I feel like it is 100% A’s duty to send this piece of shit packing. If this asshole “comes with the package” and she just shrugs and continues to invite him around despite how he treats the boyfriend, that’s on her. She doesn’t get to shrug and say, “WELP, that’s my friend!”. If I had a friend who treated my wife like…

If those “fans” are doing the same work as the professionals, you pay them what the professionals are getting. Done. You do not differentiate between the two, you pay for the caliber of work you get. I am extremely passionate about my job as a teacher— it is a labor of love. I also was in the trenches of our…

This isn’t a contest. It’s a company that already is making a product for which they need assets and instead of paying workers industry standard for those assets, they are asking people to submit art for free after which they will choose and then throw them a pittance. A contest is when a bunch of people enter and…

It doesn’t matter if it’s a job offer. They are exploiting the talents of people in order to save money on a product they are going to make a LOT of money on. This isn’t some cute Pillsbury bake off— this is about talented people making professional level assets for free or for a song that a multi-billion dollar…

I think it’s a separate issue. For all the people saying that if you don’t want to be exploited, don’t join, fine. I have my issues with that statement, too, and the reality of the world and industry, but fine, if that’s a person’s take, ok. That DOESN’T mean, then, that people who are actually concocting and…

This isn’t an amateur talent show. It’s a very wealthy company asking for PROFESSIONAL level assets to put in a PROFESSIONAL level game on which they stand to make a ton of money. It’s either a business or it’s not. They are making a product that they intend to sell and make a lot of money on. That’s the bottom line.…

Is there not a difference, though, between doing artistic work in a low-budget, indie kind of scene for the good and fun of it vs making professional art assets for a multi-billion dollar company? It’s the difference between a kickstarter for a small indie film that has nothing and a kickstarter for Zach Braf’s…

They’re asking for professional quality work. They’re not going to put anything in the game that doesn’t live up to the quality of the other assets generated by the team or else the game will look like shit. So, yes, it’s not a “kid’s contest”, it’s not looking for amateur work. It’s looking for work of a specific—…

Don’t pull this “I’m older and wiser” bullshit guys. I’m well into my 40s and this still stinks to high heaven. The exploitative gig culture did not exist to any similar degree when we were young. You didn’t have tons of multi-billion dollar companies using passionate young people as part of their business plan to…

I absolutely hate this. You are a billion dollar company. Hire people, give them benefits, have them do the work. We need more actual, real jobs in this country and far less gig economy bullshit or barely paid work for exposure. If part of your business plan on the way to making millions and millions of dollars is to…

Steal millions but you’re white collar/white? Get out on bail and continue your bullshit.

I adore Prey— one of my favorites. For me, I was a little sad the DLC wouldn’t be more story/narrative based. :( That said, I get why other people may really like it. I am happy about NG+ though.

Yes, it could be awesome, who knows. But it always feel kind of eye rolling when every franchise starts to jump on the same trend because it made other people money. No this doesn’t mean it will automatically suck, but I think it’s ok to be cynical when a game jumps on a pretty obvious bandwagon.

OK but.. gentrification DOES actually happen to working class whites, too. Go look at South Boston.

Just as an overall thing here: I am obviously not talking about rapists or people who sexually assault or use their power to get sex out of women here. I am talking specifically about when people like Bateman say some real bullshit and are rightfully taken to task for it. SO—

As someone who watches his wife continually get shit on for not wanting to have his kids, I am so fuck sick of this shit. People have been having kids since, literally, the dawn of our species. Stop the portrayal of being a mom as a marginalized people.

That was the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen and I only got one minute into it. At this point I think we just need to nuke the earth from orbit and see what happens in a few thousand years— start it all over again, you know?

Years ago I worked under a very rich, gay woman who abused her power, ignored sexual harassment reports of a middle manager because he “gets the job done”, screwed working people out of raises and other bullshit. Her line was basically that because she was from a marginalized group, she couldn’t be an abusive…

I make movies— low budget ones almost no one ever sees. But the moments I’ve had to sit in a dark theater with a bunch of people for the first time as they judge something I’ve spent years planning and making is some of the most abject terror I ever face. And when they get it and they like it, there is no greater…

Man, white women LOVE screaming about privilege until you ask them to acknowledge their own. Nothing an education upper-middle class lady hates more than getting the same treatment they (deservedly) give white men. White feminists have fooled themselves into thinking their lives are just as tricky and historically…