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- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 3 days ago:
I think they’re planning to take legal action, not sure through which means though
The union remains unbowed and is fighting to win the reinstatement of every dismissed member of staff at Rockstar through legal means and campaigning.
This fight is critical, if Rockstar can get away with this, they will keep treating their workers with disdain, disrespect, and subjecting them to continued illegal treatment.
Thanks for your time, and I hope this is some truth that helps you all understand what’s going on here at the moment.
I you would be so kind, you can contribute to the fundraiser to support those fighting their dismissal here: actionnetwork.org/…/support-rockstar-workers-figh…
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 3 days ago:
As for Ishii: “Social media was being social media” sums up how much you care on that front.
I didn’t minimize what happened. I just asked if Sucker Punch had any role in that since I wouldn’t boycott a game just because there’s assholes in its fanbase.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 3 days ago:
Sucker Punch fired one of their senior devs for a mario and luigi joke when kirk got got. EVERYONE was angry, the studio heads came out to say they stand by their decision, and plenty of people were keyed in to the hell that Erika Ishii has had to put up with on social media for daring to portray a female character in a video game.
(I didn’t know about any of this before this comment so apologize if I’m misinterpreting)
From what I read though, there were A LOT of angry people even because of the joke, weren’t there? I’m guessing they had to take a stance and went with the “killing is bad” to not get too politically involved. Which is still a coward move, but personally not something I’d boycott a game over.
What happened with Erika Ishii? Social media was being social media and I know that, but did Sucker Punch themselves do anything to contribute to that?
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 3 days ago:
Was this meant to be a reply to a comment?
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 3 days ago:
Different people, probably. And a complete can change a lot in 7 years (in recent times, usually not for the better).
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- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 months ago:
I mean, they’ve just filed a lawsuit against Krafton, to me that says they’re pretty confident about being right.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 4 months ago:
I doni know if there’s any other freak sorting their Lemmy homepage to Top Monthly who just found this post, but I’d advise to edit it to let people know that even if the site lists more than 1M signatures the actually valid ones might be less, so signing even now is still a good idea.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 4 months ago:
purchasers have legitimate moral and legal grounds to demand that they be informed that they are buying a license, or renting, the game; they are not owning a functional copy of the game outright.
I’m pretty sure that’s already the case, if you read the ToS of most games.
Not that it makes this any better.
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Whoops, fixed. My keyboard somehow gave the blame to non-eligible voters too.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Elon is supposedly on the spectrum, so he could have done it to show his excitement, without realizing the true meanings and implications.
And considering he’s on social media 24/7, he should’ve realized what people interpreted it as by now and posted an apology repudiating fascism.
But he didn’t, did he?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Reminder that ~270 million Americans allowed this to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Holy hell what even is this? Are they really comparing those photos of Biden and Harris to what Elon did?
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 10 months ago:
Hey man, people can drive what they want, saying their car is ridiculous is not cool
- Comment on Never believe the hype. 1 year ago:
The person claiming this is @TheBestFigen. And who is that? Why are they reporting this? You don’t trust random sources on twitter for news.
Idk but they have more than a million followers. If someone with that reach posts misleading information it’s good to correct it.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 year ago:
I’ve heard of a club in my country where you put on a colored bracelet based on whether or not are you looking for a partner. Seemed like a cool idea but I think it didn’t catch on.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
It does kind of have “We would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!” energy to me.
There’s no way they thought the PSN thing would’ve been a well-received update.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
Not our fault the entire tech industry keeps engineering new ways to give people trust issues.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
These reviews will have a lasting effect on the game even though the drama bubble has now popped.
Steam has a specific thing that appears when you keep playing a lot on a game that you’ve negatively reviewed asking if you want to change it. I think a game is rarely impacted long-term by review bombing for a resolved issue, unless the reviewers actually dropped the game and went on with their lives.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
This is why Steam reviews should be taken much more seriously. This was impossible to avoid due to the enormous amount of bad press and devs themselves jumping on the hate train, but I’m betting that a lot of review bombing attempts have been quietly offset by the company just paying people for fake reviews. It’s especially obvious when the game has relatively low reviews for months and months, then suddenly bad stuff happens and along with the justified dump of negative reviews, positive ones also skyrocket (99% of which composed of “good game”, random memes or ascii art).
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 year ago:
Yup, been there done that. I’ve just resigned to the fact that the whole social cues thing is too much for my brain and I’ll just stick to the hobby and be friends with them unless I get really lucky and get to know a girl that’s simultaneously interested in me and willing to make the first move.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 year ago:
Neither the site nor the author point to any of this being satire, unfortunately.
They’re just that much detached from reality.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 1 year ago:
Safari allows you to install adblockers, btw. Apple is overprotective but this isn’t really their fault.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 year ago:
Well yes, maybe going that far back it was kind of a shot in the dark, but the late ‘90 to early ‘10 period was a time where you had internet (or at least tv/magazines) to know which games were “popular”, most of those were actually well done, and you’d rarely have an AAA title launch as a bugridden mess.
Reviews are also a hit-or-miss because they’re highly subjective. The Steam review system sucks as well, being only positive/negative and with troll reviews always at the top.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 year ago:
The difference is back in the day the great games were the highly advertised “big ones” and the “stinkers” usually fell flat. Now you have a mountain of AAA stinkers and have to go scavenging for indie gems.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 1 year ago:
Whoops, you’re right, my bad. I’m not a native speaker and mixed “grifter” with “griefer”.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 1 year ago:
They wanted those kids to go at a concert and “spread the gospel” to people who paid to be there. Not sure about you, but I know I wouldn’t take that well.
- Comment on Merry Christmas 1 year ago:
Well, they’re right in the sense that Internet is very unforgiving about anything that anyone ever did, no matter if they stopped or not.
Doesn’t mean it’s a good practice and they should be justified in doing it as well, though.
- Comment on I knew it all along! 1 year ago:
In the U.S., education is mostly about being able to regurgitate what you’ve been told.
Wait, are there places where it’s not?