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Machinima was a parasite, though. RT at least produces content and doesn’t leech off of outside talent.
Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.
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Ray recently got into collecting the cards, and I 100% believe that it's something he's getting into out of legitimate interest. Barbara on the other hand, if it weren't for her Ebay shill shit, I wouldn't have even known she started collecting, and I fully believe she's hopping onto the bandwagon to feel included.
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wow, Jack should be shaving his head by now, not growing his hair out. Jesus, that's bad.
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Yea I’ve seen ray’s stream and for him is 100% about just wanting them. he checks the card values but often says he wouldn’t sell them. He legitimately likes collecting the cards out fun and nostalgia
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I saw this the other day and instantly thought of Jack and RT.
Its not me I swear
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Just something I saw on twitter, it reminded me of that post made a dozen pages back about what a fucking shill jack is, and what a shill over all the whole of AH has become. Or is the image not showing up and you're asking what the image is?
Its not me I swear
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At the latest they should have been back in the office by Thanksgiving last year especially if they could get daily testing. I live in a blue state and I have been back in my office since last July.
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Her talent had evaporated down to just attractive blonde woman.
It's the new reddit / YTer fad that pokemon cards are worth something and now people are chimping out over something which no one has given a shit about for the past fifteen years, ramping up prices because they're buying into a bubble and will probably move on to some other dumb shit in a few months.
DSP will outlive them all.
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Speaking of collaboration, it's odd to me that Rooster Teeth never tried to reach out to content creators to work together instead of solely relying on their ageing, shrinking stable of in-house "talent". Companies like 100 Thieves and FaZe have more or less cracked the code and seen major success by building rosters of young, fresh talent to sell merch and pimp sponsors while RT regresses.
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Flip: Draw 2
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As someone who collects cards myself, knowing a card is high-value despite never once considering selling them is part of the fun. Every time I open a box I like to check the prices afterwards to see if I got anything really special because sure, a card might look shiny but lots of shiny cards go for pennies. It's just a collector thing.
They've tried that via some very corporate acquisitions. It basically always ended in mediocrity if not outright failure. There's lots of mismanagement and bad calls hiring-wise as well so they have a lot of "talent" that screams that they interviewed well but have zero actual "star power."
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When, particularly, AH started hiring “talent” making money from YouTube wasn’t certain thing and Twitch didn’t exist (and they had a media property based on a relevant video with fans in the right age group).
Now the people who have “talent” to hold an audience are doing it on their own and earning more than RT would pay. Because doing so is, if not easier, then more accessible so people are willing to give it a go.
It’s telling that their recent hires (as opposed to aqui-hires of existing groups) are all people who drew from RTs goodwill to generate an audience and connections for themselves, rather than adding to that goodwill and audience.
An audience can tell when people are going through the motions and trying to force a connection or entertainment. The views tell all in that regard.
Now the people who have “talent” to hold an audience are doing it on their own and earning more than RT would pay. Because doing so is, if not easier, then more accessible so people are willing to give it a go.
It’s telling that their recent hires (as opposed to aqui-hires of existing groups) are all people who drew from RTs goodwill to generate an audience and connections for themselves, rather than adding to that goodwill and audience.
An audience can tell when people are going through the motions and trying to force a connection or entertainment. The views tell all in that regard.
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Damn, I interviewed for RT for their desktop support technician position back in 2017. It gives me a lot of schadenfreude to see how the company turned out and how far they've fallen, lmao. It was such a bizarre fucking interview.
Its not me I swear
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Would you care to elaborate? I'm curious.
Barbara thought he was a representative from Fullscreen and blew him.
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Sure thing.
When I went in for my interview, they were still at their Stage 5 campus. I have no idea if they're still there or not because frankly, I don't keep up with them anymore. I was living in San Antonio at the time (about 2 hours away), but my boyfriend at the time's father lived in a suburb of Austin and he was alright with moving in the case that I got hired. I was a casual fan and had just moved to Texas from Illinois and all of my work experience was in the IT help desk field. Though I did not have any certifications or an IT degree, I had about 4 years work experience under the title they were looking for. On a whim, I looked at their openings and saw the desktop support opening and applied and got an interview. I was a casual RT fan but barely kept up with them at that point.
I remember how fucking huge their campus was. They always called it an office, but it was more of a company campus. There was the huge warehouse building, then a bunch of separate satellite offices surrounding it, all fenced in with this huge metal fence and locked away behind a gate. Their parking lot was also huge. We were let in through the gate- I was put on some sort of a list because they knew I'd be visiting for my interview that day- and we were instructed to go to one of the satellite offices.
While sitting in the office and waiting for the interviewers, I remember seeing Lindsay come in. This was directly after her first baby and she wasn't back at work yet, so pretty much everyone in the office came out to talk to her and it got pretty loud and delayed my interview a little.
The people that interviewed me were Adam Baird and Adam Ellis, who iirc, made up the tech department at the time. They were pretty nice and took me over to the main building, which honestly annoyed me a little, because why didn't they just have us go there? It was a scorching 100+ degree summer Texas day and I was in a long sleeve dress but whatever, it's fine.
Stage 5 was huge- and empty. We went in through a back door that led into this weird kitchen/lounge area, where I was promptly offered fucking alcohol. Obviously, that struck me as weird because who the hell offers a potential job candidate alcohol as soon as the interview starts none the less? It was weird.
The questions they asked were also fucking weird. In my field, you can often expect to be 'tested' to make sure you have the knowledge relevant to the field and aren't lying about your qualifications. I spent the two hour car ride from San Antonio to Austin brushing up on everything I knew so that I wouldn't stumble during the interview. There was no need. They didn't test me on anything- they didn't even fucking ask me anything about tech. Their questions were mainly, and this is an actual question that they asked me word for word, "If Burnie were to call you and ask for help moving his PC, how would you, as a fan, react?"
I actually almost started laughing at that question because it's fucking bizarre. Who in their right mind would say that they'd start fangirling or whatever?
The rest of the interview was mostly them telling me about RT's benefit package. Except, they literally told me nothing about medical insurance, other than saying that they "have it" (no details on what "it" was or anything important). However, they did go into GREAT DETAIL about their UNLIMITED days off policy and their "open working hours".
The basic gist of this policy was that you could take as many days off as you wanted, as long as you got your work done, and you could be as late to work or leave as early as you want, without telling anyone, as long as you got your work done. This was so strange to me- and personally, it sounded like hell trying to find anyone when they could be taking a random day off or just deserted their work station because they were done.
Funnily enough, they also told me that my position would be a 24 hour "on call" position, which basically negates everything else they said. This is basically when you have set work hours, but ALSO need to be there in case something goes wrong outside of those work hours.
There was also the open bar policy and the pets policy that they bragged about. The pets policy was literally that anyone could take whatever pet they wanted into the office whenever they wanted, which seemed like a recipe for disaster for untrained animals.
Overall, they told me the interview went well and about an hour later, we were heading out. About 3 weeks later they sent me a rejection email and that was that. Still the strangest interview I've ever been on. I'm still in the helpdesk IT field and I've still never had an interview like it.
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If this is true it explains so much. But, according to Geoff, you need to be a CEO in order to criticize their decisions.
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