Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[Judge Dredd]

The biggest obsticle to unionizing I can see is the surplus pool of potential staff, unless their's an increased value of individual employee's it'd be hard for the unions to have any teeth-show any defiance at your shitty treatment and they just bring someone else whose wants into the gaming industry because it has a misguided popular appeal.

I wouldn't say the appeal is misguided. Pro devs are often cynical and burnt out, working on soulless loot box movie tie in 12 will do that. But MovieQuinnSterling have unrealistic expectations of what game development is.

Their vision of a game developer is a quirky smart person with dyed hair waking up late, sipping a latte in starbucks while "writing code" for his latest walking simulator about a black lesbian suffering from mental illness, and spending all day on twitter to #resist Donald Drumpf. ie. The "nothing gets done and the end result is shit" style of game development.

The reality is a bunch of boring nerds sitting in an office solving technical problems and making hard choices to make the game better, and sometimes that choice is to put in as many hours as needed to make it work. Look up any GDC talk or documentary about classic games like Goldeneye64 and Alone in the Dark and you'll hear about the reality of game development. Like the guy who made the FMV for Silent Hill sleeping under his desk because Konami said "no" to his plans for pre rendered FMV scenes, but the dev wanted FMV and fuck what management said about it. Or Dead Space where a massive amount of work went into the scene where Issac is dragged by a tentacle when any sane person would have cut the scene for being difficult to implement.

 

[A Big Bumbling Black Man]

do they not realizing lying to people is the worst way to start a conversation? Or do they just not care?

Seems like a good time to remind everybody that Bob knew the accusations against Kavanaugh were fake too, but he kept spreading the hoax just because he hates Republicans that much.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I wouldn't say the appeal is misguided. Pro devs are often cynical and burnt out, working on soulless loot box movie tie in 12 will do that. But MovieQuinnSterling have unrealistic expectations of what game development is.

Their vision of a game developer is a quirky smart person with dyed hair waking up late, sipping a latte in starbucks while "writing code" for his latest walking simulator about a black lesbian suffering from mental illness, and spending all day on twitter to #resist Donald Drumpf. ie. The "nothing gets done and the end result is shit" style of game development.

The reality is a bunch of boring nerds sitting in an office solving technical problems and making hard choices to make the game better, and sometimes that choice is to put in as many hours as needed to make it work. Look up any GDC talk or documentary about classic games like Goldeneye64 and Alone in the Dark and you'll hear about the reality of game development. Like the guy who made the FMV for Silent Hill sleeping under his desk because Konami said "no" to his plans for pre rendered FMV scenes, but the dev wanted FMV and fuck what management said about it. Or Dead Space where a massive amount of work went into the scene where Issac is dragged by a tentacle when any sane person would have cut the scene for being difficult to implement.

I agree with these sentiments, I think unions are potentially inevitable simply because the people at the top are so greedy and short sighted that things will inevitably hit critical mass, they've consistantly shown to overplay their hand with loot crate gambling so it's unlikely they'll back down on treating their staff shamefully.
Even if it doesnt then somethings got to give, If anything Activisions antics might be the start of poisoning the well by making it clear that game development is usually soul destroying drudge work.
Ironically the liberal tech culture might actually be obstructing this process by allowing the companies to present themselves as 'progressive'.

 

[LaughingJoke]

You do realize that the showrunners could go somewhere else to have their show pick up, right?
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Hey Blob and his Ilk Studios, Networks, and Streaming/Cable services are businesses not committees watch or shut up. If they want to bitch either bitch about PBS which is publicly and governmentally funded and whiter than a Charlottesville Tiki Torch Parade or again Shut Up.

 

[LiquidKid]

The biggest obsticle to unionizing I can see is the surplus pool of potential staff, unless their's an increased value of individual employee's it'd be hard for the unions to have any teeth-show any defiance at your shitty treatment and they just bring someone else whose wants into the gaming industry because it has a misguided popular appeal. That said their's no reason a union couldnt provide passive support such as access to legal advice aand fiscal support, but it would require the tacit approval of the Corporations in question which considering they're run by total unrepentant scum like Kotick is tricky.

It'd never come from people like quinn, if anything she can just be flat out ignored on the subject.

EDIT-noticed bob took a pot shot at the mayonaise ghouls, he really can't help himself even when he's trying to pretend to care about poor people. I'm honestly not even sure he's aware of how much of a hypocrite he is and how his attitude to blue collar workers is probably the same as gaming companies are to their staff.

The biggest problem with Unionizing is that the outstanding majority of game studios are split up across states and countries. Few studios are housed in one central location.
Imagine the nightmare of creating a union that can cater to all of the legal systems and tax laws for just one Assassins Creed game and the 5 or so countries the studios are segmented in.
Hollywood unions work because the majority of that industry is located in Hollywood(and I would argue SAG and WGA actually do more harm than good). Foreign films rarely work with Hollywood unions. Hell, look at the animation industry, a big reason so much of the actual work is outsourced to Asia is because they can get around the unions....holy shit. Now I get it!
Bob wants to unionize video games so all the work gets outsourced to Japan and Korea, making all the games Asian again, just like his heyday in the 80’s when games were mostly Japanese because of the gestapo regulations Nintendo imposed.

 

[LiquidKid]

I wouldn't say the appeal is misguided. Pro devs are often cynical and burnt out, working on soulless loot box movie tie in 12 will do that. But MovieQuinnSterling have unrealistic expectations of what game development is.

Their vision of a game developer is a quirky smart person with dyed hair waking up late, sipping a latte in starbucks while "writing code" for his latest walking simulator about a black lesbian suffering from mental illness, and spending all day on twitter to #resist Donald Drumpf. ie. The "nothing gets done and the end result is shit" style of game development.

The reality is a bunch of boring nerds sitting in an office solving technical problems and making hard choices to make the game better, and sometimes that choice is to put in as many hours as needed to make it work. Look up any GDC talk or documentary about classic games like Goldeneye64 and Alone in the Dark and you'll hear about the reality of game development. Like the guy who made the FMV for Silent Hill sleeping under his desk because Konami said "no" to his plans for pre rendered FMV scenes, but the dev wanted FMV and fuck what management said about it. Or Dead Space where a massive amount of work went into the scene where Issac is dragged by a tentacle when any sane person would have cut the scene for being difficult to implement.

Or the history of the doomed game Sonic XTreme where the devs were so paranoid about missing the Christmas season(they did miss it sadly) that they worked and slept in the office to the point that the director contracted pneumonia and still kept working until sega pulled the plug and shut the entire studio down.
The man nearly died and lost his job for it. Let’s see any of them work that hard

Edit: accidental double post. Wasn’t planning on posting this either. I blame my crappy phone. Sorry

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Who’s the bigger dork; the man who is one of the countries most popular conservatives who is also married and has a successful podcast, or a man who lives in the basement of his parents and is pushing forty.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

The biggest problem with Unionizing is that the outstanding majority of game studios are split up across states and countries. Few studios are housed in one central location.
Imagine the nightmare of creating a union that can cater to all of the legal systems and tax laws for just one Assassins Creed game and the 5 or so countries the studios are segmented in.
Hollywood unions work because the majority of that industry is located in Hollywood(and I would argue SAG and WGA actually do more harm than good). Foreign films rarely work with Hollywood unions. Hell, look at the animation industry, a big reason so much of the actual work is outsourced to Asia is because they can get around the unions....holy shit. Now I get it!
Bob wants to unionize video games so all the work gets outsourced to Japan and Korea, making all the games Asian again, just like his heyday in the 80’s when games were mostly Japanese because of the gestapo regulations Nintendo imposed.

Unions also don’t protect against layoffs, it’s infantile to think a union would have saved jobs at blizzard, ea, or ArenaNet.

 

[Red Hood]

Bob thinks he can get with Rihanna.
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And doesn’t believe Jussie Smollett is a idiot for trying to stick to Trump.
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And doesn’t believe Obama did the same shot he blames Trump for.
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Doesn't it feel good to know you've got a better shot with an attractive celebrity than Bob does just out of not being a completely unlikeable dickweed

 

[LiquidKid]

Unions also don’t protect against layoffs, it’s infantile to think a union would have saved jobs at blizzard, ea, or ArenaNet.

They do in the event of a strike, which was not going on. So yeah, it wouldn’t have helped.
I also think unions are just plain useless in today’s world. They fought for necessarily labor laws in the past, but now there are so many regulations with how workers can be treated and what a minimum wage is that unions as a concept have outlived their original purpose and are now solely based on control of the masses.
Ironically, everyone started demanding unions because of Rockstar, when I can guarantee with 100% certainly that every member of the Rockstar writing staff on RDR2 had salaries that were higher than any of the commentators make by a wide margin.

 

[DogEatDogFood]

>"Is language sport, dood"
>"Uses the term ageism unironically"

Never change, Bob. We'll laugh at you untill you get broke or sick for your stupid life choices. It's going to be a really sad day when that happens.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

>"Is language sport, dood"
>"Uses the term ageism unironically"

Never change, Bob. We'll laugh at you untill you get broke or sick for your stupid life choices. It's going to be a really sad day when that happens.

His frequent use of the word "sport" makes me wish more people would call him the Great Fatsby.

 

[Pokemonquistador]

They do in the event of a strike, which was not going on. So yeah, it wouldn’t have helped.
I also think unions are just plain useless in today’s world. They fought for necessarily labor laws in the past, but now there are so many regulations with how workers can be treated and what a minimum wage is that unions as a concept have outlived their original purpose and are now solely based on control of the masses.
Ironically, everyone started demanding unions because of Rockstar, when I can guarantee with 100% certainly that every member of the Rockstar writing staff on RDR2 had salaries that were higher than any of the commentators make by a wide margin.

Unions mean jack shit in a world where you can just pack up and move to a different country with a cheaper labor force. Most college-educated leftists want to start unions because "people made more money back when they existed, why can't we just bring them back? " They don't realize that Unions are useless unless they have something to bargain with, something to leverage. That something used to be labor, but in a world with no borders, labor is everywhere! Starting a labor union in this day and age is akin to setting up a snocone stand in the artic, in the middle of winter and charging 10 bucks a scoop.

 

[The tired cat]

It kinda sounds like these clowns have this almost romantic view of unions. Kinda how college kids have this super romantic view of the French Resistance, despite the fact historically they spent more time fighting for power with each other than doing real shit.

 

[LN 910]

And doesn’t believe Jussie Smollett is a idiot for trying to stick to Trump.
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And doesn’t believe Obama did the same shot he blames Trump for.
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Why hasn't OhNoSheTwitnt ever got a thread? Her tweets are like 100% garbage, like literally the only case of "LGBT and POC" (which are apparently the same thing) being assaulted that anyone can name is Smollet and turns out it's a false flag. Fuck off.

Also I love liberal scaremongering. You can literally replace the same thing with "Obamer" and it'd be the same tactics, except instead of "birth certificate" it's "muh wall".

EDIT: Did some digging and found a funny slapfight between her and Dana Loesch. Dana calls her out for being an obsessive little shit and the ginger bitch proves she's totally not mad by posting like four replies to the same tweet and siccing a bunch of her followers onto her (must've sent a quote tweet encouraging a brigade). Pretty funny.

She also calls Dana "shady macbeth" and "illiterate". Which is funny as there's tweets of her decrying women who insult other women.

She's perpetually post-menstrual. Good potential for a cow thread, and pretty much everyone who replies to and follows her is a brainlet as well so quote unquote fan outrage and thread activity would be up.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Why hasn't OhNoSheTwitnt ever got a thread? Her tweets are like 100% garbage, like literally the only case of "LGBT and POC" (which are apparently the same thing) being assaulted that anyone can name is Smollet and turns out it's a false flag. Fuck off.

Also I love liberal scaremongering. You can literally replace the same thing with "Obamer" and it'd be the same tactics, except instead of "birth certificate" it's "muh wall".

EDIT: Did some digging and found a funny slapfight between her and Dana Loesch. Dana calls her out for being an obsessive little shit and the ginger bitch proves she's totally not mad by posting like four replies to the same tweet and siccing a bunch of her followers onto her (must've sent a quote tweet encouraging a brigade). Pretty funny.

She also calls Dana "shady macbeth" and "illiterate". Which is funny as there's tweets of her decrying women who insult other women.

She's perpetually post-menstrual. Good potential for a cow thread, and pretty much everyone who replies to and follows her is a brainlet as well so quote unquote fan outrage and thread activity would be up.

“OhNoSheTwitnt” isn’t really thread worthy imo, she’s an unfunny version of dril. Her real name is Sarah Rebecca Bitterman Riddles but there’s not a lot out there about her.

 

[LN 910]

Jesus Christ is the amount of names she has equal to her chromosome count?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

“Notice me Jordan Peterson!”

Guy who gets owned by Ian Miles Cheong in the past tries to own him.

 

[LN 910]

Because we all know no game has ever evolved beyond Tetris. Also it's really hard to 'own' someone when you have "#RehireJamesGunn" in your prof.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

Guy who gets owned by Ian Miles Cheong in the past tries to own him.

Clever, Bob. Now name another one.