they treat and support women, and whether or not they’d support my desire to change the gaming industry from within. Everyone was extremely transparent and willing to discuss the issue. None of it was lip service.
I’ve only ever been empowered since I joined, and some of those tangible changes I saw from leadership’s ability to answer hard questions and put money towards policies and initiatives that really matter. I can only speak for myself though. I don’t pretend to understand the decision to retain Gelb but it honestly doesn’t affect my day to day.
Read moreI appreciate your input and your passion to proactively change the work environment at Riot. If more people acted like you in the past, there wouldn't be this problem in the first place.
Keep fighting the good fight, my dude.
I’m a woman. Thanks.
Just wanted to say congrats, dude! I'm not as far as long as you (Bronze 1 this season, pretty much peak in Silver 3 every season now) but I hope to get there someday.
Give the rest of us geezers some hope. :p
Ayeee you were just in my game as Ashe. Crazy coincidence
Aye I’m sorry we lost that one. Hate Swain support :p
Very wholesome story. Thanks for sharing.
I think Udyr deserves to be higher, and Cassiopia and Orianna lower.
I couldn't find Urgot's tier for some reason?
Overall pretty accurate!
Cassio could wrap around you like this, don't tell me that doesn't sound awesome.
Lol gotta say I imagined a cold reptilian kind of touch, even if she might be warm from the waist up. Snakes are cold blooded!
But imagine if she was sunbathing before the hug, so when she envelopes around you she's like a heated blanket.
That I can get behind!