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[Link] Activision Blizzard’s QA Department Seems Like A Hellhole

Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com

Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters.

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[Link] Women often play support — does it really matter?

Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com

Can boys play support? Versions of this question headline Reddit posts from the past few years: “Do girls always play [Overwatch support character] Mercy?,” “Why do women usually play support?,” “Why is the support role considered ‘feminine’?”

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