i’ve worked in tech for quite a long time and while it’s not unheard of for people to move around it’s extremely difficult. more often than not QA engineers and testers have moved on to other careers, especially in the video game sector, before any kind of vertical promotion is available to them. this is also true in…

Not really, this is a pretty common technique to try and break unions by severing communications between members, isolating them, and putting them among people who don’t enjoy union protection who, in theory, can’t walk out.

I agree it’ll likely backfire because this is from the days when you couldn’t set up a Slack…

It may impact the unions bargaining power if there is no longer a QA vertical, dispersing all the staff to individual teams, which would make it more difficult to collectively bargain.

I live near Ravensoft and years ago right after the original Black Ops launch I met some guys that worked there.  I told them I would be interested in being in QA there and they basically told me definitely don’t it’s terrible.  Obviously not wrong.

Good, they should always be worried until he’s gone. And then they should be worried about his replacement. Keep worrying until things get better. Don’t let up.

Which means that in a roundabout way, his own poor management put him in a position to collect his golden parachute. As in, he is not only going to come out of this insanely rich, but he’s going to do so specifically because of his piss-poor management of the company.  It’s Donald Trump levels of failing upwards.

Isn’t it? “What has MS had to say about our pending litigation and the ongoing strike imposed by our QA workers at Ravensoft?” seems a pretty acquisition-relevant question to me.

...FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU KOTICK. 

Seriously, fuck this guy. 

Trying to think of a public figure who better embodies the word “twerp” more than Blevins and the only name that comes to mind is Ben Shapiro.

Fuck off.

Eat shit, tyler.

She is getting hate because she’s the woman in this situation. Sad but true state of affairs for gaming communities and entertainment in general.

How can streaming be fun for Ninja anymore? Like take your fat pockets and do something else. If I banked 10m or more I’d never work again. Live off interest and never be in the spotlight again. Not sitting in a replica of my mom’s basement playing games online all day cause I don’t have any friends.

“Obviously what I did is wrong,” JiDion said, “but how am I supposed to do better the next time if I can never get a next time?”

Yes, they were, because being queer was considered “politics”. Being straight isn’t. And no, I am NOT talking about people being “defined solely by their sexuality.” I am talking about people who choose to be up front about who they are, so that they don’t end up starting a game on a table only to find out later that…

Way to purposefully miss the point. Again, you get to be straight, assumed to be straight, and not have any of your straightness considered “political”. You can talk about celebrities you find attractive and things of that nature and not face backlash for it. LBGTQ+ people cannot. Their very existence is “political”,…

I’ve noticed this a bit with chat filters; for something work-related I was auditing them and realized that the standard homophobic slurs were banned, yeah, but so was “gay” and “trans”. The rationale being that these words would be used as slurs, too.

...except they’re also descriptors. It’s part of the issue here…

So why do straight people get to talk about being straight, but gay people don’t get to talk about being gay?

Yet another policy built in the name of “Family Friendliness” weaponized to harm communities that are already harassed, threatened, and attacked daily just for existing.