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The LinkedIn professional page under his name self-describes Magione as having "Fixed over 300 UI bugs (25% of UI bug count) using Lua language, Jira software, and Perforce version-control system" and "Worked with 10-person Scrum team in Agile environment" on the Civilization 6 team. The biography shows that Magione went on to earn a Masters of Science in Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2020. Magione's Facebook page also includes a claim that appears to validate his time at Firaxis. (Shortly after this story went live, the page was deleted.)

Responding to PC Gamer, a representative of Firaxis parent company 2K Games wrote via email, "As a practice, we do not comment on former employees."

Mangione's LinkedIn page points to a strong interest in tech and gaming in particular. In a 2018 interview posted on the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science blog (via the Wayback Machine), Mangione said he taught himself how to code in high school, which is what led him into computer science at the college level, and eventually to launching the school's game dev organization: "I just really wanted to make games."

"A lot of people ask us, 'I don’t code; can I be part of game development? And we’re like, 'Yes, please — we have a lot of programmers, and need people who aren’t'," Mangione said at the time. "It’s cool because if you think about game development, you have a team of 10, maybe with four programmers, two designers, three artists, a musician, and a writer, all from different majors and parts of the school who can be interested."

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[Fbh]

Dude was channeling his inner Gandhi

 

[Imtjnotu]

 

[Little Chicken]

Morals, talent, abs and aim

Hope he got a chance to try Microsoft's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!

 

[Dacvak]

I heard he was an intern there. In any case, there’s no actual story here.

 

[Kacho]

Chuck Berry is this true?

 

[Radical_3d]

Not a fan of the Monopolies and Corporations mod, I presume. I’m liking this guy more and more with every piece of information we have.

 

[Skifi28]

All killers have to work somewhere. Well, most of them.

 

[Loomy]

Well this is a completely unnecessary thread.

 

[nemiroff]

And?

 

[a multicultural team of v]

I'm proud of you GAF for figuring out a way to get this guy in the gaming section.

 

[StereoVsn]

Well, seeing this thread in games forum wasn’t on my bingo card today, lol.

 

[LectureMaster]

It would be even more surreal if guy were working at IOI.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Civ? What year did health insurance become a thing?

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Do NY state prisoners get healthcare coverage? Asking for a friend.

 

[Sebastian1295]

All i have to say to this is that i feel awful for brian thompson and even more awful for his wife who's left without a husband and who's two sons just lost there father. Really tragic situation.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Fixed his last bug, but was on the way to fix a few more.

 

[lughnasadh123]

There's a lot to hate and want to change about health care, but those celebrating this guy like he's the Joker, or at best complete apathy for a guy getting murdered, are every bit the garbage they proclaim to hate.

 

[Optimus Lime]

So, what I'm getting from this entire thing, is that shooting people because you disapprove of their job is totally fine, as long as you cloak it in a thick layer of Google-fu-powered irony.

This loser is a cold blooded murderer and I hope he dies in prison. Two kids now have no father and a woman has no husband. He's not a hero. He's not the Joker. He's not righting wrongs because peaceful protest has failed. He's just a piece of shit.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

All i have to say to this is that i feel awful for brian thompson and even more awful for his wife who's left without a husband and who's two sons just lost there father. Really tragic situation.

It's not that tragic. As much as I don't believe in vigilante violence, Thompson getting capped opened up a national dialogue of how shitty these insurance companies can be. United Healthcare literally set up an AI response to deny 90% of insurance claims. Brian Thompson was an immoral scumbag and the world is probably better off without him

Obv feel bad for the wife and kids. Just as I do for Ted Bundy's wife and Son

 

[Optimus Lime]

It's not that tragic. As much as I don't believe in vigilante violence, Thompson getting capped opened up a national dialogue of how shitty these insurance companies can be. United Healthcare literally set up an AI response to deny 90% of insurance claims. Brian Thompson was an immoral scumbag and the world is probably better off without him

Obv feel bad for the wife and kids. Just as I do for Ted Bundy's wife and Son

So, who else do you think vigilantes should kill? What about all of the board members? Should they have all been murdered like dogs in the street after being shot in the back? What about Thompson's PA? Was she an accessory? Why not shoot her too?

 

[Calico345]

He's a disgusting piece of crap no matter where he worked. Stop giving these people attention for their heinous acts.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

So, who else do you think vigilantes should kill? What about all of the board members? Should they have all been murdered like dogs in the street after being shot in the back? What about Thompson's PA? Was she an accessory? Why not shoot her too?

I'm not saying what he did was right or should be commended. But I'm not going to feel bad for the immoral piece of shit who led a corrupt insurance company that went out of their way to fuck over sick and dying Americans

 

[Codeblew]

All i have to say to this is that i feel awful for brian thompson and even more awful for his wife who's left without a husband and who's two sons just lost there father. Really tragic situation.

I feel bad for all the people that died or became bankrupt because their AI, with a 90% denial rate, refused them coverage.

I don't think this belongs in the gaming thread as we already have an off-topic thread for it. I'm putting this one on ignore.

Thanks for letting us know that you won't be gracing us with your presence.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I don't think this belongs in the gaming thread as we already have an off-topic thread for it. I'm putting this one on ignore.

 

[diffusionx]

It's not that tragic. As much as I don't believe in vigilante violence, Thompson getting capped opened up a national dialogue of how shitty these insurance companies can be. United Healthcare literally set up an AI response to deny 90% of insurance claims. Brian Thompson was an immoral scumbag and the world is probably better off without him

Obv feel bad for the wife and kids. Just as I do for Ted Bundy's wife and Son

I don’t want to defend UHC because they really are a piece of shit company, but I just want to point out that the stuff about AI was claimed in a lawsuit, it is unsubstantiated to the best of my knowledge. And it wasn’t that the AI denied 90% of claims, the lawsuit claimed the AI made errors in 90% of its judgements (which checks out honestly).

 

[El Muerto]

His name was Luigi. Next time my medical claim is denied i know who to call...