Developers can’t unionize right now - there are just too many of them. There is more work than there are people, and publishers would laugh at any union contract, then hire fresh graduates or desperate coders from India and China. It would be like trying to organize a labor movement for Compsci workers in the 2000s.

It was an “Ask Me Anything” session. Half of the questions related to these ideas in some way. Straight-up ignoring them is the worst possible way to go in that format. I would have accepted “yes developers are getting hosed as well, we think they should strike too, but right now we’re taking care of ourselves.” It’s…

I would say that the collective effort of developers is EXTREMELY important to gamers, much more so than, say, a TV production company for a sitcom fan. I honestly can’t name a single director or producer at Klei Entertainment, but I always pay attention when they have a new release, because Shank and Mark of the…

The money has to come from somewhere. If a giant publisher is forced to pay voice actors more - quite a lot more, in some cases - they’ll pay developers, artists, testers, etc. less. Yeah it’s a shitty thing for them to do, but they’ll do it and there’s nothing stopping the non-unionized workers from taking the hit.

Phil LaMarr, Jennifer Hale, Keythe Farley, and Ray Chase had an AMA about the strike a couple of weeks ago. I was hazy on the details, so I checked it out.

Whoah, that guy can RIDE his giant rocket hammer. Overwatch, eat your hardt out.

I’ve tried to use the under-paddles on the Steam controller, but I just couldn’t acclimate to the motion. It’s more of a “squeeze” than a conventional controller or keyboard “press,” though. Do you have any thoughts on the difference in that particular design choice?

I’m referring to the first video in this story. The one right up there. That I watched, and apparently you didn’t. I checked that user’s other videos, and yeah, they’re all variations on the theme of “talking into a webcam.” Pardon me if I don’t feel moved by his plight.

I actually enjoy my job quite a lot (technology journalist), and I’m terrible at producing video, so I don’t begrudge them the work. But calling eight minutes of shouting into a camera plus half an hour of adding in memes and GIFs in After Effects a “job” is stretching that word to the breaking point.

I can’t help but wonder how things might have been different if the original Titanfall had been set up as free-to-play. Normally I’m not a fan of the format, but it would have erased the complaints of no real single-player and maybe (maybe) the big player drop-off a few months down the line. Perhaps we wouldn’t even…

So Steam is basically the desktop version of the Google Play Store now.

If you don’t show your cards, you fold by default. Have a nice day, and maybe pick up a thesaurus once in a while.

Maybe you should learn to express yourself with a little more subtlety if you’re not actually angry enough to justify swearing on a public forum. Anyway, still waiting to see what it is you do on YouTube...

I’m not upset, just annoyed. I’m tired of seeing these stories that treat YouTube as the end-all, be-all of web content, and its users as oppressed masses. And as has been said elsewhere, this is not and employer-employee relationship. If those skills and that content are so valuable that they’re marketable on…

Considering that you’ve shouted “fuck you” at literally every person who’s disagreed with you, excuse me for thinking you have a one-track mind. And if you’re willing to spend weeks tearing down the members of your own party for being too principled to win, on a comment section where you’ll be seen by maybe a hundred…

Yup, there it is. At this point I think you’re either lying about making a living on YouTube, or you’ve somehow found people even worse than yourself to preach to.

It means that you’re a cretinous little crybaby who’s spent the last month swearing up and down that anyone who didn’t vote for Hillary (even if they also didn’t vote for Trump) should march into the sea. I shudder to think what kind of “creations” you’ve strung together on the YouTube cesspool.

I know YouTube users consider YouTube a monopoly. That’s a ridiculous assertion on an open web, but fine, I can see how a community that was born on one platform would be so reticent to try a competitor. See my second point, which you conveniently failed to quote: find something else to do.

They do have the right to be pissed. And they can try to hold their companies accountable... though I wouldn’t recommend it if job security is something they consider important.

So if YouTube is such an awful company, such an unreliable platform for consistent video, why do you continue to do business with them? This is my point: if you’ve tied your entire professional existence to one service, one that’s proven itself to be monolithic and more or less unconcerned with individual users’…