If true it's sad, but a part of me feels like these guys should've known what they signed up for working NeatherRealm Studios. MK games are their bread and butter.

Well, how else they would find reference materials to make the fatalities?Its not like they make everything out of their imagination.

But yeah, it still sucks that they have to go through all of this.

Yeah, thats sucks too.

They d be lucky if they only had to watch violence on youtube. Im not sure, but i dont think there are public executions on yt.

Ed Boon said they try to make the fatalities unrealistic...

This is one of the reasons why I personally have no intention to work for developers who do this type of 3D Art and Animation. It'll make my career harder but yeah I ain't dealing with that mess.

Death is not something I take lightly, but for those that can handle this type of work environment, kudos to you.

I hope that's not true, because it sounds disgusting.

To be honest, I don't even like fatalities or blood and gore on fighting games.

I mean, yeah. If someone doesn't like the sight of blood or death, should they work as a doctor in an emergency room? Probably not. Should they work for a software developer that has depended on that kind of thing for many years? Hm.

Why didn't he just say that it wasn't for him and resign?

Yeah pretty much. It's harder to get work doing Nintendo styled work where I live but I'd much rather do freelance and create work that I believe in. 

You have anything to support that "probably" or is that an assumption on your part?  Because if someone is able to get a job working on a big videogame franchise, I'm betting they have a decent resume.