Lol no. They’ve always been called the Enforcers, because they enforce the rules. They aren’t cops (those are usually located on site somewhere) or security (also separate) but employees of the con that do everything else. Running the Checkout at the Tabletop freeplay? Enforcer. Entertaining people standing in line…

The problem with this, and this actually happened at Pax West, is people will go through the line to get the bracelet, Squeeze it off their wrist and sell it down the street to unvaxxed people. Not sure if the East badges were better at preventing this than the West ones were, but I know a couple of people were…

More unions that actually have teeth = better. This one, like the MS contractors union will likely have no effect unless Canadian law is massively different. They’ll unionize, and Keywords will have to offer their demands to Bioware, who would be under no legal obligation to accept the offer and just go with a…

For QA workers? Almost none, especially game QA. The job isn’t that hard to train for and doesn’t require any special skills. Most places will hire QA with the minimum requirement being “are you old enough to work for us full time?” If you want to work in the industry you have to either go to school for something…

I doubt it, since the group is already trying to play the “the temp agency is just administrative, we take orders from Bioware itself!” Thinking that somehow changes the nature of things (it doesn’t). You aren’t fired by the developer, you’re fired by the temp agency. If the temp agency ONLY worked for Bioware you…

Probably not. There’s nothing in any law in the US or Canada that I’ve seen that says “You must use union labor”. A lot of workers are getting “inspired” by the Raven QA thing, overlooking those employees were brought on by Raven itself. It’s cheaper for a company to do the work for temps themselves, but then find out…

There’s an update to this now:
“We are aware of the claim, which was filed with the National Relations Board by a contractor who was previously terminated for the disclosure of confidential information and for no other reason. Nintendo is not aware of any attempts to unionize or related activity and intends to…

Funny you should say that...

If the Microsoft case from a few years ago is any indication, Nintendo will be in the clear. The person isn’t an employee of Nintendo, they’re an employee of Aston Carter. So if they started trying to form a union on Nintendo’s property, that’s considered an outside person, coming onto Nintendo’s property to convince…

Yep. Avoids the union “problem” and a few other laws that’d have to follow if you were a “provisional” or “temp” Amazon employee. You aren’t, you’re a full time employee of a different company.

This will likely go the same way the QA game testers did at Microsoft. In Washington, you can form a union, but it effects your direct employer. In the MS case, it was ruled to be the temp agency that the workers were actual employees of. So the temp agency recognized the union, the union made the demands they had for…

What did the dalmatian ever do to you? Point on the doll where it sniffed you...

It’s not that cheap. You still have to get it to run, in this case, via emulation, then test it to make sure it doesn’t crash, which takes a lot of man-hours to pull off. Then you have to get the legal team to go back and make sure all the rights are current and see if anyone is going to get royalties if you do…

The Looper article with contains, mostly, allegations from Gearbox’s Former lawyer who was fired for embezzlement (who now, fittingly, works for the NRA). The dismissal of the lawsuit filed by said lawyer even said the evidence exonerates Pitchford.

It really isn’t standard in the Software QA industry at all. Most of them time you follow whatever the state’s law is to keep them as a temp (usually they have to be not employed by you for x amount of time), let them draw unemployment during that time, then summon them back. And a lot of them go back. Getting…

It wouldn’t be the first time in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands that the red text is warning about a negative effect. I think that yeah, if you fail to get a crit before it overheats, its supposed to stop working.
See also the Aphotic Antique Greatbow that has a stat drop after it’s fired.

“But the second you touch water? Dead.”

Depends on where you were. Some states, like Washington, required you to have proof from your employer stating that your job was not only essential, but couldn’t be done remotely, in case you go pulled over for driving. It was barely enforced.

Difference between Schumer making a one off joke about something and Chris Rock who keeps making fun of Jada and Will over and over again every chance he gets (this is the 3rd time that’s been documented, the 2nd time Will’s Ex Wife even told Chris to knock it off). Also, making fun of her hair, when he produced and…

Thing that murders streaming for most people is data caps. Almost every major provider has them unless you want to pay more to be allowed to bypass them. So with some of these titles, I suspect a lot of people will cross into “You’ve exceeded your max data for the month” territory for the first time and get fairly…